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Royal Wedding 1947 - Using periscopesA vast crowd use periscopes as their only means of seeing the procession during the royal wedding of 1947 between Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) and Prince Philip
Royal Wedding 1947 - appearance on balconyCrowds waiting outside Buckingham Palace on 20 November 1947 are rewarded by an appearance by the newlyweds and other members of the royal family on the balcony. 1947
Royal Wedding 1947 - police hold back crowdsA row of jovial police officers link arms to prevent the crowd surging forward during the royal wedding of 1947. Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) married Prince Philip
Fleet MarriagesA minister takes money from a couple in the Liberty of the Fleet (the area around the Fleet Prison) - a notorious venue for clandestine marriages
Royal Wedding 1947 - Glass Coach comes down the MallThe procession for the royal wedding of 1947 between Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten showing the Glass Coach carrying the Princess and her father travelling along the Mall. 1947
Crowds at the Royal Wedding 1947Mounted police pictured in the middle of vast crowds of spectators, many of them holding periscopes in order to be able to see something
Royal Wedding 1947 - group photographGroup photograph following the wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten on 20 November 1947. 1947
Royal Wedding 1947 - an excellent vantage pointFour ladies whose appearance belies their athletic ability in scaling the plinth they re sitting on, secure an excellent vantage point from which to view the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth
Trying to view the royal wedding, 1947Enterprising spectators using makeshift periscopes of mirrors on sticks in an attempt to actually see something along the processional route at the royal wedding between Princess Elizabeth
Royal Wedding 1947 - Glass Coach turns into MallBirds eye view of the procession returning from Westminster Abbey following the marriage of Princess Elizabeth to Lieutenant Mountbatten on 20 November 1947
Royal Wedding 1947 - procession arrives back at PalaceScene outside Buckingham Palace by the Victoria Memorial showing coaches returning back from Westminster Abbey following the wedding of Princess Elizabeth
Listening to royal wedding ceremony broadcast, 1947Crowds lining the processional route for the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh on 20 November 1947
Royal Wedding 1947 - all night vigilEnthusiastic spectators wrapped up warm against the cold as they spend the night sleeping on the London streets in the hope of bagging a top spot along the processional route for the royal wedding of
Come Down - Royal Wedding 1947An overly enthusiastic spectator at the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh on 20 November 1947
Duke and Duchess of Connaught, c. 1879Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught (1850 - 1942), third son of Queen Victoria, with his wife, Princess Luise Margarete of Prussia (Louise Margaret). The couple married at St
Mountbatten wedding 1922Front cover of The Illustrated London News depicting Lord Louis Mountbatten escorting his new bride Lady Edwina Ashley after their marriage at St. Margarets, Westminster on 18 July 1922
Royal Wedding 1874 - distribution of bridal cakeDistribution of wedding cake in Edinburgh after the marriage of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (second son of Queen Victoria) to Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia in January 1874
Royal Wedding 1896 -- Princess Maud and Prince CarlHeart shaped portraits of Princess Maud of Wales (1869-1938), youngest daughter of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, and Prince Charles (or Carl) of Denmark, later King Haakon VII, King of Norway
Royal marriages dissolvedKing Faruk of Egypt(1920-1965) pictured here with his wife Queen Farida(1921-1988), and the Shah of Iran and his wife Empress Fawzia(eldest sister of King Faruk)
The Belgian-Swedish royal weddingThe civil marriage of the Crown Prince Leopold of Belgium, Duke of Brabant, and Princess Astrid, daughter of Prince Carl of Sweden, and niece of the King of Sweden
The Royal MarriageFormal group portrait taken on the occasion of the marriage of Princess Margaret of Connaught to Crown Prince Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in June 1905
Runaway couple get married at Gretna GreenA runaway couple get married at Gretna Green, literally striking the iron while it is hot. Gretnas runaway marriages began in 1753, following a change in the English law that did not apply in Scotland