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Two billion television views, £24m on security and Karl Lagerfeld and Margaret Thatcher as guests: royal weddings around the world are not to be sniffed at.Prince Albert II’s marriage to former ...
A royal wedding is a marriage ceremony involving members of a royal family. Weddings involving senior members of the royal family are often seen as important occasions of state and attract significant national and international attention.
On 29 April 2011, millions of people from all around the world watched William and Kate’s historic wedding, which took place at Westminster Abbey. For the big day, Kate wore an Alexander McQueen ...
Weddings are always traditional, but a royal one takes it to another level. We take a look back at some of our favourite British royal nuptials through the years. Royal weddings through the years ...
Although the abbey has been the traditional location for coronations since 1066, not until the 20th century did it become the church of choice for royal weddings; prior to 1918, most royal weddings took place in the royal chapels, such as the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace and St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. [57]
The wedding of Nicholas II of Russia and Alix of Hesse (whose name was changed to Alexandra Feodorovna in the process), second cousins through their shared great-grandparents Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Wilhelmine of Baden. Royal intermarriage is the practice of members of ruling dynasties marrying into other
Keystone/Getty; Historic Royal Palaces. Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace, London, after their wedding ceremony at Westminster Abbey on Nov. 20, 1947 and one of ...
The ceremony was the first royal wedding to be covered in fashion magazines, including Vogue. [10] The "newly-conserved train of Princess Mary's wedding dress, embroidered with emblematic flowers of the British Empire, alongside her bridal slippers and a floral headdress" were on exhibition at Harewood House , the seat of the Earls of Harewood ...