THE ROYAL WEDDING (COLOUR)
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- (12 Jun 1961) The approaches to York Minster were crowded for the first wedding here for over 600 years. Inside, Princess Margaret and her husband were followed by the Queen Mother and Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain. The bridegroom's mother with Princess Alexandra, the Duke of Kent, with his brother Prince Michael as best man. Then, Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Philip entered with the Prince of Wales. These were the final moments before the fanfare for the bride. Now came Miss Katherine Worsley, on the arm of her father, Sir William, in a beautiful gown, the veil sweeping down to the magnificent fifteen-foot train. The ceremony was conducted by the Archbishop of York (Archbishop of Canterbury elect). Then, bride and groom walked towards the choir of the Minster, for the signing of the royal register, witnessed by Her Majesty. Before walking down the aisle to the West Door, the Duke of Kent and his very charming bride paid homage to the Queen.
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What a lovely wedding. The Bride looked stunning. Katherine, Duchess of Kent has always been a favorite of mine.
My earliest memories of the Duchess of Kent is of her presenting the women's trophy at Wimbledon! 🎾 Always so elegant, Royal in every way! I've always liked her, as well as her husband the Duke of Kent. They were both loyal to their cousin the Queen and gave exemplary service in her stead wherever they went.
Stunning wedding dress and veil.
What a lovely warm lady. She was a beautiful classy bride.
Her dress was beautiful
Organist is Dr Francis Jackson (Organist Emeritus of York Minster)....he celebrates his 99th birthday later this year. This event was the first wedding where Widor's Toccata was played....it has now become a wedding march favourite.
+bonobo2go - thanks for that extra information! Best wishes from Jenny @ Movietone
Such a dignified,and beautiful bride in Katherine Worsley. I know times were so different back then,and this was a solemn occasion,but blimey,the expressions on some faces,you'd have thought they were attending a funeral. The Duchess has endured much in her life,'Bad with her nerves' as my mother would say,but she's always served her monarch with grace and dignity.
John, Duchess of Kent fell to pieces when she lost her baby boy a still born in 1977She admits she never got over that.The lady is my favorite Royal.She taught music at Hull State Junior School[ known as Mrs Kent] , after ill health forced her to withdraw from official royal engagements.
I have been to York Minster many times over the years.
JohnPaul Dixon - Why was this such a solemn occasion? Everyone so sad looking. I'm not sure who the parents of these two are. How are they related to the Queen?
The young woman on the left is the sister of the groom[ Princess Alexandra,] They are cousins of the Queen.The lady on the right is HRH Marina Duchess of Kent, mother of Princess Alexandra and the Duke of Kent.
J Day m mud
@@RoseSharon7777 The Duke of Kent, Princess Alexandra and Prince Michael of Kent are siblings and first cousins of HM the late Queen
Prince William of Gloucester was so handsome😍
Princess Margaret was so beautiful 😍
Yes she was. Too bad she lived such a terrible life. May she had found comfort im God's arms.
very beautiful dress
Prince William of Gloucester was so handsome! Too bad he didn’t live a life he should’ve had.
Pie Yes taken far too soon but his name lives on with our current Prince William
What does William have to do with this wedding?
@@clarissesimon9253 Indeed. Prince Charles named his first born in honour his late cousin.
@@SR-iy4gg I am talking about the late Prince William of Gloucester, not Prince William, Duke of Cambridge which is his namesake.
Behind Prince Philip, 02:52-02:53,right?
Prince Michael used to be so handsome!
AAron Thom Certainly didn't get his parents' good looks like Alexandra did. He's more handsome with a beard.
The most elegant bride to enter the Royal family. Happily after a long separation they live together in Kensington.
Протим вкего этовво.б@а@я-я☆☆☆смин.
A long separation?
The bride looks enchanting.
Maggie you look beautiful also.
Princess Marina looks so sad. She is obviously remembering her own wedding.
Yes, she is.
What happens
Vera Wallace Her husband died in a plane crash less than 8 years after their wedding. Edward looks a lot like his father, and his bride is wearing a tiara that I think Marina also wore at her own wedding, so it was probably a painful memory for her.
@@piratesswoop725 Thanks, so unfortunate for her, losing someone you were close to is very difficult, it's understandable
@@piratesswoop725 Thank you for explaining this.
this wedding dress rivals all ..grace, diana, katherine.
