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Focusing on six extravagant Indian weddings that take place across the globe in a pre-COVID world, the trailer, which was released on Monday, is a kaleidoscope of vibrant colors, florals, over the top settings, and one-of-a-kind bridal looks, all dream Pinterest board-worthy. The show, which is divided into two “collections” of three episodes, the first set premiering on Valentine’s Day, shines a spotlight on the creatives and vendors who make putting together a next-level extravaganza possible, and gives the opportunity for the couples to share what’s most important to them along the way—whether it’s planning a truly sustainable wedding, or a desire to buck tradition. Count on love, courtship, personal struggles, and a dash of family drama taking center stage as these couples create their version of happily ever after.The Big Day will start streaming on Netflix on February 14th. This actor-writer pair made waves at the 2021 Oscars when Ahmed stopped to fix Mirza’s hair, and their meet-cute was no less romantic: the two met at the same table in a coffee shop. As Ahmed recalled on The Tonight Show, “We were both jostling over the same laptop plug points.” A secret pandemic wedding followed: “We did it in a backyard, which is nice in lots of ways,” Ahmed revealed. “And I think the nicest thing about it was you didn’t have 500 aunties hanging around you, pinching your cheeks.”You might expect one of Hollywood’s greatest living actresses to have a spouse similarly high up in the entertainment industry, but that’s not the case for Meryl Streep; her husband, Don Gummer, is a sculptor, and the pair have four children together. “First, I’m going to thank Don, because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech they play him out with the music, and I want him to know that everything I value most in our lives, you’ve given me,” Streep said in 2012, as she accepted the best-actress Oscar for her role in The Iron Lady.Sykes met her wife, French businesswoman Alex Niedbalski, on a ferry to Fire Island, where Niedbalski was deep in conversation with a young child. “Something really said to me—like, audibly—‘Wow, that’s what you need, Wanda,’” Sykes told The Guardian in 2018. The two have been married for over a decade, and are now parents to twins, Olivia Lou and Lucas Claude.Damon met Barroso, then a bartender at Miami’s Crobar, when he was in town filming Stuck On You. After a long day of shooting, some crew members invited Damon to get a drink. “They said, ‘Come on,’ and kind of dragged me along,” Damon told Ellen DeGeneres in 2011. “I literally saw her across a crowded room and eight years and four kids later, that’s my life. I don’t know how else our paths would have crossed if that didn’t happen.” The moral of the story? “When you’re tired, suck it up and go to the bar and you might meet your wife,” says Damon. The couple renewed their marriage vows in April 2013 with a small sunset ceremony in St. Lucia.Stewart met then–veterinary technician McShane on a blind date at a Mexican restaurant in 1996, just one month after Stewart was fired from his show on MTV. “It’s a fairy tale from my end,” McShane later told Oprah. “I had just gotten out of a seven-year relationship. I was depressed, and my friends were trying to set me up all the time. After a bad date, they’d ask, ‘What are you looking for?’ I had discovered The Jon Stewart Show, so I said, ‘Someone funny and sweet, like Jon Stewart.’” As fate would have it, McShane’s roommate at the time was working as a production assistant on Wishful Thinking and played matchmaker when Stewart stopped by the set. In February 1999, Stewart proposed to McShane through The New York Times, having enlisted the newspaper’s crossword puzzle editor for help (among the clues specific to the couple? The answers to “Valentine’s Day Request” and “Recipient of the Request” were “Will You Marry Me” and “Tracey”).Hathaway met Shulman, an actor-slash-jewelry-designer, at the Palm Springs Film Festival in 2008, through a mutual friend. Their chemistry was so apparent that Hathaway told her pal: I’m going to marry that man. “I think he thought I was a little nuts, which I am a bit, but I’m also nice,” Hathaway has said. “I knew from the second I met him that he was the love of my life.” While Shulman’s acting career hasn’t mirrored the same success as his wife’s, aside from a part in the 2015 Meryl Streep dramedy, Ricki and the Flash and producing Song One, which Hathaway also starred in, he has a jewelry line called James Banks. He even helped design Hathaway’s ethically sourced, six-carat diamond engagement ring when he proposed in 2011.These stunning celebrity engagement rings prove that a diamond—if not a marriage—is forever. But engagement rings haven’t always been all about the diamond: Roman brides were given a gold ring to wear in public and an iron ring to wear at home. In the 1700s, simple poesy rings were popular in Europe, while in New England, Puritan men—shunning frivolous rings—were thought to have given thimbles to their betrothed (though women often cut off the tops and wore them as rings anyway). Fast-forward to 1947 and De Beers’s famous slogan, “A diamond is forever.” The rest is history. Now we have everything from Elizabeth Taylor’s 33-carat diamond from Richard Burton (though it was just a gift, not an engagement bauble) to Meghan Markle’s ring with stones from Princess Diana’s private collection, to Hailey Bieber’s sparkling oval from Justin. Below, ring inspiration galore from some of the dazzling gems sported by stars, royalty, and socialites.Sklar was a newlywed at the Reebok gym on the Upper West Side, wearing headphones and filling a water bottle when she met Seinfeld. “I was going through a difficult time, and I was approached by Jerry Seinfeld and he attempted to make me laugh, and I was really not interested in being entertained at that moment,” Sklar has said. “He came around again and said something funny, and I actually had to laugh.” At the time, Sklar was a PR executive for Tommy Hilfiger and had just married Eric Nederlander, the son of theater magnate Robert Nederlander, two months earlier. (When they were wed, guests’ invitations were styled after Playbills and indicated Sklar was “making her Broadway debut.”) Soon after meeting Seinfeld, Sklar broke things off with her marriage and became engaged to Seinfeld a year later, after he proposed at Soho’s Balthazar.When it comes to seeking out the very best engagement rings, even the most radical, non-conforming couples are captivated. While some wedding traditions have been gleefully thrown into the dustbin of history—I mean, who can even imagine promising to “obey” in their vows anymore?—the desire for the very best engagement ring endures.Whether your ceremony is a barefoot beach affair or a blowout in a hotel ballroom, the best engagement ring you have ever imagined will shine from the best manicured finger you’ve ever flaunted on what is meant to be the best day of your life. (Okay, let’s say one of the five best days of your life—since surely the birth of a child, or an amazing job promotion, counts too?)What makes an engagement ring best? It may seem obvious, but it’s the one that reflects your own distinct personality, that speaks directly to your soul—the one you’ve always dreamed of (maybe as much as you’ve dreamed up a dreamy partner.) It could be a classic version, with a gorgeous big stone plopped upon a platinum band; it could be a slightly quirkier iteration of an emerald, princess, marquis, or cushion cut! It could be a diamond-studded band doing double duty as engagement-ring-and-wedding-band-in-one; or it could be something totally wild, totally nutty, that speaks to the two of you in a language only you two understand.If, right about now, you are feeling overwhelmed by this vast plethora of choices, in every price point, in every metal, there is an enormous variety of good, better, and best engagement rings out there. Would it help if you knew a little history of the best engagement rings?It all began, at least allegedly, in 1477, when Archduke Maximilian of Austria commissioned the very first diamond engagement ring for his intended, Mary of Burgundy. Members of the European nobility soon copied his idea. Still, the notion of a diamond engagement ring was far out of reach for most people, at least until the Victorian era, when a burgeoning middle class had the buying power for such trifles. (If you couldn’t afford a real diamond, you could have one of paste!)Of course, the most revered engagement rings in history were made of