Without a queen and with a scandal: like Megan Markle and Prince Harry baptized their son. A PHOTO
'06.07.2019'
Source: Air force
The ceremony took place on Saturday at Windsor Castle Church - the main royal residence, near which Prince Harry and Meghan settled. Despite the scandal and the demand of taxpayers to make the ceremony open to the public and the press, the young parents did their own thing.
Traditionally, the christening of infants of royal blood is a public event. The last culprit of such a celebration a year ago was Prince Harry's nephew - Prince Louis, the third child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, writes Air force.
However, Prince Harry and his American wife Megan made it clear right after the birth of their son in May that they were not going to raise the monarch from the eighth great-grandson of Queen Elizabeth II - the seventh in line to the throne.
First, they gave him an unconventional name for the royal dynasty - Archie Harrison. Then they decided to leave him without a title. As the firstborn of the Duke of Archie, he could be an Earl or a Lord, but by the will of his parents he will go through life just like the Lord of Archie Mountbatten-Windsor.
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BBC correspondent for the royal family, Johnny Diamond, even then saw serious indications that young parents are not going to educate Archie as a royal offspring.
Baptism only strengthened him in this opinion.
“Everything points to the extremely unusual format of the royal event, which confirms the desire of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to raise their son Archie away from prying eyes. Previous notions of the publicity of such events seem to have been forgotten by a couple seeking to do things their own way, ”he writes.
The queen has not come
Among the friends and relatives on the christenings were the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge without children, mother Megan Doria Ragland and father of Prince Harry, heir to the throne Prince Charles with his wife, the Duchess of Cornish, as well as Lady Jane Fellowes and Lady Sarah McCorkoyle, Aunt Harry and Williams and the sisters and sisters Harry and William and the sisters and Aunt Harry and William and Sary. Diana.
Queen Elizabeth II missed baptism due to employment.
Traditionally, the court reveals the names of the godfathers and mothers. But not at this time.
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The event was not broadcast on television and the press was not allowed on it. The palace promised only to distribute photos at the end.
However, some traditions were still observed.
Archie baptized Archbishop of Canterbury with water from the Jordan River. From the Tower of London, they brought a font of gilded silver in the shape of a lily, which the British royal family uses from 1841 of the year. She was commissioned by Queen Victoria for the baptism of her eldest daughter. At the same time they sewed a brocade-lace baptismal shirt, which wore out by the year 2008, after which they began to use a copy. In it and dressed Archie.
As Woman ForumDaily wrote earlier:
- UK residents go berserk, having learned that Prince Harry and Megan Markle decided to hold a private rite of baptism for their first child, inviting only 25 guests to it. They believe that if the Dukes of Sussex use taxpayers' funds to pay for the luxurious repairs of their residence, they are not entitled to privacy.
- Despite the fact that the funds managed by the Dukes of Sussex come from taxpayers, the couple did not want anyone who could come to the event and was not even going to invite reporters.
- Due to certain circumstances, Elizabeth II is forced to miss the baptism of her great-grandson, but this is not the first such case. The queen found the ceremonies of Prince George and Princess Charlotte, but when they baptized Prince Louis last year, she could not come.
- The fact that the Dukes of Sussex did not intend to allow anyone to the ceremony led the British to fury. The royal biographer, Penny Junor, criticized the couple’s decision to hold a private ceremony, calling it a “mistake”: after last week, residents of the country learned how much it cost them to repair Frogmore Cottage, it found their desire for privacy to be inappropriate.
- “They cannot stand on both paths. Either they are completely private, they pay themselves for their house and disappear from public view, or they play the game publicly as they should, ”Junor told The Times. “People are interested in seeing Archie and his godparents at the ceremony.”
- Well-known British TV presenter Pierce Morgan agrees with Penny Junor, believing that "this baptism should be public, or citizens should get their 2,4 million pounds back."
