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The wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten (later Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh) took place on Thursday 20 November 1947 at Westminster Abbey in London, United Kingdom.
Apr 9, 2021 · Elizabeth and Philip announced their engagement in July 1947, and got married just over four months later, with the future queen smiling broadly in photos with her new husband.
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- The Pre-Wedding Celebration
- The Venue
- The Title
- The Guests
- The Transportation
- The Dress
- The Tiara
- The Shoes
- The Jewelry
- The Flowers
Two days before the ceremony, the young couple was celebrated with a ballat Buckingham Palace that would later reportedly be described as a "sensational evening," for which "everyone looked shiny and happy" — particularly the guests of honor, who appeared "radiant."
The young royal became the 10th member of the British monarchy to be married at Westminster Abbey — the same place where her father, King George VI, was crowned just 11 years earlier and where Queen Elizabeth herself would be coronated five years after her nuptials. (The monarch's funeral will be heldat the church on September 19.) The architectura...
Just ahead of the pair's nuptials, Prince Philip received new titles, becoming the Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich of Greenwich.
Though Elizabeth's father, King George VI, was reportedly warned to keep the princess's wedding ceremony "simple" in the wake of the war, the guest list was far from small, with a reported 2,000 people on the list. Among them were five kings, five queens and eight princes and princesses, including King Michael of Romania, King Haakon VII of Norway,...
The princess rode with her father in the Irish State Coach to her wedding venue with the British Life Guards regiment as their escorts. According to the Royal Collection Trust, it was the first time the regiment had worn its "full-dress" uniformssince 1939. On the way back, the bride rode with her new husband in the Glass Coach that was purchased f...
Elizabeth chose a wedding gown design that was submitted by British designer Norman Hartnell just three months before the wedding. It took him and his team of roughly 350 seamstresses just seven weeks to create the piece, which was paid for in part by rationing coupons. According to the groom's cousin, Lady Pamela Hicks, women were even sending the...
Queen Elizabeth's most notable piece of jewelry on her special day was the Queen Mary Fringe Tiara she wore atop her head — her "something borrowed" from her grandmother, Mary of Teck. Once a fringe necklace, Mary had it recreated as a tiara in 1893, and on Elizabeth's wedding day, it seemingly snapped. "The catch, which I didn't know existed, it s...
To complement her gorgeous dress, the princess wore a pair of ivory Duchesse satin heels by Edward Rayne. The silver buckle was studded with silver seed pearl detailing that matched her dress.
In addition to her borrowed tiara, Elizabeth wore two pearl necklaces for her big day — the Queen Anne necklace and the Queen Caroline necklace, after King George II's wife. The princess received both baubles as a wedding present from her father, King George VI, who inherited them as part of the royal collection. According to Queen and Consort: Eli...
In her hands, the princess carried an arrangement crafted by florist Martin Longman of Fenchurch Street, created with flowers from the Worshipful Company of Gardeners. Longman kept the design, which featured white orchids and a sprig of myrtle (a tradition that started with Queen Victoria, who received it from Prince Albert's grandmother) a secret ...
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- 1934: Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip meet for the first time. Then-Princess Elizabeth met Prince Philip in 1934 when he was 13 years old and she was just 8 years old.
- July 1939: Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip meet again — and she falls in love. Five years after their first meeting, a 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, then 18, met again with King George VI, the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, in Devon.
- October 1946: Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip spark romance rumors. RELATED VIDEO: The Romantic Moment Between a Young Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip that Sparked Rumors of Their Love.
- July 9, 1947: Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip announce their engagement. Philip reportedly asked King George VI for Elizabeth's hand in marriage in the summer of 1946.
- When and where did the Queen and Prince Philip meet? Elizabeth and Philip were second cousins once removed (by descent from Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel) and third cousins (by descent from Queen Victoria and Prince Albert).
- When did they announce their engagement? The couple were secretly engaged in 1946, when Philip asked King George VI for his daughter's hand in marriage.
- When and where was their wedding held? Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten married at on November 20, 1947 at Westminster Abbey. Elizabeth had eight bridesmaids: The Princess Margaret (her younger sister), Princess Alexandra of Kent (her first cousin), Lady Caroline Montagu-Douglas-Scott (daughter of the Duke of Buccleuch), Lady Mary Cambridge (her second cousin), Lady Elizabeth Lambart (daughter of the Earl of Cavan), Lady Pamela Mountbatten (Philip's first cousin), Margaret Elphinstone (her first cousin), and Diana Bowes-Lyon (her first cousin).
- How many children did they have? On November 14, 1948, just before Elizabeth and Philip's first wedding anniversary, they welcomed their first child: Charles Philip Arthur George.
Sep 8, 2023 · Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip were married for 73 years, the longest marriage of any British royal couple.
They were married for nearly 74 years before Philip's death in 2021, and the world got a front row seat to all of it: their blossoming romance, growing family and final years.
