Word: princess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best-kept secret of the affair was Anne's gown-a white silk princess-line dress with flowing medieval sleeves. The 15 seamstresses, who made the gown for an off-the-rack fashion house that Anne has long favored over the royal dressmakers, had each sewn into the hem a lock of her hair. Tucked into the bridal bouquet of white roses, lilies of the valley and stephanotis was "something old" -a sprig of myrtle grown on the Isle of Wight from a sprig of Queen Victoria's wedding bouquet-and a bit of white heather for good...
...point the bridal party broke into laughter when Mark spotted a long white banner reading: "It's never too late to say 'neigh'-congratulations from the Royal Veterinary College." Mark, an Olympic gold medalist who shares Anne's passion for horses, turned to the princess and said...
...British press, predictably, had a field day. SUNSHINE PRINCESS is A STUNNER, bleated the London Evening News. MY PRINCESS, bannered the Daily Express possessively. Television built up to the big event with all the suspense of a moon shot. From fond accounts of Anne's girlhood visit to a monkey farm in Malta to interviews with the sexton who would ring the church bell in Mark's home town of Great Somerford, no detail seemed too trivial to mention...
After an open coach ride through London streets, the couple slipped away in a limousine to the country lodge on the outskirts of London of Anne's cousin Princess Alexandra and her husband Angus Ogilvy. The next day they flew to Barbados for an 18-day honeymoon cruise on the royal yacht Britannia through the Caribbean to the Galapagos Islands, to be followed by an official tour of Ecuador, Colombia, Jamaica and the islands of Montserrat and Antigua. Home, after that, will be an eleven-room house at Sandhurst Military Academy, where Mark will be an instructor. Anne...
...Married. Princess Anne, 23, only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II of England and fourth in line to the British throne; and Mark Anthony Peter Phillips, 25, commoner captain in the Queen's Dragoon Guards (see THE WORLD...