Princess Mary Wedded to Viscount Lascelles at Westminster Abbey (1922)

Princess Mary, the Princess Royal (1897-1965) was the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary and the sister of Princes Edward and Albert, later Edward VIII and George VI (of King's Speech fame). Her marriage to Viscount Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood, was probably the biggest British newsreel story of the decade. For this film Topical Budget employed fifteen cameramen along the route, paying in excess of £75,000 in today's money for the best camera positions.
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[@iwasglad122]

Extraordinary to watch actual footage of a Royal Wedding in 1922 and here I sit, a century later having watched the funeral service of HRH Princess Mary's niece - Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

[@martincook318]

That's true David and the late Queens Grandparents were not very good at Parenting and although they were Dam good Monarchs if they did what they did to there own children it would have been classed as child abuse and that is why Edward V111 turned out the way he did

[@iwasglad122]

@@martincook318 I'm an absolute monarchist and I agree that George V and Mary were fantastic at their 'job' but as human beings, and especially as parents, I agree with you...they were cold hearted bullies. That's the truth. Thankfully, George VI, who endured a nightmare childhood, turned out to be as loving a parent as anyone could hope for.

[@caspence56]

Amazing footage, especially when you pause to remember it was almost 100 years ago. Thank-you from a history buff like myself.

[@ingriddubbel8468]

There a films from 1893.

[@jordsupp]

Agreed - I've not seen this before.

[@mariontaylor7850]

If you look closely one of the bridesmaids was the Queen Mum a year before her own wedding. I have the souvenir magazine of this so lovely to see the moving version.

[@chokispokis]

What is a souvenir magazine? It is from 98 years ago?

[@MusicLover-wt7tx]

Lovely to see the Prince of Wales throwing confetti at his only sister's wedding. Princess Mary always remained faithful to her beloved brother after he was forced to abdicate, it was a long and loving relationship.

[@islezeus]

he CHOSE to abdicate... and regretted it the rest of his life. He was a spoilt, racist, ungrateful brat as is evident in his letters to his mistresses describing how such a burden being the heir was.

[@ingriddubbel8468]

Loving? Even after it came out about his ties to Hitler?

[@christinaorriz7971]

Music Lover a sister will always stick by her brother no matter what!!!

[@CaliWeHo]

@@islezeus Exactly like "Just Harry" these days, lol!

[@susanpayson8386]

I think he was in India.

[@oozyb1]

Love all these old films! Thanks for posting

[@Patrick3183]

I always love seeing Queen Alexandra on film

[@divaden47]

What an amazing piece of film history. Interesting to note how there was no waving from the royal party, just head bowing. Wonder when that stopped and waving began???

[@anacletwilliams8315]

That all changed after WWII when the crowds waving to the Royals became increasingly strong and demanding. So they had to respond accordingly.

[@Gayalert69]

@@anacletwilliams8315 That's nonsense. The royal 'wave' began in the mid 1920s - there are, for example, dozens of films of the Duchess of York, later Queen and Queen Mother waving to crowds.

[@anacletwilliams8315]

@@Gayalert69 Exactly what I said. It happened around the turn of WWII, which, in case you don't know, happened between 1939 and 1945. Royalty is very traditional and any changes, even in small gestures as in waving to the crowds, takes a long time to process and to be assimilated, sometimes years or decades. But the real nonsense is your name, Gay Alert 69.

[@Gayalert69]

@@anacletwilliams8315 You're clearly not the sharpest knife in the drawer but you really should read your own drivel a little more closely before posting. In your initial message, responding to a previous poster who noted the absence of the 'royal wave' at the wedding of Princess Mary, you said - and I quote - 'That all changed AFTER WWII'. When I challenged this nonsense, you posted 'Exactly what I said, it happened around the TURN of WWII' Both sentences are total tosh. Take a look, for example, at the 1927 tour of Australia and New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York - waving to the crowds in every town and city - as indeed they did on the processional drive to Buckingham Palace + balcony appearance - on their return to London in June that year. And something new for you! 1927 is NOT 'after WWII' or even 'around the turn of WWII' - its well over a decade before. Oh....and about the comment on my username. I don't think anyone with a name as absurdly comic as 'Anacelet' is any position to throw shade!

