1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Missed in History Class from how 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: Stuff Works dot Com. Hello, welcome to the podcast. I'm 3 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 1: Sarah Dowdy and I'm very happy to be here with 4 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: a very special guest today. Hi everybody, it's Candice. She's 5 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: back vintage stuff you missed in History class podcasting. Well, 6 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: in Canadas, we always get emails asking where you've gone 7 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:34,519 Speaker 1: or where you are, and I usually just say she's 8 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 1: sitting right behind me in the cube. But I mean 9 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: you could probably elaborate a little more than that. Well, 10 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:44,480 Speaker 1: I have switched my focus from history to weddings, which 11 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:46,879 Speaker 1: is actually a lot of fun. I've been working on 12 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,160 Speaker 1: the TLC Weddings website, and if you haven't visited yet, 13 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,480 Speaker 1: you really should, even if you're not planning a wedding yourself. 14 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: You can get some fun information on modern trends and 15 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: classic trends, fashion tips, fast and tips, flower tips. All 16 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: of that, and one more fun piece of vintage stuff 17 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: you missed in history class news that pertains to weddings. 18 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: One of your other favorite hosts from the Days of 19 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 1: your Jane McGrath, just recently got engaged, so she'll be 20 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:19,040 Speaker 1: flooding that website to congratulations with Jane and Um. I'm 21 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: very excited to record this episode with UGANDAE and so 22 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: we actually picked a theme that was sort of fitting 23 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: with Candice's new role at Housta Forks and tlc Um 24 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 1: and that is, of course, weddings. And when we picked 25 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 1: these five weddings, I told Sarah we should pick some 26 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 1: of our favorite weddings in history, and all but one 27 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 1: turned out to have rather sad endings. So we're going 28 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: to start with the happiest and when we're done, go 29 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: ahead and get out your vintage lace Hankyes, because all 30 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: goes down very lovely weddings, but some kind of sad marriages. 31 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: We picked tragedies, I guess. But yeah, this first one 32 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 1: is good and it's probably one of the best known 33 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: historical weddings, i'd say, just because of how many wedding 34 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: trends it ultimately established. Right, We'll say that the marriage 35 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: of Victoria and Albert on February tenth, eighteen forties set 36 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:15,920 Speaker 1: some precedents for modern brides. And most of you probably 37 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 1: know that the reason bride today were white is because 38 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: Victoria started that tradition. She started so many trends she did, 39 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: I think using ether during childbirth. That's a cool Victoria trend. 40 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:30,959 Speaker 1: Thanks for that, Victoria. So here's a little history on Victoria. 41 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 1: She became queen in eighteen thirty seven and she was 42 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: just eighteen years old, and her wedding was the first 43 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:42,919 Speaker 1: one since fifteen fifty four when a throned queen took 44 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 1: a husband. And we mentioned that she set the tone 45 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,799 Speaker 1: for modern weddings by wearing white, but she also chose 46 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 1: when to wed and whom. Yeah, they were a love match, 47 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 1: which was something quite surprising for royalty in general at 48 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: the time, but especially a queen choosing who she's going 49 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: to marry. And the person she chose with Albert, who 50 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: was her German cousin, the Prince Consort. They met in 51 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: eighteen thirty six and were engaged just three years later. 52 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: And while I personally hate snakes and demanded a big 53 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:17,360 Speaker 1: honking diamond, Victoria asked or received rather a snake ring 54 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 1: with diamond eyes, which seems so punk for Victoria. It's 55 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 1: just not in keeping at all with the woman I 56 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 1: imagine her. But I guess snakes are more of a 57 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,920 Speaker 1: trend back then. It was a symbol actually, the snakes 58 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 1: coil symbolized the bonds of eternal love, just like we 59 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 1: think of the circle of a wedding Van Cleopatri style. 60 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: I guess, there you go, um, But this is an 61 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: old superstition. I guess that a rainy wedding day is 62 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: actually good luck. And maybe in this case it proved 63 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: too true because they had a rainy wedding day, but 64 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 1: ultimately a very happy marriage together they did. It was 65 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 1: an early wedding, it was in the middle of the day, 66 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 1: and it was followed by a breakfast. Celebration took place 67 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: at St James's Palace, and they had a very grand 68 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: procession from Buckingham Palace to St James's and the procession 69 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 1: included her twelve bridesmaids. And I mentioned she had a 70 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:19,679 Speaker 1: white gown, which was unusual for the time because before 71 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 1: her any time of royal got married, she would wear 72 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: a very heavy brocade gown and lots of jewels and 73 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:30,359 Speaker 1: ermine cloak. And she wanted something lighter and more feminine. 74 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:33,839 Speaker 1: But the one aristocratic element that she did demand was 75 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: handmade lace. Yeah, didn't it take about two hundred people 76 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: to make all of the lace? It did, And by 77 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: this time in the Victorian era, a lot of fabric 78 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 1: making was automated or a machine made, but she wasn't 79 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: real that's right. So it was a happy day and 80 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: an even happier wedding night. We have a little glimpse 81 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 1: from Victoria's journal and she had this to say about it. 82 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:01,719 Speaker 1: The wedding night was all moonlight and roses and a 83 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 1: fair wind and the pleasures of sex. So it sounds 84 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: like a good time for the satisfied couple. But I 85 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 1: mean they go on to have a very successful marriage 86 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 1: and a successful reign. It's actually debt free, which is 87 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 1: kind of amazing considering um how much a queen would 88 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:24,160 Speaker 1: normally spend. Right, but that just goes to demonstrate one 89 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: of the concepts that we associate with Victorianism, and that's thrift, friends, 90 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 1: frugality's right. And Jillian gil who's a biographer who wrote 91 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,600 Speaker 1: we two about Victoria and Albert, she says that their 92 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:40,840 Speaker 1: relationship illustrates so many different Victorian concepts and these are 93 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:47,799 Speaker 1: just a few. You've got faith and thrift, which we've mentioned, discipline, patriotism, responsibility, 94 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 1: and stability. They really were a model for the whole country. 95 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 1: And they also have a very fruitful marriage. They have 96 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: nine kids, and they also helped popularize that family portrait 97 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:01,919 Speaker 1: of you know, the doting mother and the dutiful father 98 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 1: and all of their babies and children surrounding them. Which 99 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: is needless to say that when Albert died in eighteen 100 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 1: sixty one, Victoria was just crushed. There had been some 101 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 1: of the happiest years of her life, and without him 102 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 1: she became very depressed and more black until her death 103 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 1: in nine one, when she died from natural causes. Our 104 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: next wedding and marriage on this list is going to 105 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,480 Speaker 1: be equally grand, but a lot more tragic than the last. 106 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: It's also a royal wedding though. It's Louis the fourteenth 107 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: and Maria Theresa of Spain um, So we're gonna give 108 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 1: a little background on this just because they're The circumstances 109 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:42,720 Speaker 1: of the couple's birth are really interesting, I think, so 110 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:46,239 Speaker 1: Louis the fourteenth was a surprise. The French were really 111 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 1: hoping for an air but his mother was thirty six, 112 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: almost thirty seven years old, and she hadn't given birth 113 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 1: to a living child yet. Then all of a sudden 114 00:06:55,920 --> 00:07:00,280 Speaker 1: outcomes Louis the fourteenth, this healthy baby boy, and only 115 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:04,279 Speaker 1: five days later his mother and brother, Philip the Fourth, 116 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,599 Speaker 1: who is the King of Spain, has a daughter, and 117 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: Anne is immediately thinking, oh, well, perfect, as most modern 118 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: mothers would, there are your cousin's. This little niece of 119 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 1: mine can someday be the wife of my son. This 120 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: was especially an especially tantalizing match because Maria Theresa had 121 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 1: a claim to the Spanish throne at one point, so 122 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: it would be a very nice match for the King 123 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 1: of France. But okay, so they're not just cousins. This 124 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 1: is a little disturbing to modern listeners, probably their double cousin. 125 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: So they're the product of a French brother and sister 126 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:46,480 Speaker 1: married to a Spanish brother and sister. Um. And actually 127 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 1: one of the families is the Habsburgs too, and they're 128 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 1: notoriously inbred already. So it's amazing that this line continues. 129 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 1: It's actually a successful match. Um. But it doesn't seem 130 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 1: like this marriage is necessarily going to happen for a while, 131 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: and that's because Spain and France are just constantly at 132 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: war with each other. Um. But guess what. Finally they 133 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: work out a piece in the Piece of the Pyrenees 134 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 1: in sixteen fifty nine, and a major part of the 135 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 1: deal is going to be cementing the alliance with this 136 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 1: marriage between cousins. Yes, and Louis had actually already found 137 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 1: his first great love, but he was prepared to do 138 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 1: his part and to marry Maria Theresa. And similarly, she's 139 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:35,679 Speaker 1: ready to do her part for God and country and 140 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 1: family as well. Yeah, and she's had this rather sad 141 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 1: childhood too, is is so many of these royal kids do. 142 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 1: She loses her mother really early. Um, So, I think 143 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:49,720 Speaker 1: she's looking forward to having a new maternal figure in 144 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: Anne of Austria, her aunt who has really taken her 145 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:56,640 Speaker 1: on as a protege almost her entire life. After the 146 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 1: engagement was arranged, Louis wrote to Marie Therese to it 147 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 1: was not without constraint that I yielded up till now 148 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 1: to the arguments which prevented me from expressing to your 149 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 1: Majesty the sentiments of my heart. And then he continued, 150 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 1: I am delighted to begin to reassure her Majesty by 151 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 1: these lines that happiness could not arrive at anyone who 152 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 1: more passionately wishes for it, nor anyone feel themselves happier 153 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 1: in possessing it. So that's a nice sweet letter. It's 154 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 1: in very formal terms, but phil before thinks it's a 155 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 1: little too much for his daughter to even be receiving, 156 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 1: won't let her read the letter. Uh. Finally, the proxy 157 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 1: marriage goes through, which I've always thought is so such 158 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: a strange custom. But I guess you don't want to 159 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: send your unmarried virgin daughter off across Europe alone unless 160 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: she's this legally wedded woman. But they have this proxy 161 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 1: marriage in Spain. It's near the border. It takes place 162 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:56,680 Speaker 1: on June three, sixteen sixty, and of course Louis isn't there. 163 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 1: That's why it's a proxy marriage. There's this Spanish dignitary. 164 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: So I just can't imagine how strange it would be 165 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:05,560 Speaker 1: to go up there, have all the valves read and 166 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 1: her sided, and there's this stranger standing next to you. Yes, 167 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 1: this proxy ceremony was definitely not a precursor of the 168 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 1: modern wedding. And what made it even stranger for the 169 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 1: French is that Maria Theresa was decidedly Spanish. Yes, I mean, 170 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 1: think of those wide skirts he might recognize in Velaska's paintings, 171 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:28,439 Speaker 1: because of course Vlaska's is the court painter at the time. 172 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 1: Um She also has these piles of false hair, the 173 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 1: sort of Buffont styled hair under like a sixteen sixty 174 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 1: snicky on they so all these jewels. I think the 175 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 1: French people in attendance were kind of shocked, maybe a 176 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 1: little disappointed, disapproving of this future queen of theirs, but 177 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 1: you know, what are you gonna do? Not much so 178 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: now she becomes Marie Terrez and she's ready for Lily. Yeah. 179 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:58,920 Speaker 1: So France's royal party has been on the way. It 180 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 1: takes a while to to stay in these days, and 181 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 1: the wedding is planned for June nine near Bordeaux. Queen 182 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:09,959 Speaker 1: Anne is so excited. This is her life long, or 183 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,720 Speaker 1: not her life long, but as long as her son's 184 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:15,319 Speaker 1: been around, this has been her dream for him. And 185 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 1: she's really sweet too. She even writes to Marie um 186 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:21,719 Speaker 1: back when the engagement is set up that addressing her 187 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 1: as her daughter and her niece. So she's definitely looking 188 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: forward to bringing this new daughter into her life. And 189 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 1: this is a wedding at its best. It's essentially a 190 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 1: family reunion too, which is what weddings really are today. Yeah, definitely. 191 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 1: So the couple catch their first glimpse of each other 192 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: when the brother and sister Philip and Anne are finally 193 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 1: reunited after four years, which is unbelievable. I can't imagine 194 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:51,839 Speaker 1: going you're an only child, I am an only house, 195 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 1: so I guess I really can't imagine. She really can't. 196 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:57,440 Speaker 1: But I mean it's just a strange. I mean, they're 197 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 1: in contact with each other during that time, but how 198 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,679 Speaker 1: strange to be at war with your own brother's right 199 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:06,720 Speaker 1: with your sibling. Um. They have a very restrained meeting, 200 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:09,440 Speaker 1: these two siblings after so long. They don't hug each other, 201 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 1: but they both apparently had tears in their eye. But meanwhile, 202 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:14,320 Speaker 1: the young people are trying to figure out how to 203 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 1: catch a little glimpse of each other. What am I 204 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:18,600 Speaker 1: getting into? What does he look like? What does she 205 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:22,559 Speaker 1: look like? Exactly? Um Louie has given permission to ride 206 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 1: near the window of the chamber where this meeting is 207 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:29,440 Speaker 1: happening and where um Maria is, And instead of being 208 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 1: discreet and riding by kind of far away, just getting 209 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 1: his little peek at her, he wants to come disguise 210 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 1: to the door and actually meet her. He's not allowed 211 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:42,559 Speaker 1: to do this. Um Murray is not allowed to acknowledge 212 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:45,080 Speaker 1: his salute, but they do get to catch this glimpse 213 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 1: of each other, and he pronounces that she'll be easy 214 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,960 Speaker 1: to love, and she admits that he is certainly very handsome, 215 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:55,840 Speaker 1: which Louis had a major reputation for being a handsome 216 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 1: guy and a youth. So despite his dashing good lucks, 217 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 1: when she has to leave Spain, she's very tearful. This 218 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:03,839 Speaker 1: is goodbye to Helm and she knows that her new 219 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 1: life is about to begin, and this is a very 220 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 1: grave matter for someone of her age. Yeah, definitely. So 221 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,840 Speaker 1: the real marriage happens just a couple of days later, 222 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: June and night, and it takes place in the thirteenth 223 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:18,920 Speaker 1: century church. And I think this is such an interesting detail. 224 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 1: But it's such a big deal that the wedding happens 225 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 1: here that the door the couple passes through is blocked 226 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,079 Speaker 1: up after the ceremony. It's still blocked up today. So 227 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 1: if you wanted to go through it, too bad you 228 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:35,840 Speaker 1: could not lock down that aisle um and she I 229 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:39,080 Speaker 1: guess her style gets a little more French in the 230 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:42,319 Speaker 1: in the days between the proxy marriage. In this marriage, 231 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:45,679 Speaker 1: she wears a gown covered in Florida lee, and her 232 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 1: hair she doesn't have all this fake snooky hair on anymore. 233 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: She has her nice, thick blonde hair. It's actually so 234 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: thick that they can't really attach the crown to it 235 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 1: very well. And her train is carried by two princesses, 236 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaker 1: and she cuts as much of a figure as she can. 237 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: I guess she's very pale. She's these bright blue eyes. 238 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:10,559 Speaker 1: She has a habsburg lip, which we would not really 239 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 1: regard as a very beautiful feature nowadays, but at the 240 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 1: time status symbol. Yeah, it meant you were your royalty, 241 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 1: you were in good job exactly. Meanwhile, Louis is in 242 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 1: black velvet and jewels, and immediately after the ceremonial dinner, 243 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 1: he escorts her to the boudoir. Yeah, and Anne closes 244 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 1: the curtains on them, which I think would be a 245 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 1: little awkward. I guess it's good they didn't stick around. 246 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 1: That happens with some of the royal couples we've discussed before. 247 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 1: The parents actually hang around. So this is a plus again, 248 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 1: not not a tradition that was carried over into into 249 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 1: modern weddings, not um. And this is interesting. Supposedly, Murray 250 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: Trius uses the opportunity of their first night together to 251 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:01,840 Speaker 1: make Louis p almost that he'll always spend the night 252 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 1: with her, or at least he'll come to bed with 253 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:07,160 Speaker 1: her eventually, and I mean over the course of their marriage. 254 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 1: There's some pretty late nights where he's out and about, 255 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 1: but he really does always come back to her bed 256 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 1: and then gets up and goes to his own room. 257 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: In the morning. She sleeps in as many of the 258 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 1: Spanish royals did. I just think that's a it's kind 259 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 1: of a sweet gesture. It is well in considering that 260 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 1: he was her only family in her home. It was 261 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 1: important to her to have that continuity. Uh So, at 262 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 1: least in bed. The relationship, the marriage, it's a good one. 263 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 1: But from a practical point of view. Whereas you may 264 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 1: enjoy reading the newspaper with your spouse or going to 265 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 1: the park grey and taking, they don't have anything to 266 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 1: do together. No, And and one of the major problems 267 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: there she has not been taught French, or at least 268 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:58,680 Speaker 1: very good French, which seems like a very big oversight 269 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 1: for somebody who might grow up to be the French 270 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 1: an integral part of a good marriage. Seking the thing, 271 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 1: but I think it was literally I think it would 272 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:09,000 Speaker 1: definitely help. And she doesn't even really make a big 273 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 1: effort to learn French. She sticks to all of her 274 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 1: Spanish women and her dwarves and hangs out with her dogs, 275 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 1: and she loves gambling and not all of the more 276 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 1: intellectual pursuits that Louie is so fond of. She's not 277 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: into dancing. She's really shy. You know. They just they 278 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 1: really don't. They don't click much in common with each other. Um. 279 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: I do think it's it's interesting to learn a little 280 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 1: bit about her, though, because we think so much of 281 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 1: Louis in relation to all of his famous mistresses, and 282 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 1: we think about his later marriage, which actually Katie and 283 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 1: I did a podcast on Madame de Mountaine m about 284 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: a year ago. But I feel like his wife never 285 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 1: really gets any play here. Well, she certainly had her 286 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 1: play today and and we will conclude her life story 287 00:16:57,880 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 1: in the Tale of their Marriage by saying that she 288 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:04,119 Speaker 1: died after a very sudden illness at just age forty five. 289 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:08,359 Speaker 1: And according to our records, one of the things that 290 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:11,399 Speaker 1: she said before leaving his world was since I have 291 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 1: been Queen, I have had only one happy day. We 292 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 1: don't know what day. That was, probably a dwarf day, 293 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:21,919 Speaker 1: not the wedding, not the wedding day. And this is 294 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 1: maybe even more tragic. After death, Louis said, this is 295 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:29,479 Speaker 1: the first trouble she has ever given me, which, oh, 296 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 1: that's heartbreaking, it is. And on that note from Louis, 297 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: let's flash forward to another very eligible bachelor of his time, 298 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: and that is the dashingly handsome jfk Jr. And everyone 299 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:47,160 Speaker 1: in the United States who was around at the time 300 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:50,679 Speaker 1: of John Kennedy's dath remembers little John John flashing his 301 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:54,440 Speaker 1: salute and being just the cutest child and the whole country. 302 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:58,680 Speaker 1: And as he got older, he became very handsome, very rugged, 303 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 1: very outdoorsy, very athletic, and incredibly desirable. He was deemed 304 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 1: the nation's most eligible bachelor. And he was thirty five 305 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 1: when he met the twenty nine year old Caroline. The sets, yeah, 306 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 1: and they dated for about two years. And the way 307 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 1: they met is great, modern and hip it is. And 308 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 1: people talk about Caroline as being like the more modern 309 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: version of a Jackie. She had the class, she had 310 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:27,160 Speaker 1: the posture, she had the carriage, she had the clothes, 311 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:31,200 Speaker 1: but she put a more contemporary spin on the things 312 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 1: that she did. She was a publicist at Calvin Klein 313 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 1: and one of the things that she did for Calvin 314 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 1: Klein was helps celebrities pick close and of course jfk Jr. 315 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:43,120 Speaker 1: Was quite a celebrity. So when he came in shopping 316 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 1: four some suits, she was hooked up with him. And 317 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 1: I would like to say that the rest of his history, 318 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:50,880 Speaker 1: but it was a little complicated because they were never 319 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 1: formally linked in the public eye. There were rumors abounding 320 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: that he was still dating Darryl Hannah and Caroline, of course, 321 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:01,399 Speaker 1: being the sassy blonde she was, was a commodity in 322 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:05,679 Speaker 1: her own right, and at this time JFK Jr. Was 323 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 1: the owner and co editor of the political magazine George, 324 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:13,440 Speaker 1: so very much on the New York social scene, very 325 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 1: much a hot item. So who would have thought that 326 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:20,639 Speaker 1: this couple could have escaped to an island in the 327 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,359 Speaker 1: United States, gotten married and no one knew about it. 328 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:27,919 Speaker 1: Suddenly they're married. It's it's unbelievable that they managed to 329 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 1: get away with it. It It was the ultimate secret wedding. 330 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:34,119 Speaker 1: And um, I have to brag a little bit because 331 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:36,919 Speaker 1: where they chose to wed Cumberland Island, which is a 332 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:41,400 Speaker 1: barrier island, in Georgia. It's just eighteen miles by three miles. 333 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 1: This is actually just off the peninsula where I grew 334 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,639 Speaker 1: up in St. Mary's, Georgia, and it's near where my 335 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:50,200 Speaker 1: grandfather grew up. So we both have claimed to thing 336 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 1: to compend. And if you've never made it to Cumberland, 337 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:56,640 Speaker 1: you simply must go. It's gorgeous. There are fantastic ruins 338 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,679 Speaker 1: of great homes that were owned by the Yes, they 339 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:01,679 Speaker 1: were own by the Carnagies back in the day. And 340 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 1: there is still an in a fantastically expensive and luxurious 341 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 1: and gray field where you can stay and wild horses 342 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:12,960 Speaker 1: run the beach, beautiful untouched beaches. And there's no bridge either, 343 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:15,359 Speaker 1: so if you get there you have to take a ferry. Yes, 344 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:19,640 Speaker 1: so Caroline and JFK Jr. Flying to the St. Mary's 345 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:23,160 Speaker 1: airport and uh, some women come out from the county 346 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 1: courthouse to issue their marriage licenses and they file for 347 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:30,320 Speaker 1: them separately. And like I said, there's been no formal 348 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 1: engagement announcement, no formal wedding announcement. No one knows that 349 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 1: this is happening, not even the people involved in arranging 350 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: the wedding. Right. Well, there are a few people who 351 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:41,919 Speaker 1: have an idea as to what's going on, and that 352 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:45,439 Speaker 1: would include Go Go Ferguson, whose family had lived on 353 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,480 Speaker 1: the island for six generations. She helped plan the wedding 354 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:52,119 Speaker 1: and she designed their wedding bands. And then the White 355 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:55,159 Speaker 1: House Rose Garden designer Rachel Bunny Mellon was in the 356 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 1: now and the man who had been Jackie's lifelong butler 357 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,919 Speaker 1: did the altar green. But other people who were more 358 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:06,080 Speaker 1: shall we say, the talent at the wedding, thank you 359 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:08,920 Speaker 1: the talent at the wedding, like for instance, the Usue 360 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 1: Florida man who came in to seeing gospel acapella. He 361 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 1: had no idea that he'd be singing for JFK Jr. 362 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 1: And Caroline Bassett, and he describes how before the ceremony began, 363 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 1: they pulled him aside and said, we'd really like READU 364 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:21,679 Speaker 1: sing amazing Grace. And he's sort of wide eyed at 365 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:25,480 Speaker 1: this point, I can't believe this is happening. And if 366 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 1: you look at the one picture and that's so popular 367 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:31,359 Speaker 1: in the media of this wedding, it's of of John 368 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 1: and Caroline descending the steps of this eighteen nineties three 369 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:39,160 Speaker 1: cabin it's essentially a cabinet's the first African Baptist church 370 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:41,880 Speaker 1: on the island. There was no electricity, so the whole 371 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 1: ceremony was illuminated by candle light. And he's in a 372 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:48,240 Speaker 1: suit and his father's watch. And she's in this gorgeous 373 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:51,680 Speaker 1: pearl white silk crape gallanbine her sister Rodriguez, and she's 374 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 1: got silk gloves and a rolled silk tool veil and 375 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:57,240 Speaker 1: a hair clip that belonged to Jackie. Oh, and he's 376 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 1: kissing her hand. It's just gorgeous. It's modern royal to well, 377 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 1: and her gown kind of kicked off a look for 378 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 1: that style, I'd say it did. It's that zipper less 379 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 1: over the head she it's the opposite of the princess exactly. 380 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 1: It's that form fitting style. And it's the kind of 381 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: style that earned her this description and w magazine when 382 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:21,399 Speaker 1: they called Caroline a cool blonde with something sexy, even 383 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 1: raunchy about her. I like the little voice and emphasis 384 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,240 Speaker 1: you put on that unchy about her, But it was 385 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 1: sweet about the wedding. Is that. According to at least 386 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:33,879 Speaker 1: one report, when she came down from the church steps, 387 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 1: she was carrying a bouquet lily at the valley, and 388 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:40,120 Speaker 1: supposedly one of the wild horses of Cumberland came out 389 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 1: and nibbled from it. And I think that might be sensational, 390 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 1: I I have they're really shy. They are shy. And 391 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 1: I had a friend once who went with me to 392 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 1: the island when I was in college, and there are 393 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 1: new porter partties on Cumberland. Once you hit the beach, 394 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,320 Speaker 1: and she was relieving herself behind a sand dune and 395 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 1: horse snuck up on her. But that was the closest 396 00:22:57,600 --> 00:22:59,639 Speaker 1: I have ever heard of a horse coming to a human. 397 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 1: And I went on a class trip in about fourth grade, 398 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 1: so it wouldn't have been too long before this wedding actually, 399 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,439 Speaker 1: and the horses came up near our campsite, but as 400 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 1: soon as they saw us, they were out of there, 401 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: not nibbling on any bouquase. Well maybe they knew that 402 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 1: it was Caroline Basette Kennedy's bouquet. Well anyway, so all 403 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,880 Speaker 1: of that aside, horse stories, et cetera. Um. They had 404 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 1: a very nice reception at the gray Field End. It 405 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 1: was perfectly intimate and private, only about forty guests. And 406 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,159 Speaker 1: you may be thinking forty people. That's not even the 407 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 1: whole Kennedy plan. Well, no, it wasn't. They had to 408 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 1: leave some people out to ensure their privacy, and after 409 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 1: the wedding occurred, it wasn't until Sunday afternoon. I believed 410 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:43,439 Speaker 1: that the press kind of got a hint of what 411 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:46,040 Speaker 1: had happened, and by the time they descended on Cumberland, 412 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 1: the couple was gone for their honeymoon in Turkey, and 413 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 1: one of the earliest confirmations of the marriage came from 414 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 1: Caroline Kennedy Schlosberg, who flashed a thumbs up sign at 415 00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:00,919 Speaker 1: a reporter who took her picture. Pretty discreet, pretty family. 416 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:05,880 Speaker 1: Um so this, unfortunately, it sounds like a lovely wedding, 417 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:10,960 Speaker 1: but it unfortunately culminated in a very tumultuous marriage. And 418 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,439 Speaker 1: some would say this is all part of the Kennedy curse. 419 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,520 Speaker 1: But the marriage did not work out as far as 420 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,199 Speaker 1: we can tell, and they were married for just a 421 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:23,160 Speaker 1: few short years before uh their sad deaths. But uh, 422 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:26,880 Speaker 1: he wanted kids, She wasn't sure she wanted kids. They 423 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:30,120 Speaker 1: both accused each other of having affairs. They lived apart. 424 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:34,400 Speaker 1: Caroline did not enjoy being scrutinized by the public their 425 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 1: reports that she was depressed and continued to use cocaine, 426 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 1: and her sister Lauren urged the two of them to 427 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 1: reconcile and attend Rory Kennedy's wedding together and more at 428 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 1: this vineyard, and this was in the summer of John 429 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 1: agreed to fly all three of them in his single 430 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 1: engine plane and as you may remember, it crashed in 431 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:58,360 Speaker 1: the ocean on July six, and navy divers later recovered 432 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 1: their bodies. So another tragic wedding on our list, But 433 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: we have the beautiful picture and I'm sure that that 434 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 1: is how the couple would would want to be remembered. 435 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 1: So from one cool blonde to another. The next lady 436 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 1: in our list is the beautiful Grace Kelly and her 437 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,680 Speaker 1: marriage to the Prince of Monaco. So Grace Kelly is 438 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:22,679 Speaker 1: definitely known for living up to her name. You know, 439 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:27,920 Speaker 1: she's stylish, she's beautiful. She was described by Alfred Hitchcock 440 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 1: as a snow covered volcano, just because when you look 441 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,600 Speaker 1: at her in screen, she looks so poised and collected, 442 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 1: but there's so much emotion underneath. She seems like she 443 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 1: could just erupt at any moment, and I think from 444 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,119 Speaker 1: what I read about her, that's kind of how she 445 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:48,200 Speaker 1: was in person. She was a very fiery woman who 446 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:52,159 Speaker 1: sort of kept it all in a neat package. And 447 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: what was interesting about Grace Kelly is that she knew 448 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: what she wanted in life, but her family didn't expect 449 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,439 Speaker 1: that much from her. Know, they really didn't. She was 450 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 1: the third child of four of a very prominent Philadelphia family. 451 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:11,159 Speaker 1: She has these amazing athlete parents. Her father was an Olympian, 452 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 1: her mother was the first woman to teach viz ed 453 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 1: at penn Um. But yeah, they she didn't really live 454 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,399 Speaker 1: up to the family standard. She was really shy, she 455 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 1: wasn't athletic, she was kind of sickly. She had asthma 456 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,240 Speaker 1: when she was a kid. But she was really serene, 457 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 1: and she was also really full of imagination. At one 458 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,440 Speaker 1: point she told her older sister one day, I'm going 459 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: to be a princess, which probably most little girls say that, 460 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 1: and but in this story it seems like very telling 461 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 1: mine um and she gets into acting because of all 462 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,720 Speaker 1: that imagination. It's not something her family initially approves of, 463 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,440 Speaker 1: but she proves very good at it, and she had 464 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,680 Speaker 1: to train herself to speak in a in a lower 465 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 1: tone and less nasally. But I suppose when you're from 466 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:01,919 Speaker 1: a family of athletes and you can't play the field, 467 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 1: you have to play on the stage, and she was 468 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,200 Speaker 1: determined to make that work. Yeah, she wasn't really well 469 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,920 Speaker 1: suited for the stage though, um partly because of that boy. 470 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,399 Speaker 1: She just didn't have much power behind it. But on 471 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:17,760 Speaker 1: camera she was absolutely stunning, and she once she got 472 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:21,880 Speaker 1: going on this film career, it was this amazing burst 473 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 1: of success and great films. She won an Academy Award. 474 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 1: It's weird, though, It's not like she started with a 475 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:33,639 Speaker 1: few little parts and worked up from there. Most of 476 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:37,479 Speaker 1: her success comes from this one screen test from nineteen 477 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 1: fifty which she didn't even get the part she was 478 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 1: auditioning for, but it got shown around Hollywood and she 479 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,560 Speaker 1: became an overnight success. She really john Ford saw it, 480 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,400 Speaker 1: Alfred Hitchcock saw it, they cast her, and she just 481 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:55,000 Speaker 1: went from there. She's also pretty well known in her 482 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 1: Hollywood days for working out a really sweet studio deal. 483 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 1: Studios at the time would basically make their stars sign 484 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:05,120 Speaker 1: their lives away, but she worked out a nice deal 485 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,639 Speaker 1: where she could be a little more flexible with the 486 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:11,400 Speaker 1: projects she chose and it paid off in she won 487 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 1: an oscar, she had four films and theaters, and she 488 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,160 Speaker 1: made more money than any other female star. So this 489 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 1: is the pinnacle of her career. It looks like she's 490 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: just gonna keep on going and have decades ahead of 491 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:29,120 Speaker 1: her great success. And then suddenly, suddenly she decides that 492 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 1: despite dating around and hooking it with some very eligible bachelor's, 493 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 1: she wants to get married. Yeah, according to her friend 494 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 1: and biographer Gwen Robbins, she didn't want to have to 495 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,480 Speaker 1: age in Hollywood, which I can kind of understand that, 496 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 1: especially at this time. They're just may have not been 497 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:50,920 Speaker 1: very many parts in another decade or two. But she 498 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 1: meets her princes at the nineteen Ken Film Festival, and 499 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 1: this is of course Rainier Grimaldi and he's the Prince 500 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 1: of Monico, which is a French principality, and it's it's tiny, 501 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 1: the postage it's a postage stamp, Sarah, I think that 502 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,200 Speaker 1: you mean to know, is smaller than Central smaller than 503 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 1: Central Park. Um, but very beautiful, very picturesque. It looks 504 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 1: like old Europe. And so she sees that he's got 505 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 1: an offer she can't refuse, and um, not only that, 506 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 1: she has an offer that he can't refuse because his 507 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: former girlfriend, also an actress, was barren, so he needs 508 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,360 Speaker 1: to ensure that he can create an air otherwise Monaco 509 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 1: gets handed over to France. So despite Grace Kelly having 510 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,520 Speaker 1: all the features that he desires, he still demands that 511 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 1: when they get married. Uh, she hand over a two 512 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 1: million dollar dowry, which that's from life. I just I 513 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,520 Speaker 1: can't get over that number. I mean, she her family 514 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 1: was very well off and she earned a lot of 515 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:02,240 Speaker 1: money herself. That is so much money in the nineteen fifties. 516 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,760 Speaker 1: One of her last films is kind of interesting considering 517 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,680 Speaker 1: her future. It was called The Swan and in it 518 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 1: she played a princess, so while Rainier was courting her, 519 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,800 Speaker 1: she was actually playing the part of a princess. A 520 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 1: dressed herself exactly and in the plot of the film, 521 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,720 Speaker 1: she's torn between her younger love and the prince who 522 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 1: she's intended to marry. She ends up choosing the prince. 523 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,680 Speaker 1: It all works out for her story in the end. 524 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: I can't imagine if that if the movie had been 525 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 1: a little different, it might have not fit very well. 526 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:39,719 Speaker 1: And that film wrapped in December nine, and that marked 527 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 1: their official engagement on December twenty eight, so just a 528 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,080 Speaker 1: few days after Christmas, she gets the best present ever, 529 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:50,920 Speaker 1: a twelve carrot emerald cut diamond flanked by two by 530 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 1: She probably had to buy it herself, considering that you 531 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:58,840 Speaker 1: better get a good ring. And what's funny about all 532 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 1: of these different subplots adding up into this, This one 533 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,360 Speaker 1: big arc of her storyline is that she was engaged 534 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 1: at the time to fashion designer a like Cassini. So 535 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,760 Speaker 1: Grace gets married in what is called the wedding of 536 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 1: the century. We're gonna have another one of those on 537 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,720 Speaker 1: this list in a minute. Held held your Royal horse. Yeah, 538 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 1: but she calls it the Carnival of the century. And 539 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,680 Speaker 1: it's easy to understand why. She arrives in Monaco on 540 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 1: a ship with an entourage of sixty six people. And 541 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 1: the law and tradition of the country has that a 542 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 1: civil ceremony comes before the religious ceremony. So that first 543 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,520 Speaker 1: event takes place on April eighteenth n s and it's 544 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:40,080 Speaker 1: in the throne room of the palace, and it's presided 545 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 1: by a high court official, and she wears this very 546 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:48,800 Speaker 1: sharp beige lace dress and hat um it looks like 547 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:53,200 Speaker 1: something she'd wear in a movie. Almost um. And then 548 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,560 Speaker 1: they appear, they wave on the balcony to the crowd, 549 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 1: and then the big ceremony, the religious one happens the 550 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,520 Speaker 1: next day, and that's the one that you'd probably recognize 551 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,880 Speaker 1: pictures from right. And at the ceremony, there were two 552 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:10,040 Speaker 1: thousand reporters. That's more reporters than there were guests. But 553 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 1: the guest list did have some very important people on it, 554 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 1: some v i p s for that day and age, 555 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 1: Carrie Grand Gloria Swanson, Ava Gardner, Conrad Hilton, Aristotle On Nassis, 556 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,520 Speaker 1: but not in attendance. Notably it was Queen Elizabeth the 557 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:28,280 Speaker 1: second it's a little too Dick Lasse reposedly thought there 558 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:31,720 Speaker 1: were just too many movies guys. That's never held me 559 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 1: back from attending any events. But this, I mean, with 560 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,920 Speaker 1: all this press, with all these stars there, this is 561 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:41,280 Speaker 1: sort of the first major press event that we you know, 562 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,760 Speaker 1: like we could think of later wedding, I mean, the 563 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:47,640 Speaker 1: wedding might talk a film by MGM. Yeah, it's it's 564 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,480 Speaker 1: this big to do. It's film by MGM. It's broadcast 565 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:55,000 Speaker 1: live to thirty million people in Europe and bars even 566 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,560 Speaker 1: make up. The signature cocktail called the Princess Cocktail with 567 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:02,280 Speaker 1: bourbon and grenadine and fresh cream does not sound very 568 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,920 Speaker 1: good to me. It sounds cool and icy like Grace 569 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:09,080 Speaker 1: Kelly though. So this Grand Cathedral ceremony, Grace wore an 570 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 1: ivory gown made of silk, tafia and lace, and it 571 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,600 Speaker 1: was designed by the famous Hollywood costume or Helen Rose. 572 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:19,360 Speaker 1: It took six weeks and thirty six seamstresses to make. 573 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:23,160 Speaker 1: It required twenty five yards of silk tafia, a hundred 574 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,640 Speaker 1: yards of silk net, a hundred and twenty five year 575 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:28,880 Speaker 1: old rose point lace from a museum. I mean, I 576 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:32,880 Speaker 1: just bought some Halloween costume fabric this weekend, two yards. 577 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 1: I'm trying to imagine buying a hundred yards fabric Before 578 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,640 Speaker 1: Grace Kelly. Uh, No one really did the big poofy 579 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:44,080 Speaker 1: ballgowns for a wedding. This was unheard of, and today 580 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,720 Speaker 1: that style is sort of alternately called ball gown or 581 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,400 Speaker 1: princess style. And when you hear refer to princess style, 582 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:55,200 Speaker 1: that's based off Grace Kelly's wedding. How about that? Thank you, TLC. Candice, 583 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:58,320 Speaker 1: I sent my my hat to you. So the couple, 584 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:02,120 Speaker 1: it's not a particular really intimate wedding surprise with all 585 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:05,520 Speaker 1: these people here. The couple stay directed at the high altar, 586 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:09,920 Speaker 1: and Kelly was visibly nervous during the whole thing. She 587 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:14,000 Speaker 1: just just kind of whispering, um. Just if you you 588 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:17,200 Speaker 1: can actually look up videos of it. And she looks 589 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,120 Speaker 1: like eyes on the prize, not looking anywhere else, like 590 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:25,480 Speaker 1: she's afraid she'll fall over or something. Um. But at 591 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:28,640 Speaker 1: the end, this message from the Pope was read out loud, 592 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,320 Speaker 1: and then the couple drove off through Monte Carlo and 593 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:35,920 Speaker 1: a convertible and left their honeymoon, which was a multi 594 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:40,160 Speaker 1: weeek cruise aboard a yacht. And on their honeymoon, she 595 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:45,640 Speaker 1: became pregnant with Caroline, and she later popularized the Hermes 596 00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:48,920 Speaker 1: bag the Kelly because she would she would use this 597 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,239 Speaker 1: really oversized purse to hide her what we did day 598 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,520 Speaker 1: would call her baby bump. That was in a tabloid. 599 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:59,359 Speaker 1: Today there'd be a little arrow, little question she isn't she? 600 00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:03,240 Speaker 1: But despite the joys of carrying a child and giving 601 00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:06,720 Speaker 1: birth to a child, married life was a little sour 602 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:10,479 Speaker 1: for Grace Kelly. Yeah, she had hoped that maybe she'd 603 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:12,120 Speaker 1: still be able to work a little bit, go to 604 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,520 Speaker 1: Hollywood every now and then and make a movie. Her 605 00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:19,719 Speaker 1: husband was not into that idea. In fact, supposedly he 606 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:24,040 Speaker 1: banned her films from even showing in Monaco. UM and 607 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,919 Speaker 1: she later told her friend John Foreman, I know where 608 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,680 Speaker 1: I'm going to be every single day for the rest 609 00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:33,080 Speaker 1: of my life, and that was not said in like 610 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,319 Speaker 1: a happy way. I'm going to be in Monico, where 611 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:39,799 Speaker 1: it's funny and beautiful. Um. Again, Monico smaller than Central Park, 612 00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:44,000 Speaker 1: so we can imagine kind of a restrictive, if glamorous life. 613 00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:48,080 Speaker 1: And she died tragically in a car crash in nineteen 614 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,800 Speaker 1: And that untimely segue brings us to the last wedding 615 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,440 Speaker 1: on our list. And by now you may have guessed 616 00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,600 Speaker 1: what it is. One of the biggest wedding spectacles of 617 00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,920 Speaker 1: our time, and that would be the wedding of Diana 618 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:06,359 Speaker 1: and Charles. So Charles and I knew each other when 619 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:08,959 Speaker 1: they were they were children, and they weren't exactly close 620 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,719 Speaker 1: in age when they got married. She was twenty and 621 00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:14,799 Speaker 1: he was thirty two, but they had associated their families had, 622 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,920 Speaker 1: so they were not unfamiliar with each other, and when 623 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:22,480 Speaker 1: he proposed with a giant oval sapphire surrounded by fourteen diamonds, 624 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,759 Speaker 1: thank you very much. She was a teacher, so she's 625 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,200 Speaker 1: coming from not a modest exactly background, but something that 626 00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,560 Speaker 1: is not quite in the public eye to something that 627 00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:36,439 Speaker 1: is incredibly on the forefront of British society. Definitely, and 628 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,120 Speaker 1: on her wedding day again, like Sarah was saying, you 629 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,760 Speaker 1: can see footage of Grace Kelly's wedding online. You can 630 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,080 Speaker 1: also see plenty of footage of Charles and Die's wedding 631 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,960 Speaker 1: and she wore one of the most famous wedding gowns 632 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:51,240 Speaker 1: of all time. It was an ivory silk gown designed 633 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:55,160 Speaker 1: by David and Elizabeth Emmanuel and had lace accents and 634 00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:59,040 Speaker 1: big puffy sleeves hello nineteen eighties, gathered with little ribbons 635 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,919 Speaker 1: and on four The designers didn't accommodate for the fact 636 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,640 Speaker 1: that she would be transported to the wedding site in 637 00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,200 Speaker 1: a glass carriage, so when she got out she was 638 00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:10,120 Speaker 1: a little wrinkled. It must have been hot and uncomfortable 639 00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,560 Speaker 1: in the carriage. And as to mention that twenty five 640 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,280 Speaker 1: ft train taking up that much space, and the dress 641 00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,640 Speaker 1: was made in just four months. And these people who 642 00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,279 Speaker 1: designed the gown, the Emmanuels, they were the same designers 643 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:23,839 Speaker 1: who put together the dress that she wore. Wind Arles 644 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:27,480 Speaker 1: and I announced their formal engagement and this was sort 645 00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:29,880 Speaker 1: of the start of maybe a couple of people in 646 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:33,320 Speaker 1: British society raising an eyebrow at Diana because the dress 647 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:37,239 Speaker 1: was very highly criticized. People said it was too low cut, 648 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:41,000 Speaker 1: and it was black, and at the time black didn't 649 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,279 Speaker 1: necessarily mean that you were a chic and meant that 650 00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:46,000 Speaker 1: you were in mourning. I think Diana later proved black 651 00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:48,520 Speaker 1: was one of the best colors on her though, definitely. 