27-04-2007 13:00
Private letters and mementos giving a rare behind-the-scenes look at royal British weddings have gone on show at Windsor Castle.
The items on display include extracts from Queen Victoria's journal written shortly before her 1840 marriage to Prince Albert, in which she describes him as "excessively handsome".
The journals are part of a collection put together to mark the diamond anniversary of Britain's Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh.
The exhibition, which begins today (27.04.07) covers five royal weddings, from the union of Victoria and Albert through to the present monarch's 1947 marriage to Philip.
Royal librarian Jane Roberts said the display showed "how the royal family really had the same sort of views about marriage and love and weddings as the rest of us".
In her journal, Queen Victoria describes her joy when Prince Albert agrees to marry her, saying how happy she is to "feel I was loved and am loved by such an angel".
She praises her fiancé's "beautiful blue eyes, and exquisite nose, and pretty mouth with delicate moustachios and slight but very slight whiskers".
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