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When Queen Victoria married Prince Albert in 1840 so many well-wishers climbed trees in St James's Park to get a better view that branches snapped off, dumping their occupants into the crowd below.
Victoria was not the first Royal bride to wear a white dress, but she cemented what is now an established tradition across the Western world. Before Victoria brides wore various colours - afterwards, they increasingly stuck with white or cream.
For the marriage of the future George V in 1893 the Metropolitan Railway alone had carried a record 514,724 people on the wedding day.
The first televised royal wedding was on May 6th, 1960, when Princess Margaret married Antony Armstrong-Jones. An estimated 20 million viewers tuned in.
Elizabeth and Philip received 2500 wedding gifts from around the world.
The country had not yet completely rebounded from the devastation of the war yet Queen and Elizabeth required ration coupons to buy the material for her gown.
When Prince William and Kate walk down the aisle on April 29th. Kate will be 29, making her the oldest royal bride ever. Most royal brides in history have typically been teenagers. Even William's mother, Princess Di, was barely 20 years old when she married his father, Prince Charles.
Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spence were married at St Paul's Cathedral in 1981 before an invited congregation of 3,500 and an estimated global TV audience of 750 million – with this figure rising to a billion when the radio audience is added in.
Charles and Diana’s engagement became official on 24 February 1981, after Diana selected a large £30,000 ring (£85,700 in today's terms) consisting of 14 diamonds surrounding a sapphire, The ring was later used in 2010 as the engagement ring of Kate Middleton, the fiancée of Diana's elder son Prince William.
During their wedding ceremony with Prince Charles Lady Diana accidentally reversed the order of Charles's first two names, saying Philip Charles Arthur George instead of Charles Philip Arthur George.
Diana did not say that she would "obey" him - that traditional vow was left out at the couple's request, which caused some comment at the time.
Diana wore a dress valued at £9000 with a 25-foot (8-metre) train. Diana's wedding dress, valued at £9000. Diana’s dress was made of silk taffeta, decorated with lace, hand embroidery, sequins, and 10,000 pearls. It was designed by Elizabeth and David Emanuel and had a 25-foot train of ivory taffeta and antique lace.
The couple had 27 wedding cakes with the official five-tier wedding cake being supplied by the Naval Armed Forces. A 27-year-old slice of cake from Charles and Diana’s wedding, decorated with the royal coat of arms, was sold at auction for £1,200 in 2008!
When Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson married in 1986 2,000 people, amid 30,000 flowers, watched the bride make her four-minute walk up the blue-carpeted aisle, sweeping a 17-foot train behind her.
In the royal wedding between Kate Middleton and Prince William, the bride Kate Middleton will wear a ring including a piece of Welsh gold. The tradition was started by Queen Elizabeth II’s mother in 1923. It is said that the gold nugget is nearly finished; however, the Queen has been presented with another large nugget for future royal wedding rings. The wedding rings of Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, the Princess Royal, and Diana, Princess of Wales were all made with the same component of Welsh gold.
When Prince William and Kate walk down the aisle on April 29th. Kate will be 29, making her the oldest royal bride ever. Most royal brides in history have typically been teenagers. Even William's mother, Princess Di, was barely 20 years old when she married his father, Prince Charles.

Sourced from Netflights: http://blog.netflights.com/2011/04/26/royal-wedding-trivia/
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