the finest materials. Napoleon gave Josephine a ring meant to evoke two teardrops in sapphire and diamond to symbolize their two hearts; Queen Victoria opted for a snake ring, an unconventional choice even if it was accented with a large emerald, rubies, and diamonds. Audrey Hepburn brandished a trio of studded bands; Jackie Kennedy rocked an emerald. And Lady Diana Spencer’s famous engagement ring consisted of 14 diamonds surrounding that incredible 12-carat oval blue Ceylon sapphire, set in 18-karat white gold. (Kate Middleton has it now.)If we learn anything from these lessons in jewelry lore, it is this—there is no one “best engagement ring.” Whether you opt for a classic diamond, a traditional version with a twist, a vintage-inspired design, a dramatic all-in-one band, or something unexpected and truly wild, your ring will be as glorious, and, we hope, as long-lived as the relationship it celebrates.These beautiful styles have stood the test of time.These studded lovelies combine the beauty of an engagement ring with the grandeur of a wedding band.These enduring styles have been reinterpreted with brilliant new design details.The glories of decades past are embodied in these special creations.Who says your engagement ring has to color within the lines?The Oscar-winning actress first crossed paths with the talent agent at a friend’s party when a drunk guest was hitting on her and Toth intervened. “He was like, [slurring, scowling, pointing finger in her face] ‘You don’t know me,’ ” Witherspoon recalled in a 2012 interview. “Jim came over and said, ‘Please excuse my friend. He’s just broken up with someone.’ ” Witherspoon and Toth hit it off and were married the next year. Since then, Toth has continued his career as an agent at the Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles, where he has represented everyone from Scarlett Johansson to Robert Downey Jr. and Matthew McConaughey.Throwing rice, jumping the broom, wearing something blue—these are just some of the traditions that help to make your wedding ceremony feel unlike any other day of your life. If you’re leaning towards “something blue,” there are so many ways to incorporate the English custom into your wedding festivities. But finding the perfect blue item—the color is thought to symbolize love and fidelity—requires some strategy.Perhaps a light coat of Chanel’s Le Vernis will look lovely on your nails. Or follow Carrie Bradshaw’s lead and dawn a feathery headpiece with your wedding dress—Emilio Pucci just released a sweet quill headband that’s guaranteed to be a showstopper. If a large plume doesn’t feel right for you, grab a fringe-covered bag to carry around the reception. Take a closer look and discover more wedding tradition-worthy items that will have you feeling blue in the best possible way.Spend the morning enjoying breakfast in a pretty sleep dress. The ruffle sleeves and shirred neckline on this Lake Pajama gown will also look absolutely lovely in your behind-the-scenes pictures.Reach for a pastel hue to paint your finger or toenails on the special day. The blue tones in this Chanel lacquer will make a beautiful partner to your ring.Make every detail of your outfit count, including what’s underneath the dress, like with a lace-embellished, beaded bra by Agent Provocateur.Remind guests of what will be served with floral-trimmed menus printed on lovely tactile Mohawk paper.Get ready for a special toast and enjoy your favorite drink in a beautiful handcrafted Murano drinkware trimmed in a delightful shade of blue, like this set from LagunaB.While you’re getting your hair and makeup done, throw on La Vie Style Houses’s icy floral-jacquard kaftan over your pajamas.Document the moment by writing your thoughts and feelings in a beautiful Smythson notebook. Or use it to jot down important details for the big day.When it comes to wedding day heels, sometimes more is more. This pair from Mach & Mach has all of the bells and whistles, from glittered leather to crystal-covered bows.The ring on your finger isn’t the only piece of jewelry that matters. Bring on the ritz and glitz with a sparkling pair of blue topaz hoops like these from Mateo.The wedding headband is always a lovely choice for modern brides. Top off your look with a dramatic headpiece covered in feathers like this option from Emilio Pucci.Make sure your rings are safe and stylishly stored away in a velvet cushioned box.Prepare for the long day ahead with a fragrance that won’t fade away too quickly. This blue bottle, Armani Beauty’s Ocean di Gioia, is perfect with notes of sweet sparkling pear and water jasmine balanced by earthy sandalwood.Keep this fresh bunch from UrbanStems on display in your dressing room, or carry it down the aisle for an enchanting, unique spray.Have fun by wrapping a playful feather-covered bag around your wrist, like this one from Marques’ Almeida. It’ll come in handy in case guests hand you any cards at the reception.Light a pair of magical candles to set the mood ambiance in the room where you’re getting dressed.Surprise! Chloë Sevigny revealed earlier today that she married the father to her 10-month-old son, art dealer Siniša Mačković, in a secret ceremony last March. While there had been plenty of speculation after the Oscar-nominated actor was spotted out and about wearing a wedding band last summer, Sevigny chose to celebrate the one-year anniversary of their nuptials with a throwback post on Instagram, adding a short and sweet caption beginning: “Married on a Monday.”It was a charmingly casual way to announce the news, but then, Sevigny has always played by her own rules. In keeping with her eclectic eye for fashion, Sevigny chose to wear a simple, figure-hugging black dress for the big day with matching black tights and pistol boots. The finishing touch? Well, even a bride who wears black needs a veil. With all of Sevigny’s inimitable, offbeat take on fashion shining through, it was laid-back bridal style done right. Mačković also cut a stylish figure in a black suit with impeccably cut wide-leg trousers, a pair of T-bar chunky soled shoes, and a sprig of baby’s breath attached to his lapel to match Sevigny’s bouquet. A belated congratulations to the happy couple! Novelist and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott—the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and the third-wealthiest woman in the world—has married Seattle-based schoolteacher Dan Jewett. Most know the story by now: Scott was Amazon’s first employee, helping to develop the company’s name, business plan, and even shipping early orders out of the couple’s garage. Eventually, she took a less-involved role in the business, preferring to focus on raising her four children and furthering her literary career. Twenty-five years of marriage later, Bezos and Scott announced they were splitting up in January 2019. That April, they reached a settlement allowing Scott to keep a 4% stake in Amazon, valued at $38.3 billion. Since then, Scott has become a committed philanthropist, detailing how she donated nearly $4.2 billion to 384 organizations in a Medium post.Scott’s commitment to giving is what led to the emergence of the news of her marriage to Jewett and the Wall Street Journal breaking the story. Jewett added his name to Scott’s Giving Pledge web page on Saturday. The campaign—started by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates in 2010—calls upon the wealthiest families in America to donate the majority of their wealth to philanthropies. Scott made her commitment to the pledge in May 2019, soon after her divorce from Bezos. “It is strange to be writing a letter indicating I plan to give away the majority of my wealth during my lifetime, as I have never sought to gather the kind of wealth required to feel like saying such a thing would have particular meaning,” Jewett wrote on the Giving Pledge website. “I have been a teacher for the majority of my life, as well as a grateful student of the generosity of those around me,” he continued. “This has meant doing my best to follow their example by passing on resources of all kinds—from time, to energy, to material possessions—when I have had them to give.” Jewett also referenced his recent marriage and new wife, noting, “And now, in a stroke of happy coincidence, I am married to one of the most generous and kind people I know—and joining her in a commitment to pass on an enormous financial wealth to serve others.” He goes on to say: “As others writing these letters have indicated in some form or another, I am sure this pledge will benefit me as much as it benefits anyone else served by it. I look forward to the growth and learning I have ahead as part of this undertaking with MacKenzie.”For her part, Scott has updated her author page on the Amazon website to read: “She lives in Seattle with her four children and her husband, Dan.” H.R.H. Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, has died at the age of 99 after a lifetime of service—and controversy. The news was confirmed by representatives of the Royal Family earlier today, adding that the announcement was made “with deep sorrow” and that the prince passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle.Prince Philip, noted Vogue in 1961, “Seems more completely the ideal of the American hero than most American heroes. He has drive, and opinion, and courage, and humor robust enough for Mississippi riverboats or the Royal Navy.”The prince was born on June 10 in 1921 on the kitchen table of Mon Repos, his family’s estate on Corfu. He made his debut in Vogue in 1947 when the magazine heralded the engagement of then-H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth to then-Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, R.N., the former Prince Philip of Greece. The couple, who shared a great-great-grandmother in Queen Victoria, had been brought together by the prince’s wily uncle Lord Mountbatten of Burma, the last Viceroy of India and his nephew’s guardian since the boy was eight, when the young prince’s parents had been driven into exile from Greece.The prince’s father, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was the seventh child and fourth son of King George I of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia. His mother was Princess Alice of Battenberg, a fascinating and troubled woman who in later life founded a nursing order of Greek Orthodox nuns (and was posthumously honored by Israel for having sheltered a Jewish family in Athens during the Second World War). “If anything, I’ve thought of myself as Scandinavian,” Prince Philip told Fiammetta Rocco, one of several biographers of his complicated family tree. “Particularly Danish. We spoke English at home. The others learned Greek. I could understand a certain amount of it. But then the [conversation] would go into French. Then it went into German, on occasion, because we had German cousins. If you couldn’t think of a word in one language, you tended to go off in another.” Communication with his mother was primarily in sign language, as she became almost completely deaf after contracting German measles at the age of four.Prince Philip’s royal parents had been forced to leave Greece when Prince Andrew’s elder brother King Constantine—whose wife, Sophia of Prussia, was a sister of Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II—had followed an unpopular policy of neutrality during the First World War.In exile, Prince Andrew and Princess Alice led separate lives, with the prince finding consolation at the gambling tables—soon taking up with a hard-spending mistress—whilst his estranged wife founded her nursing order.Their young son Prince Philip, meanwhile, who was purportedly carried in an orange crate onto the British Royal Navy gunboat that had been sent to Corfu to rescue the family, was subsequently dispatched to the care of Lord Mountbatten—though there was something of a tug of war between the prince’s British and German relatives: He was sent first to a school in Germany established by the German Jewish educator Kurt Hahn, and thence to Gordonstoun, the spartan Scottish boarding school created by Hahn after he had fled Nazi Germany. Among the principles of Hahn’s “rugged school,” as Vogue noted in a 1962 story, was “to free the sons of the rich and powerful from the enervating sense of privilege… This freedom means getting up at 7 am, cold showers, bedmaking, shoe polishing, and a fast jog around the grounds before breakfast … school afternoons are divided between such manual work as building pigsties, and chopping wood, and the more entertaining pursuits of sailing, rugger, fire brigade duty, and music sessions with boys playing bagpipes and clarinets.” (Perhaps unsurprisingly, the creatively minded Prince of Wales did not share his father’s enthusiasm for Gordonstoun’s spartan principles—or cherish happy memories of his time spent there.) Apparently neither Lord Mountbatten nor Prince Philip’s other designated guardian, George Milford Haven, ever visited him during his years at school. His entire childhood, actually, appears to have been one of displacement and varying levels of abandonment that shaped his resilience—but with a sense of family dynamics and interpersonal relationships perhaps more firmly rooted in the Victorian age than his own (and certainly at odds with his enthusiastic embrace of modernity and his forward thinking in other areas of his life).In 1938, Philip entered the Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, where he won the King’s Dirk as the best cadet of the year. (As a midshipman on various cruisers and battleships, he was mentioned in dispatches and subsequently named second in command on the destroyer Wallace.) It was at Dartmouth where he first met the young Princess Elizabeth, then 13, and her sister Princess Margaret when they came to visit. The former was struck by the young man whom Vogue’s writer, Ray Livingstone Murphy (a biographer of Lord Mountbatten), considered “tall, blonde, with the shoulders of an athlete, a firm chin, and frank eyes,” who nevertheless “lacked the regularity of feature that might lay him open to the invidious accusation of being too good looking.” The young princess and the fashion lieutenant began to correspond with one another, she kept his photograph on her desk, and romance eventually bloomed.The couple were wed on November 20, 1947. “The Wedding became a pageant to refresh the inner eye,” noted Vogue in the January 1948 issue, “to expand the historical imagination. At its center were two young people, surrounded by the full resources of the church and royal state—gold plate on the high altar, trumpeters, glass coaches, tiaras, Household Cavalry, medieval standards.” British Vogue surrendered their assigned press seat to the Polish-born expressionist painter Feliks Topolski, who had lately distinguished himself as an official war artist, and American Vogue shared his wonderfully evocative lightning sketches of the scene—capturing, in his impressionist brushstrokes, such recognizable figures as Princess Elizabeth’s formidable grandmother, the dowager Queen Mary, in one of her distinctive toque hats.“Everybody knows,” wrote the historian A. L. Rowse in Vogue, “that the marriage of Elizabeth and Philip was a love match like that of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort.” Queen Victoria’s consort, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, capitalized on his outsider status to transform British taste, leaving a permanent mark on his adopted country’s cultural landscape. He was the driving force, for instance, behind such initiatives as the Great Exhibition of 1851, and gave his attention and name to the future Victoria & Albert Museum and the Royal Albert Hall. Prince Philip’s artistic tastes were more representative of the middlebrow tastes of his adopted country, with his personal art collection, for instance, running to photorealist studies of battleships on choppy seas and wildlife in the African bush.For Prince Philip, however, his role was clear: to support his wife and stabilize the crown. “He told me the first day he offered me my job,” Michael Parker, the prince’s first private secretary, related to his feisty biographer Fiammetta Rocco, “that his job—first, second, and last—was never to let her down.”Six years after the wedding, in the middle of a royal tour of Africa, India, and Australia, this role became preeminent when the princess’s father, the self-effacing King George VI, died at the age of 56 of coronary thrombosis (he had been a heavy smoker throughout his adult life) and his eldest daughter ascended to the throne. For Prince Philip, who had finally discovered the stability of family life and was enjoying the home that the young couple had created together at Clarence House, it must have been another profound upheaval in a young life already defined by them. He also had to give up his beloved naval career, a loss that he can only have felt keenly. Instead, he dedicated himself to public service: Over the ensuing decades he became the diligent patron, president, or member of more than 780 organizations, and by the time he retired from official duties in 2017 at the age of 96, he had completed a giddying 22,219 solo