[@anacletwilliams8315]

Almost a century now yet I can vividly recollect how beautiful Princess Mary was on her wedding day.

[@doravernon1511]

Didn't age well.

[@martinclark8162]

@@doravernon1511 Nor did your momma, just saying.......

[@flughafenkaiser3637]

Compared to Royal Weddings today the royal glamour is quite distinguished

[@suzannewebb7913]

Princess Anne and her daughter Zara so look like princess Mary and the queen Mary

[@layla693]

An arranged marriage - he was a commoner but very wealthy and Mary was a dutiful daughter. It was just after the First World War so a German princeling was definitely not on the cards-- German royalties were the preferred spouses for British royalty up until then.

[@Prieze868]

Motherland and fatherland the German language where they get the Christmas trees from from Victorian era before that the British didn't have Christmas trees

[@donna25871]

layla693 the Royal Family was German - had only changed it from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha five years earlier.

[@doravernon1511]

Spot-on. The Lascelles family came over with the Norman Conquest. Also, many young aristocrats had been killed in the War so this 45 year old landowner with military background was probably the only choice.

[@rosrychaplet]

Thank you. It's great to see comparisons between 1923 and 2011!

[@richardpope3063]

Very much so.

[@ileanaacacostaacosta1813]

This wedding took place a year before the queens parents married so this wedding took place in 1922 100 years ago how time goes by life is but a dream

[@bellelaverne7887]

You can see thousands of peoples. And they all passed away. Not a single person in these footages is alive anymore. Strange to realize this fact when you see them so lively..

[@Lederius18]

Wow a wonderful site to see HM Queen Alexandra!!!

[@ingriddubbel8468]

Its sight not site.

[@zzzbbbooo]

Indeed, LeDerius, any footage of Alexandra is a treasure.

[@Carol-D.1324]

I really enjoyed watching this, thank you!

[@saeedurrahman2056]

This video was taken 97 years ago

[@Patrick3183]

She looked a lot like the present queen!

[@shaunwalker5091]

Patrick31

[@richardpope3063]

Didn't she, rather.

[@normamimosa5991]

And Princess Anne. A distinct family resemblance.

[@suzannewebb7913]

Patrick look up photos of princess Ann and her daughter Zara they are so alike the princess and queen Mary

[@Prieze868]

Is Queen Mary of Teck did look exactly like the present queen and was very conservative like her and like horses and and had trouble communicating with her children she preferred the looks were very similar

[@timcolledge3732]

Fascinating film.

[@Ryan-on5on]

The marital union of Princess Mary and Henry Lascelles (later the Earl of Harewood) was much to rejoice for the British coming out of a horrific war, all the more considering Mary was the first of King George V's children to wed and that this was the first Royal wedding to take place since 1896. The King's second son, the Duke of York, would wed shortly after in 1923, entering a union that would produce two children, one of whom, owing to Constitutional matrimony circumstances that transpired in the mid-1930s with George V's heir apparent, Edward, Prince of Wales, would take the throne just thirty years after her aunt's wedding and become the longest-reigning British monarch in history!

[@natimartiviudes6755]

Splendid documentary, Princess Mary's 100th wedding anniversary.On the other hand, Queen Elizabeth looks like her aunt Princess Mary. 💯 💒 🎇 🥂🍾 💐

[@TheSuesvideo]

Thank you for sharing. Love the Royal British family. ❤️

[@icymiffy]

love the royal family and make salute to them

[@maryhlad5277]

For me, it’s a real treat to see HM Queen Alexandra, the Queen Mother.

[@lenasunay9956]

After watching 100 years later they were more elegant than us better lives

[@jowhitelaw3191]

Just beautiful

[@653j521]

I love the camera placement on the wrong side of the carriages so we see nothing except the occasional horse's rear end. :) Princess Mary was probably the least known Princess Royal of the 20th century. Her older brothers got the headlines. She was 24 and the groom was 39, and looked older than that. He died in 1947 so not a long marriage but apparently a compatible one.

[@richardpope3063]

I thought it all went off nicely.

[@raemills96]

It makes you appreciate today's telephoto lenses.

