Princess Margaret’s marriage to Antony Armstrong-Jones was the first televised royal wedding
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While every detail of the imminent wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle has been anticipated and analysed for months, the multiple nuptials of his Tudor namesake are less familiar. Indeed, the weddings of Henry VIII remain matters of supposition and conjecture. It is something of a curiosity that so little is known of these six days that in some ways defined the reign of England’s most famous monarch. We knew that if anybody could shed any light on these days of union, it would be Alison Weir, and her cover feature on page 28 is the next best thing to a place on the guestlist.