Wedding of the Duke of Kent (Prince George) To Princess Marina
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- (29 Nov 1934) HRH the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina are married at Westminster Abbey. Movietone captures the wedding processions and the bride and groom on the Palace Balcony.
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What brilliant footage of this wedding of Prince George and Princess Marina
How times have changed. Crowds beyond belief. Soldiers shoulder to shoulder.
This is the most romantic, most Royal , most beautiful wedding of two blue blooded beautiful people!
Now this is a Royal Wedding! Marina would have made a magnificent Queen!
Well, she was very cold and a frightful snob.
@@oliviamartini9700 The queen other was far worse.
The Kents were a bit far down in the succession order (Wales, York, and Gloucester all came before Kent).
Amazing --never to be seen again on such a majestic scale-the horses somehow add the magic to it all-and King George V and Queen Mary's coach had no less than four liveried coachmen on the back !
4 for the Queen, 3 for the Bridegroom, 2 for the Bride. and a couple of them were hitching a ride😊
On the register you can see the signatures of Queen Maud of Norway (George V's sister and Marina's first cousin once removed) and her husband Haakon VII (George V's brother-in-law and cousin, and Marina's first cousin once removed), Christian X of Denmark (George V's cousin and Marina's first cousin once removed) and his wife Alexandrine, and George II of Greece (George V's first cousin once removed and Marina's cousin) on the right hand side. You can also see them all in the group photo at the end, the Norwegian royals on the left, Greek and Danish on the right. What amazing links there are between the British, Danish and Greek royal families!
So very true, once removed.
And Russian. Princess Marina’s great grandfather was Tsar Alexander II
Thanks for all that information! X
They are descendants of King Christian IX of Denmark
If you look carefully, there's also Princess Beatrice's signature, daughter of Queen Victoria
One wonders if Marina's first cousin Prince Philip was there. If so, THAT occasion would probably mark the first time Philip and Elizabeth met.
Yes, prince philip and his family were there.
Princess Marine was a real beauty in her day.
I think the British monarchy lost something when they stopped inter-marrying with Other royalties of other countries. Princess marina & prince Philip ( who was a prince of Greece and Denmark) Knew what was expected of them as royalties. Look at how many divorces there have been since amongst the subsequent generations of the British royal family and you can see how unprepared most of the spouses were to be members of the royal Family upon their marriage.
Notice how it's just the British royal family alot of other royal families have commoners marry in and do fine I think its a British think because British royal standards are colder and more strict and outsiders are treated harsher other European royal families are much more warm and welcoming
@@JuanitoEsBonito Sorry to quibble, but there are no "eastern European royal families" left standing. All are in northern and western Europe.
@@rah62 yes I meant more like east of Britain
The lack of divorces doesn't mean the marriages were happy; a lot were arranged.
rubbish there was no divorce back then and there are examples of happy marriages
to non royals
Wow. So many people for prince george and princess marina.
It's fascinating to see little Princess Elizabeth as bridesmaid. No one had any idea that she would become Queen Elizabeth II.
All three of their children are still alive - the Duke of Kent (who is now, I believe, the oldest royal), Prince Michael of Kent, and Princess Alexandra.
Narrator always says "the happy couple" but the couple never look happy. lol
Wildflower wind people rarely smiled for photos in the past
Pretty solemn bunch in the last shot!!
As a rule people of stature, from that era, did not smile for formal group photographs.
Movie stars = Yes. Not people who were heads of state (royals) or those in high-
ranking government positions or banking/business leaders.
Private family photographs were a different story. Some of those pix are as
spontaneous as any family photos nowadays.
That was some crowd there
Looking at the marriage lines, I see the king and queen’s signatures and right underneath, that of Prince and Princess Nicholas of Greece and Denmark (Marina’s parents). Also, Princess Beatrice, youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, George’s brother Albert (future George VI) and I think his wife Elizabeth, Marina’s two elder sisters, Olga and Elizabeth, Olga’s husband, Paul, the Prince Regent of Yugoslavia.
