Royal Weddings Through the Years
Prince William and Kate Middleton will marry on April 29 at Westminster Abbey. Catherine, as she is now known, has not yet revealed who will design her wedding dress, but William is expected to follow royal tradition and wear a military uniform. Since so many Britons are going through economic hard times, there's talk the royal newlyweds will opt for a budget honeymoon close to home. Check out photos of some other British royal weddings.
Royal Weddings Through the Years
Peter Phillips -- son of Princess Anne, Queen Elizabeth II's only daughter -- married Canadian-born Autumn Kelly on May 17, 2008. The bride converted from Roman Catholicism to Anglicanism so that her husband would not have to renounce his rights to the throne. The couple recently welcomed their first child, a baby girl who is the queen's first great-grandchild.
Royal Weddings Through the Years
Prince Charles became the first member of the royal family to have a civil ceremony when he married Camilla Parker Bowles on April 11, 2005. Camilla, now known as the Duchess of Cornwall, was divorced from her first husband, Andrew Parker Bowles. The newlyweds are seen with their children. On the left are Prince Harry and Prince William. On the right are Laura Lopes and Tom Parker Bowles.
Royal Weddings Through the Years
Sophie Rhys-Jones, a PR exec from a middle-class background, married Prince Edward on June 19, 1999. He is the queen's youngest son. Her Royal Highness the Countess of Wessex, as Sophie is now known, gave up her career. The Wessexes have two children, Lady Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn. Edward will eventually inherit his father's title as Duke of Edinburgh.
Royal Weddings Through the Years
Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones married actor Daniel Chatto on July 14, 1994. She is the daughter of the queen's only sister, Princess Margaret, and the Earl of Snowdown. She is now known as Lady Sarah Chatto. The couple have two children, Samuel and Arthur.
Royal Weddings Through the Years
David, Viscount Linley, son of Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdown, married Serena Stanhope on Oct. 8, 1983. They have two children, Charles and Margarita Armstrong-Jones. Linley runs his own furniture-making company.
Royal Weddings Through the Years
The Church of England frowns on divorce, so Princess Anne married her second husband, Cmdr. Tim Laurence, in a Scottish church on Dec. 12, 1992. Anne, the queen's only daughter, is also known as the Princess Royal.
Royal Weddings Through the Years
Prince Andrew, the queen's second son, married flame-haired Sarah Ferguson on July 23, 1986. The new Duke and Duchess of York had two children, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie. But Sarah never adjusted to royal ways and caused scandal after scandal, most notably when she was photographed topless with her "financial adviser" sucking her toe. Andrew and Sarah divorced in 1996.
Royal Weddings Through the Years
It seemed straight out of a fairy tale when Prince Charles, 32-year-old heir to the British throne, married 20-year-old Lady Diana Spencer on July 29, 1981. Despite the births of Prince William and Prince Harry, the couple were very ill-suited. Diana bitterly claimed "there were three of us in this marriage" -- a reference to Camilla Parker Bowles. Charles and Diana separated in December 1992 and were divorced in August 1996. A year later, Diana was killed in car crash in Paris.
Royal Weddings Through the Years
Princess Anne, the queen's daughter, married Capt. Mark Phillips, a former Olympic gold medal-winning horseman, on Nov. 14, 1973. They had two children, Peter and Zara Phillips, but divorced in 1992. Phillips fathered a daughter, Felicity, during an extramarital affair with New Zealander Heather Tonkin. In 1997, he married Sandy Pflueger. They have a daughter, Stephanie.
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The Queen has sent out over 1,800 invitations to attend the wedding of grandson Prince William and Kate Middleton, but has not invited The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson. Leaving Will's auntie in tears over the Royal snub.
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So what, she is divorced from Prince Andrew. She never goes to Royal weddings.
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If the adulterers Charles & Camilla are attending why not Sarah??? I am sure that William & Harry wouln't mind at all. Sarah & Diana were very close. What a bunch of hippocrites.
Sarah still can't move on with her life or reap what she's sown. How sad. I just wish this royal wedding would get done & over with, especially with all of Billy Bush's brownnosing on Access Hollywood.
Of course she can not attend. She is a divorcee, which to the Catholic Church is worse than an adulterer or a child molester.
Um, Mark, royal family not Catholic.
To think that Charles had the sick mindset to have his shag hag Camilla at his wedding to Lady Diana. Charles and Camilla are vile, undignified and disgusting people to have hurt so many throughout their adulterous affair. Cowmilla has no place at all among the royals - especially having got there on her "back"...and Charles is a shameless cad and excuse for a man.
Besides, the report yesterday that she her kids were invited and she wasn't said she had expected as such and couldn't attend anyway since she is currently filming a reality show for the new Oprah Winfrey Network. I think this whole story is a fabrication.
A wedding is a one-time spiritual and celebratory event for a couple. If a person's presence would cast a shadow on that moment, he/she should not be invited. However, since it is a relatively brief experience (one day), if the absence of the presumed invitee would cause much irreparable ripples afterwards, it might be better to invite the person, as this is a one time event. And the same vice versa: that is, it is better for a reluctant invitee to go to a wedding (even if she has to stand in the back) to avoid later regret.
Here,barring a deep reason we don't know or can appreciate, Sarah Ferguson should have been invited to the wedding because she is Prince Williams aunt, and the mother of his first cousins and the mother of the Queen's grandchildren. Presumably the cousins will be there, and it will be sad that their mother will not.
On another side, snubbing Sarah can be a subtle warning to everyone that if someone crosses the royal family (including Catherine) that the price will be high.
Overall, it is a weighing of will her presence advance or detract (in the case if there is serious bad blood) from the spiritual climate of the day. If the answer is yes, then to omit her is correct. If the answer is it won't detract that much, then invite the woman as it shows an air of magnanimity on the part of the royals, and not an air of their usual vindictiveness. Additionally, the bad blood that can occur later will be avoided.
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Other reports said she was invited but she declined. Way to sensationalize!
@Mark - Except none of the Royal Family are Catholic. They all belong to the Church of England.
Let's face it, the royal family has a long memory and Sarah will never be forgiven for not following the "family" rules or code of behavior, and staying married to Andrew. They would like to sweep her under a rug but that's a little hard because she is the mother of two of the Queen's granddaughters. She should be invited to the wedding. It's not like they will be preventing any scandal by not inviting her.
Blame herself! She treated the queens grandson bad! redhead!
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She married the son, not the grandson. She always treated Prince William and Prince Harry well.
If you gonna be an outcast, you might as well be a royal one.
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Why would she even think, that she gets invited. I believe this is a made up story.
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Actually, she HAS attended royal weddings. She and Andrew have enjoyed a close relationship. She even lived in the same palace as Andrew long after the divorce.
She attended Prince Edward's wedding a few years ago.
K. West invited to wedding ....you're kidding. Right?
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I know, I heard that on the news this morning and I thought they were joking. I used to have a lot of respect for Prince William, but now I've lost a great deal. K West of all people. Now his dam*d ego will be so inflated there will be no shutting him up.
I thought the same thing!He is a RUDE,ARROGANT,RACIST IDIOT! Why
would he be invited?
Maybe West can take Ferguson as his date!