15 bizarre royal wedding mishaps that are totally true

Slipping the wedding ring on the bride’s finger is a ritual not even a royal prince would dare challenge, but what if the ring doesn’t fit? That’s what happened to Prince William during his exchange of vows with Kate Middleton. Turns out Kate had earlier had Diana’s famous engagement ring resized to fit her finger because it was slipping off. So she also had her wedding band sized smaller – a little too small – and it got stuck as William tried to put it on. But after a bit of a struggle, Prince William finally managed to slip the ring on his bride’s finger. “It has now become a subject of amusement to her and William,” notes The Daily Mail.

Princess Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg of Denmark’s wedding ceremony was delayed because she forgot to bring her bouquet with her to the church. Good thing it only took ten minutes for them to get there because that delay no doubt made Alexander Johannsmann a very nervous groom.

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There’s nothing surprising about guests getting drunk at a wedding, but when it’s the groom who is smashed, who also happens to be king, it’s another story entirely. Way back in 1795, King George IV was so drunk that after his nuptials his bride Catherine of Brunswick left him under a grate. Perhaps Catherine already knew what she was getting herself into based on meeting her betrothed for the first time at St. James Palace. “She very properly…attempted to kneel to him,” said onlooker Lord Malmesbury in his diary. “He raised her (gracefully enough) and embraced her, said barely one word, turned around, retired to a distant part of the apartment, calling me to him and said, ‘Harris, I am not well, pray get me a glass of brandy.’”

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Back in 1736, Princess Augusta was just sick about having to marry Prince Frederick, so much so that she actually vomited right after the ceremony. Prince Frederick, the eldest son and heir of King George II, wasn’t much of a charmer, and he supposedly yelled in Princess Augusta’s ear when she messed up her vows. Not to mention, the princess was said to have begged her mother, Queen Caroline, “Please don’t leave me.” The poor Danish princess was only a mere 17 years old, plus, she’d never even met her much older groom before, according to the book Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty.

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Til death do us part isn’t meant for the guests at a wedding. But according to the book A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain: England, Scotland, and Wales, when King Harthacnut, King of England from 1040 to 1042, got drunk at his pal Tovi the Proud’s wedding, he had a stroke and died right then and there.

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Although Diana looked lovely in the Spencer family tiara, the hairpiece gave the bride a pounding headache. “In the evening [after the wedding] we all went to a sort of semi-private party,” Charles Spencer, Princess Di’s brother, told Elle. “And she was there and she seemed incredibly relaxed and happy and I just remember she had a cracking headache too, because she wasn’t used to wearing a tiara all morning.”

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Source: RD.com