engagements—and, of course, many more with his wife.At the coronation, the royal couple’s young children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, were present (Princes Andrew and Edward would follow in the subsequent decade), but as at the prince’s wedding, his mother Princess Alice of Battenberg was the only other member of his family to have been invited. His father had died in Monte Carlo in 1944, and his beloved older sister, Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, had died in a plane crash before the war—but his three surviving older sisters Princess Margarita, Princess Theodora, and Princess Sophie were all married to German officers (Sophie’s husband, Prince Christophe of Hesse, was an Oberführer in the Nazi SS, while Margarita’s husband Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, had been involved in the abortive attempt on Adolf Hitler’s life in July of 1944), and in postwar Britain, anti-German sentiment still ran high.Prince Philip had proposed that his friend, the photographer known professionally as Baron (Sterling Henry Nahum), take the official coronation photographs—a request that was apparently overridden by the Queen Mother, as her friend Cecil Beaton took those memorable images. Beaton was in Westminster Abbey to record and sketch his impressions of the coronation for Vogue, and noted “the simple beauty of the Duke of Edinburgh’s mother in her nun’s grey drapery.”The coronation program, newly written in ersatz antiquated prose, included Philip’s oath that he would be his wife’s “liegeman of life and limb.” A proud man, he apparently felt his status as the consort of a monarch keenly. When President Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy visited Buckingham Palace, he confided to the First Lady’s attractive sister Lee Radziwill (as the palace did not recognize her husband’s princely Polish title), “You are just like me—we both have to walk several paces behind her.”On the royal couple’s American visit in the winter of 1957, it was the Queen who drew all attention. The prince was her “handsome consort.” As the Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen wrote in Vogue, “what has to be the extent of her dedication, only she knows. Who can compute the weight of the crown?” Whilst HM The Queen has spent her life pointedly avoiding the faintest whiff of controversy in her public pronouncements and observations, though, her husband’s off the cuff remarks could be provocative. In 2000, soon after Queen Elizabeth had officially opened a British Embassy in Berlin, for instance—a project that had cost 18 million pounds—the Prince described it as a “vast waste of space,” and a few years later, at the age of 90, asked a group at a community center who they were “sponging off.” The prince did not suffer fools gladly, and to political correctness he was a stranger. His often excruciating gaffes came to define his public persona as much as his regimental comportment and stoicism, and often veered very far from such anodyne comments as the “Have you come far?” with which the Queen customarily greets her subjects. When introduced to a Scottish driving instructor, for instance, he offered the question, “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” To a British student who had recently returned from trekking in Papua New Guinea, he enquired, “You managed not to get eaten then?”In 1961, Norman Parkinson photographed the Duke of Edinburgh in Tobago especially for Vogue whilst the Queen filmed the proceedings. In the accompanying text, we noted that his “attractions include a Viking visage that combines faint amusement with faint aloofness… In Britain,” Vogue continued, “the Duke of Edinburgh inspires admiration and some uneasiness.” A British observer at the time noted, for instance, that “He is a caged lion, bound about by convention, but it is always exciting to hear him speak… He has enormous energy, and the quality called, in school reports, application. He believes in—has confidence in—personal initiative.” That spirit was encapsulated in The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. Founded by the Prince in 1956 and inspired by Kurt Hahn’s teachings, the award celebrated the self-motivated achievements of teenagers and young adults in various fields from community volunteering to planning adventurous journeys.“If the crown is going to continue to fulfill its function,” Prince Philip, then Lieutenant Mountbatten, told Mr. Murphy in 1947, “it must have greater contact with what is going on around it. Today, changes are being made so fast that it is difficult for royalty, sheltered as it must be, to keep track of them.”Prince Philip’s attempts to modernize royalty, however, were not always resoundingly successful. It was on his initiative, for instance, that in 1969 the BBC was invited to make a documentary about the royal family. The resulting program demystified the storied institution by revealing something of the sheer ordinariness of the extraordinary family and its sometimes uneasy interpersonal dynamics. (The documentary was subsequently suppressed and has not been aired since 1972.)Although he would probably have balked at the suggestion, Prince Philip had a rigorous sense of personal style. (His suits were tailored by John N Kent, his shirts made by Stephens Brothers, and his shoes by John Lobb.) In 1957, Vogue celebrated the restrained establishment style of H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh—“sailor, scientist, sportsman”—with a double-page spread of eighteen images that revealed the range of clothing required for a lifestyle that included such formal duties as “opening the Holme sluices and Flood Protection Scheme, Nottingham”; “inspecting some visiting Canadian Mounties”; “inspecting a rubber plantation in Malaya”; and “attending the Royal Command Performance.” The Prince’s sporting passions, meanwhile, were revealed in his outfits for playing polo or cricket, attending Ascot, “strolling at Balmoral,” and sailing his Dragon-class boat, Bluebottle, whilst his many uniforms included “his favorite… that of the Royal Navy, in which he served actively from 1939 until 1951.”In 1966, Vogue noted that on another visit to America, Prince Philip was sporting “a deep-grey dinner jacket with deeper grey lapels to one party, a subtly striped one to the next.” That month, a banquet for the Prince “drew fifteen hundred New Yorkers to the Americana Hotel,” including C.Z. Guest, who sat on his left, and the entertainment ran the gamut from Ethel Merman to Edward Villela and Patricia McBride of the New York City Ballet and the chorines of the Latin Quarter. The Prince, who had a famously roving eye, might have been entertained. During this trip, Vogue noted that “After meeting him, an American woman of notable sophistication said ‘“I felt like Ethel Merman in Annie Get Your Gun: I gawped.’” On that same trip, the Prince “had flown, often taking control of the Royal Family plane himself, across the continent, to become, for charity, the world’s top royal barnstormer,” raising nearly a million dollars in the process—primarily for the Variety Clubs International, which helped underprivileged children.When the prince met Sir Edmund Hillary—who, together with his Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, became the first climbers confirmed to have scaled Mount Everest—three days before the Queen’s June 1953 coronation, the prince told him that “The Queen and I thought we knew something of endurance.”Selecting a pair of pants that feels worthy of such a special occasion requires a bit of strategy. A wedding look should be extra ordinary, after all. Look for options in those elevated fabrics that give bridal gowns their magic—a duchess satin or a luxurious taffeta. Secondly, don’t forget about the trimmings. Christopher Kane’s crystal-embellished pants and blazers and those feather-adorned sets by 16Arlington are just as glamorous as any gown. And do play with proportions—have fun pairing trousers with a micro-mini dress or a maxi-length camisole.For a socially-distanced ceremony or digital Zoom wedding, here are 10 elegant wedding pants and suits for the very big day. Product detail: Suitable for Women/Men/Girl/Boy, Fashion 3D digital print drawstring hoodies, long sleeve with big pocket front. 