...marriage than a ministry. All but a few cynics like to see a pretty novel touching for a moment the dry scenes of the grave world. A princely marriage is...a universal fact, and as such, it rivets mankind. JVe smile at the Court Circular ; but remember how many people read the Court Circular ! Its use is...

...marriage than a ministry. All but a few cynics like to see a pretty novel touching for a moment the dry scenes of the grave world. A princely marriage is...at the Queen's letter to Mrs. Lincoln, than at any act'of the English Government. It was a spontaneous act of intelligible feeling in the midst of confused...

...to be. ... We smile at 'the Court Circular, but remember how many ]>eople read the Court Cirer lar. Its use is not in what it says, but in those to whom it .-peaks. They say that the Americans wore more pleased at the Queen's [Queen Victoria's] letter to...

...comment on the Court Circular perhaps pertinent here: 'We smile at the Court Circular; but remember hov many people read the Court Circular! Its use is not in what it says, but ii those to whom it speaks.' Bagehot, English constitution, p. 85. 42 Barthes made it clear that the...

...illustration yet of the view that 'all the world's a stage'. As Walter Bagehot put it over a century ago, 'a princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind'.16 In this case it most certainly, and emphatically, did. Kings may no longer rule by divine...

...ever seen in any man." (Letter, June 24, 1 824, in New Letters of Thomas Carlyle, 1904.) Weddings 1 A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind. WALTER BAGEHOT, (1826-1877) British economist, critic. The English Constitution, ch. 3(1867). 2 Dearly...

...constitution; he who opined that 'the crown' had become 'the head of our morality'; he who insisted that 'a princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and as such it rivets mankind'; and he who warned that the monarchy's 'mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic.'...

...marriage than a ministry. All but a few cynics like to see a pretty novel touching for a moment the dry scenes of the grave world. A princely marriage is...Circular; but remember how many people read the Court Circularl Its use is not in what it says, but in those to whom it speaks. They say that the Americans...

...the journalists celebrated with wedding cake and lots of champagne. Walter Bagehot had declared that 'a princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind'. The Windsors were the national emblem family, and this wedding gave many, perhaps most, of their subjects...

...his readers: -\Ae smile al the Court Circalar: but remember how many people read the Court Circalar', its use is not in what it says, but in those to whom it speaks." \j Bagehot's comment encapsulates his conception ni the cultural work achieved by Victoria's dignified...