Queen Victoria’s wedding dress is a
powerful symbol of what she would refer to in her journal as the
‘happiest day of my life’. Most probably, it represents more than
any other item of clothing or object, the Queen’s identity as a
royal bride. Certainly, she chose to wear it again in 1847, when
she was painted in her wedding attire by the fashionable
portraitist Franz Xaver Winterhalter…
The House of Windsor just can’t get away
from weddings. While Lady Gabriella Windsor keeps on with the
planning for her big day with Thomas Kingston, set for Windsor at
some point in 2019, the castle itself is fast turning into a one
stop shop for wedding dresses. Just as…
On 30 March 2001, Queen Beatrix announced
the engagement of her son and heir, Prince Willem-Alexander to the
Argentine-born investment banker Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti. The
couple were married on 2 February 2002. Today, King
Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima are…
It’s one of the most famous events in
royal history, and now the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince
Albert is being brought to life once more. A new TV programme,
presented by historian Lucy Worsley, will reconstruct the marriage
that began years of happiness for a young couple and changed the
idea of royal weddings forever. Every aspect of the celebrations,
represented at the time by…
With just days to go until Princess
Eugenie of York marries Jack Brooksbank, royal wedding fever is
growing and with all apologies to the groom, although we hope he
looks smart, handsome and comfortable on his big day, what we
really want to know all about is what the bride…
Princess Eugenie of York is just days
away from marrying her partner, Jack Brooksbank, in a ceremony at
St. George’s Chapel, Windsor and as she says ‘I do’ she’ll join an
ever growing list of HRHs who have wed men with no royal title of
their own.
The marriage of Harald and Sonja of
Norway on August 29th 1968 was a groundbreaking royal wedding. But
the bride chose some very traditional blooms for her bouquet while
the church where she said ‘I do’ was decked with popular flowers
and foliage. As Sonja Haraldsen walked into Oslo Cathedral, she
carried a bouquet of white flowers arranged in a simple design.
Amongst her posy were freesias…
This month, King Harald and Queen Sonja
of Norway celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. The then
Crown Prince of Norway married Sonja Haraldsen on 29 August1968 at
Oslo Cathedral. Their wedding, attended by royalty from around
Europe, came five months after the…
Royal weddings bring all kinds of
expectations and among them is one filled with sparkle and glitter.
For we all assume a royal bride will arrive for her marriage
wearing a tiara and when the wedding will result in them becoming a
consort or consort in waiting, the…
A royal wedding just wouldn’t be a royal
wedding without a tiara or three. But when the then Princess
Elizabeth married the Duke of Edinburgh on November 20th 1947, she
almost missed out on wearing the diadem on which she’d set her
heart. For just before the bride was set to leave for Westminster
Abbey, her tiara snapped in two. The diamond disaster happened as
the future Queen was…
