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Mary Stuart only just moved from Stittsville to Kanata last month and hasn’t set up her television yet, so she knew she had to go somewhere to watch Saturday morning’s royal wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Her daughter and two grandsons also live in Kanata, but Stuart, 71, didn’t think they’d be particularly overjoyed to see her show up at their door at four in the morning, so she instead opted to wait until the more civilized hour of 10 a.m., and then avail herself of the tea and biscuits and public viewing party offered by the Stittsville branch of the Ottawa Public library.
Apart from giving her an excuse to wear her black-and-white polka dot dress featuring yellow roses — the Queen’s favourite, she noted — and wrap-around straw hat fitted with a floral adornment, it also was the perfect opportunity to return a book she’d recently borrowed, Emily Post’s Wedding Etiquette. She brought along her camera, too, and took some snaps of the large-screen wedding.
Saturday’s nuptials also gave her pause to reflect on love. “I fell in love 44 years ago on this weekend, the May 24 weekend,” she said. That led to a wedding and 42-year marriage to air force pilot Wayne Stuart, whom death parted from Mary in 2016.
When Mary walked down the aisle in Fort Erie in 1974, her sister sang a song from the recently released Vanessa Redgrave movie, Mary, Queen of Scots: “This way Mary, come Mary/ Share the world with me/ Make this moment our moment/ And our memories.”
The monarchy, Stuart says, represents a sense of stability, faith and tradition that’s often missing today. (Although perhaps not Prince Charles, whom she describes as “a cad.”)
Cutout masks of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were on hand at the Stittsville branch of the Ottawa Public Library’s Saturday viewing of the royal wedding.
Her connection with the Royal Family extends back some decades, even before she was born, when her father, Jack Legg, went to Europe to fight for the King. As a young Brownie in London, Ont., Stuart was part of a ceremony that greeted the Queen.
In 1992, when the Queen came to Ottawa for Canada’s 125 celebration, Stuart was a girl-guide leader whose daughter, Briana, then 10, presented Her Majesty with a single red rose before the monarch flew back to London.
Stuart and her daughters also dressed in fancy hats seven years ago to attend the visit to Ottawa by Prince William and Kate Middleton. The day prior, Stuart hosted a royal tea at her house.
“It’s beautiful,” she said of Saturday’s wedding, “just beautiful. It’s about love — love forever. Yes, families come into it, and yes, and there will be children, but it’s about love, and that’s the base for our life.”
Essie Liu came to the Stittsville branch of the Ottawa Public Library on Saturday to view the royal wedding.
By noontime Saturday, just over 20 people had taken part in the library’s large-screen wedding-watching levee, including 26-year-old North Kanata resident Essie Liu, who watched with both a professional and personal interest. A wedding and event violinist, she was fascinated by the ceremony. She was also curious about the royals and their attire, and the royals’ place in Canadian culture. Throughout the ceremony, she texted with her family members who were also watching, from their home in Yangzhou, China.
“I don’t know a lot about their story,” she said of Harry and Meghan. “Just what I see on the internet. But I’ve performed at a lot of weddings and I noticed something very universal: the connection between them, and an excitement and nervousness. And a love that resolves the barriers of different cultures, which is becoming more and more common.
“I think a wedding like this is the dream of every girl,” she added, “or at least it’s mine. The whole globe is celebrating this, and it gives me hope for the future.”
bdeachman@postmedia.com
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Her daughter and two grandsons also live in Kanata, but Stuart, 71, didn’t think they’d be particularly overjoyed to see her show up at their door at four in the morning, so she instead opted to wait until the more civilized hour of 10 a.m., and then avail herself of the tea and biscuits and public viewing party offered by the Stittsville branch of the Ottawa Public library.
Apart from giving her an excuse to wear her black-and-white polka dot dress featuring yellow roses — the Queen’s favourite, she noted — and wrap-around straw hat fitted with a floral adornment, it also was the perfect opportunity to return a book she’d recently borrowed, Emily Post’s Wedding Etiquette. She brought along her camera, too, and took some snaps of the large-screen wedding.
Saturday’s nuptials also gave her pause to reflect on love. “I fell in love 44 years ago on this weekend, the May 24 weekend,” she said. That led to a wedding and 42-year marriage to air force pilot Wayne Stuart, whom death parted from Mary in 2016.
When Mary walked down the aisle in Fort Erie in 1974, her sister sang a song from the recently released Vanessa Redgrave movie, Mary, Queen of Scots: “This way Mary, come Mary/ Share the world with me/ Make this moment our moment/ And our memories.”
The monarchy, Stuart says, represents a sense of stability, faith and tradition that’s often missing today. (Although perhaps not Prince Charles, whom she describes as “a cad.”)
Cutout masks of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were on hand at the Stittsville branch of the Ottawa Public Library’s Saturday viewing of the royal wedding.
Her connection with the Royal Family extends back some decades, even before she was born, when her father, Jack Legg, went to Europe to fight for the King. As a young Brownie in London, Ont., Stuart was part of a ceremony that greeted the Queen.
In 1992, when the Queen came to Ottawa for Canada’s 125 celebration, Stuart was a girl-guide leader whose daughter, Briana, then 10, presented Her Majesty with a single red rose before the monarch flew back to London.
Stuart and her daughters also dressed in fancy hats seven years ago to attend the visit to Ottawa by Prince William and Kate Middleton. The day prior, Stuart hosted a royal tea at her house.
“It’s beautiful,” she said of Saturday’s wedding, “just beautiful. It’s about love — love forever. Yes, families come into it, and yes, and there will be children, but it’s about love, and that’s the base for our life.”
Essie Liu came to the Stittsville branch of the Ottawa Public Library on Saturday to view the royal wedding.
By noontime Saturday, just over 20 people had taken part in the library’s large-screen wedding-watching levee, including 26-year-old North Kanata resident Essie Liu, who watched with both a professional and personal interest. A wedding and event violinist, she was fascinated by the ceremony. She was also curious about the royals and their attire, and the royals’ place in Canadian culture. Throughout the ceremony, she texted with her family members who were also watching, from their home in Yangzhou, China.
“I don’t know a lot about their story,” she said of Harry and Meghan. “Just what I see on the internet. But I’ve performed at a lot of weddings and I noticed something very universal: the connection between them, and an excitement and nervousness. And a love that resolves the barriers of different cultures, which is becoming more and more common.
“I think a wedding like this is the dream of every girl,” she added, “or at least it’s mine. The whole globe is celebrating this, and it gives me hope for the future.”
bdeachman@postmedia.com
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