Royalty - Royal Wedding of Prince Charles & Diana 1981 - postcard

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The wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer took place on Wednesday, 29 July 1981 at St Paul's Cathedral, London, United Kingdom. Their marriage was widely billed as a ""fairytale wedding"" and the ""wedding of the century"". It was watched by an estimated global TV audience of 750 million.^[1][2] The United Kingdom had a national holiday on that day to mark the wedding. The couple separated in 1992 and divorced in 1996.

The Prince of Wales, who had known Lady Diana Spencer for several years, took a serious interest in her as a potential bride during the summer of 1980, when they were guests at a country weekend, where she watched him play polo. The relationship developed as he invited her for a sailing weekend to Cowes aboard the royal yacht Britannia, followed by an invitation to Balmoral Castle, the Windsor family's Scottish home, to meet his family. Diana was well received at Balmoral by The Queen, Prince Philip, and the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The couple then had several dates in London. Diana and Charles had been seeing each other for about six months when he proposed on 3 February 1981 at Windsor Castle in the nursery. He knew she planned a holiday for the next week, and hoped she would use the time to consider her answer.^[3] Diana accepted, but their engagement was kept secret for the next few weeks.^[4]

Their engagement became official on 24 February 1981, after Diana selected a large £30,000 ring consisting of 14 solitaire diamonds elegantly surrounding a 12-carat oval blue Ceylon sapphire set in 18-karat white gold.^[5] Many copies of the ring have been made in both well-established jewellery shops and high-street fashion chains all over the world.^[6]

There were 3,500 people in the congregation at St Paul's Cathedral.^[3] It was held at St Paul's rather than Westminster Abbey because St Paul's offered more seating and permits a longer procession through the streets of London. The service was a traditional Church of England wedding service, presided over by the Most Reverend Robert Runcie, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Very Reverend Alan Webster, the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral. Some say 750 million people watched the ceremony worldwide,^[1] and this figure allegedly rose to a billion when the radio audience is added in, however, there are no means of verifying these figures.^[3] Two million spectators lined the route of Diana's procession from Clarence House, with 4,000 police and 2,201 military officers to manage the crowds.^[3]

All of the Queen's Governors-General, as well as Europe's crowned heads, attended (save for King Juan Carlos I of Spain, who was advised by his government not to attend because the newlyweds' honeymoon involved a stopover in the disputed territory of Gibraltar). Most of Europe's elected heads of state were amongst the guests, with the exceptions of the President of Greece, Constantine Karamanlis (who declined because Greece's exiled monarch, Constantine II, a kinsman and friend of the bridegroom, had been invited as ""King of the Hellenes""), and the President of Ireland, Patrick Hillery (who was advised by Taoiseach Charles Haughey not to attend because of the dispute over the status of Northern Ireland).^{[fn 1]}

Regiments from the Commonwealth realms participated in the procession, including the Royal Regiment of Canada.^[7]

Lady Diana arrived at the cathedral in the Glass Coach with her father, John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, escorted by six mounted metropolitan police officers.^[3] She arrived almost on time for the 11:20 BST ceremony.^[1] The carriage was too small to comfortably hold the two of them in her dress and train. She made the three-and-a-half minute walk up the red-carpeted aisle with the sumptuous 25 ft (8 m) train of gown behind her.

During the vows Diana accidentally reversed the order of Charles's names, saying Philip Charles Arthur George instead of saying ""Charles Philip Arthur George.^[1] Charles also made an error. He said he would offer her ""thy goods"" instead of ""my worldly goods"".^[8] She did not promise to ""obey"" him; that traditional vow was left out at the couple's request, which caused a sensation at the time.^[9]

Other church representatives present, who gave prayers following the service, were the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Donald Coggan, Cardinal Basil Hume, the Right Reverend Andrew Doig and the Reverend Harry Williams CR.^[10] The directors and conductors of the music for the occasion included Sir David Willcocks, Christopher Dearnley, Barry Rose, Richard Popplewell and Sir Colin Davis.^[10]

The music and songs used during the wedding included the Prince of Denmark's March, I Vow to Thee, My Country and the British National Anthem.^[10]

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