Marriage Gallery

Royal Wedding 1947

A page from The Tatler entitled, Happiness was the Keynote with two photographs of the wedding day of Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten (Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh) on 20 November 1947. The top picture shows the royal family on the balcony with the newlywed couple waving to crowds. The bottom picture shows the bridegroom's mother, Princess Andrew of Greece (holding handbag) and five of the bridesmaids, Lady Elizabeth Lambart, Lady Caroline Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Miss Diana Bowes-Lyon, the Hon. Margaret Elphinstone and Lady Pamela Mountbatten waiting to wave farewell to the Princess and the Duke as they left for Waterloo on their way to Romsey where they would spend the first part of their honeymoon at Broadlands, the country seat of Earl Mountbatten. Date: 1947

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Tatler Royal Wedding Souvenir Number, 1960

Front cover of The Tatler celebrating the royal wedding between Princess Margaret and Tatler photographer, Anthony Armstrong-Jones (later Earl Snowdon) at Westminster Abbey on 6 May 1960. The cover features the famous portrait of Margaret by Pietro Annigoni, painted for her between 1957 and 1958. Date: 1960

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Evelyn Waugh gets married

Photograph of English novelist and satirist, Evelyn Waugh (1903 -1966) on his marriage to Laura Herbert, which took place at the Church of the Assumption Warwick Street, London. Waugh had a brief and unhappy marriage to Evelyn Gardner which lasted just two years (they divorced in 1930) and then converted to Catholicism. Her married Laura, a Catholic, in 1937. The couple remained together until Waugh's death and had seven children. Catholicism would become a key theme in Waugh's novels

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