[@l7846]

The preservation of this footage is precious. Obviously the techs smoothed out the framing--- the inherent jerking of each frame in that day wud drive any viewer today mad. Thank you for this offering.

[@richardpope3063]

I say how perfectly chummy. 1922 and all horsey too. Such elan with the wiff of modernity. Full marks for photography. A treasure to behold. Imagine if you will how the antics displayed by those equine friends were to be matched in todays auto-cades; every thing then, on a smaller "gentler" scale. Oh yes.

[@erminedereims400]

Everyone in this is dead, how morbid to see their faces over a century ago - a reminder that the world keeps moving - all the emotions thoughts feelings and events then are just the past with the same today. Haunting yet beautiful to see faces of those who may have died 90 years ago, not knowing anything of what life would become today.

[@mirataylor6263]

Interesting footage. No close-ups I note. The only close look we get at the bridegroom is via a re-touched photo :P Lascelles looks as if he should be giving the bride away, not marrying her.

[@doravernon1511]

It was obviously arranged so Mary could stay with her own family and married a landowner: she spent much of her time in London even after marriage.

[@rodolfoayalajr.8589]

Beautiful and elegant.

[@zimnaya]

One can see the curious habit of the Royal women of the time - Princess Mary throughout the film - of bowing constantly from the waist as she passes through the crowd. One sees the same with Queen Mary, and indeed of Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna as too her mother-in-law, the Dowager Tsarina Maria. They must have felt quite seasick by the time they arrived at their destinations, especially given the rocking motion of the carriage as well. Incidentally, it must be said that the bridegroom was extremely plain. It was good to see the pleasure and gusto of Prince George and Prince Albert, the Dukes of Kent and York, as they threw confetti over the couple as they left Buckingham Palace.

[@islezeus]

awww those poor women, bouncing up and down in a horse drawn golden carriage. Those poor poor darlings...

[@richardpope3063]

The right crowd and no crowding, everyone was happy to be celebrating their success. No rain on their parade, whoopee!

[@barrymoore4470]

I find Viscount Lascelles here to be an attractive and distinguished looking man.

[@emjey81]

Beautiful. Thanks.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

I can't believe how close those people got to the horses and carriage

[@rodolfoayalajr.8589]

Beautiful footage. Amen 🙏🏻.

[@sheilawhite8314]

wow what amazing footage from that day just love it

[@GodisMyNo1]

Why is nobody talking about King George V?

[@Kaytecando]

The throngs of people who turned-out are absolutely astonishing!

[@janeevatt2458]

Not sure how someone can remember Princess Mary on her wedding day now, almost 100 years later!

[@coopsevy5664]

I LOVED WATCHING THIS THANK YOU!!!

[@jordsupp]

The footmen appear to be giving them both a leg-up into the carriage when they emerge from the Cathedral (at 3.15). How perfectly wonderful.

[@pedanticradiator1491]

jordsupp Westminster Abbey not Cathedral. Westminster Cathedral is a Roman catholic institution

[@2108p]

Queen Elizabeth ii looked quite like her Aunt princess Mary

[@freyamckenzie5583]

Superb old treasure. Theirs was always said to be a happy marriage. Taurean /Virgo combination.

[@fionathomson4436]

Love History ❤️, this is amazing 👏

[@theresamay9481]

Extremely odd footage. The wedding of Princess Mary with barely a view of Princess Mary. Carriages, pomp, horses and cathedrals instead.

[@ccbsnyc]

Someone being driven in carriages back and forth!

[@pedanticradiator1491]

Westminster Abbey not Westminster Cathedral

[@y-mefarm4249]

@@pedanticradiator1491 Did you go down the whole comment section correcting everybody? Get a life... Sheesh.

[@pedanticradiator1491]

Y-ME Farm You maybe need to get one top if you have gone down all the comments and noted my corrections

[@y-mefarm4249]

@@pedanticradiator1491 People will go down the comments on videos to learn extra info. I learned that you like to correct all the people for the same mistake. Get a life.

[@janetbenning2645]

Wish they would show close ups of what they were all wearing.

