Prince William and Catherine Middleton: The Royal Wedding of 2011 - Britannica's coverage of past British royal weddings

Prince William and Catherine Middleton: The Royal Wedding of 2011 - Prince William and Catherine Middleton: The Royal Wedding of 2011 - Britannica’s coverage of past British royal weddings: Since Victoria’s wedding to Albert in February 1840, their descendants—the members of the house of Windsor—have been parties to more than two dozen weddings. Some of those marriages were brief, others long; death parted some of the couples, while others divorced. The following excerpts from past editions of the Britannica Book of the Year, which began publication in 1938, capture a vivid history of British royal weddings during the 20th century.

In 1938 the Britannica Book of the Year published a biography of the man who, until December 1936, was known as Edward VIII. “I have found it impossible to

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