Often steeped in centuries-old tradition and much pomp and circumstance,royal weddingsare extraordinarily detailed and require militant planning.
Buckingham Palace has routinely thrown together opulent weddings in only a few months.
Camilla wed Parker Bowles in 1973, though Charles begged her not to.
However, it’s speculated that their involvement spanned Charles and Diana’s courtship and engagement as well.
Eight years later, they married after one of the shortest British royal family engagement periods in recent history.
It was love at first sight."
In a 2016 interview with Stellar magazine, Rania expressed the same sentiment.
“He had such a great smile and such infectious energy, we got on really well.
And the rest, as they say, is history,” the queen said.
Twenty years after their nuptials, Abdullah and Rania attended the weddings of both their children in 2023.
In March, Princess Iman and Jameel Alexander Thermiotis wed in a spring ceremony.
The couple was married at Westminster Abbey on November 20, just four months after the engagement announcement.
They were married 73 years when Philip died in April 2021.
The year was 1934.
And the rest is history.
Sarah “Fergie” Ferguson said yes, and the pair announced their engagement a month later in March.
Andrew and Ferguson met just over a year before they tied the knot.
Princess Diana, a childhood friend of Ferguson’s, had reportedly been trying to set up the two.
Their whirlwind romance soon expired, though.
King Charles III and Princess Diana
King Charles III and Princess Diana got engaged in early 1981.
Diana was just 19 years old, and Charles was 13 years her senior.
Diana and Charles met in 1977 when she was 16 and he was 29.
Diana later admitted to biographer Andrew Morton that the proposal caught her entirely off guard.
“It was so grown up.
Here was Diana, kindergarten teacher.
The whole thing was ridiculous.”
The palace announced the couple’s engagement in November 2010.
In 1993, they reconnected at a charity event hosted by the prince.
He did so in December 1998 while they were on a getaway in the Bahamas.
When the pair was back in England the following month, they shared the news with the public.
Their wedding was a much more casual affair than the usual multimillion-dollar blowouts put on by the palace.
The couple announced their engagement six months before their Westminster Abbey wedding ceremony, sharing the news that May.
The palace acknowledged the existence of the letters, but didn’t get into the rumors around the relationship.
As Mike recalled to theDaily Mailin 2011, “We got introduced but didn’t speak that much.
Seven years after they first connected, the palace announced Zara and Mike’s engagement.
The proposal wasn’t some over-the-top affair.
Rather, it was a charming and personal moment between the couple.
“I was upstairs, plucking up the nerve to do it, while Zara was downstairs watching television.
“I walked in there and got down on one knee, with the ring.
She was on the sofa, so that made it easier.
I said, ‘Will you marry me?’
She was completely in shock.
Then, when she stopped laughing, she said, ‘Yes.’
That was a relief.”
Like Mike Tindall, Harry asked the big question on a quiet night at home.
He got on one knee.”
I was like, ‘Can I say yes now?'”
Harry had a feeling his relationship with Meghan was the real deal early in their courtship.
Like, really early.
OnInstagram, Edoardo wrote, “You will never be alone my love, my heart is your home.
Hand in hand, today, tomorrow and forever.”
However, due to the global pandemic, the couple had to put their wedding on hold.
She was also the first of the siblings to marry.
The Jordanian royal got engaged to businessman Jameel Alexander Thermiotis on July 5, 2022.
The palace announced their impending nuptials the next day.
Iman’s mother, Queen Rania, also shared the happy news, expressing her excitement onInstagram.
I wish you and Jameel a life filled with love and laughter," she wrote.
Eight months after Iman and Thermiotis got engaged, they became husband and wife.
The wedding ceremony was held on March 12, 2023, at Beit Al-Urdun Palace.
“We met when I was 20 and Jack was 24 and fell in love,” Eugenie said.
Seven years later three of which they spent as a long-distance couple the princess and Brooksbank got engaged.
“The lake was so beautiful.
The light was just a special light I had never seen,” the princess shared.
She added, “I was over the moon.
[It was a] complete surprise.
But it was the perfect moment, we couldn’t be happier.”
