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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
the media wants to believe that people still care about royal wedding like they did 30 years ago.
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I'd be surprised if more than 200 million tune in for this wedding. The 80's was the most explosive decade for pop culture, by far.
20-year-old Diana became The Princess of Wales when she married Charles on 29 July 1981 at St Paul's Cathedral, which offered more seating than Westminster Abbey, generally used for royal nuptials.
It was widely billed as a "fairytale wedding," watched by a global television audience of 750 million while 600,000 people lined the streets to catch a glimpse of Diana en route to the ceremony.[8][10] At the altar Diana accidentally reversed the order of Charles's first two names, saying Philip Charles Arthur George instead.[11] She did not say that she would "obey" him; that traditional vow was left out at the couple's request, which caused some comment at the time.[12] Diana wore a dress valued at £9000 with a 25-foot (8-metre) train.[13] The couple's wedding cake was created by Belgian pastry chef S. G. Sender, who was known as the "cakemaker to the kings."[14]