Lap dancing and the British royal wedding

Professor Geoffrey Miller, winner of the 2008 Ig Nobel prize in economics for discovering that professional lap dancers earn higher tips when they are ovulating, analyzed the imminent British Royal wedding [the main participants of which are pictured here]. His report is published in New Scientist. It begins:

One confusing thing about living in a two-sexed species is that certain social rituals have quite different meanings depending on whether you watch them with a male or a female brain. Nowhere is this divide greater than in the realms of courtship…