Marriage of Cultures: At least 100,000 well-wishers lined the streets of merry olde Windsor yesterday as newlyweds Price Harry and Meghan Markle toured in a horse-drawn carriage. They are now the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

Later, Markle put on a white high-necked, floor-length and sleeveless Stella McCartney dress for the reception. This woman can wear a dress like nobody.

As much a surprise as this love story between a British royal and an American actress was the ceremony that brought the racial mixture of American culture to the stiff upper lips of the fascinator-wearing English upper class. Among the crowds lining the road were black American women there to catch a glimpse of a bi-racial woman who caught a prince.

Before the wedding Markle was taught how to be a royal, but during the wedding she taught the Brits how to be an American.

A black British cellist named Sheku Kanneh-Mason played. An American gospel choir sang the Ben E. King song “Stand By Me,” and the couple left the church to the civil rights anthem “This Little Light of Mine.” The bride’s mother, Doria Ragland, is the descendant of slaves.

The Most Rev. Michael Curry, the Bishop of the American Episcopal Church, delivered a sermon that could have been heard on the south side of Chicago to the shock of some Brits in the church. He referred to slavery, Martin Luther King, love, and fire.  “There was no Bronze Age without fire,” he thundered,  “no Iron Age without fire, no industrial revolution without fire. The advances of science and technology are greatly dependent on the human ability and capacity to take fire and use it for human good.”

He went on to say that “If humanity every harnesses the energy of fire again, if humanity ever captures the energy of love, it will be the second time in history that we have discovered fire.”

Noting the  length of his talk, Curry said, “We’re going to sit down; we gotta get y’all married.”

And as he did, he brought a little bit of America to Britain, and Britain to America.

The Gun Beat: Police say 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis has confessed to the Texas school shooting in which 10 people died Friday.

There’s little to say that’s new in the aftermath of a school shooting. Former Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz, now a Fox News talking head, said of Pagourtzis, ““Obviously, this person is deranged. I can’t diagnose everything, it’s breaking news. But there’s something really wrong with this person, whatever that they did.”

No argument there, but last year President Trump and the Republicans wiped out an Obama-era rule that would have made it harder for emotionally-ill people to get guns. Still, Republicans like to talk about keeping guns away from the mentally ill and allowing anyone else to have as much firepower as they want.

Houston police Chief Art Acevedo says he’s had enough. He posted on Facebook, “I know some have strong feelings about gun rights but I want you to know I’ve hit rock bottom and I am not interested in your views as it pertains to this issue. Please do not post anything about guns aren’t the problem and there’s little we can do.”

The Hungry Eye: Astronomers in Australia say they have discovered a black hole 20 billion times the mass of the sun that is swallowing dust, gas, and whole stars.

A black hole is a gravitational drain in the universe. What gets sucked into it falls into oblivion. But a black hole absorbs only so much stuff. What bounces out produces the light show known as quasars.

The hole is 12 billion light years away, meaning that the light astronomers see coming from it was produced 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang, the explosion of the universe.

Volcanic: A Hawaii man was badly injured when he was hit by lava splatter from the erupting and leaking Mt. Kilauea. The man was reported to be sitting on his balcony at home when he was hit on a lower leg.

Lava is now threatening to cut off a key coastal road used by residents in the area. Several lava flows have merged and are now heading toward the coast, about a mile away. When or if the flow hits sea water, it will release toxic gas.

First Couple: First Lady Melania Trump has returned to the White House after spending five days at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center recovering from a kidney procedure. The President misspelled her name as “Melanie” in a tweet expressing his good wishes.

Justified: Justify won the Preakness Stakes by half a length at Pimlico yesterday, taking the second leg in horse racing’s Triple Crown. The track was soggy and Justify runs well in muck.

The last leg of the Triple is the Belmont Stakes on June 9^th. If Justify wins, it will be a remarkably short interval since the last Triple Crown winner, American Pharoah, which won in 2015 becoming only the 12^th horse to do it. Justify’s owners are hoping for rain.

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