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Jul 29, 2024 · 29 July 2024 marks 43 years since the Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and the late Diana, Princess of Wales. Taking place on a sunny summer’s day in 1981, the lavish event was complete with much pomp and ceremony – from the service at St Paul’s Cathedral to the couples’ appearance on the famous Buckingham Palace balcony – and was ...
- Hope Coke
May 17, 2018 · India Hicks, Prince Charles' goddaughter, recounts the day she had a front-row seat at one of history's most iconic weddings. I will always remember the moment I was asked to be one of Princess ...
- When, Where and How Did Charles Propose to Diana?
- What Style Was Diana’s Engagement Ring?
- What Was Diana’s Wedding Ring Made from?
- Why Did Diana and Charles Decide to Get Married at St Paul’s Cathedral?
- How Much Freedom Did Diana and Charles Have in Planning The Wedding?
- How Much Did The Wedding Cost and Who Paid For It?
- Who Designed Diana’s Wedding dress?
- How Long Did It Take to Make? How Much Would The Dress Have Cost?
- Why Was Diana’s Dress So wrinkled?
- Who Was in The Wedding Party?
Charles proposed to Diana on 6 February 1981 at Windsor Castle. Diana thought at first that Charles was joking but nevertheless accepted, and was shocked when she later realised he meant it. The couple’s engagement was kept secret for the next three weeks, probably to allow time to prepare for the official announcement. Diana later claimed that she...
It was a 12-carat Ceylon sapphire stone set with 14 solitaire diamonds and a white gold band. It was created by the then-crown jeweller The House of Garrard and the design was inspired by Queen Victoria’s sapphire-and-diamond cluster brooch, a wedding present from Prince Albertin 1840. It was one of the few royal engagement rings not to be custom-m...
The gold for the princess’s wedding band followed royal tradition and was made from one of the last soft nuggets of Welsh gold, mined at Clogau St David's gold mine, which ceased production in 1998. That same Welsh gold nugget had been used for the wedding bands of Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret and Princess Anne,...
The main reason for the choice was that St Paul’s Cathedral offered more seating – an important consideration given that there was to be a very large number of guests.
Because Prince Charles was heir to the British throne, the event was automatically deemed a ‘state occasion’, formally requiring the invitation of the crowned monarchs of Europe and most of the elected heads of state. The ceremony was a traditional Church of England wedding service, presided over by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, and ...
The wedding is thought to have cost £57 million, making it the most expensive in royal history. To compare, William and Kate’s wedding in 2011 cost around £23.7 million and Harry and Meghan’s in 2018 cost £32 million. Estimates of security costs for Diana and Charles’s wedding vary wildly from £500,000 to £20 million. More than 2,000 police officer...
Diana chose the relatively unknown David Emanuel and his then-wife Elizabeth to design her dress because she was fond of a chiffon blouse they had designed for her first official photoshoot following the engagement. The Emanuels’ professed aim was to create “something that was going to go down in history, but also something that Diana loved”. They ...
Diana’s wedding dress was a closely guarded secret. The Emanuels had a maximum of five months to work on it, given the timing of the engagement and wedding. Due in part to the level of secrecy required, they kept a very small team including two seamstresses. They also consulted Maureen Baker, who had made Princess Anne’s wedding dress in 1973, and ...
According to writer Andrew Morton, in Diana: Her True Story (1992), the Emanuels realised too late that they had forgotten to allow for the train’s length in relation to the size of the coach Diana and her father rode in to the ceremony. They found it difficult to fit inside, particularly as both Diana and her father were tall, and the train was ba...
The royal couple had seven bridal attendants, including two page boys. There were five bridesmaids, the youngest of whom was five-year-old Clementine Hambro, great-granddaughter of Winston Churchill. Princes Andrew and Edward were supporters (the equivalent of best man for a royal wedding) for their elder brother Charles.
Sep 12, 2021 · Love conquers all. India Hicks, Prince Charles’s goddaughter and a bridesmaid at his wedding to Princess Diana, wore a Grace Kelly-inspired Emilia Wickstead gown to marry her long-time partner, David Flint Wood, in her home village of Brightwell Baldwin, Oxfordshire, as their five children looked on. Here, she explains why they chose to ...
- India Hicks
Aug 12, 2022 · Prince Charles and Princess Diana 's wedding on July 29, 1981, was hailed as the " wedding of the century," and for good reason. The lavish affair, which took place at St. Paul's Cathedral in ...
- Nicole Briese
Jul 1, 2021 · 7. Clementine Hambro, Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones and Catherine Cameron (right) were bridesmaids at the wedding of Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales at St. Paul's Cathedral Credit: Getty. Known as “the crier”, it was said poor Catherine, now 46, was allergic to horses and spent most of the wedding day blowing her ...
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Nov 16, 2020 · Inside Charles and Diana's Trip to Australia; As is British tradition, unlike ceremonies in America, the wedding party is typically made up of children. The oldest of Diana's bridesmaids was 17-year-old Sarah Armstrong-Jones, Princess Margaret's daughter. She had four others, including Charles's goddaughter India Hicks.
