Boris and Carrie have got married!

I don't like the dress.
It's a nice style, but the fabric is awful.
It looks like too white polyester.
It would have been better in ivory.

Once you got beyond the front it was all smoke and mirrors. We do enormous damage to women in general in presenting the idea of an alpha male. Actually scrub that I think its more damaging to men.

Congratulations to Carrie and Boris and I hope they have many years of happiness ahead of them with their little boy Wilfred. ??

Do you have much experience of womanisers chestnut. Because I do. I played that game a lot in my youth. And I can tell you without exception they were incredibly insecure the exact opposite of an alpha male.

maddyone

MayBee70

I think it was pretty two faced of her to wear white. I wonder if there’s any significance in the fact that she didn’t wear a veil? Was it from choice or was she not allowed to? I know how betrayed children feel when their father leaves their mother for another woman so all I can think of is how his (acknowledged) children must be feeling now.

Another famous woman got married in white, with a veil too. Many people vilify posters who comment on that person, but it’s okay to make unpleasant comments about Carrie!

I can’t quite believe that in 2021 anybody thinks it is 2 faced for anybody not a virgin, to marry in white!
A quick straw poll among Gransnetters themselves, their daughters or even their mothers, might reveal a different story.....
As for divorcees of either gender marrying in church - Anglican or Catholic- are we all so perfect?
I’m not particularly religious but I always liked that thing about exhorting those “without sin to cast the first stone “

A bride wearing white was a symbol of purity in the past, now I see it as a tradition rather than a symbol.

I just wish them all the best, whatever. I'm not perfect.

So would Westminster LA display notice of the forthcoming nuptials, surprised no one noticed.

Hmm?

Galaxy

Crikey believe me he is not an alpha male. Unless you mean that all the husbands of the people who have managed to remain faithful are somehow less of a man?

Boris definitely is an alpha male. But an alpha male is not necessarily a womaniser, so there's no disrespect to any alpha males who stay with one woman.

Galaxy

I am sorry if people having different views to you makes you uncomfortable. I have made lots of mistakes that's why I recognise some of them.

People having different views does not make me uncomfortable. I am sad to see comments on here such as "she has created a vacancy", guessing how long the marriage will last or judging her for wearing white. Wearing white was seen as the bride being "pure" - how many brides today are virgins on their wedding day? An anachronism which no longer has a place in today's world.

Presumably someone was there. I assume the congregation must have heard them.

Hmm?

The banns must have been read as is usual WW. I presume none of us were there to hear them (there’ll be someone along soon probably to tell me they were!)

So if he got the previous marriages annulled I wonder if those who thought they were married to Johnson got consulted?

I don’t like the use of the term ‘haters’ in connection with anyone. It doesn’t matter who the ‘celebrity’ is, I don’t like it. Certainly not when it is applied to other Gransnetters. Just my opinion.

I wonder when the banns were read. Shouldn’t that be 3 consecutive weeks before the ceremony.

Oh yes, I forgot, it's all out of concern for Harry. [Hmm]

I'm off to make lunch Have fun.

Alegrias1

Well now that I'm here....

There was much consternation when I used the term "Harry haters".

Anyone like to lay into Chestnut for the term "Boris haters"?

But they are Boris haters, I have seen posters use that word themselves.

No one on the Harry thread hates Harry or has used the word. They are Harry puzzlers, trying to fathom him out.

I wish the newly weds every happiness, but I am absolutely horrified by just how much the Catholic church can turn a blind eye to when it chooses.

I dislike him <shrugs> I really don't like any men though that treat women the way he does. I cannot stand the misogyny in society in general though. If he was a woman he wouldn't be an MP, let alone the PM. Presumably if he wasn't a powerful man he wouldn't be getting married in a a Catholic Cathedral anyway. We must never forget, powerful men get what they want.

Crikey believe me he is not an alpha male. Unless you mean that all the husbands of the people who have managed to remain faithful are somehow less of a man?

Well now that I'm here....

There was much consternation when I used the term "Harry haters".

Anyone like to lay into Chestnut for the term "Boris haters"?

Predictably all the Boris haters are out in force on this thread! I wish him and Carrie every happiness on their marriage.
Much as they may hate him Boris is very popular. People seem to love an alpha male who is a womaniser. It was the same with Lloyd George, who had numerous lovers. His popularity was so great that the King worried that LG was more loved by the people than him.

Maybe the honeymoon is at Carbis Bay. It's simply glorious down here at the moment.
I'd advise Boris and co to come by helicopter though as the roads were heaving yesterday.

Thanks Daisend I did find it

Galaxy
The wedding was reported on Sky News