GREAT BRITAIN: The Last Weekend

In crisp sunshine and under cloudless skies, London readied itself for the much wrangled-over wedding of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones.

While the young couple spent their last unmarried weekend at the Royal Lodge in Windsor with the Queen and Prince Philip, workmen completed the 60-foot arch of roses through which the procession will pass. The 2,500 troops who will line the march rehearsed their duties and boned up on the eleven pages of orders of the day. Just opposite Westminster Abbey rose tier on tier of seats for those willing to pay $15 to $75 for a...

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