What Is Your Reaction to the Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle?

Did you watch the royal wedding on Saturday, or see coverage of and reaction to it in the news and on social media? What are your thoughts?

In “As Prince Harry anDod Meghan Markle Wed, a New Era Dawns,” Ellen Barry writes:

The most startling moments came with the sermon by the Most Rev. Michael Curry, the Chicago-born bishop of the Episcopal Church. Bishop Curry, in the great tradition of black preachers, delivered a loose, improvisational sermon that began as a meandering discourse but built to a passionate, shouting climax, name-checking Martin Luther King Jr. and slave spirituals along the way.

“I’m talking about some power, real power,” he boomed. “Power to change the world. If you don’t believe me, well, there were some old slaves in America’s Antebellum South who explained the dynamic power of love and why it has the power to transform.”

At one point, seemingly sensing the passage of time, he said, “We’re going to sit down; we gotta get y’all married.”

He punctured the hallowed, starchy decorum of the day, visibly shocking some members of the royal family. Some suppressed giggles. Zara Tindall, a granddaughter of the queen, looked as if she might fall off her chair.

The episode delighted viewers on social media.

Students: Read the entire article, then tell us:

— What do you think about the assertion that Megan Markle and Prince Harry’s was “not your average royal wedding”?

— To what degree do you think their marriage could have the power to shape British society? What about elsewhere? Why?

— What are your thoughts on the ways tradition was both unheld and departed from during the ceremony?

By SHANNON DOYNE from NYT The Learning Network https://ift.tt/2IyKpGZ