Is it OK for a family member to insist the groom gets rid of his beard – or the bride or groom to dictate a certain look for members of the wedding party? “I definitely think for guys nowadays having a beard or being stubbly on your wedding day is perfectly normal.”įor Wyse, “As long as a beard is kept well-trimmed, it is perfectly acceptable. “I think it's quite an old school thing to be clean-shaven now, even for work, unless it's needed for safety reasons – I know that's the case for firemen, for example” he suggests. “It is, however, an exception from the normal rules, so it is probable Harry would have asked the Queen for permission to wear a beard as a courtesy.”Ĭelebrity hairstylist and groomer Luke Benson (/lukebensonhair) agrees banning beards is no longer the norm in most circumstances.  “Members of the royal family who are expected to wear uniform on ceremonial occasions, even when they are long-retired from service, do occasionally wear beards with Army, Marines and RAF uniforms,” Wyse explains. The beard, however, is a long-standing Navy tradition.”īut when it comes to modern royals donning uniforms, the same rules don't necessarily apply. She continues: “Since 1916 beards have been banned (with some exceptions) by the British Army and moustaches only are allowed in the Army, Marines and RAF.  “The whole beard question is tied up with the military.” “There is no traditional compulsion for men to shave off beards or facial hair on formal occasions,” says Elizabeth Wyse, etiquette advisor at Debrett's (). So who's correct? We asked grooming and etiquette experts for their take. Some people on social media insist Harry should have been clean-shaven for such a high profile event, while others argue it's down to the groom's personal preference. Harry told ITV's Tom Bradby: “I think William found it hard that other people told him to shave it off, and yet here I was on my wedding day wearing military uniform, no longer in the military, but thinking as though I – believing as though I should shave it off before my wedding day.” Harry revealed he asked permission from the Queen to keep his beard for his wedding, suggesting his older brother was unhappy about the decision. In what's being called #beardgate on Twitter, the 38-year-old said the Prince of Wales ordered him to shave off his beard before his own wedding in 2018. Following the Duke of Sussex's explosive televised interview to promote his memoir, Spare, one of the key talking points revolves around Harry's facial hair.

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Sontag's many honors are the 2003 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the 2003 Prince of Asturias Prize, the 2001 Jerusalem Prize, the National Book Award for In America (2000), and the National Book Critics Circle Award for On Photography (1978). Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages.Īmong Ms. Her stories and essays appeared in newspapers, magazines, and literary publications all over the world, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Art in America, Antaeus, Parnassus, The Threepenny Review, The Nation, and Granta. Sontag served from 1987 to 1989 as president of the American Center of PEN, the international writers’ organization dedicated to freedom of expression and the advancement of literature, from which platform she led a number of campaigns on behalf of persecuted and imprisoned writers.  Sontag also directed plays in the United States and Europe, including a staging of Beckett's Waiting for Godot in the summer of 1993 in besieged Sarajevo, where she spent much of the time between early 19 and was made an honorary citizen of the city.Ī human rights activist for more than two decades, Ms. Another play, Lady from the Sea, has been produced in Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Korea. Her play Alice in Bed has had productions in the United States, Mexico, Germany, and Holland. Sontag wrote and directed four feature-length films: Duet for Cannibals (1969) and Brother Carl (1971), both in Sweden Promised Lands (1974), made in Israel during the war of October 1973 and Unguided Tour (1983), from her short story of the same name, made in Italy. In 1982, Farrar, Straus & Giroux published A Susan Sontag Reader. Her books include four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America a collection of short stories, I, etcetera several plays, including Alice in Bed and Lady from the Sea and nine works of nonfiction, starting with Against Interpretation and including On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, Where the Stress Falls, Regarding the Pain of Others, and At the Same Time. from the College of the University of Chicago and did graduate work in philosophy, literature, and theology at Harvard University and Saint Anne’s College, Oxford. Susan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933, grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and attended high school in Los Angeles.

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