A fairytale wedding in the abbey for the princess and Philip
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The newlyweds on the Palace balcony (PA)
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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.