We are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this videoWe are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this videoNo one does royal pageantry like the British, and no one delivers a church sermon quite like a fire-breathing American revivalist preacher. In St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle yesterday, two worlds collided to magnificent effect, and the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle turned genuinely unforgettable. The Rev Michael Curry, the first African-American bishop to lead the Episcopal Church in the US, took Windsor by storm with a mesmerising address that not only threatened to explode the elaborate wedding timetable drawn up by palace officials; it also set off a social media furore. Many of those present in the chapel were plainly unused to the soaring rhetoric, the extravagant gestures and the rambling asides that accompanied Curry’s increasingly elastic homily on “the power…

Source: The Times May 19, 2018 23:10 UTC