No one knew he would die 8 years later in world war 2.
How many men he killed that day?
@@AsadAli-jc5tgone. His plane crashed while he was on duty
@@lordcawdorofmordor2549 Did any of the enemies also got killed?
@@AsadAli-jc5tg No. It happened in either Scotland or England.
Wonderful!!
She wasn’t treated with respect. Finally Queen Elizabeth rip fix the problem. Both rip Amen 🙏. She was beautiful.
Άξια Ελληνίδα πριγκίπισσα!
An excellent commentary indeed. I wish there had been included some mention of the date...was it a day in November for it does look like it? It is a common failing the omission of a date: for when writing our notes often do we overlook writing the date: either we think there is no need, we shall remember easily enough when it was, o r that we do not wish to record the passage of time...only at some much later date to spend time wondering just when was it that this or that took place... But the quality of the commentary is quite superb.
November 29, 1934.
And about a half-month prior to that was created Duke of Kent, Earl of St. Andrews, and Baron Downpatrick.
It has the date clearly posted on the video. Look again.
(29 Nov 1934) posted in the video description. Also google would know.
What a dreary day.
It's a shame the bride didn't make an appearance. One cannot see her clearly.
You can see her on the balcony at the end. You really can't see much of any of them until then.
Im so pleased the comentator retired. Its a wedding not a funeral.
I wonder if Noel Coward was there 🌝
7:07 -- "The wedding group, posed for the photographers shows 'happy' pair . . ." Hahahaha.
CW Brooks people rarely smiled for photos in the past
@@lsmith9249 He was a on/off heroin addict who had non-stop affairs throughout their engagement and marriage until the day he died. She bore his children and lived a largely separate life. Not sure what there would have been to smile about "in the past" for these two no matter what the custom.
@@cwbrooks5329 that doesn't the fact that not many smiled
@@lsmith9249 "Not many?" According to whom? This was 1934. A cursory search will reveal hundreds of photos of smiling wedding parties -- with plenty of "aristocracy" among them. My original comment was an observation of the incongruety between the narration and the expressions on the faces of the wedding party. My second comment was to point out that regardless of any alleged "custom" those in this partcular wedding party had little reason to smile.
@@cwbrooks5329 not as many as you think
Who is that standing next to George V in the wedding group picture?
I believe that the person you are asking about is~Elena Princess of Greece and Denmark(Maiden name Elena Vladimirovna Romanov, Grand Duchess of Russia).who was Princess Marina's Mother.
Thank you! I can recognize many of the modern royals, but not the royals of this time. BTW, Marina was the last Princess-by-birth to marry into the British Royal Family. The present Duchess of Kent, IIRC, is the daughter of a minor noble.
Why is it that there is no footage inside the church? Are cameras not allowed inside the church at that time? Maybe the camera is too big.
Cameras were not allowed inside the abbey for royal occasions in those days. If you notice, there was also a canopy outside the entrance of the abbey to keep the view of the Duke and Marina private. Very different to Kate and William's wedding at the same Westminter Abbey.
Nothing much has changed.Crowds go ga-ga over this kind of thing even today.
Most people don't realize it, but they need and want beautiful ceremony like this. Civilization would be an ugly thing without it.
Ubohe
Considering the people of the United Kingdom paid for this wedding they got to see very little of it.... disappointingly what they did get to see seemed rather grim.
They got to see pictures in the paper. Television was still in its infancy, and cameras were probably not permitted in the church.
That changed when Elizabeth's coronation was coming. Someone thought it would be a good idea to televise that.
Most of the Royal ceremonial has been on TV since, and now it gets on UA-cam.
He was handsome. She was lovely. Moreover, she displayed her true class by tolerating her gay husband. I met their daughter whom, it seemed to me, had inherited the worldly, distinguished class of her parents.
He may well have been bisexual, bot not gay. He had affairs for years with men AND women.
Wow! I did not know that.
His private life and preferences are none of your concern. He gives his life for his country and was the only royal that was approachable and worked as a civil servant.
@@DavidJones-wf9zc Of course it's their concern if they wish to make it their concern. That's like saying watching this wedding is none of their concern or any of the following -
whether he dies his hair
whether he wears a wig
whether he wears a ring
whether he wears sandals or handmade leather shoes
what foods he likes
where he lives
what he does for work, if any
the colour of his eyes
It's human nature to be curious, to have personal preferences, to have likes and dislikes etc.
He told you that he was gay?Did you know him that well? Tell me more.I am not British
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0:05
Alistair Sim commentating?
It does sound like him.
This was and probably will be the last "real" dynastic royal marriage in Britain. The wedding of then-Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II) to Prince Philip does not really count as he renounced his princely titles prior to his wedding, this making him a "commoner" on the day of the marriage. A lot of royal guests were in this wedding, I can see. Kings Christian X of Denmark, George II of Greece, Haakon VII of Norway were among them in a pool of foreign princes and princesses.
Prince Philip did renounced his titled but he was by no means a "commoner" when he married Queen Elizabeth. Prince Albert later know as ( King George VI) Queen Elizabeths father bestowed Prince Philip a day before his wedding " Royal Highness". On the morning of their wedding Philip was created Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth, and Baron Greenwich. Even thought he renounced his Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark he was never a commoner. Also the video we are looking at is not of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip but of Princess Marina, Prince George of Kent the fourth son and fifth child of George V and Queen Mary.
Paulo Rubio He renounced his Greek titles but assumed new English titles, including Prince, upon marrying Elizabeth.
From what I understand, there was some doubt whether Philip had to renounce his Greek titles.
Illy ana preach that truth girlfriend!
The royal houses are all related and therefore dynastic. Incest works for them.
a really tragic family. prince george died in a plane crash in 1942, princess marina of a brain tumor in 1968, and their son prince william killed in a plane crash exactly 30 years after his father in 1972.
Prince William of Gloucester was the son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester. The Kents had three children: Prince Edward (the current duke), Prince Michael and Princess Alexandra.
Prince William was the elder son of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, not of George and Marina of Kent.
Very sad. He too fell out if grace of the Royal establisment... Very odd.
@@donsarde i wonder if they ordered their deaths
You really need to crack a book open sometime before typing comments.
Frederick
Was this the one, Kent that was considered a homosexual?
0:40 - 0:56 Beware! Pickpockets at work.
They all look so solemn and miserable and weird.
The weather that day evidently wasn't the best. But also, people of that generation regarded marriage as a serious issue -- a covenant affirmed by vows that were to remain intact for life -- certainly not the perspective of today's couples who sign pre-nuptials that dictate how their common property is to be divided in the event of dissolution. More than 50% of marriages in the Western world today end in divorce. In 1934 less than 8% of marriages hit the scrap heap, testifying to the seriousness of "wedlock" in that era within a perceived need to work diligently to assure its success. Hence the "solemnity" we witness in this newsreel.
@@r.crompton2286 Oh you are so very right, my dear R. Crompton. If only people today married with the same seriousness and solemnity of years past!
@@r.crompton2286 the low percent of divorce had alot to do with the difficulties of getting a divorce and womens rights… low divorce rate doesn’t equate to happy marriages. Many ppl were miserable and the upper class were still exercising arranged marriage.
Why was Marina's mother called Princess Nicholas when she's born royal? She should've been called Princess Helen/Elena. Only non-royal ladies like Princess Michael take the feminine form of her husband's title.
Princess Marina old deal...
What do you mean with “ old deal “ ??
UK -Royal family historie..please read books of historie
@@alexandraferdonova5329 What's that supposed to mean?
ah yes those were the days - a magnificent turnout Britain still had an empire- and Prince George may have been murdered for trying to make peace with Germany a few years later-WW2 could have been avoided if they had listened to him
These weddings still get a great turnout.
The peasants seemed to enjoy themselves.
This was crap.