Royal Weddings

by Emily Brand

Overview

An illustrated history of royal weddings, from Henry I to Prince William and Kate Middleton.

Royal nuptials are always a cause for excitement both at home and abroad, and never more so than when the couple in question are young, glamorous and bathed in the glow of genuine romance. But the meaning invested in royal weddings, and the manner in which they are conducted, have changed dramatically as ideals have shifted about the monarchy and about marriage itself.

This book charts almost a thousand years of British royal weddings, from Henry I – whose bride was believed by many to be a runaway nun – through Henry VIII's six attempts at matrimony, to the highly public weddings of recent years including that of Prince William and Kate Middleton as well as the engagement of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

It explores the traditions, symbols and rituals of the ceremonies themselves as well as the popular festivities and commemorative wares that have become a central means of marking the event.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780747811398
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	05/24/2011
Series:	Shire Library , #665
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	56
File size:	782 KB

About the Author

Emily Brand is a writer and historian with a special interest in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England. She has written widely on domestic and family life for a number of history and genealogy magazines, including publications from BBC Magazines Bristol, the Jane Austen Centre in Bath and the National Archives. She is also an author for history society London Historians, of which she has been made an honorary member.
Emily Brand is a writer and historian with a special interest in the long eighteenth century, especially English social history and romantic relationships c.1660–1837. She has lectured on eighteenth-century seduction and women's lives at the V&A, the National Maritime Museum and the BBC History festival among others.

Her most recent book The Fall of the House of Byron (John Murray, 2020) was selected as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week, a Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2020 Elma Dangerfield Prize.

Emily's tongue-in-cheek Mr Darcy's Guide to Courtship was a Publishers Weekly 'Pick of the Week' and featured in Stylist Magazine's '30 Books Every Woman Should Read'

Table of Contents

Introduction /The Normans to the Tudors /Popery and Lampoonery /The Nineteenth Century /The 'Democratic' Wedding /The Modern Marriage /Conclusion /Places to Visit /Index