Zara Phillips & Mike Tindall Celebrate Five Years Of Marriage.
Zara Phillips & Mike Tindall Celebrate Five Years Of Marriage.
In this video we will be taking a five year step
back in time to look back on and celebrate the marriage of The Queens eldest granddaughter
Zara Phillips to Mike Tindall.
July 30th 2011 was another proud day for the future
of the British Monarchy.
The wedding venue was a point to celebrate in itself
as the wedding would be the first Royal wedding to be held in Scotland in 20
years.
Many frantically waved Union Jacks and the Scottish
Saltire as the couple emerged from the ceremony shortly before 4pm, filling the
air with cheers.
One of the highlights was always going to be the
arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attending their first wedding
since their own only three months prior.
In a romantic full-length ivory silk gown with silk
tulle detail, designed by the Queen’s favourite couturier Stewart Parvin, Zara looked
every inch the traditional bride.
This was her chance to be a princess for a day.
With her blonde hair swept up into an elegant
full-bodied chignon and sparkling with diamonds from the Greek Key tiara lent
by her mother, she managed to look effortlessly beautiful and happy.
The full veil, also made of silk tulle, was held
back from her face as she held a stunning large white bouquet, studded with
thistles in a nod to the location, by Mayfair florist Paul Thomas. On her feet
were an elegant pair of Jimmy Choo shoes.
Zara, then age 30 was accompanied to the church by
her proud father Captain Mark Phillips after earlier leaving in a Bentley from
the Palace of Holyroodhouse several hundred yards down the Royal Mile.
Mother of the bride Princess Anne wore a red pleated
skirt and floral jacket, while the Queen wore a pink Stewart Parvin jacket and
matching hat by Rachel Trevor Morgan over a floral dress.
Zara arrived at 3.07pm, fashionably late for the 3pm
service.
Her maid of honour, best friend Dolly Maude, wore a
dove grey dress with dramatic Dior bow by Stewart Parvin.
Her bridesmaids – Jaz Jocelyn, the daughter of a
family friend; the best man’s daughter Hope Balshaw; Zara’s half-sister
Stephanie Phillips; and Mrs Maude’s daughter Nell – wore off-white dresses with
a simple bow by local dressmaker Sue Palmer. Pageboy Ted Maude, Zara’s godson,
delighted the crowd in a traditional Balmoral tartan kilt.
Princess Beatrice went for blue
Angela Kelly ensemble and yet another pair of nude heels, while her younger
sister Princess Eugenie opted for a cream and brown number by the same designer
Prince Edward
and his wife Sophie, Countess Of Wessex arrived while the bride's brother Peter
Phillips, appeared to be an usher as he greeted guests.
The couple had begun their wedding celebrations in
style with a cocktail party on board the decommissioned Royal yacht Britannia
on Friday night. Later, wedding guests were to be seen on George Street
enjoying Edinburgh’s nightlife.
But Zara returned to the Queen’s official Scottish
residence, Holyroodhouse, to spend her final night as a single woman with close
family.
Senior Royals, including the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge and Prince Harry, also stayed at the Palace.
Prince Harry
looked dapper in coat and tails, while the bride's sister-in-law Autumn
Phillips looked chic in an eggshell suit
Many spectators queued early to ensure a glimpse of
the happy couple, their Royal guests and the rugby stars in attendance.
Guests began to arrive shortly after 1pm to cheers
and applause.
The biggest cheer was reserved for the arrival of
the 32-year-old groom along with best man and former Gloucester and England
team mate Iain Balshaw, who was nursing a bruised face following a recent
accident on his moped.
They were joined by ushers Ian Tindall, the groom’s
older brother; the bride’s brother Peter Phillips; Gloucester winger James
Simpson-Daniel; James Lofthouse, who played youth rugby with Tindall; and Bath
player Andrew Beattie.
All were dressed in identical morning suits by Cad
& The Dandy with Oliver Sweeney shoes.
The Queen, in an apricot wool coat and printed silk
dress also by designer Parvin, and the Duke of Edinburgh were the last guests
to arrive.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge – unquestionably
the star guests and using their Scottish title as the Earl and Countess of
Strathearn for the first time – arrived with Prince Harry, making their way
straight into the church.
Catherine was elegant in a tailored cream
embroidered jacket – which she first wore in 2006 to the wedding of Camilla
Parker Bowles’s daughter Laura – and matching broad-brimmed hat, while William
looked dashing in a morning suit.
Princess Anne’s mother-of-the-bride outfit was an
elegant floral bolero-style jacket with pleated dark pink skirt. The Princess Royal
was accompanied by her second husband, Commander Timothy Laurence.
Other Royals attending included Prince Charles and
Camilla, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, and Prince Andrew and his daughters
Princess Beatrice and Eugenie.
Few details were released about the ceremony and no
cameras were allowed inside the church, but it is known that it was filled with
hundreds of scented white stargazer lilies, roses and carnations and, in an
echo of William and Kate’s wedding, the branches of beech trees.
The 45-minute ceremony was conducted by Canongate’s
resident minister Reverend Neil Gardner. A choir of 15 boys and girls from
Zara’s old Scottish boarding school Gordonstoun performed Guide Me O Thou Great
Redeemer, Love Divine All Loves Excelling, Amazing Grace and Jerusalem, as well
as a Gaelic blessing.
The happy couple left the Kirk in a Bentley for the
400-yard journey to Holyroodhouse for the reception.
The crowd was rewarded with a kiss on the church
steps
They have made it entirely clear that as a married
couple they will stick with that life, that they will belong to the Family, but
not the Firm.
And in that sense, the Scottish wedding was three
things rolled into one: an ordinary
wedding, a Royal wedding, and a declaration of intent.
Zara retained her maiden name instead of becoming
Mrs Mike Tindall.
The Queen’s granddaughter has set a precedent by
ignoring Royal tradition and not taking the surname of the man she has married.
Under regulations introduced in 1917, which govern the descent of Royal titles,
the grandchildren of the Sovereign, through the daughter, are commoners. So,
Zara is not technically Royal.’
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