On July 29, 1981, Prince Charles and Princess Diana held a grand royal wedding. The degree of luxury and romance of the entire wedding is still an indicator of a fairytale wedding. Although the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana could not go on in the end, the wedding still brought many beautiful memories and also represented a girl’s longing for marriage. With the launch of the fourth season of the Netfflix series "The Crown", everything about Princess Diana has become a topic again, and of course many of them are this wedding. About 10 interesting facts behind this wedding, how many do you know?
only met 13 times before deciding to get married
Prince Charles and Princess Diana first met in 1977, when the man was pursuing Princess Diana's sister. Only afterwards was introduced by a friend and met Diana. According to Princess Diana, she only met with Prince Charles 13 times that year, and Prince Charles proposed to her, and she readily agreed.
Since the first civilian married into the royal family in 1660
, royal weddings have always been purposeful. Many times, they consolidate the status of royal power through joint marriages with other royal families. Therefore, most members of the British royal family Is a royal or noble background. However, in the later stages, more and more members of the royal family will choose marriage partners based on their feelings. Just as Prince Charles thought that Princess Diana was his love before proposing to each other and was born in a well-off family. Princess Diana has no aristocratic background. She is the first commoner princess of the British royal family in more than 300 years, so she has attracted much attention.
The most expensive wedding in history
The wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana is the most expensive in history, costing a total of 48 million US dollars. If inflation is calculated, it is equivalent to today's 137 million US dollars. Among them, the most costly is the cost of security, which cost about 600,000 US dollars (about 1.7 million US dollars for Hyundai). It is known that on the day of the wedding, there were more than 5,000 police officers on the scene for crowd control, and many undercover officers disguised as infantry soldiers, accompanied by Prince Charles and Princess Diana through London in a carriage.
Different vows
It is reported that Princess Diana took the initiative to delete the word "Obey" on the wedding vows, and Prince Charles also very agreed and supported. However, Princess Diana's move caused a lot of topics and discussions in the past, but later her approach was also followed by Prince William and Princess Kate.
The two very nervous
probably made Princess Diana and Prince Charles very nervous throughout the wedding, especially knowing that their wedding will be broadcast live worldwide. When taking the oath, Princess Diana actually pronounced Prince Charles's name incorrectly, from the original "Charles Philip Arthur George" to "Philip Charles Arthur George", which is very oolong! On the other hand, Prince Charles also forgot to kiss the bride after taking the oath. It seems that the two are really nervous.
Thin before marriage
It is known that Princess Diana knew about Prince Charles’s relationship with Camilla before she got married, and the two have not broken off contact. The man even gave the woman a bracelet to let Princess Diana. Very unhappy. The pressure of the wedding, the "extramarital affairs" of knowing the fiance, and the tension of marrying into the royal family made Diana's mood into a low ebb, and she lost a lot of weight before the wedding. Hidden details of
Maybe many people mention this fairy tale wedding, they will remember Princess Diana's ivory white wedding dress, with the longest 25-foot veil in history, it really set off a wave of imitations. Princess Diana’s wedding dress was made by designer couples David Emanuel and Elizabeth Emanuel. Not only was it sewn with more than 10,000 pearls and a piece of historic lace, the designer also specially sewed a golden horseshoe in the wedding dress. , To symbolize blessings.
The wedding dress that has never been exposed
Secretly, at that time, the royal family also arranged a safe for the two designers to specially display the design drawings and fabrics of the wedding dress, and security guards guarded them around the clock to prevent the design from leaking. It is known that the two designers also prepared a "backup plan", that is, they designed one more wedding dress. If the first one is exposed, or if there is an accident, Princess Diana can still wear the second one for marriage.
A small accident before the wedding
According to Princess Diana’s recollection by the makeup artist that day, before the formal wedding, Princess Diana accidentally put a little perfume on the wedding dress and caused small stains. Fortunately, the makeup artist suggested, Asking Princess Diana to lift the skirt with her hand can perfectly cover up those stains without letting it ruin the whole look. The worst day of
Although this grand wedding is as beautiful as a fairy tale in many people's minds, we all know how the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana ended. There was a tape of Princess Diana once exposed. She personally said that this wedding was the worst day of her life. If she could write her own script, she would let her husband and Camilla fly away and never come back again.
