Royal Weddings Around the World - HISTORY

From the largest to the smallest, monarchies across the globe celebrate royal weddings in grand style.

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The royal wedding ceremony of the 21-year-old heir to the British throne, Princess Elizabeth, and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, is broadcast live from Westminster Abbey on November 20, 1947.

Rewind Breaking News The History Channel: British Movietone covers one of the most famous weddings in history: the marriage of Prince Charles of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer. 3,500 guests in St. Paul's Cathedral witness the event, as well as an estimated global television audience of 750 million. The Archbishop of Canterbury leads the traditional Church of England service. Diana's nerves showed briefly when she mixes up her husband's many first names during the recitation of the wedding vows. This video clip is courtesy of The History Channel.

On April 15, 1935, in the Long Lines Building at 32 Sixth Avenue in New York City, W.S. Gifford and T.G. Miller of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company take part in a historic phone call. While they are speaking on the phone from offices just 50 feet apart, the call is transmitted over a telephone circuit that stretches approximately 23,000 miles around the world.

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A newsreel film report on the 1953 marriage of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier.

Hollywood starlet Marilyn Monroe weds Joe DiMaggio. The elopement takes place at San Francisco City Hall, and draws a record crowd.