On October 12, the granddaughter of Elizabeth II, the daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, 28-year-old Eugene of York, married 32-year-old Jack Brooksbank. The celebration took place in the chapel of St. George in Windsor - in the same place where the wedding of Prince Harry and Megan Markle took place. According to Town & Country magazine, these weddings are similar in that the members of the British royal family marry commoners.
The couple met in 2010 in the Swiss ski resort of Verbier - the same place where Lord Aivar Mountbatten and his husband James Coyle first met on September 25, 2018 for the first gay marriage in the British royal family. The princess came to the resort to ski, and Brooksbank worked as a waiter at a local bar. "We met when I was 20, and Jack - 24, and fell in love," said the princess in an interview with BBC. - We have common hobbies. So great that we can share this moment [of our wedding] with everyone. ”
1200 ordinary Britons were invited to the celebration. Places at the princess's wedding were played in a lottery - they had to choose from one hundred thousand people who applied for participation. In addition to them, the ceremony was attended by Queen Elizabeth II with her husband, Prince William and Kate Middleton, Prince Harry and Megan Markl, as well as pop singer Robbie Williams and model and actress Cara Delevin; after the service, Italian tenor Andrea Bochelli spoke to the crowd.
At the ceremony, special attention was focused on the dress of the bride. Before the wedding, it was not known what style the princess Eugene chose, nor who became the designer of her outfit (it was suggested that it was Stella McCartney, Erdem or Vivienne Westwood). It turned out that the bride entrusted the relatively young British brand Peter Pilotto (it has existed since 2007) to sew the dress. Fashion magazine Harperʼs Bazaar called the dress "one of the most sophisticated and innovative royal wedding dresses" in history.
The main detail of the dress was a deep cut on the back. Princess Eugene specifically asked him to do to show your scar along the spine. At the age of 12, she underwent a difficult operation due to scoliosis - and for a long time she was ashamed of her scar. “This is a touching way to honor people who helped me recover, and to support children and adolescents who also had to go through this,” explained the princess. - I think that we can change ideas about beauty and show our scars. It really seems to me that this is very important. ”
Princess Eugenia used to talk about the problem of scoliosis and the disease. June 30, 2018 - on the International Day to Combat Scoliosis - she posted an X-ray in instagram, which she was taken in childhood during treatment. The princess said that she was very afraid of the operation, which lasted eight hours in the end - and during which she was installed eight 20-centimeter titanium rods. “Back problems have greatly influenced my life, like the life of any 12-year-old,” she recalled. “Now children, looking at me, can understand that the operation is working.” I am living proof of how doctors can change a person’s life. ”