--- title: The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The British royal family is the most gossiped-about family in the world. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / The royal family in the news: a weddin… # The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book Lesson 44 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 23 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/0/) — The British royal family is the most gossiped-about family in the world. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/1/) — Their weddings, babies and funerals are public events shown on television, but they are also a real family with real feelings, quarrels and sadness, like any other. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/2/) — Royal news comes in layers. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/3/) — At the bottom are the facts: dates, official statements from the Palace, things filmed for everyone to see. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/4/) — Above them are «royal sources», newspaper columns and online guesses — some right, many wrong, none of them checkable. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/5/) — Scene: in Glasgow in 2018, Nan is glued to the telly: Prince Harry is marrying Meghan Markle, an American actress, at St George's Chapel in Windsor. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/6/) — The wedding is a fact the whole world watched. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/9/) — The others in it may have said nothing in public, and a fair person remembers that. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/10/) — A good rule for any famous family: say what was officially announced or widely shown, call guesses guesses, and don't fill the blanks with your own story. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/11/) — Prince Harry married Meghan Markle at St George's Chapel, Windsor, on 19 May 2018, and they became the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/12/) — Meghan's father did not come to the wedding; it was reported he had heart surgery, and Charles, then Prince of Wales, walked her part of the way. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/13/) — In January 2020 Harry and Meghan announced they would step back as senior working royals, and they later moved to California; Harry is still a prince. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/14/) — In March 2021 they gave a TV interview to Oprah Winfrey and spoke of a hurtful remark by a family member they did not name; the Palace replied that «some recollections may vary» and that the family would deal with it privately. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/15/) — In February 2021 the Palace confirmed they would not return as working royals, and Harry's special army titles went back to the Queen. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/16/) — Prince Philip died on 9 April 2021 aged 99, and the Queen sat alone at his funeral because of Covid distancing rules. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/17/) — Queen Elizabeth II died on 8 September 2022 at Balmoral in Scotland, aged 96, after seventy years as Queen. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/18/) — Charles became King the moment his mother died and was crowned with Queen Camilla at Westminster Abbey on 6 May 2023, which was also Harry's son Archie's birthday; Harry came, and Meghan stayed in California with the children. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/19/) — In December 2022 a Netflix series told Harry and Meghan's side of their story; others in it did not reply on camera. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/21/) — In «Spare» Harry wrote that William once pushed him to the floor in an argument; William has not told his side in public. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/22/) — In November 2019 Prince Andrew stepped back from public duties after a BBC interview about his friendship with a man convicted of serious crimes. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/23/) — A headline word like «Megxit» or «snub» makes a complicated choice sound simple and nasty. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/24/) — A few seconds of video of two brothers walking together does not tell you whether they have made up. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/25/) — Serious accusations belong to courts and investigations, not to jokes in the playground. - ← previous: [Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/) - next →: [The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/45-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)