The writer is an academic, critic and broadcaster
“Marriage,” Robert Louis Stevenson once observed, is only “a sort of friendship recognised by the police.” Which is just as well for Taylor Swift, since reports estimate that there may be 200 NYPD officers marshalling the crowds expected to gather for what is looking very likely to be her Madison Square Garden wedding extravaganza this weekend.
What is the allure of the big wedding? And — whether it’s Taylor and Travis, Harry and Meghan or Grace and Rainier — what accounts for the fascination with which the celebrity variety seems to grip so many of us, Swifties or not?
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