Lady Diana Spencer Marries the Prince of Wales

from Same Day, Different Century · host Zach Ipsen

On July 29, 1981, Lady Diana Spencer married Charles, Prince of Wales, at St Paul's Cathedral in London. Six hundred thousand people lined the processional route, and broadcasters estimated a global audience near 750 million. Behind the spectacle sat a five month engagement, a courtship bounded by rules of religion, rank, and reputation, and a bride who had already asked to stop.Send me a text!Support the show

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