I WAS interested to read Barbara Crouch's observation of the “missing” part of the Lord's Prayer at the Royal Wedding Service (Letters, May 5).

I searched my Book of Common Prayer to check my memory of the service for the "Solemnization of Matrimony" and found that, in common with the services for Morning and Evening Prayer, the latter part is omitted.

Presumably Prince William, as a possible future head of the Church of England, decided to stick to tradition – or maybe Rowan Williams said to him ‘That's the way we've always done it, lad’.

ANGELA WOOD, Shirley Road, Bournemouth