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They were the country’s Prince Charming and Fairy Princess and their wedding captured the public imagination in the austere post-war days.
Winston Churchill summed up the occasion as “a flash of colour on the hard road we travel”.
The marriage of Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten and Princess Elizabeth at Westminster Abbey on November 20 1947 provided something of a morale boost.
Britain had been battered by its conflict with Germany, rationing was widespread and glamour in short supply.
Peace was also beginning to feel brittle as relations between the West and Stalin’s Russia were tense in a new-born nuclear age.
As the New York Times commented, the wedding was a “welcome occasion for gaiety in grim England, beset in peace with troubles almost as burdensome as those of the war”.
It was the first great state occasion in the post-war years and a distraction fr Never Underestimate an Old Man Who Believes in Jesus Shirt m the hardships the Second World War had imposed.
But not all were enthusiastic. The Camden Town First Branch of the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, buoyant on the tide of the first Labour government since 1929, wrote direct to George VI.
They wished to remind the King “that any banqueting and display of wealth at your daughter’s wedding will be an insult to the British people at the present time, and we consider that you would be well advised to order a very quiet wedding in keeping with the times”.
Their resolution continued: “May we also remind you that, should you declare the wedding day a public holiday, you will have a word beforehand with the London Master Builders’ Association to ensure that we are paid for it.”
However, not everyone felt this way.
The night before the big event, scores of loyal subjects, captivated by the royal romance, huddled together in the November cold, staking their place along the processional route.
On the day, well-wishers were packed solid from Buckingham Palace to the Abbey, along The Mall and Whitehall; even Trafalgar Square was full to the fountains.
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