Autumn Brewington (@Autumnsan1), a freelance journalist in Washington, D.C., was an editor at The Washington Post from 2001 to 2014 and anchored its royal wedding blog in 2011.
The rehearsals are done. Union Jacks are fluttering across Windsor. Metal barricades line the Long Walk to Windsor Castle, and father-and-son horses Storm and Tyrone are ready to pull the polished carriage. The nuptials of Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle are poised to go off Saturday morning with all the usual pomp and circumstance of a British royal wedding.
But this is not merely a British and American affair.
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