On Saturday, June 19, 1999 at 5 p.m. (actually, a few minutes after five) HRH the Prince Edward Antony Richard Louis Windsor married Miss Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones in an intimate family wedding at St. George's Chapel, Windsor. The front page of this site has pre-wedding info...if you want the post-wedding stuff, check out the links below! Yeah, it's August 10, 1999 and I'm just getting around to updating the site now. Hey, I'm busy, I have no control over that! LOL!
Edward and Sophie have been under pressure for the past five years, since they started dating back in the fall of 1993, to get married. But they wanted to do things their way, and, as Edward said "I don't think it would have been right before and I don't think Sophie would have said yes before..."
Other wedding news: Buckingham Palace has vetoed Edward's idea that his own TV production company, Ardent, should film the wedding. It is known that the wedding will be televised and filmed, but now that we know Ardent isn't going to be in charge of it, we don't know who is going to do it. When we find out, we'll make sure and announce it. And, roughly two thousand lucky members of the public will get a chance to see the wedding procession up close and personal as well as have an opportunity to congratulate the couple after the ceremony. The press apparently thinks this is a bad move on the part of Edward and Sophie, but we beg to differ. What the press thinks is a snobbish stunt, we at Team Edward & Sophie think is a marvelously kind and thoughtful idea. Shows that they know just how much RoyalWatchers are looking forward to the wedding.
It has not been announced yet where Edward and Sophie will be spending their honeymoon (we have a feeling Florida may just figure in somewhere...after all, one of the first big vacations they took as a couple was to a private villa there), but they are going to get right back to work when it's over. Edward back at Ardent and Sophie back at R-JH, her public relations company. And, while they will contine to have a base in London, they've also got a private home of their own. It's called Bagshot Park, it's located in Surrey, and Edward has taken out a 50 year lease on it from his mother (which means that the Queen is his landlady! *grin*). The estate is under rennovations right now, getting ready for the royal couple to move in. Edward also plans on making the stable block his offices for Ardent. How's that for an easy commute to work?!
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