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| Picture No | 10503250 |
| Date | 1922 |
| Description | Mountbatten wedding 1922 |
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Front cover of The Illustrated London News depicting Lord Louis Mountbatten escorting his new bride Lady Edwina Ashley after their marriage at St. Margarets, Westminster on 18 July 1922. The bride wears a silver dress by Reville and Rossiter and carries a bouquet of Madonna lilies and her train is attended to by bridesmaids, Princesses Cecilia and Sophia of Greece (sisters of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh). Officers of the 'Renown', the ship in which the bridegroom had voyaged with the Prince of Wales on his tours, acted as ushers at the church and formed an arch of swords under which the bridal procession passed out after the ceremony.
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| Source | Front cover of The Illustrated London News, 22 July 1922 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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