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Click here to buy this shirt: Torn Between Eating A Snack And Being A Snack T-Shirt Searching for your next binge-worthy show to watch during what feels like a never-ending pandemic? Look no further: The Big Day is just the escapism we all need right now. The series, produced by Conde Nast India, spotlights modern Indian couples, and takes a deep dive into the multi-billion dollar Indian wedding industry, giving the audience the ability to be part of all the action during a time when most of us have barely left our houses, let alone attended any kind of social engagement. Focusing on six extravagant Indian weddings that take place across the globe in a pre-COVID world, the trailer, which was released on Monday, is a kaleidoscope of vibrant colors, florals, over the top settings, and one-of-a-kind bridal looks, all dream Pinterest board-worthy. The show, which is divided into two “collections” of three episodes, the first set premiering on Valentine’s Day, shines a spotlight on the creatives and vendors who make putting together a next-level extravaganza possible, and gives the opportunity for the couples to share what’s most important to them along the way—whether it’s planning a truly sustainable wedding, or a desire to buck tradition. Count on love, courtship, personal struggles, and a dash of family drama taking center stage as these couples create their version of happily ever after.The Big Day will start streaming on Netflix on February 14th. This actor-writer pair made waves at the 2021 Oscars when Ahmed stopped to fix Mirza’s hair, and their meet-cute was no less romantic: the two met at the same table in a coffee shop. As Ahmed recalled on The Tonight Show, “We were both jostling over the same laptop plug points.” A secret pandemic wedding followed: “We did it in a backyard, which is nice in lots of ways,” Ahmed revealed. “And I think the nicest thing about it was you didn’t have 500 aunties hanging around you, pinching your cheeks.”You might expect one of Hollywood’s greatest living actresses to have a spouse similarly high up in the entertainment industry, but that’s not the case for Meryl Streep; her husband, Don Gummer, is a sculptor, and the pair have four children together. “First, I’m going to thank Don, because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech they play him out with the music, and I want him to know that everything I value most in our lives, you’ve given me,” Streep said in 2012, as she accepted the best-actress Oscar for her role in The Iron Lady.Sykes met her wife, French businesswoman Alex Niedbalski, on a ferry to Fire Island, where Niedbalski was deep in conversation with a young child. “Something really said to me—like, audibly—‘Wow, that’s what you need, Wanda,’” Sykes told The Guardian in 2018. The two have been married for over a decade, and are now parents to twins, Olivia Lou and Lucas Claude.Damon met Barroso, then a bartender at Miami’s Crobar, when he was in town filming Stuck On You. After a long day of shooting, some crew members invited Damon to get a drink. “They said, ‘Come on,’ and kind of dragged me along,” Damon told Ellen DeGeneres in 2011. “I literally saw her across a crowded room and eight years and four kids later, that’s my life. I don’t know how else our paths would have crossed if that didn’t happen.” The moral of the story? “When you’re tired, suck it up and go to the bar and you might meet your wife,” says Damon. The couple renewed their marriage vows in April 2013 with a small sunset ceremony in St. Lucia.Stewart met then–veterinary technician McShane on a blind date at a Mexican restaurant in 1996, just one month after Stewart was fired from his show on MTV. “It’s a fairy tale from my end,” McShane later told Oprah. “I had just gotten out of a seven-year relationship. I was depressed, and my friends were trying to set me up all the time. After a bad date, they’d ask, ‘What are you looking for?’ I had discovered The Jon Stewart Show, so I said, ‘Someone funny and sweet, like Jon Stewart.’” As fate would have it, McShane’s roommate at the time was working as a production assistant on Wishful Thinking and played matchmaker when Stewart stopped by the set. In February 1999, Stewart proposed to McShane through The New York Times, having enlisted the newspaper’s crossword puzzle editor for help (among the clues specific to the couple? The answers to “Valentine’s Day Request” and “Recipient of the Request” were “Will You Marry Me” and “Tracey”).Hathaway met Shulman, an actor-slash-jewelry-designer, at the Palm Springs Film Festival in 2008, through a mutual friend. Their chemistry was so apparent that Hathaway told her pal: I’m going to marry that man. “I think he thought I was a little nuts, which I am a bit, but I’m also nice,” Hathaway has said. “I knew from the second I met him that he was the love of my life.” While Shulman’s acting career hasn’t mirrored the same success as his wife’s, aside from a part in the 2015 Meryl Streep dramedy, Ricki and the Flash and producing Song One, which Hathaway also starred in, he has a jewelry line called James Banks. He even helped design Hathaway’s ethically sourced, six-carat diamond engagement ring when he proposed in 2011.These stunning celebrity engagement rings prove that a diamond—if not a marriage—is forever. But engagement rings haven’t always been all about the diamond: Roman brides were given a gold ring to wear in public and an iron ring to wear at home. In the 1700s, simple poesy rings were popular in Europe, while in New England, Puritan men—shunning frivolous rings—were thought to have given thimbles to their betrothed (though women often cut off the tops and wore them as rings anyway). Fast-forward to 1947 and De Beers’s famous slogan, “A diamond is forever.” The rest is history. Now we have everything from Elizabeth Taylor’s 33-carat diamond from Richard Burton (though it was just a gift, not an engagement bauble) to Meghan Markle’s ring with stones from Princess Diana’s private collection, to Hailey Bieber’s sparkling oval from Justin. Below, ring inspiration galore from some of the dazzling gems sported by stars, royalty, and socialites.Sklar was a newlywed at the Reebok gym on the Upper West Side, wearing headphones and filling a water bottle when she met Seinfeld. “I was going through a difficult time, and I was approached by Jerry Seinfeld and he attempted to make me laugh, and I was really not interested in being entertained at that moment,” Sklar has said. “He came around again and said something funny, and I actually had to laugh.” At the time, Sklar was a PR executive for Tommy Hilfiger and had just married Eric Nederlander, the son of theater magnate Robert Nederlander, two months earlier. (When they were wed, guests’ invitations were styled after Playbills and indicated Sklar was “making her Broadway debut.”) Soon after meeting Seinfeld, Sklar broke things off with her marriage and became engaged to Seinfeld a year later, after he proposed at Soho’s Balthazar.When it comes to seeking out the very best engagement rings, even the most radical, non-conforming couples are captivated. While some wedding traditions have been gleefully thrown into the dustbin of history—I mean, who can even imagine promising to “obey” in their vows anymore?—the desire for the very best engagement ring endures.Whether your ceremony is a barefoot beach affair or a blowout in a hotel ballroom, the best engagement ring you have ever imagined will shine from the best manicured finger you’ve ever flaunted on what is meant to be the best day of your life. (Okay, let’s say one of the five best days of your life—since surely the birth of a child, or an amazing job promotion, counts too?)What makes an engagement ring best? It may seem obvious, but it’s the one that reflects your own distinct personality, that speaks directly to your soul—the one you’ve always dreamed of (maybe as much as you’ve dreamed up a dreamy partner.) It could be a classic version, with a gorgeous big stone plopped upon a platinum band; it could be a slightly quirkier iteration of an emerald, princess, marquis, or cushion cut! It could be a diamond-studded band doing double duty as engagement-ring-and-wedding-band-in-one; or it could be something totally wild, totally nutty, that speaks to the two of you in a language only you two understand.If, right about now, you are feeling overwhelmed by this vast plethora of choices, in every price point, in every metal, there is an enormous variety of good, better, and best engagement rings out there. Would it help if you knew a little history of the best engagement rings?It all began, at least allegedly, in 1477, when Archduke Maximilian of Austria commissioned the very first diamond engagement ring for his intended, Mary of Burgundy. Members of the European nobility soon copied his idea. Still, the notion of a diamond engagement ring was far out of