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That's a milestone. Best wishes to her and many happy returns!

Agreed. She put her hair up and didn't wear real flowers, but her headdress and that of Sophie Wessex looked like the royal version of something you'd pick up at JOANN or Michaels at Christmas. I'm afraid without bling and toffs in robes and some serious bending of knees the business just looks like a wedding. Camilla looked great and you have to hand it to someone who has stuck with the same hairdo she had in 1975. The music was really wonderful, though, and I tune in to these royal affairs just as much to hear the music and see the horses and precision marching as anything else. The music and the military were in great form. John Eliot Gardiner and Antonio Pappano in the pre-coronation segment, the Monteverdi Choir, Terfel singing Kyrie Eleison in Welsh, Yende, Roderick Williams, the Ascension Choir, on and on - it was just a feast.

There have been small anti-monarchist protests at some of C&C's public appearances, which would not have happened in the late Queen's last years (although she had her own spells of unpopularity). In other news, Kate may choose to channel her inner flower child rather than wear a tiara.

A story on Florida's new troupe, Florida Gulfshore Ballet.

A review of New York City Ballet by Leigh Witchel in dancelog.nyc. Mary Cargill reviews tfor danceviewtimes.com.

A review of the Vienna State Ballet by Ilona Landgraf in her blog, "Landgraf on Dance."

Ballet Sun Valley presents the Dutch National Ballet.

The former executive director of the San Francisco Ballet lands at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.

A feature on the painter Kylie Manning, who is working with Christopher Wheeldon on his new ballet, in The New York Times Style Magazine.

Lake Havasu Ballet presents "Swan Lake."

Montgomery Ballet performs this month.

A look at Australian ballet's connections with Australian national identity by Yvette Grant in The Conversation.

Christopher Wheeldon returns to New York City Ballet to make a new work.

Ballet Arkansas announces the schedule for its forty-fifth season.

I add my thanks to the moderators and administrators of Ballet Talk for Dancers, as well as all the wonderful posters there. I wish InTheWings the best of luck with Ballet Pursuit. I'm sure there will be good reading there!

Oh, I didn't mean to say there was any chance of their actually succeeding. Still, they're there, and I assume they remain among Charles' heirs and (potential) successors.

You know, the more I look at the wording of the "people's oath" the odder it seems. For example, the sweat-free Prince Andrew and Whatshisname in Montecito, who compared royal life to "The Truman Show," are still in the line of succession. And what is "true allegiance" anyway? "May the King live forever?" - is that new? It's just a tad....North Korean.

Thanks for the link, Drew. It'll be awkward if that "great cry" doesn't materialize. I see by the article to which Drew linked that the wording of the oaths will not be changed and instead the Archbishop of Canterbury will supply some helpful "contextualizing."

Kate-Lynn Robichaux retires from the Orlando Ballet.

Ukrainian ballet dancer Rosyslav Yanchyshen is killed in combat.

A review of Festival Ballet Providence by Erica Cataldi-Roberts for Broadway World.

American Ballet Theatre Studio Company visits the Philippines, with accompaniment by Cecile Licad.

Catherine Hurlin talks about dancing the title role in "Giselle" for the first time.

With regard to the disappearance of ermine, I have since read that there wasn't a lot of it at Elizabeth's coronation in '53. The nation was still in postwar economic recovery and even the toffs had no money for new coronation robes. So they refurbished old ones if they had one or rented capes of cotton velveteen trimmed with miniver. Nonetheless, the Queen chose to pull out all the stops and it paid off in every respect. Of course, times have changed.

Thank you for that, duffster.