It was a royal wedding with a recycled gown worn by a woman who gave up her royal status for love. When Princess Desiree of Sweden got married, she left her HRH status at the altar to be with the man she loved. And she did it in a wedding dress already worn by her sister.
Princess Desiree of Sweden married Baron Niclas Silfvershiold in June 1964.
The princess was the second of the four…
Written for Royal Central by Heaven Lee Miller
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King Charles and Queen Camilla had two ceremonies on their wedding day and that meant two hats for the bride
9th April 2025
Queen Camilla had not one but two royal wedding outfits for her marriage to King Charles III on April 9th 2005, and that meant two hats.
Twenty years on, those style picks remain as classic as they did on the royal wedding day. For the civil ceremony, at the Guildhall in Windsor, Queen Camilla wore a cream coloured wide brimmed hat designed by one of her go to milliners, Philip Treacy.
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The time Queen Elizabeth II stopped a cheeky cigarette break at an historic royal wedding
4th April 2025
They were two of the guests of honour at one of the most historic of royal weddings but they were still stopped in their tracks as they attempted to pop outside for a quick smoke.
Tom Parker Bowles and his sister, Laura, were in the middle of the celebrations marking the…
The little known rule that stopped King Charles and Queen Camilla marrying in their first choice venue
4th April 2025
When King Charles & Queen Camilla announced their engagement in February 2005, they wasted no time in setting a date or venue for their marriage. They immediately told the world they would marry in April that year in a civil ceremony at Windsor Castle followed by a…
Princess Martha wears family heirloom tiara for royal wedding
1st September 2024
Princess Märtha Louise of Norway married American shaman Durek Verrett on Saturday, 31 August at the Hotel Union in Geiranger. The Princess chose to wear a personal tiara for the ceremony, wearing a diadem presented to her by King Olav.Â
King Olav V of Norway gave his granddaughter, Princess Märtha Louise, this tiara as an 18th birthday gift in 1989.
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Norway's king and queen won't appear in magazine photos of Princess Martha Louise's wedding
25th August 2024
The King and Queen of Norway won’t be seen in the exclusive photos taken by a magazine of the wedding of their only daughter.
Princess Martha Louise marries Durek Verrett on August 31st in Gerainger in Norway. Hello magazine and its sister publication, Hola, have…
In August 1968, all eyes were on Oslo for one of the biggest and most talked about royal weddings of recent times. The heir to the throne of Norway, Crown Prince Harald, finally married Sonja Haraldsen, after seeing off opposition from those who felt a future king…
It was a low key royal wedding, set against a backdrop of family illness and impending drama. But the marriage of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott, on November 6th1935, began a royal partnership that would become a bedrock for the House of Windsor as it faced some of its most challenging times.
Prince Henry, third son ofKing George V and Queen…
