Princess Bride, Yes. Virgin Bride, Questionable.


She’ll definitely be a princess bride. But as the Pittsburgh Post Gazette points out, there’s “been barely a whisper” about whether or not Kate Middleton will be a virgin bride. That’s markedly different from the media coverage of Princess Diana’s wedding 29 years ago, when an uncle declared her “bona fide virgin.” Middleton has lived with Prince William on and off for years.

But according to historians, the fact that the “co-habitation issue” hasn’t been raised is a sign that “the monarchy has developed very quickly in the last 30-plus years on those sorts of social issues.” Apparently the issue of a virgin bride isn’t a moral one. For royal families, it’s a “time-honored manner of ensuring the integrity of their all-important bloodlines.”

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