The Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana

The Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana

120” x 150”
2013-16 (in progress)
Archival print

Interior and exterior views of the Royal Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer, assembled from several hundred stills from BBC’s video coverage of the ceremony at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, England on 29 July 1981. Their marriage was widely billed as a “fairytale wedding” and the “wedding of the century”. It was watched by an estimated global TV audience of 750 million.

Participants Charles, Prince of Wales, Lady Diana Spencer, Elizabeth II, The Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, The Princess Anne, The Prince Andrew, The Prince Edward, The 8th Earl Spencer, Frances Shand Kydd, Lady Sarah McCorquodale, Lady Jane Fellowes, Charles Spencer, Viscount Althorp erence in Livadia Palace near Yalta in Crimea from February 4 to 11, 1945 to decide Europe’s post-war reorganization setting the stage for the Cold War.