Danish Royal Wedding

(Copenhagen, Denmark) In a lavish ceremony, Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark married Australian Mary Donaldson yesterday in Copenhagen. Afterward, in a speech to the new Crown Princess, Frederik said:

"The joy and the strength you give me is like the sun in the daytime which, with its radiance, melts all doubts and darkness on earth," he said at the reception dinner at Fredensborg Castle, 35km north of Copenhagen.

"And like the moon at night, you shine with a watchful and delicate beam of gentleness, which extinguishes the mischief and deceit used by the symbols of darkness."

He closed his speech calling for a toast from the 400 guests to his bride with the words: "I love you Mary. Come, let us go, come let us see. Throughout a thousand worlds, weightless love awaits."

This would seem to indicate that romance and chivalry do endure, contrary to the opinions of some. I'm personally not so sure about the weightless love, though. My experience is that you can count on about 10 pounds per decade of marriage. You can see it in the middle on men, on the hindquarters on women.