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Article: End of an era? A Spanish wedding.(A controversial Spanish wedding)(Alejandro Agag and prime minister's daughter)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 14, 2002
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Daddy has a lot of friends
Was the grandeur of the wedding of the prime minister's daughter a mistake?
A TELLING error of judgement by a politician losing touch with reality, or a proud father doing his best for his beloved only daughter? Spaniards differ over the slap-up wedding hosted last week by their prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, but the event certainly set tongues wagging. More than 1,000 guests gathered at Philip II's majestic El Escorial monastery for a nuptial mass conducted by Spain's cardinal-primate.
"A wedding fit for a princess?", mused a Barcelona paper. Well no, not quite. But it certainly wasn't a private family affair ...