Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Royal Wedding Westminster

This followed the tradition started by prince williams great grandmother lady elizabeth bowes lyon after her marriage to the duke of york in 1923. In the last 100 years westminster abbey has played host to ten royal weddings including those of the duke of york to lady elizabeth bowes lyon who became george vi and queen elizabeth the queen mother and the queen then princess elizabeth to lieutenant phillip mountbatten.

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Westminster abbey is probably the most famous royal wedding location around thanks to the marriage there in 2011 of the duke and duchess of cambridge.

Royal wedding westminster. The wedding bouquet was returned to westminster abbey and placed on the tomb of the unknown warrior by a royal official after the photographs had been taken. Prince william and kate middleton married at westminster abbey on 29 april in one of the biggest events of 2011. But while wills and kate were walking in historic footsteps as they traipsed down the aisle as royal husband and wife the links between regal marriage and the abbey are sporadic to say the least.

When the duke and duchess of cambridge were married at westminster abbey in april 2011 they followed a long line of british royal weddings. Although the abbey was full to its 2200 capacity nearly a billion people worldwide tuned in to watch live coverage. However their wedding would have been seen by more people than any other.

We look back at the weddings of some of the other members of the royal family to have married there prince andrew and sarah ferguson 23 july 1986.

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