Pippa's Wedding: A Festival Of Narcissim

“In these troubled times, it is only fitting that the nation should turn for solace to the one thing at which we can be sure to excel,” said Dan Glaister in The Observer: “the celebrity wedding.”

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“In these troubled times, it is only fitting that the nation should turn for solace to the one thing at which we can be sure to excel,” said Dan Glaister in The Observer: “the celebrity wedding.” And so to Berkshire last Saturday, for the nuptials of Pippa Middleton and James Matthews – she famed for her bottom and her brother-in-law, he for being the multimillionaire financier engaged to her. The sun shone, the medieval church was crammed full of flowers, and villagers, wearing wristbands, cheered dutifully when the bride arrived in her bespoke Giles Deacon gown. At the reception, security was so tight guests, ranging from Roger Federer to Princess Eugenie, needed a password to get in, said The Daily Telegraph. But details leaked out: of a glass marquee full of trees bedecked with lights, for an &