Crowds Watch the Wedding of Princess Alexandra

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Crowds Watch the Wedding of Princess Alexandra

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Location

Belfast, Belfast City Centre

Year

1963

Date

Production 24/04/1963

Length

01min 20sec

Audio

mute

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcast Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

It might seem strange today that the wedding of the Queen’s cousin, Princess Alexandra, should attract such attention, but at the time it was the biggest display of royal pomp and pageantry since the Coronation a decade earlier. The television coverage of the event graced the front of that week’s Radio Times and, as can be demonstrated in this footage, people cared enough about it to watch it in pubs and to crowd around television sets in shop windows if they were out in the streets.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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