The Royal Wedding of Prince Edward & Katharine at York Minster (1961) | British Pathé
The Royal wedding of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Katharine, Duchess of Kent was held at York Minster in 1961 in such a elegant manner. It was filled with Royal relatives and members of many foreign families.
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(FILM ID: 1726.18)
Colour.
Wedding of the Duke of Kent to Miss Katherine Worsley at York Minster.
L/S York Minster. M/S people laying on pavement. M/S two girls cooking sausages. C/U Sausages. C/U pan down women laying under blanket pan down to pair of men's feet. C/U people seated on the pavement. C/U girl drinking. M/S group playing cards. L/S man selling Union Jack. L/S Hovingham Hall, pan the car carrying Katharine Worsley leaving the hall. M/S guests arriving at the Minster. C/U pan Douglas Fairbanks arriving C/U Noel Coward arriving. M/S pan the bride's mother arriving. M/S Mountbatten. M/S Duke and Duchess of Gloucester arriving.
L/S of the Duke of Kent (Prince Edward) arriving at the South door. L/S interior Procession including Duke and Duchess of Gloucester Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones headed by the Duke of Gerona, the Princess Royal and the Count of Barcelona. L/S the Queen Mother and Queen Victoria of Spain. L/S Duke of Kent and his brother Prince Michael as best man. L/S the Duchess of Kent and Princess Alexandra arriving. C/U Prince Michael and Duke. C/U Princess Alexandra, and the Duchess of Kent. C/U Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain and the Queen Mother.
L/S Queen's guard arriving C/U Tony Armstrong Jones and Princess Margaret. L/S exterior the Minster. L/S the royal car arriving. L/S crowd cheering. M/S as Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles and the Duke as they enter the Minster. L/S fanfare being sounded. L/S the Duke, the Queen and Prince Charles walking towards seats. L/S the Choir. L/S as the Queen and Duke go to their seats. L/S pan as the Bride's car drives up to the Minster. L/S the car stopping outside the Minster. M/S as Miss Worsley is helped from the car.
M/S as Miss Worsley adjusts her veil. C/U Miss Worsley, Back view as she enters the Minster. M/S the Queen Mother, Prince Charles and Duke of Kent. C/U the Queen looking up the aisle waiting for the bride L/S elevated as the bride walks down the aisle accompanied by her father Sir William Worsley. M/S the royal party stand up. L/S elevated as Miss Worsley and her father near the altar. L/S pan as they walk towards the altar. L/S bridesmaids following. L/S as Miss Worsley and her father walk towards the Archbishop of York. L/S Miss Sandra Butter and Princess Anne walking.
L/S as the brides and groom are at the foot stools and Princess Anne walks forward and takes the bride's bouquet. L/S the Minster interior (Natural sound). L/S as the bride and groom stand up. M/S three bridesmaids sitting in front of the choir. L/S guests seated. C/U Tony Armstrong Jones and Princess Margaret. M/S two page boys and bridesmaids sitting in front of the choir. L/S elevated as the bride and bridegroom walk away from the altar. Miss Worsley curtseys and the Duke bows to the Queen. C/U the Queen Mother watching as they go down the aisle. L/S the bride and groom walking up the aisle followed by bridesmaids and pages. C/U the bride and groom as they walk up the aisle. L/S as the bride and groom leave the Minster under an arch of swords. L/S as they wait for their car to draw up.
L/S as Miss Worsley is helped into the car. C/U Bride sitting in the car and a lady bundling her dress in. L/S as the Duke walks round the car and gets in. M/S the bride and groom sitting in the car as it drives away. L/S as the cars come down the road from the Minster amid cheering crowds. L/S crowds cheering.
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This old style documentary is like a dream
Yep...
Well remarked indeed - can anyone provide the name of the narrator? A most commendable vocal rendering - hardly existant today, alas.
The Duke was the elderly officer that stood beside his cousin the Queen on the balcony of Buckingham Palace several days ago, at the opening of the Paltinum Jubilee.
Yes i saw that.
It's a treat to see him in his prime at the wedding.
I dare say most people know who the Duke of Kent is and recognised him on the balcony.
