My favorite piece of royal wedding trivia, from "Holy Matrimony!" by Lauren Collins in the May 2 New Yorker:
In 1923, when Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon--the Queen Mum, pre-mumhood--married Prince Albert, Duke of York, a request by the nascent BBC to broadcast the ceremony was rejected by church officials, for fear that men 'might hear the service, perhaps even some of them sitting in public houses, with their hats on.'
We've come a long way, baby!
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