Princess Elizabeth and Philip
were married at 11:30 GMT
on 20 November 1947 at Westminster
Abbey.
On the morning of her wedding, as
Princess Elizabeth was getting dressed at Buckingham Palace before
leaving for Westminster
Abbey, her tiara
snapped. Luckily the court jeweller was standing by in case of emergency. The
jeweller was rushed to his work room by a police escort. For her wedding dress
she still required ration
coupons to buy the material for her gown,
designed by Norman
Hartnell.
The royal parties were brought in
large carriage processions, the first with The Queen and Princess Margaret and
later a procession with Queen Mary. At Kensington Palace, Philip
departed with his best man,
the Marquess of
Milford Haven. Princess Elizabeth arrived at the Abbey with her
father, George VI, in the Irish State Coach.
The wedding ceremony was
officiated by the Archbishop of
Canterbury, Geoffrey
Fisher and the Archbishop of York, Cyril Garbett. The
ceremony was recorded and broadcast by BBC radio to
200 million people around the world.
The couple received over 2,500
wedding presents from around the world and around 10,000 telegrams of
congratulations.
Upon their marriage, Elizabeth
took the title of her husband and became Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of
Edinburgh. They departed for their honeymoon in Broadlands in Hampshire, home of
Philip's uncle, Earl Mountbatten.
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