Yes he was the one talking to Meghan , and then his brother Prince Michael with his wife smh 🤦
@@honeyhernandez91 🙄
I was on duty at the wedding of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. I was standing in Birdcage Walk as the guests cars were making their way to Buckingham Palace for the reception. The Duchess was in one car, alone. leant towards the window, looked directly at me and mouth, Thank you so much and gave me such a beautiful smile. Such a great lady.
Weird to think that those little children following the bride and groom are now grandparents. So cute.
She was one of the most beautiful and serene royal brides ever. And, it is very true, very much admired.
The dress is beautiful one of the best royal wedding dresses .
Her dress was just amazing, she is such a special lady
That’s true.
At 2:55 on the left side of the screen is Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark next to her brother, Crown Prince Constantine of Greece. Next to Constantine is Infante Juan Carlos of Spain with his father, Juan, Count of Barcelona. Sophia and Juan Carlos had met before but got reacquainted at this wedding and would get engaged three months later and had their own wedding a year after in May 1962.
Thank you
I met The Duchess of Kent, at The Royal Mews, in December 1986, whilst serving in The King's Troop RHA. She stopped to speak with me briefly, a truly lovely lady. 💞
wow
I always look for British Pathe to look for historical news coverage. The narrators' voices are so soothing.
Obsequious and grovelling as was the custom then, the wedding still beautiful though
It's the voice of Bob Danvers-Walker on this newsreel
@@RandomRadioJottings yes thank you for this! I have been looking for his name for a long time because his voice is so familiar and very regal. My quest is at an end.
Yes their diction, pronunciation and spoken voice was very eloquent.
Lovely lady. Full of class and grace.
I got a nod and a smile from the Duchess of Kent on the first day of the new millenium (1st January 2000), at the celebrations held at the stately home of Cliveden ! I gave all the guests a wake-up call on the pipes at 7am (no doubt some would not have been pleased) !
Her Majesty looks so young in this film!! Beautiful!
She was so beautiful , when I was a young girl I would have killed to look like her. A lovely kind lady too, a real lady.
Her dress was amazing one of my favourites
At 3:31, you can see the roughly twenty-year-old Prince William of Gloucester, seated behind Prince Philip. He indeed was very handsome.
Oh really! I saw his mother (The Duchess of Gloucester) behind The Queen, I will watch it again.
Incredible to think that William of Gloucester was fourth in line to the throne when he was born. If he were alive today, he'd be 31st.
@@Sheila02181, Yes, both Elizabeth and Margaret were apparently born by artificial insemination, if this thwarted Elizabeth's line to the Throne, then The Crown would have gone to Henry, Duke of Gloucester, Williams father who died in 1974. Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester would be King today and his descent through his mother, Princess Alice, would have brought Lord Monmouth's blood line back into its rightful place after Richard Scott, the tenth Duke of Buccleuch. Had Catholic James ll not taken Protestant Lord Monmouth's head off, he would most likely have succeeded becoming King. He always did believe his father King Charles ll did marry his mother, Lucy Walters. To this day, The Queen acknowledges Richard Scott. We would have seen far less stupidity.
Such a lovely, warm hearted couple. A happy marriage.
A beautiful wedding enhanced by proper narration.
How lovely to see Queen Ena sitting next and chatting to the Queen Mother.
It's lovely for the younger generation to see the royals when they were younger
Such a special lady, so caring, our young Royals could learn from her.
Meghan is the best caring royal. The rest are for show.
@@lydiabarber8931 Meghan is so caring she lives in the US. At least the rest are here!
Oh The Duchess of Kent converted to Catholisism, hardly the best inspiration.
@@lydiabarber8931, Both Harry and Meghan are Freemasons, along with The Duke of Kent who has been Grand Master for over fifty years.
@@audspod1, I'm certain The American Freemasons are very happy to have a British Prince on board. Doesn't matter what Oprah fans think. Meghan is part of the women's Freemason fraternity.
The best part of YORK MINISTER , for me, is the vaults below, the crypt, which was the headquarters of Roman York, water wells, walls and building are still there below to be seen. This is the place where Septimus Severus was proclaimed Roman Emperor, and a 'spotlight' illuminates the spot where he was standing,
Thank you. I didn't know about the Septimus Severus connection.
