Royal reporter Judy Wade has covered decades of royal marriages.
Every royal wedding is a fairytale but Kate and William’s ceremony promises to be even more magical than most because it will lift our spirits during this economic downturn.
The day Catherine Elizabeth Middleton becomes a princess will have to be a dazzling event if it is to match up to that of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.
As a royal correspondent, I was lucky enough to have a ticket and sat closer to the bride than the end of her 24ft train. We all sighed when we spotted Diana’s creased dress. Looking back it now seems a bad omen, just like the way she muffed her vows, promising to wed “Philip Charles” instead of “Charles Philip”.
There were no unfortunate slip-ups at the wedding of Fergie and Andrew five years later, which took place at Westminster Abbey. The bride arrived like a country girl with a wreath of flowers in her hair and walked out an hour later as a royal duchess with a tiara on her head.
That ceremony was memorable to me for the wonderful perfume of the white flowers which filled every corner of the Abbey.
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