UK: FIREWORKS AND BONFIRES SALUTE PRINCE CHARLES AND LADY DIANA SPENCER ON THE EVE OF THEIR WEDDING

Record ID: 1230847

  • Title: UK: FIREWORKS AND BONFIRES SALUTE PRINCE CHARLES AND LADY DIANA SPENCER ON THE EVE OF THEIR WEDDING
  • Date: 28th July 1981
  • Summary: 1. CU Torch applied to fuse, GV beacon lights. (3 SHOTS) 0.33 2. SCU Charles on left, looking on. 0.41 3. GV beacon burning. 0.48 4. CU Queen, ZOOM Prince Phillip. 0.56 5. GV Guns salute. (2 SHOTS) 1.01 6. GV Band marches. 1.09 7. GV PAN OF Fireworks. 1.25 8. GV Fireworks. (5 SHOTS) 2.00 Initials JS/ Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: LONDON, UK
  • Country: United Kingdom
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  • Story Text:A fireworks display in Hyde Park in London, and a chain of bonfires across the length and breadth of Britain saluted Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer on the eve of their marriage. Just a few hours before their wedding on Wednesday (29 July) fireworks lit the sky above London on Tuesday night, in a spectacular curtain-raiser to the most public marriage ceremony over held. SYNOPSIS: Although the event started ten minutes late, there was no delay once Prince Charles set alight to the fuse, which started the first of the beacons burning. Several hundred thousand people had packed Hyde Park, in the centre of London to see the first beacon burn, and the band performance and fireworks display that followed it. The 101 beacons burnt across Britain to the Scottish Isles, west to Land's End and east to Dover. As the first of the beacons burnt brilliantly the torches were already being put to the other beacons, that would eventually cross all of Britain in a web of fire and light. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip attended the function. There was a 21-gun salute before the bands appeared. Then, to the strains of the band, the first of nearly 12,000 fireworks went up, illuminating a specially-built pyrotechnic palace ... a reproduction of one built 250 years ago by George the Second. And as the fireworks display illuminated the night sky, London and the world prepared for the Wedding Day that would follow, when the heir to the British throne would marry his future queen.
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