Specific Elements of the Royal Wedding

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Specific elements of the Royal Wedding The purpose of this essay is to analyse elements that are specific to the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. According to Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, something “specific” is something “relating to one thing and not others, particular.” The couple’s wedding had all the characteristics of a Catholic wedding, but what made it Royal were the elements beyond that. There are certain guidelines regarding weddings that needed to be followed in the British Royal Family and Prince William and Kate had to do the same. In this essay I tried to exemplify these by writing about the means of transport, the outfits, the exit on the balcony of Buckingham Palace and the salutes from the army and the people. To begin with, we have to admit that the means of transport used at the Royal Wedding were extremely classy and worthy of a Royal family. The bride, accompanied by her father, arrived in a 1977 Rolls Royce Phantom VI, received as a gift by the Queen in 1978 from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, for the Silver Jubilee of her reign, “a grand gesture by the imploding British auto industry.”[1] The groom, alongside with his brother, Prince Henry, also the best man, arrived at the wedding in a Bentley State Limousine. The car has no specific model name, because only two cars of this sort exist in the whole world. And both of them belong to the Queen. The matching pair (which was “presented to the Queen in 2002 on her Golden (50th) Jubilee”[2]) was used to bring the Queen herself and her husband, Prince Philip, at Westminster Abbey. The married couple, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge left the Westminster Abbey and headed for the Buckingham Palace “in a black open-topped 1902 State Landau horse-drawn carriage. The carriage, adorned with gold leaf and upholstered in crimson satin, was specially
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