The wedding ring of Queen Victoria has
its special poignancy, a symbol of the passionate marriage she
enjoyed with Prince Albert. Placed on her finger on the morning of
10 February 1840, her private instructions ensured that she would
wear it in perpetuity. What do we know of it? If we study the
paintings and engravings made that show the hands of Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert joined, we might…
When the newly-married Queen Victoria
returned with Prince Albert to Buckingham Palace, she was with the
Prince ‘from 10m. to 2 till 20 m.p.2’, after which the couple went
down for the wedding breakfast. During these thirty minutes, Queen
Victoria gave Prince Albert his…
Queen Victoria’s wedding veil was an
object of singular poignancy because of the enormous sentimental
value that it represented to her in personal terms and the context
in which she last wore it. She wore in on the monumental day – 10
February 1840 – the day she…
As she celebrated her twentieth wedding
anniversary with a day out at Royal Ascot with her husband, it
appeared that the Countess of Wessex was paying her own tribute to
her famous day as a royal bride. For Sophie was in white and black
on her big anniversary, just as she was two decades ago when she
said ‘I do’ at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor. Embed from Getty
Images As she…
The Earl and Countess of Wessex celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary at Royal Ascot
19th June 2019
The Earl and Countess of Wessex are
celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary at Royal Ascot alongside
The Queen, their family and friends. Edward and Sophie, who married
on this day twenty years ago, were spotted in the Royal Box at the
racecourse. They did not take part…
It was a long-awaited royal wedding in
Sweden when Crown Princess Victoria wed her longtime love, Daniel
Westling in a ceremony in Stockholm that brought in royals from
across the globe which was described as “Europe’s biggest royal
wedding since thePrince…
The last major Windsor wedding of the
20th century became something of a turning point for The Queen and
her family. It wasn’t just that this royal celebration was more
informal and more relaxed than the spectacular ceremonial of
previous royal marriages. The wedding of the Earl and Countess of
Wessex, on June 19th 1999, seemed to mark a change in direction
following a tumultuous decade that had…
When the news broke that Prince Carl
Philip of Sweden was dating former reality show participant and
model Sofia Hellqvist, a flood of criticism followed. Many doubted
that this most unlikely romance would be sealed by marriage. Today,
Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia…
Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece
has revealed wedding plan ideas, etiquette and previously-unseen
photos of her own 1995 wedding to Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece on
her official blog. “Time has absolutely flown by and looking back
and reminiscing about our wedding…
On10 June 1993, then-Prince Abdullah
marriedRania al Yassin in a traditional Muslim ceremony in Amman.
The 31-year-old Prince and his 22-year-old fiancé had only been
dating for a few months, after meeting at a dinner party in August
of 1992, when they became engaged in January 1993. Abdullah would
tell People Magazine a few years later that “It was love at first
sight.” What…