This happened when only a few people in the UK had televisions so they would have seen this in the cinema.
I was 16 at the time and quite a number of friends and neighnours had TVs
@@isabellabuchanan3446 You must have been well off, because most people rented TVs from about the mid Sixties onwards, because owning one out right was the then version of having a home cinema.
@@julianaylor4351 - my family was church-mouse poor so we didn't have our own. Neither did I say that friends and neighbours in our middle class suburb owned their sets - it was mostly rentals at the time - ownership became more common later, but they certainly did not leave their rentals at home and trot off to the cinema to watch the wedding! I married in 1967 and we bought our own set - outright ownership was common by then. But that was London for you.
2:02 The man behind Princess Alexandra is now King Harald V of Norway.
And the girl on his left is queen sofia of Spain
@Joseph Vo Very interesting. Great knowledge
Harald’s father and Edward’s father were first cousins, and Sofia’s father and Edward’s mother were first cousins, so Harald and Sofia would both be second cousins of the young Duke of Kent!
I love the Duchess Katherine, used to see her present the trophy in Wimbeldon. She used to teach as school teacher in Hull, East Yorkshire, they hide her identity though, our unit is named after this amazing lady. A Pride and Joy of Yorkshire!
Amazingly beautiful wedding gown.
The Queen is still around- incredible
I,loved seeing Prince Michael when he was young. And all those other famous people, too. I was 16 in 1963 (I’m American) so I doubt if these was shown in the US. I,love seeing these older films!!! Please, more, if,possible.
I love the documentary style of that era, and seeing people in the crowd and the Minster, how they behaved & dressed - a glimpse into times gone by! :)
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It is interesting that those people who had slept out on the pavement had done so under mohair rugs, and tartan rugs rather than in sleeping bags.
They don´t make them like that anymore...
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What a lovely piece of film. I remember when they were married. It is nice to hear the old commentary.
Yes old commentaries were so professional & bears no grudge.
The diction was perfect and so easy to listen to.
For decades the Duchess was the person who presented the trophy at Wimbledon. Famously comforting a tearful Jana Novotna when she lost, but correctly telling her she’d be back to win it one day, as she did. RIP Jana. A proper Wimbledon champion.
Ducesa Marina ,mama ducelui Eduard de Kent !
Printului ....
A wonderfully elegant couple.I love them.
How lovely. I have watched quite a lot of royal weddings from the past and the pageantry and pomp is something to behold. The people love it and take the newly wed couple to their hearts. I love it.
7:28 The Queen is very pretty 💜
... She looks great, her outfit and hay are beautiful.
Such beautifully simpler times...
amazing to watch this. Everyone looked lovely and Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother stunning! prince Charles looked cute…😊and Duke of Edinburgh regal. 😊
Must say....the english Queen is such a natural beautiful stunning woman
@Christy Axel Norman The mouth and teeth is what they inherited from the queen mum, who was 100% british! King George VI and his brother Edward VIII were very very handsome. That "german look" was fantastic, it was the english blood that ruined it
@?,?, 2000 years ago there were no English people in Britain
@@msinvincible2000 Lol the royal family are not German. They are originally Danish. Englund is a Scandanavian word.
@@gingerbaker4390 What does the word Englund have anything to do with the origins of the british royal family? From 1066 to the 14th century, the english royal family was french. From 1714 to George VI, they have been germans.
@@msinvincible2000 You forget the Portuguese. Queen Catherine
They had beautiful children too, especially Lady Helen Windsor.
layde1 Yes, Lady Helen Windsor/Taylor was a beauty and still is. She has beautiful children.
I say, what a truly dazzling day it was.
I remember this so well. She was so beautiful. And didn't the Queen look lovely?😊
It's interesting when your cousin is the Queen, at the end of the day she's still the center of attention at YOUR wedding. Complex.....
If you host the Monarch , you already expect that, HOWEVER the Monarch does her best to sit back on such occasions. H.M. is acutely aware of the status that surrounds her in her every day of life. The diaries of many previous Monarchs, going back centuries, dictate into quite some details of same and similar accounts and share experiences and illustrate useful guides in how to make attempts in avoiding distraction from the source of such events. Eye focus is key ;-)
be nice!!