reach for most people, at least until the Victorian era, when a burgeoning middle class had the buying power for such trifles. (If you couldn’t afford a real diamond, you could have one of paste!)Of course, the most revered engagement rings in history were made of the finest materials. Napoleon gave Josephine a ring meant to evoke two teardrops in sapphire and diamond to symbolize their two hearts; Queen Victoria opted for a snake ring, an unconventional choice even if it was accented with a large emerald, rubies, and diamonds. Audrey Hepburn brandished a trio of studded bands; Jackie Kennedy rocked an emerald. And Lady Diana Spencer’s famous engagement ring consisted of 14 diamonds surrounding that incredible 12-carat oval blue Ceylon sapphire, set in 18-karat white gold. (Kate Middleton has it now.)If we learn anything from these lessons in jewelry lore, it is this—there is no one “best engagement ring.” Whether you opt for a classic diamond, a traditional version with a twist, a vintage-inspired design, a dramatic all-in-one band, or something unexpected and truly wild, your ring will be as glorious, and, we hope, as long-lived as the relationship it celebrates.These beautiful styles have stood the test of time.These studded lovelies combine the beauty of an engagement ring with the grandeur of a wedding band.These enduring styles have been reinterpreted with brilliant new design details.The glories of decades past are embodied in these special creations.Who says your engagement ring has to color within the lines?The Oscar-winning actress first crossed paths with the talent agent at a friend’s party when a drunk guest was hitting on her and Toth intervened. “He was like, [slurring, scowling, pointing finger in her face] ‘You don’t know me,’ ” Witherspoon recalled in a 2012 interview. “Jim came over and said, ‘Please excuse my friend. He’s just broken up with someone.’ ” Witherspoon and Toth hit it off and were married the next year. Since then, Toth has continued his career as an agent at the Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles, where he has represented everyone from Scarlett Johansson to Robert Downey Jr. and Matthew McConaughey.Throwing rice, jumping the broom, wearing something blue—these are just some of the traditions that help to make your wedding ceremony feel unlike any other day of your life. If you’re leaning towards “something blue,” there are so many ways to incorporate the English custom into your wedding festivities. But finding the perfect blue item—the color is thought to symbolize love and fidelity—requires some strategy.Perhaps a light coat of Chanel’s Le Vernis will look lovely on your nails. Or follow Carrie Bradshaw’s lead and dawn a feathery headpiece with your wedding dress—Emilio Pucci just released a sweet quill headband that’s guaranteed to be a showstopper. If a large plume doesn’t feel right for you, grab a fringe-covered bag to carry around the reception. Take a closer look and discover more wedding tradition-worthy items that will have you feeling blue in the best possible way.Spend the morning enjoying breakfast in a pretty sleep dress. The ruffle sleeves and shirred neckline on this Lake Pajama gown will also look absolutely lovely in your behind-the-scenes pictures.Reach for a pastel hue to paint your finger or toenails on the special day. The blue tones in this Chanel lacquer will make a beautiful partner to your ring.Make every detail of your outfit count, including what’s underneath the dress, like with a lace-embellished, beaded bra by Agent Provocateur.Remind guests of what will be served with floral-trimmed menus printed on lovely tactile Mohawk paper.Get ready for a special toast and enjoy your favorite drink in a beautiful handcrafted Murano drinkware trimmed in a delightful shade of blue, like this set from LagunaB.While you’re getting your hair and makeup done, throw on La Vie Style Houses’s icy floral-jacquard kaftan over your pajamas.Document the moment by writing your thoughts and feelings in a beautiful Smythson notebook. Or use it to jot down important details for the big day.When it comes to wedding day heels, sometimes more is more. This pair from Mach & Mach has all of the bells and whistles, from glittered leather to crystal-covered bows.The ring on your finger isn’t the only piece of jewelry that matters. Bring on the ritz and glitz with a sparkling pair of blue topaz hoops like these from Mateo.The wedding headband is always a lovely choice for modern brides. Top off your look with a dramatic headpiece covered in feathers like this option from Emilio Pucci.Make sure your rings are safe and stylishly stored away in a velvet cushioned box.Prepare for the long day ahead with a fragrance that won’t fade away too quickly. This blue bottle, Armani Beauty’s Ocean di Gioia, is perfect with notes of sweet sparkling pear and water jasmine balanced by earthy sandalwood.Keep this fresh bunch from UrbanStems on display in your dressing room, or carry it down the aisle for an enchanting, unique spray.Have fun by wrapping a playful feather-covered bag around your wrist, like this one from Marques’ Almeida. It’ll come in handy in case guests hand you any cards at the reception.Light a pair of magical candles to set the mood ambiance in the room where you’re getting dressed.Surprise! Chloë Sevigny revealed earlier today that she married the father to her 10-month-old son, art dealer Siniša Mačković, in a secret ceremony last March. While there had been plenty of speculation after the Oscar-nominated actor was spotted out and about wearing a wedding band last summer, Sevigny chose to celebrate the one-year anniversary of their nuptials with a throwback post on Instagram, adding a short and sweet caption beginning: “Married on a Monday.”It was a charmingly casual way to announce the news, but then, Sevigny has always played by her own rules. In keeping with her eclectic eye for fashion, Sevigny chose to wear a simple, figure-hugging black dress for the big day with matching black tights and pistol boots. The finishing touch? Well, even a bride who wears black needs a veil. With all of Sevigny’s inimitable, offbeat take on fashion shining through, it was laid-back bridal style done right. Mačković also cut a stylish figure in a black suit with impeccably cut wide-leg trousers, a pair of T-bar chunky soled shoes, and a sprig of baby’s breath attached to his lapel to match Sevigny’s bouquet. A belated congratulations to the happy couple! Novelist and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott—the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and the third-wealthiest woman in the world—has married Seattle-based schoolteacher Dan Jewett. Most know the story by now: Scott was Amazon’s first employee, helping to develop the company’s name, business plan, and even shipping early orders out of the couple’s garage. Eventually, she took a less-involved role in the business, preferring to focus on raising her four children and furthering her literary career. Twenty-five years of marriage later, Bezos and Scott announced they were splitting up in January 2019. That April, they reached a settlement allowing Scott to keep a 4% stake in Amazon, valued at $38.3 billion. Since then, Scott has become a committed philanthropist, detailing how she donated nearly $4.2 billion to 384 organizations in a Medium post.Scott’s commitment to giving is what led to the emergence of the news of her marriage to Jewett and the Wall Street Journal breaking the story. Jewett added his name to Scott’s Giving Pledge web page on Saturday. The campaign—started by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates in 2010—calls upon the wealthiest families in America to donate the majority of their wealth to philanthropies. Scott made her commitment to the pledge in May 2019, soon after her divorce from Bezos. “It is strange to be writing a letter indicating I plan to give away the majority of my wealth during my lifetime, as I have never sought to gather the kind of wealth required to feel like saying such a thing would have particular meaning,” Jewett wrote on the Giving Pledge website. “I have been a teacher for the majority of my life, as well as a grateful student of the generosity of those around me,” he continued. “This has meant doing my best to follow their example by passing on resources of all kinds—from time, to energy, to material possessions—when I have had them to give.” Jewett also referenced his recent marriage and new wife, noting, “And now, in a stroke of happy coincidence, I am married to one of the most generous and kind people I know—and joining her in a commitment to pass on an enormous financial wealth to serve others.” He goes on to say: “As others writing these letters have indicated in some form or another, I am sure this pledge will benefit me as much as it benefits anyone else served by it. I look forward to the growth and learning I have ahead as part of this undertaking with MacKenzie.”For her part, Scott has updated her author page on the Amazon website to read: “She lives in Seattle with her four children and her husband, Dan.” H.R.H. Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, has died at the age of 99 after a lifetime of service—and controversy. The news was confirmed by representatives of the Royal Family earlier today, adding that the announcement was made “with deep sorrow” and that the prince passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle.Prince Philip, noted Vogue in 1961, “Seems more completely the ideal of the American hero than most American heroes. He has drive, and opinion, and courage, and humor robust enough for Mississippi riverboats or the Royal Navy.”The prince was born on June 10 in 1921 on the kitchen table of Mon Repos, his family’s estate on Corfu. He made his debut in Vogue in 1947 when the magazine heralded the engagement of then-H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth to then-Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, R.N., the former Prince Philip of Greece. The couple, who shared a great-great-grandmother in Queen Victoria, had been brought together by the prince’s wily uncle Lord Mountbatten of Burma, the last Viceroy of India and his nephew’s guardian since the boy was eight, when the young prince’s parents had been driven into exile from Greece.The prince’s father, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was the seventh child and fourth son of King George I of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia. His mother was Princess Alice of Battenberg, a fascinating and troubled woman who in later life founded a nursing order of Greek Orthodox nuns (and was posthumously honored by Israel for having sheltered a Jewish family in Athens during the Second World War). “If anything, I’ve thought of myself as Scandinavian,” Prince Philip told Fiammetta Rocco, one of several biographers of his complicated family tree. “Particularly Danish. We spoke English at home. The others learned Greek. I could understand a certain amount of it. But then the [conversation] would go into French. Then it went into German, on occasion, because we had German cousins. If you couldn’t think of a word in one language, you tended to go off in another.” Communication with his mother was primarily in sign language, as she became almost completely deaf after contracting German measles at the age of four.Prince Philip’s royal parents had been forced to leave Greece when Prince Andrew’s elder brother King Constantine—whose wife, Sophia of Prussia, was a sister of Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II—had followed an unpopular policy of neutrality during the First World War.In exile, Prince Andrew and Princess Alice led separate lives, with the prince finding consolation at the gambling tables—soon taking up with a hard-spending mistress—whilst his estranged wife founded her nursing order.Their young son Prince Philip, meanwhile, who was purportedly carried in an orange crate onto the British Royal Navy gunboat that had been sent to Corfu to rescue the family, was subsequently dispatched to the care of Lord Mountbatten—though there was something of a tug of war between the prince’s British and German relatives: He was sent first to a school in Germany established by the German Jewish educator Kurt Hahn, and thence to Gordonstoun, the spartan Scottish boarding school created by Hahn after he had fled Nazi Germany. Among the principles of Hahn’s “rugged school,” as Vogue noted in a 1962 story, was “to free the sons of the rich and powerful from the enervating sense of privilege… This freedom means getting up at 7 am, cold showers, bedmaking, shoe polishing, and a fast jog around the grounds before breakfast … school afternoons are divided between such manual work as building pigsties, and chopping wood, and the more entertaining pursuits of sailing, rugger, fire brigade duty, and music sessions with boys playing bagpipes and clarinets.” (Perhaps unsurprisingly, the creatively minded Prince of Wales did not share his father’s enthusiasm for Gordonstoun’s spartan principles—or cherish happy memories of his time spent there.) Apparently neither Lord Mountbatten nor Prince Philip’s other designated guardian, George Milford Haven, ever visited him during his years at school. His entire childhood, actually, appears to have been one of displacement and varying levels of abandonment that shaped his resilience—but with a sense of family dynamics and interpersonal relationships perhaps more firmly rooted in the Victorian age than his own (and certainly at odds with his enthusiastic embrace of modernity and his forward thinking in other areas of his life).In 1938, Philip entered the Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, where he won the King’s Dirk as the best cadet of the year. (As a midshipman on various cruisers and battleships, he was mentioned in dispatches and subsequently named second in command on the destroyer Wallace.) It was at Dartmouth where he first met the young Princess Elizabeth, then 13, and her sister Princess Margaret when they came to visit. The former was struck by the young man whom Vogue’s writer, Ray Livingstone Murphy (a biographer of Lord Mountbatten), considered “tall, blonde, with the shoulders of an athlete, a firm chin, and frank eyes,” who nevertheless “lacked the regularity of feature that might lay him open to the invidious accusation of being too good looking.” The young princess and the fashion lieutenant began to correspond with one another, she kept his photograph on her desk, and romance eventually bloomed.The couple were wed on November 20, 1947. “The Wedding became a pageant to refresh the inner eye,” noted Vogue in the January 1948 issue, “to expand the historical imagination. At its center were two young people, surrounded by the full resources of the church and royal state—gold plate on the high altar, trumpeters, glass coaches, tiaras, Household Cavalry, medieval standards.” British Vogue surrendered their assigned press seat to the Polish-born expressionist painter Feliks Topolski, who had lately distinguished himself as an official war artist, and American Vogue shared his wonderfully evocative lightning sketches of the scene—capturing, in his impressionist brushstrokes, such recognizable figures as Princess Elizabeth’s formidable grandmother, the dowager Queen Mary, in one of her distinctive toque hats.“Everybody knows,” wrote the historian A. L. Rowse in Vogue, “that the marriage of Elizabeth and Philip was a love match like that of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort.” Queen Victoria’s consort, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, capitalized on his outsider status to transform British taste, leaving a permanent mark on his adopted country’s cultural landscape. He was the driving force, for instance, behind such initiatives as the Great Exhibition of 1851, and gave his attention and name to the future Victoria & Albert Museum and the Royal Albert Hall. Prince Philip’s artistic tastes were more representative of the middlebrow tastes of his adopted country, with his personal art collection, for instance, running to photorealist studies of battleships on choppy seas and wildlife in the African bush.For Prince Philip, however, his role was clear: to support his wife and stabilize the crown. “He told me the first day he offered me my job,” Michael Parker, the prince’s first private secretary, related to his feisty biographer Fiammetta Rocco, “that his job—first, second, and last—was never to let her down.”Six years after the wedding, in the middle of a royal tour of Africa, India, and Australia, this role became preeminent when the princess’s father, the self-effacing King George VI, died at the age of 56 of coronary thrombosis (he had been a heavy smoker throughout his adult life) and his eldest daughter ascended to the throne. For Prince Philip, who had finally discovered the stability of family life and was enjoying the home that the young couple had created together at Clarence House, it must have been another profound upheaval in a young life already defined by them. He also had to give up his beloved naval career, a loss that he can only have felt keenly. Instead, he