It’s the Charles and Camilla Show

Let the romantics treasure their recollections of his fairy-book first wedding to Diana Spencer. For my money, there’s no better entertainment value than the unscripted reality-TV version of Prince Charles’ nuptials with Camilla Parker Bowles, set for Saturday, unless some unforeseen event forces the rescheduling of it again. There’s the sublime irony of it all: The head of the Church of England—an institution created in defiance of a Catholic pope’s refusal to allow Henry VIII’s divorce and remarriage—must postpone his own wedding to a divorcee in order to pay his respects to the recently deceased Pope John Paul II.