+Leslie Whitlock - it is a very beautiful dress, I agree! Jenny @ Movietone
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I loved the collar on this dress!
Leslie Whitloc
Thank you for this !!
The wedding dress is absolutely magnificent in its elegance and simplicity - several subsequent brides, the Duchess of Cambridge and the former Duchess of York in particular, could have learnt salutary lessons...
I wonder if that's because all gowns reflect the fashion of the day?
The brides you mention looked beautiful on their wedding days.
Please share pictures of your bridal dress.You seem to have very high standards.🙂
?? The Duchess of Cambridge (now Princess of Wales), had a beautiful dress on her wedding day. It was lovely!
The two women of the bride's family looking on, had the longest faces I’ve ever seen. Looks like they're at a funeral, not a wedding!
Loveoldies50 Princess Marina was not happy with her sons choice of a bride. She was hoping for a royal bride not some lowly daughter of a country squire.
@@notnek202 I believe you, Marina was a snob who looked down on the Queen Mother because she wasn't born royal.
Yep ,not even A Smile
Loveoldies50 lol! I agree
Longer than the train lol.
Wow they sound really thrilled
Nice to see the Queen Ena of Spain in front row as one of the leading guest’s.
Lovely film of that Wedding❤
When the royals married people with class not trailer trash.
Lol they are rich trailer trash! Most of them are alcoholics, drug addicts, all the males have mistresses including the queens husband. In fact
Charles has had many mistresses and it look like William is following in his footsteps.
R Aros how the fuck do you know? You are a disgusting pervert.
@@notnek202 lol calm down... and bless you..lol
R Aros 😜
The Duke of Kent's gait has not changed.
Great Curtsey
How we all hope marriages will be happy. Sadly this one was not but happiness is not given to everyone.
In the mid-1950s I was a member of a Yorkshire regiment in the British Army , stationed in Cyprus. One evening the regimental band, of which I was a member, were told to don their best uniforms and get over to the officers' Mess as they were expecting the Archbishop of York for dinner. We played a programme of suitable music during which the Archbishop, Michael Ramsay came and had a few words with our Bandmaster - then he left. To my knowledge , apart from probably asking a Mess steward to refill his glass, he did not speak to anyone below the rank of a commissioned officer. What this old fart should have done, being a professional Christian was to visit the NAFFI and the NCO and Other Ranks Messes. At did Jesus Christ when he overturned the tables of the usurers in the Temple in Jerusalem, Ramsay did not have to stick to protocol
Up his own backside methinks! How many high profile Christians are hypocrites - they were then and probably still are now. It's the ones you never hear about who work tirelessly to help others who should be celebrated. Not Ramsey.
What happened to a colour? Somebody doing the transfer from the original newsreel practically turned it down to black and white.
Are you sure it's a wedding by the faces looks like a funeral
Gayle it looked very sad and forlorn.
Their wedding has lasted 57 years, sadly the Duchess has had health issues for a long time.All stemming from the loss of a child.She never did get over it.The Duchess has spent years teaching music to elementary school age children.She is well loved.She does appear at Royal functions occasionally.
@@sallietaylor8503 you mean Prince William? Does he has sister/brother?
@@endahtria6794 Sorry I do not know what you are talking about.
@@endahtria6794 Her last child, Patrick, was stillborn. She never had a son named William.
Charles was not formally the Prince of Wales until 1969!!!!
He was given the title in 1958, but his investiture wasn’t until 1969.
One marriage that lasted.
Great spectacle that is how the grandeur of startling marriage ceremony goes.
“Obey and serve” ?? Good grief, was she being hired as a domestic help?
And, even with THAT.......
This was a royal wedding 👰 🇬🇧
Wasn't The Lady Sarah Spencer among the attendants/bridesmaids to HRH The Duchess of Kent on her wedding? It's also nice to see Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain to be among her blood family during this occasion.
@Fitzroi what is a "del"?
RAH52O Its a fairies home.
@Fitzroi airhead? She was 19.
On her wedding day in Madrid 1906 a bomb was thrown at the carriage of Victoria-Eugenie and her husband King Alfonso XIII. Many spectators were killed and the brides dress was splattered with blood. It was all down hill for Spain and her marriage after that. Very sad.
