When Harry found his Queen .....

That young man sure knows how to court a woman. He broke all the taboos to get the world talking, tweeting, watching and judging? - He? They both did it. For once Naija people stopped heckling everybody, from the IG to the EFCC chairman.

- Don’t mind them, slip of tongue, stage fright, dyslexia, dysgraphia and dyslalia affect humans. Those affected deserve our understanding, not our derision. Besides it’s been established that the video is fake.

That’s true. The royal wedding is classical in some ways when you look at the list of invitees. While some were debating doctored videos, people were buying tickets, talking to fashionistas and speculating about what to wear. Over six million tweets, nearly 2 billion people watched the wedding worldwide.

- We don’t have numbers of those who consulted with royal dietary experts for to update their table manners. In America, a country that rebelled against the monarchy some made swift deals charging people heavily for the simulated stuff.

Those who could a ticket just to soak atmospherics.

- The poor bride’s father couldn’t make it due to a health emergency.

Donald Trump and the wheelerdealers of the world were not invited. For once, it was not about them, but about the people.

- Actually, that pleased me to high heavens. Trump had to have an alibi; he was busy with Melanine while wife Melania was recuperating.

Yes, won’t be surprised if a Melanine shows up to claim hush money for keeping the president warm while Melania was convalescing. It’s America you know, the land of possibilities. At any rate, much ado about royal weddings we have them here all the time. - Where? Everywhere! - Everywhere is the adverb you use when facts are scanty. There are few royal weddings worth camping in the open air for; British royal weddings are incomparable. Incomparable to what? - To any royal nuptials on this planet! My friend, know your history. Even colonialists marvelled at the incredible splendour the African monarchy although they focused on a few despots. The Asantehene’s stool descended from heaven; the Kabaka of Baganda’s rule is well documented in Uganda. South Africa’s Zaka the Zulu is as much legend as Queen Nandi. We had Queen’s before the English left their caves – Queen Aminatu of Zazzau, Queen Nefertiti and Cleopatra of Egypt and Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar are few examples. The privileges of King Moshoeshoe make the King of Morocco green with envy. We haven’t scratched afford in on it bought the royal the surface of the Naija monarchical pantheon - from famous Yoruba Kings who ruled old Oyo Empire through to Dahomey. The resplendent splendour of the Obi of Onitsha, the Benin kings. The Kanem Bornu Empire had the Mai ruling over a large swathe of land covering several nations of current West Africa. The British derided and destroyed other people’s civilisations just to prime up theirs.

- Well said, the world stood Harry and Meghan.

The English have a lot to account for. They should be thankful to Megan for adding social relevance to a moribund institution. She brought class, panache and splendour to the monarchy and got the entire world talking. When was the last time half the world’s population broke time zones just to sit before screens or left the mundane to discuss the relevance of a barely ceremonial institution?

- Well, it’s been long. Perhaps not since they last had a black queen of England - Queen Sophie Charlotte. Somewhere in the vein of every blue-blooded Englishman is the irrefutable DNA of blackness.

In other words, the Duchess of Sussex simply retraced history at a time when the black race seeks redemption. She’ll never be Queen. Who cares? Looking at the glint in the young Duke’s eyes, there’ll never be a Queen more beautiful than his Duchess and that’s something to think about. Senegalese singer, Ismail Lo, once sang that – toute les femmes sont des reines – all women are Queens! One Duke had to travel to America to find his Duchess, that’s something to cheer whether you made the royal list of invitees or not.

- You’re probably right about that. Finally, both Prince Charles and Lady Diana found their redemption too. How do you mean? - The Prince of Wales desired to break with moribund tradition by marrying his first heartthrob; the system scuttled that, creating the unhappiest royal marriage that led to speculative death. This young man wanted to redeem both his parent’s image. He had his own wild ways, unfazed about so-called royal decorum but finally settled for a black woman, which could have been taboo and not just one with a mixed race, but a known divorcee not ashamed of her heritage or her past. In both their rebellion, they found redemption.

And the wedding itself broke every tradition. If we looked deeper, we’ll realise that the world is better when it embraces all the colours that make up the rainbow without prejudice. The personalities, the the music, the sermon all made this royal wedding one to talk about.

- Those who hitherto impugn their traditional institution need to repent and back down on the rhetoric. Africa probably taught the world how to be royal. still for