Of course The Queen is the center of attention. Since Edward is a descendant of King George II, they needed the Queen’s consent to get married, pursuant to the Royal Marriages Act of 1772, as then in effect. They are still married to each other. They had four children: George (born 1962), Helen (born 1964), Nicholas (born 1970), and Patrick (stillborn 1977). Katharine converted to Roman Catholicism in 1994. This did not affect Edward’s place in the succession to the throne, because she was not Catholic when he married her. Her son, Nicholas, also converted to the Popish religion, so he is excluded from the succession. The heir apparent to the title of Duke of Kent is George. In 1988, he married a Catholic and thereby forfeited his place in the succession. His place was restored in 2015, when the Act of Settlement of 1701 was amended. His children, Edward and Marina, are papists, and they are barred from inheriting the Crown.
Paula Houlden That’s the thing if you understand history it’s so not complex, of course the queen is the center of attention she is the queen.
Shirtless Call us what we are. We are Catholics.
I remember this wedding so well, and it was the first time I ever heard the Vidor March. So lovely.
I like British royal family weddings, especially if the film is in color. 💒
It’s their diamond wedding this year 😊🇬🇧
This was so enjoyable! I love the narration, every bit was charming.😍
Good to see this from way back. Dr Michael Ramsey confirmed me at a ceremony at St Martins Church in Hull 1958/59, came from Bishopthorpe Palace nr York in an Austin Limo with chauffeur and blankets, oh what a lovely man he was
This royal wedding holds so much love, romance, morality, dignity and panache. The late Queen Elizabeth II absolutely loved her cousins. ❤🫡🇬🇧🇦🇺💯
Beautiful wedding ❤️
I visited the cathedral in 2019, its amazing
Princess Margaret looked lovely, on this occasion!
Fabulous eyes.
Princess Margaret did look particularly beautiful here, didn't she!
Love the music at this royal wedding
Beautiful wedding.
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A beautiful wedding dress ♥
lou lou and
The queen was beautiful here. Truly.
Love the Royal Family.
Thanks. Have lived in Northeastern Pa for over 52 yrs. Born and brought up in Norfolk and Suffolk England.🇬🇧
Prince Edward really resembled his father when he was younger.
The cheers was sound effects added to the film, it was nice to see the Royal family 60 years younger! Haven’t seen queen’s mother on Media for many years now
The Queen Mother died in 2002
This Duchess. Such a beautiful woman. A real lady. X
Just beautiful. Amen 🙏🏻
Her dress is gorgeous
That style made her waist look so tiny. Not that it wasn't already.
Beautiful dress!!!
Thank you so much.
Simply stunning
A lovely lady who had lovely children.
Princess Margaret at 2.14 is just beautiful. Period!
Queen Elizabeth was a classic beauty and still looks so young for her age.
😂🤣😂
She was only 34/35 so not exactly old :)
Kay Cantey That’s because she eats children and drinks their blood.
Yes she does! And you do too, Kay Cantay. You look so fresh and young for your age.
She loves eating children that's why. She's a batraceus.
The women were soooooo elegant.
danièle duchêne-alessandrini mu
@danièle duchêne-alessandrini I thought HM Queen Elizabeth II was as beautiful as I have ever seen her. Her hat and dress were most becoming... and of course, the brooch with its big blue diamond. Lovely!
Oh yeah, Prince Edward Duke of Kent wasn't mistaken as a woman :3
People dressed and acted so much nicer back then.
I drove through Hovingham yesterday past the Worsley Arms.
Looking so very beautiful...😍
The Queen and Princess Margaret were very beautiful 🌺
It's so rare to find any footage, at least for me, of Sofia of Spain (Princess of Greece and Denmark here) curtseying to a queen. She's such a great asset of Spain; I see that she's very loved and adored.
the time please?
@@orleans-bourbon4500 02:47
Someone was obviously told to crank up the volume of the 'crowds' lol 🤣
Nice couple... HM looked splendid!
