The Queen was reportedly forced to retake her wedding photos of her and Prince Philip after an awkward mishap.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, tied the knot on 20 November 1947.
The then-Princess and Philip announced their engagement on 9 July 1947 and the wedding took place just four months later at Westminster Abbey.
2,000 guests watched on as the happy couple exchanged their vows and a further 200 million tuned into the live BBC broadcast.
However, the majority of the pictures we see weren't actually taken on the day itself, because of a rather awkward error.
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Philip's friend, photographer Sterling Henry Nahum, was tasked with capturing the official pictures.
In the run-up to the wedding, he even held a dress rehearsal at Buckingham Palace, asking his partner Derrig Gibb and secretary Dinah Blaber to act as fake royals. They posed for the shots he had in mind so he could see how the images would come out.
But when the big day finally arrived, things didn't go to plan. The bride's flowers were misplaced, which meant they weren’t included in the iconic photos.
When Sterling noticed they were missing, he had to arrange to have new pictures taken.
The newlyweds had to interrupt their honeymoon to Broadlands and Birkhall on the Balmoral Estate to pose for a second collection of photos.
Royal wedding florist, David Longman, revealed the story behind this surprising turn of events during ITV documentary Invitation to the Royal Wedding.
He claimed: "If we go back to the Queen's wedding in 1947, when you look at the state photographs of all the bridesmaids and the royal guests, and there is the Queen without a bouquet. It got lost.
"So in the middle of their honeymoon they had to get dressed up again in their wedding clothes and my father had to provide another bouquet for those photos."
This mishap ended up paving the way for future royal weddings, as David revealed: "To ensure this mistake never happens again every royal bride now has two bouquets, just in case someone accidentally puts it down and forgets about it."
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