Britain's Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton are to get married next year.
Here are some key facts about major British royal weddings in the past 80 years.
1923 - Prince Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI) married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) in Westminster Abbey in April.
1937 - King Edward VIII, formerly the Prince of Wales, formally abdicated from the British throne on December 11, 1936, in order to marry Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced American socialite. Edward's younger brother became King George VI. In June 1937 Edward and Wallis Simpson married in a secluded Chateau de Cande in the Loire Valley in France.
1947 - Westminster Abbey was the scene of the marriage of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip on November 20. They first met at the wedding of Prince Philip's cousin, Princess Marina of Greece, to The Duke of Kent, who was an uncle of Princess Elizabeth, in 1934.
1960 - The Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, and Antony Armstrong-Jones (later Earl of Snowdon) were married on May 6. She was divorced from him in 1978.
1973 - Princess Anne, the Queen's only daughter and the younger sister of heir-to-the-throne Charles, marries Captain Mark Phillips. The marriage produced two children - Peter, the Queen's first grandchild, in 1977 and Zara in 1981. The marriage broke down in 1989 and they were divorced in 1992.
1981 - St Paul's Cathedral was the venue for the glamorous wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, to 20-year-old Lady Diana Spencer. The mood was one of national rejoicing but the union was ill-starred. The marriage eventually collapsed amid mutual accusations of adultery.
1986 - Prince Andrew, Charles's younger brother, the Duke of York, married high-spirited publishing executive Sarah Ferguson. The marriage fell apart in 1992 after the publication of raunchy photographs showing the still-married Duchess in the arms of another man, Texan John Bryan. The marriage produced two daughters, Beatrice in 1988 and Eugenie in 1990.
1992 - Princess Anne married onetime royal aide Commander Timothy Laurence, Royal Navy (now Vice-Admiral Laurence), at a private ceremony at Crathie Church, near Balmoral Castle in Scotland.
1999 - Prince Edward, the Queen's youngest son, is the only one of her children who has not divorced. He married public relations executive Sophie Rhys-Jones and they became the Earl and Countess of Wessex. Their first baby, named Louise Alice Elizabeth Mary Mountbatten-Windsor, was born in January 2004.
2005 - The marriage of Prince Charles to Camilla Parker Bowles was dedicated in St George's Chapel following a civil ceremony in Windsor's Guildhall on April 9.
- Sources: Reuters/http://www.royal.gov.uk
