Fifteen years ago today, Prince Joachim married his fiancée, Marie Cavallier, in Mogeltonder Church, in South Jutland.
Prince Joachim and Princess Marie met while Joachim was still married to his first wife, Countess Alexandra. They were invited to a dinner and, being the only two French-speaking people invited, their host introduced them. Their romance, however, started much later.
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IN PHOTOS: Princess Alexandra weds Nicolas Bagory
30th April 2023
Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg, the only daughter of Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa, married Nicolas Bagory in a religious ceremony on 29 April.
The wedding took place at Saint-Trophyme Church of Bormes-les-Mimosas in the south of France.
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If ever a wedding dress summed up its wearer, it was the gown chosen by Sophie for her marriage to Prince Edward
6th January 2023
On January 6 1999, Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones announced that they were engaged to be married. To celebrate the occasion, 24 years on, Lydia Starbuck takes a look back at the Countess of Wessex’s striking wedding dress.
If ever a royal wedding dress summed…
2023 - the year of the royal weddings
1st January 2023
This year is set to be the year for royal weddings. Three weddings are set to take place in 2023 – two in Jordan and one in Luxembourg. It is thought another wedding will take place in Norway this year, as well.
The first royal wedding of the year will take place in April when Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg marries French-born Nicolas Bagory. As is traditional in Luxembourg, the pair…
The four weddings of King Hussein
16th August 2022
As we prepare for Princess Iman of Jordan’s wedding, we look at the weddings of her grandfather King Hussein, who was famously married four times.
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Three years after his accession to the throne, King Hussein’s first wife was Dina bint…
Where do Jordanian royal weddings take place?
30th July 2022
Royal watchers rejoiced when the news of Princess Iman’s engagement broke on July 7, 2022. Not only is itanother royal wedding to look forward to, but there hasn’t been such a celebration in Jordan since 2004.
With nearly 20 years since the last big…
A slice of royal history has been bought at auction twice by the same man, and he’s determined to have his cake and eat it, too.
When Gerry Layton of Alwoodley, Yorkshire, saw a piece of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer’s wedding cake for sale at a 2021 auction, he spent a mouth-watering £2,170 to purchase the slice.
Fast forward to May 2022, and unbelievably, the 62-year-old…
King and Queen of Bhutan mark ten years of marriage
13th October 2021
The King met Jetsun Pema, who comes from the country’s elite, when she was around seven-years-old, and he was 17. Years later, they fell in love and became engaged.
He announced his upcoming marriage during the opening of Parliament in 2011. His Majesty then…
The marriage of Sonja Haraldsen to the future King of Norway, on August 29th 1968, marked a moment of joy in a relationship that had caused huge debate as soon as it was known about. For the bride had no royal blood in a monarchy where princes were expected to wed regally.
The most unusual royal wedding bouquet of all?
25th August 2021
It’s not often the bridal bouquet gets its own name but that’s just what happened at the first major royal wedding of the 21st century. When Mette-Marit Tjessem Hjoiby married Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, on August 25th 2001 in Oslo, she carried an unusual arrangement of flowers that had a title all of its own.
The creation was called ‘Brudeloperen’ and it remains one…