More romantic than a wedding, there is only a royal wedding. Intrigues, court procolli, carriages, unimaginable dresses and millions of people clapping their hands helped create the tale. From Cinderella onwards. And over the years the European monarchies (and not only them) have not disappointed, giving each era its own royal wedding (or even, if lucky, more than one).
It starts from Edward VIII than to marry the woman he loved (the multi-divorced American Wallis Simpson) renounced the British throne in 1936. Seven months later, his younger brother (king with the name of Giogio IV) took his place and he was able to get married with his beloved. Thus the June 3, 1937 becomes the date of one of the most famous and discussed weddings of the twentieth century. It was a private ceremony at Candé Castle, near Tours, France. She wore a blue dress tailored by the stylist Main Rousseau Bocher, using the so-called ‘Wallis blue’.
A little less than twenty years later, however, the spotlights will illuminate the small principality of Monaco. Prince Ranieri III, fell in love (reciprocated) with one of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood, Grace Kelly. And here love forces her to give up her career – already since Oscar – and pack her bags for Europe. Grace departs from Pier 84 in New York by ship, the April 4, 1956, with fifty relatives, six bridesmaids, 80 suitcases and many journalists. Four days later she will marry her prince.
Instead, it was the July 29, 1981, when a shy and little more than twenty years old Diana Spencer walked down the aisle of St Paul’s Cathedral in London. In an ivory taffeta and silk dress with a seven meter long train. Waiting for her at the altar, the principe Charles Philip Arthur George, heir to the throne of Great Britain. To watch them, over 750 million viewers worldwide and 600,000 subjects flocked to the streets of the British capital. It is the first worldwide wedding. Twenty years after the “yes” of the Princess Margaret, younger sister of Queen Elizabeth, who inaugurated the wedding season on live TV.
“Only for love” it was the most revolutionary wedding in Northern Europe. Crown Prince Haakon of Norway on 25 August 2001 he married the very bourgeois Mette-Marit. In the fourth row to attend the religious ceremony there was also little Marius, 4 years old, the son of the future princess born of a previous relationship with a drug trafficker. At first the subjects had turned up their noses, then they recognized love. Like the bishop of Oslo, during the wedding homily: «You are going to a new life with clean sheets and you are doing it with dignity. Love has triumphed ».
And the very Catholic Felipe of Spain in 2003 he chose an unconventional queen: Letizia ortiz, bourgeois and divorced television journalist. “Either I marry her, or I am not marrying,” this was the ultimatum of the future king at the very traditional Spanish court. He then married her on May 22, 2004. In Madrid, in the De La Almudena cathedral, under pouring rain. A good omen, of course.
And 2018 also had its fairytale. Indeed, two. The May 19th, St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, went to the altar Harry of Wales, second son of Charles and Diana, e Meghan Markle, actress, divorced, American, older than him and – by his own definition – bi-racial. At the time, the Megxit was not yet on the table. On 12 October of the same year, however, it was the turn of Eugenie of York, second child of Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew. The 28-year-old wanted a big wedding, complete with a carriage, as if she were one of the most important exponents of the Windsors.
2020 – pandemic year – has instead changed everything even for the royal wedding. Beatrice in York, eldest daughter of Andrea and Fergie, ed Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi they gave us a wedding very intimate and low profile. No public, no carriages, no full royal family. In the only official photo released, in addition to the spouses, at a safe distance there are Her Majesty Elizabeth and her husband Philip. The religious rite was celebrated in the chapel of Windsor Castle, where the queen spent the first lockdown away from the outside world. And Bea decided to even recycle the wedding dress. But when the grandmother is the queen it’s not much of a renunciation. Long live the spouses, always and in any case!
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