Actually, Lady Frances Spencer, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales, was a guest. And she was pregnant with Diana at the time.
Very nice....
does anybody know who was the couple between the Kents and the Snowdons? The Gloucesters were at the back so who were they?
Your question has made me curious and I have invested more than an hour to find it out 🤯
It's princess Marina's sister, Princess Olga of Greece & Danmark with her husband,
Prince Paul of Yugoslavia‼️
Queen Ena of Spain with the Queen Mother?
Queen Eugenie Victoria of Spain. Queen Victoria's granddaughter
yes
Now thats a fairytale wedding.
Archbishop Ramsay, the second-last respectable Archbishop of Canterbury!
Does anyone reading this know if Katherine Worsley by, any chance related to the Ms. Lucy Worsley (Historian / Curator) of Hampton Court and Historic Royal Palaces? She's always come-across to me as being someone who straddled the fence of both stuffiness and silliness, all rolled into one. Someone who could quickly change demeanor at the drop of a hat depending on the occasion. Does anyone reading this agree?
Good question, to which the answer appears to be 'no'. I asked myself the same when I first came across Lucy Worsley's work, so I looked her up in the genealogy of Katherine Worsley's family (which is in Burke's Peerage & Baronetage because her father was a baronet) where she isn't listed. The Duchess herself, on the other hand, is a descendant (in the female line) of Oliver Cromwell, and the first of those to have married into the Royal family.
@@chevalierdupapillon OR, it could be that much like Anne and her 1st husband, Miss. Lucy's parents chose, NOT to endow (aka: burden) Lucy with the lifelong responsibility and commitment of being (end)titled. This is in large measure why Zara and Peter Phillips have been able to fly under the radar and enjoy much of their personal life out of the public glare.
@@manuellubian5709 There are a number of reasons why that wouldn't have happened in the Worsley case though. Firstly, absolutely no title goes with being a member of a Baronet's family except for the male head of the family (who is titled "Sir Firstname Surname, Baronet" once he succeeds the previous Baronet) and his wife (who is then titled "Lady Surname"), and Lucy Worsley is neither. You can see this with the bride of 1961 too, who - as the daughter of a Baronet - was just plain Miss Katherine Worsley.
Secondly, even if the family in question was sufficiently higher-ranking to actually have courtesy titles for some members (even then of course, only for the closest relatives of the head of the family), such as "Hon. Firstname Surname" or "Lord/Lady Firstname Surname", and even if on top of that this particular family had decided that Lucy shouldn't use that title, she would still be listed in Burke's Peerage, with just the addition of "doesn't use courtesy title" (something which you can see here and there, but which is extremely rare). Your own example illustrates this: while Peter and Zara Phillips were not given titles, they are nonetheless listed in all genealogies of the royal families.
Finally, that very comparison with the Phillips family is also a good illustration of how different the stakes are depending on rank. Peter and Zara P. are the grandchildren of the Queen herself, and thus part of a family that was and is hounded by paparazzi because there is such an overwhelming, world-wide interest in them. (Incidentally, I am not sure whether not being titled has in fact saved the Phillips children much bother, because if you compare them to Lord Linley [nowadays 2nd Earl of Snowdon] and Lady Sarah Chatto, i.e. to their exact equivalents but for the title, it seems to me that the latter two aren't really harrassed that much more either. But that doesn't change the main point, as you are of course right about Princess Anne's intentions.) Belonging to the family of a Baronet, on the other hand (and not even being the Baronet's child, because these are all known and Lucy W. isn't among them, but rather being the child of a Baronet's uncle or cousin) gets you virtually no attention at all: there are thousands if not tens of thousands of people who have that status, and thousands whose titled relatives are much more high-ranking. So while one can see how the idea of making your children stand out a little less made much sense in the Philipps case, I don't see why it would have been necessary in the Worsley case.
@@chevalierdupapillon Thank You immensely for the lesson. Living here in, America such as I do it, is not often that we (Americans) are 'schooled' in the ways and understanding of Peerage. However, I myself on the other hand, have always been fascinated by it and relish any opportunity to learn more about it, every chance I get. Thank You.
always in the undertones
Philipp had a beautiful nose, all without surgery. He looked like HE were the King next to tiny Elizabeth.
