Athens - Royal Wedding
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Wedding - Athens. DESCRIPTION: The beautiful city of Athens was the appropriate and regal setting for the Royal wedding of the year: Princess Sophia of Greece married Juan Carlos, son of the pretender to the Spanish throne. Here, the bride arrives at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral, for the second of the two ceremonies, in which King Paul, the bride’s father, took an intimate part. During the morning, the Royal couple had been married in the rites of the Catholic Church. SHOTLIST: GV Athens. Procession to the Greek Orthodox Cathedral. Interior shots of the ceremony. Bridegroom Don Juan of Spain. Bride Princess Sofia of Greece. King Paul of Greece takes part in the ceremony, holding crowns above the heads of the happy couple. Procession out of cathedral and back to Palace. Royal couple leave on their honeymoon. Other royalty present.
- Keywords
- Royalty; Marriages
- Locations
- Athens; Greece
- Footage sources
- France
- Card file number
- 84380
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 80
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