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The Royal Wedding between Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips on 14th November, 1973 was a lavish affair at Westminster Abbey, with an anticipated global audience of 500 million - but the 23 year-old daughter of the Queen was clearly awkward about being the centre of attention, and asked to be only filmed from behind.\nLabelled \u2018Princess Sourpuss\u2019 by some of the tabloids, the public had yet to warm to Anne\u2019s devotion to public service, love of horses and reticence to engage with the limelight.\xa0\nIn this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly unpick their favourite \u2018facts\u2019 from the exhaustive eight-hour TV coverage of this event; explain why it was bad form to mention sausages at the wedding reception; and revisit Prince Philip\u2019s most quotable line about Anne: \u201cif it doesn\u2019t fart, or eat hay, she isn\u2019t interested\u201d...\xa0\nFurther Reading:\n\u2022 \u2018Royal Wedding Fever\u2019 (The Observer, 1973): https://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/oct/12/from-the-observer-archive-14-october-1973-royal-wedding-fever\n\u2022 \u2018Princess Anne Married Mark Phillips 47 Years Ago\u2019 (People, 2020): https://people.com/royals/on-this-day-in-royal-history-princess-anne-married-mark-phillips/\n\u2022 \u2018THE ROYAL WEDDING (COLOUR)\u2019 (Movietone, 1973): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMsr7xfwoYc&t=3s\n#Royals #Wedding #70s\nLove the show? Join\xa0\U0001f334CLUB RETROSPECTORS\xa0\U0001f334 to DITCH THE ADS and get an additional full-length episode every SUNDAY!\nPlus, get weekly bonus bits, unlock over 70 bits of extra content and support our independent podcast.\nJoin now via\xa0Apple Podcasts\xa0or\xa0Patreon.\xa0Thanks!\nWe'll be back tomorrow! Follow us wherever you get your podcasts:\xa0podfollow.com/Retrospectors\nThe Retrospectors are Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina & Arion McNicoll, with Matt Hill.\nTheme Music: Pass The Peas. Announcer: Bob Ravelli. Graphic Design: Terry Saunders. Edit Producer: Sophie King.\nCopyright: Rethink Audio / Olly Mann 2022.\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices