Queen victoria wedding

The 20-year-old monarch unwittingly influenced nearly two centuries’ worth of bridal decisions.

When the question “Why do brides wear white” is asked, the most frequent answer is “Because Queen Victoria did”, or “to show that they are virgins.” The first answer is more or less accurate, but glosses over centuries of white wedding dresses worn before Queen Victoria’s wedding, and decades of coloured wedding dresses after her wedding, and also doesn’t explain why Victoria wore a white wedding dress. The 2nd answer is mostly rubbish and dates to the mid-20th century. Long before…

Of the nine children of Queen Victoria’s children, one daughter married in London another on the Isle of Wight and one son in St. Petersburg. The remaining six married at Windsor, five at St. George’s...

From the white dress that started the tradition to the latest lavish styles, see Vogue’s pick of the most iconic wedding dresses of all time.

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Queen Victoria in her wedding outfit, Winterhalter, 1847. Photo: Royal Collection.Queen Victoria married her handsome first cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on the 10th of February 1840 in a relatively intimate

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