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Windsor marries Peep Show actress | |
(about 10 hours later) | |
The son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, Lord Frederick Windsor, has married actress Sophie Winkleman in the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace. | |
The bride, best known for her role as Big Suze in TV's Peep Show, admitted she "wept throughout the whole thing". | |
About 400 guests, including Princess Eugenie, Lady Annabel Goldsmith, Jane Asher and singer Bryan Adams attended. | |
Lord Frederick Windsor, 30, 31st in line to the throne, proposed to the 29-year-old on Valentine's Day. | |
Senior members of the Royal Family, including the Queen and the Prince of Wales, were unable to attend. | |
But the Duchess of Cornwall's daughter Laura was there with friends. | |
Other guests included journalist Eve Pollard and her broadcaster daughter Claudia Winkleman, the bride's half-sister. | |
Henry VIII chapel | |
The chapel, where Henry VIII married Catherine Parr in 1543, was decorated with white and pale pink flowers, including roses and jasmine garlands. | |
The bride wore a dress designed by Roza Couture, with a three-metre (nine-foot) train. | |
The groom was dressed by Hardy Amies - a favourite designer of the Royal Family. | |
Hymns sung included Be Thou My Vision, Dear Lord and Father of Mankind and I Vow To Thee My Country. | |
Lady Gabriella Windsor, Lord Freddie's sister, gave a bible reading from the Song of Solomon. | |
A champagne reception followed, in the Great Hall of the Surrey palace. | |
Princess Michael of Kent on her way to the wedding | |
The couple, who have been together for two years, fly to Los Angeles on Sunday - not for a honeymoon, but in time for the bride to start work on a new television series. | |
A spokesman said the couple turned down a "life-changing" amount of money from a celebrity magazine offering to cover their wedding, opting instead for a more intimate celebration. | |
A family spokesman said: "It's been a beautiful day - perfect English weather and a couple deeply in love." | |
Lord Freddie was educated at Eton and Oxford University and now works for JP Morgan's private banking division. He chose 15 ushers for the big day. | |
Prince Michael is a cousin to both the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. He married the then Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz, in 1978. | |
She was a Catholic who refused to convert to Anglicanism and Prince Michael, eighth in line to the throne at the time of his birth, lost his place in the succession. | |
Their children, however, retain their rights of succession. |