Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • The Field

    Private ceremony to public pageant

    Mar 11, 2021 6 minutes
    WRITTEN BY SARAH PRATLEY

    This month the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will be exchanging gifts of tin, the traditional token for a 10th wedding anniversary. Yes, it has been an entire decade since the world paused to watch Prince William marry Catherine Middleton. And pause it did; 29 April 2011 was designated a Bank Holiday in the United Kingdom, prompting bunting and bake sales for 5,000 street parties. The wedding was broadcast in more than 180 countries and 72 million live-streamed the ceremony on YouTube, which was a new world record. The global television audience reached between 122 to 176 million.

    It wasn’t a full state occasion but there was still a pleasing amount of pomp on display. There were 1,900 guests at Westminster Abbey while one million lined the route to Buckingham Palace. There was a horse-drawn procession, RAF flypast and balcony appearance. Westminster Abbey’s 10 bells rang in ‘full peal’, without a break, for more than three hours after the ceremony. The Duchess of Cambridge’s now iconic wedding dress, designed by Sarah Burton

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from The Field

    The Field1 min read
    The Field’s Almanac
    Did you know? May is named after the Roman goddess Maia, who oversaw the growth of plants. ♦ Among the many superstitions associated with May Day was the belief that washing one’s face with the dew on the morning of 1 May would beautify the skin and
    The Field4 min read
    Perfection In A Pinch
    The brown crab can be found all around the British Isles and is by far our biggest species. The female is impressively productive, laying between 250,000 and three million eggs a year. Pot-caught crab is the most sustainable choice, as it is species
    The Field3 min read
    Shining A Light On Leistering
    IT MAY SURPRISE the reader to know that fishing has not always been conducted with a rod and line. Throughout history and indeed across the world, the use of multi-bladed spears or tridents was an accepted fishing practice. Such a multibladed weapon

    Related