Why all the long faces
Charles wasn't Prince of Wales then.Not until 1969
Jill Aberdeen He was given the title of Prince of Wales in 1958, he just was not official invested until 1969. The announcer is correct.
makes one think how simple life was in the 1960s....
maritana soysa any decade is simple when you are a child
Katherine Worsley has had a hard life.I think that she has finally found happiness.
Linda Watkin a hard life ? Do you know what a hard life is ? She has lived in luxury and splendor all her life and has nothing to complain about.
A hard life? I dont understand.
She has had some serious health problems, but otherwise, has lived a pretty charmed life.
@@notnek202 Rich people can have a hard life as well
@@rosedudesert4389 Indeed. Gloria Vanderbilt's son tragically took his own life. Wealth can buy comfort, but not health or happiness.
Who ARE these people who got married ?? The description only has the bride's name. I couldn't understand the narrator. The sound on a lot of these older clips are muddled.
They are the Duke and Duchess of Kent!
y estos quienes eran?
For those of u wondering why marina looks so sad shes probably thinking about her husband prince george who died right before the groom was born I think the groom has alot of his father's looks and marina probably sees that which makes her sad
He did not die right before the groom was born. If he had, the other two siblings would have never been born! The Duke of Kent was 6 years old when his father died.
What a collection of clows!!!
Some of the guests look like it's more of a funeral than a weddi ng.
@ carlaharris9645
The groom's mother (Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark)
opposed the match because she wanted her son, Prince Edward,
Duke of Kent to marry a European royal.
Edward and Catherine postponed the announcement of their
engagement and their wedding to "make sure that they really
loved each other" and to appease his mother! Still, they decided
to go ahead and get married despite his mother's objections.
Princess Marina herself, had a very unhappy life and was not
only widowed when the children were young; but because of
her husband's death, the family was "poor" (for royals).
Princess Marina probably did not like her daughter's choice
of a husband (a commoner) or her younger sons choice of a
wife (If she was even alive when they married ... I can not
remember) Sadly Princess Marina died at a relatively young
age.
Bride look 50 but dress is beautiful,, stunning
1:33 casamento ou enterro?
The vows required of women 'to obey AND serve' - sexist much? Hard pass! The bride looked radiant!
Colour?
Ужасно кпп на четвортый тший давать с травли самоденежного состоревания...
There has been colour film since the 1930s
Did you think there was no color film in 1961?
Alberto Sordi. Bello filmi.
They are looking miserable - well considering all the duvet athletics that they all got up to - no wonder...l.
married 69 years come 2019
Repeat 2nd grade math???😝😜😝
Uh, that would be 58 years in 2019.
Удивляюсь.чему народ умиляется и радуется..сами живут в нищите.безработица..богатеи женятся.они в свой круг простого не пустят.все чванные
Another German wedding.💕
Well, so are most English weddings, aren't they? You do know that most of the English ancestors are Germanic, right? Saxons, Angles, Vikings, Celts, and Normans
@@SR-iy4gg How redundant.
Who are they? The ones getting married I mean. Never heard of them
The husband the Duke of Kent is Queen Elizabeth's first cousin.
Queen Elizabeth's first cousin.
Щя🎋🎋🎋🎋🎋
@@cynthiagarza5510 is this Princess Michael of Kent's husband?
@@miriamhavard7621 Hi Miriam. Yes. At the end of the blurb below the video, you will see who it is that is bowing to the queen. The newly married couple always bows to the queen anytime she attends their wedding.
hi,its
На.
The first royal wedding in over 600 years??? What
First one in York Minister in 600 years.
They meant in York minster
Oh, good grief. Please listen to the video before commenting.
J
Can I throw up now?
Err...yeah if you must.
Truth, on yourself maybe.
If you did, I wouldn't blame you. Which planet did those pompous, arrogant nobodies come from? Certainly not ours!
The wedding dresses are rediculous. Is that sort of thing really relevant today?
creolelady182 Don't watch it then.
@@edronc2007 to have an opinion,I had to watch it.
It's a beautiful dress. Much nicer than a lot of the crap that passes for wedding dresses today.
That dress looks so heavy
Waste of money
Of they drove into the sunset to plan their next war...