Victoria & Albert: The Royal Wedding

Victoria & Albert: The Royal Wedding (2018)

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In Victoria & Albert: The Royal Wedding, Lucy Worsley restages their wedding. Each detail is brought back to life in a spectacular ceremony as Lucy reveals how this event saved the monarchy and invented modern marriage. 

Aided by a team of experts, Lucy recreates the most important elements of the ceremony and the celebrations, scouring history books, archives, newspapers, and Queen Victoria's diaries for the details. She reveals how every moment was brilliantly stage-managed for maximum effect. Like every good marriage celebration, the film is a heady mix of fine food, fabulous clothes, music, emotion, gossip, and intrigue. From the white dress to the massive tiered white cake, from the music sung by the choir to the moment rings were exchanged, each element has been carefully researched and remade for a grand staging of the big day itself. 

The experts include food historian Annie Gray, clothing expert Harriet Waterhouse, and military historian Jasdeep Singh. Woven into the recreation of the wedding day is the story of Victoria and Albert's courtship and engagement and its political importance. Lucy unpacks and explores the hidden iconography and symbolism of this hugely significant wedding, revealing new insights into Victoria and Albert's public and private relationship. 

The film sheds new light on the broader implications of the wedding and reveals how this one extraordinary event helped invent modern marriage.

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Scheduleevery Friday (60 min)

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Victoria & Albert: The Royal Wedding Part Two
Season 1Episode 260 min

Victoria & Albert: The Royal Wedding Part Two

In episode two, Lucy and her team are in their finery for Victoria and Albert's big day. Lucy dons the latest look for high-status ladies in 1840 and takes her place in a pew inches from the altar. The ceremony is the culmination of the love story at the heart of this series and the most accurate reconstruction of the event ever staged. It's also a forum for discussion of the feuds and political undercurrents that meant that this union had to be a fresh start with a new kind of royal family. A sumptuous wedding breakfast follows the ceremony prepared in a Georgian kitchen by Food Historian Dr. Annie Gray. It is a prelude to the first night that began a marriage so iconic it saved the Crown and heralded constitutional monarchy as we know it today.

déc. 21, 2018

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S01E02Victoria & Albert: The Royal Wedding Part Twodéc. 21, 2018
S01E01Victoria & Albert: The Royal Wedding Part Onedéc. 21, 2018
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