we have it. with his two front teeth missing. you know, it was such a beautiful, well thought out, brilliantly architected ceremony, ladies. i felt for a moment when i was listening to the most reverend michael curry like i was back at new birth cathedral faith international in miami listening to my bishop, bishop victor t. curry, preaching and that was a baptist church. it had that feel of sort of old time black church religion with the reality of the introduction of africans into the new world was violent. it was traumatic. it involved the reverse of colonialism, great britain of course the architect of much of the sort of colonial wreckage of what we call sometimes the third world. these two people, harry and meghan, have managed to take that history, distill the soul that was wrung out of it because
female presiding bishop in 2006. he gave an address that had references of dr. king, had references of the black tradition, the black church tradition, something martin i m sure is not typically heard inside of an anglican church. it was sensational. in a real sense, bar act and michelle obama were present. their spirit, to engage this artist artistry, to evoke dr. king, to talk with such passion about love as a force, channelling john lennon about imagining a better world.
and she was a muse for givenchy. and this is coming to a wedding near you, and there is there is going to be a lot of looks like this coming up. and so, amal was a in golden rod stella mccartney. so she was wearing stella mccartney and same as oprah, and it is an omen, and your thoughts? without a doubt, but for those when we think of the media analysis over the next few day, soup to nuts, this is going to be a difficult event to knock. and maybe those traditionalists who will say, well, it was a departure, and yes, it was a departure but in leaving the tradition, it brought absolutely everyone, and you have to evolve. you have to evolve with the times and the times in 2018 are
be the two of us, and the joy. what was amazing, when you were speaking earlier about the reverend and you said it was reminiscent for you to be at a black church, it was also, we felt connected to it and why? because his message was togetherness. his message was actually so centrist. you know, when he said love is god, life is god. at this time when so many of us are divided he gave us a message that we all must come together. come together. and it was amazing. have some love. i don t know about you, joy, but i saw, for me, princess charlotte waving, princess charlotte being so excited to be there, that was such a gorgeous moment. and there was that other moment where one of the page boys, i don t know if you saw it, one of the page boys photo bombing as she was walking down the aisle. it s all over social media right now. right there.
extraordinary things that we have seen this morning. and i am back with my panel. i have to start with the most reverend michael curry. any of us who have been in an episcopal church and i have, or an anglican church know this was an unusual message given, followed by the karen gibson and the choir. a very black moment, an african-american church moment. michael considery was elected in the summer of 2015 just one week after the massacres at the historic mother emmanuel church in charleston north carolina. he was installed as the first presiding black bishop of the episcopal church in washington s national cathedral. he replaced the first elected