dedicated himself to public service: Over the ensuing decades he became the diligent patron, president, or member of more than 780 organizations, and by the time he retired from official duties in 2017 at the age of 96, he had completed a giddying 22,219 solo engagements—and, of course, many more with his wife.At the coronation, the royal couple’s young children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, were present (Princes Andrew and Edward would follow in the subsequent decade), but as at the prince’s wedding, his mother Princess Alice of Battenberg was the only other member of his family to have been invited. His father had died in Monte Carlo in 1944, and his beloved older sister, Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, had died in a plane crash before the war—but his three surviving older sisters Princess Margarita, Princess Theodora, and Princess Sophie were all married to German officers (Sophie’s husband, Prince Christophe of Hesse, was an Oberführer in the Nazi SS, while Margarita’s husband Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, had been involved in the abortive attempt on Adolf Hitler’s life in July of 1944), and in postwar Britain, anti-German sentiment still ran high.Prince Philip had proposed that his friend, the photographer known professionally as Baron (Sterling Henry Nahum), take the official coronation photographs—a request that was apparently overridden by the Queen Mother, as her friend Cecil Beaton took those memorable images. Beaton was in Westminster Abbey to record and sketch his impressions of the coronation for Vogue, and noted “the simple beauty of the Duke of Edinburgh’s mother in her nun’s grey drapery.”The coronation program, newly written in ersatz antiquated prose, included Philip’s oath that he would be his wife’s “liegeman of life and limb.” A proud man, he apparently felt his status as the consort of a monarch keenly. When President Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy visited Buckingham Palace, he confided to the First Lady’s attractive sister Lee Radziwill (as the palace did not recognize her husband’s princely Polish title), “You are just like me—we both have to walk several paces behind her.”On the royal couple’s American visit in the winter of 1957, it was the Queen who drew all attention. The prince was her “handsome consort.” As the Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen wrote in Vogue, “what has to be the extent of her dedication, only she knows. Who can compute the weight of the crown?” Whilst HM The Queen has spent her life pointedly avoiding the faintest whiff of controversy in her public pronouncements and observations, though, her husband’s off the cuff remarks could be provocative. In 2000, soon after Queen Elizabeth had officially opened a British Embassy in Berlin, for instance—a project that had cost 18 million pounds—the Prince described it as a “vast waste of space,” and a few years later, at the age of 90, asked a group at a community center who they were “sponging off.” The prince did not suffer fools gladly, and to political correctness he was a stranger. His often excruciating gaffes came to define his public persona as much as his regimental comportment and stoicism, and often veered very far from such anodyne comments as the “Have you come far?” with which the Queen customarily greets her subjects. When introduced to a Scottish driving instructor, for instance, he offered the question, “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” To a British student who had recently returned from trekking in Papua New Guinea, he enquired, “You managed not to get eaten then?”In 1961, Norman Parkinson photographed the Duke of Edinburgh in Tobago especially for Vogue whilst the Queen filmed the proceedings. In the accompanying text, we noted that his “attractions include a Viking visage that combines faint amusement with faint aloofness… In Britain,” Vogue continued, “the Duke of Edinburgh inspires admiration and some uneasiness.” A British observer at the time noted, for instance, that “He is a caged lion, bound about by convention, but it is always exciting to hear him speak… He has enormous energy, and the quality called, in school reports, application. He believes in—has confidence in—personal initiative.” That spirit was encapsulated in The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. Founded by the Prince in 1956 and inspired by Kurt Hahn’s teachings, the award celebrated the self-motivated achievements of teenagers and young adults in various fields from community volunteering to planning adventurous journeys.“If the crown is going to continue to fulfill its function,” Prince Philip, then Lieutenant Mountbatten, told Mr. Murphy in 1947, “it must have greater contact with what is going on around it. Today, changes are being made so fast that it is difficult for royalty, sheltered as it must be, to keep track of them.”Prince Philip’s attempts to modernize royalty, however, were not always resoundingly successful. It was on his initiative, for instance, that in 1969 the BBC was invited to make a documentary about the royal family. The resulting program demystified the storied institution by revealing something of the sheer ordinariness of the extraordinary family and its sometimes uneasy interpersonal dynamics. (The documentary was subsequently suppressed and has not been aired since 1972.)Although he would probably have balked at the suggestion, Prince Philip had a rigorous sense of personal style. (His suits were tailored by John N Kent, his shirts made by Stephens Brothers, and his shoes by John Lobb.) In 1957, Vogue celebrated the restrained establishment style of H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh—“sailor, scientist, sportsman”—with a double-page spread of eighteen images that revealed the range of clothing required for a lifestyle that included such formal duties as “opening the Holme sluices and Flood Protection Scheme, Nottingham”; “inspecting some visiting Canadian Mounties”; “inspecting a rubber plantation in Malaya”; and “attending the Royal Command Performance.” The Prince’s sporting passions, meanwhile, were revealed in his outfits for playing polo or cricket, attending Ascot, “strolling at Balmoral,” and sailing his Dragon-class boat, Bluebottle, whilst his many uniforms included “his favorite… that of the Royal Navy, in which he served actively from 1939 until 1951.”In 1966, Vogue noted that on another visit to America, Prince Philip was sporting “a deep-grey dinner jacket with deeper grey lapels to one party, a subtly striped one to the next.” That month, a banquet for the Prince “drew fifteen hundred New Yorkers to the Americana Hotel,” including C.Z. Guest, who sat on his left, and the entertainment ran the gamut from Ethel Merman to Edward Villela and Patricia McBride of the New York City Ballet and the chorines of the Latin Quarter. The Prince, who had a famously roving eye, might have been entertained. During this trip, Vogue noted that “After meeting him, an American woman of notable sophistication said ‘“I felt like Ethel Merman in Annie Get Your Gun: I gawped.’” On that same trip, the Prince “had flown, often taking control of the Royal Family plane himself, across the continent, to become, for charity, the world’s top royal barnstormer,” raising nearly a million dollars in the process—primarily for the Variety Clubs International, which helped underprivileged children.When the prince met Sir Edmund Hillary—who, together with his Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, became the first climbers confirmed to have scaled Mount Everest—three days before the Queen’s June 1953 coronation, the prince told him that “The Queen and I thought we knew something of endurance.”Selecting a pair of pants that feels worthy of such a special occasion requires a bit of strategy. A wedding look should be extra ordinary, after all. Look for options in those elevated fabrics that give bridal gowns their magic—a duchess satin or a luxurious taffeta. Secondly, don’t forget about the trimmings. Christopher Kane’s crystal-embellished pants and blazers and those feather-adorned sets by 16Arlington are just as glamorous as any gown. And do play with proportions—have fun pairing trousers with a micro-mini dress or a maxi-length camisole.For a socially-distanced ceremony or digital Zoom wedding, here are 10 elegant wedding pants and suits for the very big day. Product detail: Suitable for Women/Men/Girl/Boy, Fashion 3D digital print drawstring hoodies, long sleeve with big pocket front. 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