Marriage: Love and Law exhibition catalogue - Flipbook - Page 100
ROMANCE,
ROYALTY, CAUTION
As the 1970s progressed fewer people were entering the institution
of marriage. But other forces were reasserting older traditions:
perhaps none more compelling than the wedding of the Prince
of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer in July 1981 (75).
75
Watched by an estimated television audience of 750 million, the marriage
of Charles, the 31 year old heir to the British throne, and the 19 year old
aristocratic Diana injected youth, romance and modernity into the centuriesold institution of the British Royal Family.
75 Josie Ashley Riddle
Letter to Neville Wran,
Premier, regarding the
Royal Wedding, Potts Point,
30 July 1981
Paper
1981
NSW State Archives,
A3403 1981 A-E
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