At least they both look happy, which is the most important thing!! ♥️♥️
Katharine, still a loyal and hardworking Yorkshirewoman, whether as Chancellor of Leeds University or working quietly as a local music teacher...
AAAHH !! I WAS 12YRS. IT LOOKS GREAT! NICE ONE ! THANKS ! FROM U.K. (2023).
Living in Britain in the 40's 50's and 60's was a time u had to be obsessed with the royal family.
So true . They were the high profile vigilants of the Cold War , before the world wide Web and the digital age come into play .
Wow just stunning
I love the archbishop’s accent
God blesses Prince Edward& Katharine and all Royal Kent family, pcalm 68.....
My God,The Queen was so very BEAUTIFUL
Marcus Jones margret was prettier
@@ladyshasha4117
My father thought the same. Many girls my age were named Elizabeth but my dad chose Margaret.
@@margaretpreston6796 my youngest sister was called Margaret, it was popular after it was chosen for princess Margaret, loads of Maggie's about now, loathing their names
Sharel Jones, Margaret was as beautiful as Vivian Leigh, or Olivia de Haviland. But the Queen had a stronger face.
I enjoyed this.
What a beautiful classic old treasure, thank you for the upload 💕. The Duchess of Kent was the first to convert to Catholisism in 1994. The Duke of Kent has been Grand Master in The Freemasons for over fifty years now.
Both were Protestant when they married. Otherwise, under the rules at that time, the Duke would have forfeited his place of the succession (as Prince Michael did). I did read somewhere that Princess Marina was not too happy with her son's choice of bride. As I have forgotten the source, I am wondering if it was true.
The monarchy was actually Roman Catholic until Henry VIII decided to divorce Katharine of Aragon for Anne Boleyn!
lovely
Beautiful Lady in heart and soul, Duchess Katherine.
Lovely gown, so beautiful.
Would be also fashionable these days
Splendid!
Beautiful Bride & Dress . I'm sure one of Diana's sister's was a bridesmaid.
My eldest sister, camped out on the pavement near the Minster to see Katharine.
She’s awesome
Congratulations.
Elizabeth was a very young Queen then.
She was, I don’t think we’ll ever see a young one again!
She was in her 30's she wasn't very young, she was young.
Christy Axel Norman the Queen Mother wasn’t German
et une très jolie dame
Christy Axel Norman The debt was intentional, to offset the taxes.
She’s beautiful
The bride is a lovely lady,and I can honestly claim that we had breakfast together!How come? I was playing at an all night event at Hovingham around 1961/2 I took in some gear to the lavish marquee fairly early,and the place was almost deserted.However I spotted a beautiful young lady wearing a stetson hat,tight trousers and a lovely blouse."Where did you get the hat?" I asked,"Oh I just returned from the rodeo in Calgary" she replied.We chatted for 10 minutes and I left to get more gear."There is Princess Alexander in there" someone said." Where" I asked."Oh she is wearing a stetson hat....." When I went back I started to apologise for not recognizing her.However,she was having none of that and was pleased to chat. I discovered that she was a musician also! Throughout the night she came to chat several times and we all finished having breakfast together,as it became light.I must add thast there were 3 bands ,so we were not tired when we finished,(and I WAS only 18/19!) I later discovered that after encountering some stress issues later in life, she taught music at a school in Hull for a time I will always remember her as a beautiful polite young lady with no airs and graces, eating butties with the band!
Princess Diana's sister, Lady Jane Fellowes was one of the flower girls, along with Princess Anne. Duke of Kent is Jane's Godfather.
You can briefly see the Earl and countess spencer sitting in the first row when they cut to the audience after the vows
Ohhh so that’s where princesse Anne was! I was confused I was wondering why she didn’t come out the car with her parents and her brother.
@@TheMorningtrain Wow well spotted.
Wow nearly 60 years ago
Fairy Law same here:)
Her gown is lovely.
That's way too much dress for me . But she looks like she's having a grand time wearing it and that's what counts .
I like Prince Michael of Kent's hair. It's a shame it eventually fell out. Quite often men who have very thick hair, lose it with age.
Q elegancia la monarquia inglesa es la mejor lo tiene todo😊😊😊😊😊
Impresionante vestido de novia, ya no se ven novias así.