652 00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:53,279 Speaker 1: So this wedding was televised in fifty eight countries. It 653 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,279 Speaker 1: was an hour and a half long ceremony that had 654 00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:00,840 Speaker 1: thirty five hundred in attendance and seven hundred fifty million 655 00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:04,439 Speaker 1: watching on DV and I believe in neglected to say 656 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:09,240 Speaker 1: the date, So let me correct that right now, ju Lie. 657 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:12,400 Speaker 1: And not only is this a national holiday in Britain, 658 00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:16,120 Speaker 1: but it's a total moneymaker. There's so much memorabilia going 659 00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:20,320 Speaker 1: around displaying the new Royal couple, porcelain plates and cups 660 00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,480 Speaker 1: and stamps and photo collages, and in one story I 661 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,080 Speaker 1: read there was a woman who had been seven hundred 662 00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,960 Speaker 1: dollars for a slice of cake from the wedding. Yeah, 663 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,719 Speaker 1: and of course I was attended by a lot of 664 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:35,960 Speaker 1: bridesmaids too, and most of them were had royal connections, 665 00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,160 Speaker 1: but not all of them. There was one little girl 666 00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:41,200 Speaker 1: named Sarah Jane who was the daughter of Charles friend 667 00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:44,120 Speaker 1: and longtime horse trainer, and she actually kept up a 668 00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:48,080 Speaker 1: correspondence with Diana after the wedding and basically explained to 669 00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:51,040 Speaker 1: Diana that she was miserable at boarding school and I 670 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,480 Speaker 1: had done her time at boarding school too, so she 671 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,759 Speaker 1: commiserated and how to suite letter writing campaign with her. 672 00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:01,400 Speaker 1: But if you believe in uhi or telltale signs, there 673 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,000 Speaker 1: were a couple of gaffs during the ceremony that perhaps 674 00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:07,439 Speaker 1: predicted the marriage would not be a fairy tale one. Yeah, 675 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:10,239 Speaker 1: she got Charles names out of order, she did. He 676 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:12,759 Speaker 1: has a lot, of course, yes, And the name that 677 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,719 Speaker 1: she essentially called him was his father's name. And then 678 00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,319 Speaker 1: he forgot to kiss her at the altar. They later 679 00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:21,120 Speaker 1: did a public kiss on the balcony at Buckingham Palace, 680 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:25,040 Speaker 1: but that was a gaff for sure, definitely, But after 681 00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:28,080 Speaker 1: those gaffs, after the ceremony is complete and they make 682 00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,440 Speaker 1: their appearance to the public, they go in their honeymoon 683 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,200 Speaker 1: at the family estate in Broadlands, and then they go 684 00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:36,960 Speaker 1: on a twelve day Mediterranean cruise, much like Grace Kelly. Again, 685 00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:41,120 Speaker 1: it's kind of an abbreviated Mediterranean cruise but still um 686 00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:45,000 Speaker 1: and Diana's brother, who was only about sixteen at the 687 00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:47,960 Speaker 1: time of the wedding, later revealed that she had a 688 00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:50,799 Speaker 1: terrible headache for the entire thing because she had this 689 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:55,400 Speaker 1: tierra pinching her her temples and head. Yeah, she wasn't 690 00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:59,080 Speaker 1: used to wearing a tiara obviously, and even though it 691 00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:01,759 Speaker 1: came from this spend her family was um one of 692 00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:07,480 Speaker 1: their heirlooms. Yeah, we know from dies later works in 693 00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:10,240 Speaker 1: her life she was probably more comfortable in the garb 694 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:14,440 Speaker 1: of humanitarian worker than wearing her tr although she did 695 00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:17,200 Speaker 1: cut a fabulous figure in an evening gown as well. 696 00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:20,040 Speaker 1: She just she wore so many hats. Not to make 697 00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:24,000 Speaker 1: a pun there, but she did. And then the marriage again, 698 00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:25,959 Speaker 1: this is another one that ends on a sad note. 699 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,960 Speaker 1: It did not work out and you all probably know 700 00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:32,279 Speaker 1: why Charles supposedly had kept up his romantic dalliances with 701 00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,920 Speaker 1: Camilla Parker Bowls, to whom he is now married. So 702 00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:39,360 Speaker 1: the couple separated in the late nineteen eighties and formally 703 00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:45,200 Speaker 1: announced their split in Nino, and then on August thirty one, 704 00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,320 Speaker 1: Diana was killed in a car crash. Yeah, and Charles 705 00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:51,959 Speaker 1: got a little credit after that for insisting that she'd 706 00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:55,000 Speaker 1: be given a royal funeral even though that wasn't the 707 00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:58,440 Speaker 1: protocol since they were a divorce couple. And that also 708 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,080 Speaker 1: was televised on TV and in the world watched on 709 00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:04,640 Speaker 1: very sadly to see the princess gone way too earline, 710 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:07,520 Speaker 1: but it kind of brings us to our clothes here. 711 00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:12,160 Speaker 1: There's another possible royal wedding on the horizon, at least 712 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,440 Speaker 1: all the gossip mag's keep on covering it trying to 713 00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,800 Speaker 1: guess what it is. And that is of course between 714 00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:22,600 Speaker 1: Charles and Diana's eldest son William and his longtime girlfriend Kate. 715 00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:28,040 Speaker 1: So we'll see if we have another royal wedding to 716 00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:31,200 Speaker 1: add to this list. Hopefully, if it does take place, 717 00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:33,920 Speaker 1: it'll be a much happier marriage than some of these 718 00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:37,640 Speaker 1: and a less wringled wedding gown. Definitely. All right. Well, 719 00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:39,799 Speaker 1: I guess that about wraps it up. Do you have 720 00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:41,759 Speaker 1: anything else you want to add? Thank you so much 721 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,480 Speaker 1: for having me. Yeah, it's been fun, canvas Um. If 722 00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,760 Speaker 1: you want to email us or suggest any other favorite 723 00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,920 Speaker 1: royal wedding stories, you can find us on Twitter at 724 00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:53,840 Speaker 1: Miston History. We're on Facebook, and we also, of course 725 00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,839 Speaker 1: have an old fashioned email address. It's History podcast at 726 00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,600 Speaker 1: pasta works dot com. 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