The British Isles are awash with the choice of beautiful historic churches, abbeys, and cathedrals where one king or another has tied the knot and bestowed a royal precedent.

His word is as good as a tied knot.

No one has put in harder training to become a royal bride than the glossy-haired Kate Middleton.

'Worshipping in private,' as Obama does, comes off as just another form of annoying elitism.

Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their bills were jailed until their creditors were paid - an unlikely event, given that the prisoner was unable to work.

Wife and servant are the same, but only differ in the name: For when that fatal knot is tied, which nothing, nothing can divide: When she the word obey has said, and man by law supreme has made, Then all that's kind is laid aside, and nothing left