Did Karloff perform the Royal Wedding?

[Sam Craig]

I didn't get to watch the Royal Wedding on Friday, but they were playing the vows later on radio and I was listening to it at work.

Did anyone else notice that the pastor who performed the ceremony sounded just like Boris Karloff?

Not Karloff from Frankenstein, of course, but more like Karloff from The Mummy!

He even had the slight lisp on his "s" sounds.

What I saw from clips, it appears it was a gorgous ceremony, but I just had this vision of Boris up there conducting the vows ... struck me as funny.

Sam

 

[Cobden]

Urm...that's the Archbishop of Canterbury; the Church of England equivalent to the Pope...

 

[Fly Boy]

Urm...that's the Archbishop of Canterbury; the Church of England equivalent to the Pope...

He does look like a diabolical warlock of some kind...

 

[Tomasso]

My Archbishop moment:

In the mid-1990s I was walking with some British friends down North State Parkway in Chicago as they had asked me to show them the Playboy Mansion, Hugh Hefner's former home. As we reached the gates of the home we were met by an older couple walking in our direction on the sidewalk. The Brits instantly recognized them as the Archbishop of Canterbury (in civilian clothes) and his wife.

We introduced ourselves, had a chuckle about the home we were standing in front of, made some small talk and soon parted ways. Seems they had been visiting friends in Chicago every summer for decades and loved the anonymity that the city provided them; we were the first people to recognize them in their weeklong stay. My friends said they were shocked to see them walking alone sans entourage or security as would usually be the case elsewhere.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

He does look like a diabolical warlock of some kind...

He looks like Mr. Talarczyk my English teacher back in high school. Interestingly enough "Mr. T", as he was known, is an Archbishop in the American Catholic Church, an offshoot sect founded in 1915.

 

[Concerto]

I have to say, that man has always scared me somewhat. His voice is amazing, I wish I had such a rich baritone, but, those eyebrows...

 

[Guttersnipe]

Yeah, I saw a brief news story in which the Archbishop of Canterbury gave quick blurb to the press. If the whole #2 spot in the CofE doesn't work out, I'm sure he could have a promising career as a voice over actor!