Ten interesting facts behind the wedding! Princess Diana turned out to have a wedding dress that never showed up!-1
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On July 29, 1981, Prince Charles and Princess Diana held a grand royal wedding. The degree of luxury and romance of the entire wedding is still an indicator of a fairytale wedding. Although the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana could not go on in the end, the wedding still brought many good memories, and it also represented a girl’s longing for marriage. With the launch of the fourth season of the Netflix series "The Crown", everything about Princess Diana has become a topic again, and of course, many of them are this wedding. About 10 interesting facts behind this wedding, how many do you know?
I only met 13 times and decided to get married
Prince Charles and Princess Diana first met in 1977, when the man was pursuing Princess Diana's sister. Only afterwards was introduced by a friend and met Diana. According to Princess Diana, she only met with Prince Charles 13 times that year, and Prince Charles proposed to her, and she readily agreed.
The first commoner to marry into the royal family since 1660
For a long time, royal weddings have to have a purpose. In many cases, the status of royal power is consolidated through joint marriages with other royal families. Therefore, most of the members of the British royal family are of royal or noble origin. However, in the later stages, more and more members of the royal family will choose marriage partners based on their feelings. Just as Prince Charles thought that Princess Diana was his love before proposing to each other and was born in a well-off family. Princess Diana has no aristocratic background. She is the first commoner princess of the British royal family in more than 300 years, so she has attracted much attention.
The most expensive wedding in history
The wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana was the most expensive in history, costing a total of 48 million U.S. dollars. If inflation is calculated, it is equivalent to today's 137 million U.S. dollars. Among them, the most costly is the cost of security, which cost about 600,000 US dollars (about 1.7 million US dollars for Hyundai). It is known that there were more than 5,000 police officers on the scene for crowd control on the wedding day, and many undercover officers disguised as infantrymen, accompanied by Prince Charles and Princess Diana through London in a carriage.