Prince Charles + Diana: Today 35 years ago was the wedding – Gala.de

The British heir to the throne Prince Charles, 67, and Lady Diana Spencer (1961-1997) gave on 29 July 1981 in London the knot. The day of the wedding was declared in the UK on holiday, finally celebrated reacting a century wedding. was unforgettable this mainly because of the wedding dress and the audience.

million of viewers watched the royal wedding

the two married not, as is usual at the weddings of the British royal family, in Westminster Abbey, but in the St Paul’s Cathedral. For reasons of space: 3,500 people attended the ceremony in the cathedral. Two million spectators lined the streets, 4,000 police officers were deployed.
Worldwide but saw many more people to. The television broadcast reached more than 700 million viewers and thus record ratings. In the 1980s and the radio was playing a major role. Including listeners were therefore probably more than a billion people there when Charles and Diana went out of the knot

Lady Di wore a very special wedding dress

Equally unforgettable is the wedding dress of Lady Di. It was a creation of British fashion designer couple Elizabeth and David Emanuel and to have cost nearly 11,000 euros. “The dress had a statement of his time to be The 80s were dramatic:. Voluminous robes and all bands, trimming and grinding,” the designer told the striking style in an interview with the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” in April 2011. All decisions to wedding dress she had then “always together with the bride” hit.

the great secret to her

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In addition to design issues that secrecy was the other major challenge. For the hired Emanuel “a private security service and built shutters a”. In addition, “Dress and designs every night locked in a safe” were. For the press it had also laid false trails. So they ordered always “multiple shades of the same material” from suppliers. Moreover, they threw “false swatches and designs in the trash can behind the house” – wating for the reporters who actually regularly herumwühlten loud designer therein

The special eye

Special eye-catcher. at Diana’s wedding dress was the train: “from the archives we knew that the longest train was at a wedding of the king’s house 23 feet long to emphasize the grandeur of the occasion, we placed Dianas Train to 25 feet [7.62. meters] at, “says Emanuel reminded on. The planned “dramatic effect” succeeded. But would Diana’s wedding dress still acceptable? The honest answer from the designer: “. No, not really The robe is a true child of the 80s.”

However, the day of their wedding will be memorable and Lady Di remains despite her early death forever remembered as “Queen of hearts”.

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