Bookies speculate if Kate will drop ‘obey’
Prince William’s fiancée Kate Middleton is expected to omit the word “obey” from the traditional marriage vows during the wedding service at the Westminster Abbey on Friday next week.
William’s mother Diana, Princess of Wales, too had ditched the traditional wedding vows and omitted obey at her wedding with Prince Charles at St. Paul’s Cathedral in 1981.
Bookies are now speculating that Kate will follow her mother-in-law’s footsteps and drop “obey” from her wedding vows.
Bookmaker William Hill has slashed the price of Kate not saying “obey” during her vows from 1/1 to 8/11. “There has been loads of cash for the ‘obey’ bet, with 100 per cent of our punters deciding that the traditional vows are perhaps out of date,” William Hill spokesman Rupert Adams said. Kate, according to a report in the Daily Mirror, instead will promise to “love, comfort, honour and keep” her husband, following a version of wedding vows taken by Diana.
However, the British royal family follows the traditional vows as Queen Elizabeth II’s other daughters-in-law Sarah Ferguson and Sophie Rhys-Jones, who married Prince Andrew and Prince Edward in 1986 and 1999 respectively, promised to obey their husbands in their wedding ceremonies.
Prince Andrew’s marriage to Sarah Ferguson ended in a divorce in 1996.
The wedding of Princess Anne’s daughter Zara Philips to England rugby player Mike Tindall will be a barometer to see if the younger royals are modern enough to drop the traditional vows from their wedding ceremonies. Zara is getting married on July 30 at the Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh.
Her older brother, the queen’s eldest grandson Peter Philips, married Canadian Autumn Kelly in May 2008, but it could not be confirmed whether his wife promised to “obey” him during the Windsor Castle wedding ceremony.
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