[@kaylamutza]

I wish Queen Alexandra had lived a little longer

[@kara8892]

Wow this was a whole century ago 😳

[@barbaramay3539]

They all needed an handkerchief at hand to wave..

[@beverlyfletcher4458]

My gran always described him as 'the ugliest man in Britain'. Not hard to believe.....

[@doravernon1511]

One of the wealthiest.

[@barrymoore4470]

I actually find him attractive and distinguished looking.

[@joryadamson7854]

Who noticed The American Flag?

[@JustMe-ob3nw]

I wonder what Aliens would conclude about us humans if they could just study our reactions to these royal weddings...I didn’t even know this behavior went this far back...so sad......

[@snydedon9636]

And the peasants were happy and they retired to their homes and ate cake.

[@angelalarkin1151]

Good number of horses, notice horses poo on their road.

[@doravernon1511]

Arranged marriage.

[@babagama4232]

And y can't these clips be colourized????

[@jordsupp]

How grateful we all are when these old archives get uploaded for us

[@normamimosa5991]

In the days when they thought they were too grand for public view, when they actually did leach off the public.

[@jensmom604]

Look at all the horse doody along the route.

[@enlilw-l2]

Lascelles, that's french !

[@barrymoore4470]

Right, the family had Norman roots.

[@jacquelinedixon6438]

Her groom looks much older then the princess,not very handsome either.

[@carmentoro9190]

Not woke - not rubbish on the Tele - not so much degeneration & not so many 1/2 men piece of shhhhhhh

[@fan2jnrc]

Sad, that members of the Royal Family began to marry commoners instead of other Royals. Already Louise, Victoria's daughter, was allowed to do this. Really the beginning of the end.

[@jordsupp]

I dont know ... it's a difficult one, but the old historic portraits of the Euro families suggest inbreeding, and when one considers how Victoria's children shared their haemophilia around the royal houses of Europe.

[@lizh4933]

Yes. Inbreeding is so much better.

[@alfmac7886]

Deformed inbreds with genetic maladies and mental disorders is so much more chic and desirable!

[@doravernon1511]

They weren't really common we are just told that, they are all landowners and Lascelles family was Norman that's how they got their land. If she had married a foreign Prince or Duke she'd have had to leave the country and did not want to like her predecessors had, her aunts became Queen of Spain and another Queen of Norway. Also Princess Vicky who became Empress of Prussia.

[@barrymoore4470]

@@doravernon1511 Peers of the realm were not and are not commoners. However, at the time of the marriages of Princesses Louise and Mary, both bridegrooms, though in remainder to peerage titles, had not yet inherited, and were therefore commoners. But the marriages went through with the understanding that the husbands would in due time become peers of the realm, and this indeed came to be in both instances, while the respective wives still lived to see their husbands' elevations.

[@jillaberdeen8945]

Not a very happy marriage

[@doravernon1511]

It seems she spent most of her time in London with the royal family. When her elder son Lord Harewood got divorced he was barred from court. That was after her death though, age sixty.

[@faeryquene]

@ManilaSyndicate Unfortunately all that 'sticking to their own' nonsense caused a great deal of inbreeding and all the genetic defects and downright mental behavior that comes with it.

[@653j521]

faeryquene Exactly what "downright mental behavior" do you think is due to inbreeding in the present generations? And what "genetic defects"? The truth is there has been less and less genetic concentration with each generation as more and more commoners marry in.

[@richardpope3063]

Yea, the blueprints became shuffled in the breeze? So before you know it we gave birth to HRD Rapid, a plumbers night-mare yet still worthy of respect in its' 82nd year. Trust me, an Antipodean.

[@audreykennedy8891]

He wasn't very nice. Why did she marry him?

[@kevinlongman007]

Maybe because she loved him?!

[@fan2jnrc]

She was not very nice either. A bit horse's face.

[@jensmom604]

Marrying him was better than being an old maid.

[@Prieze868]

Brought money into the royal coffers Queen Victoria's husband Albert had to redo the budget of Buckingham Palace because some of the quarters and money Miners were ripping the royal family off

[@Prieze868]

@@fan2jnrc the important thing to make a good marriage whether it be money or positional marrying two families together all bringing some German family into the British royal family