Engagment and Wedding
September 1961: The engagement of Don Juan Carlos of SPain to Princess Sophie of Greece is announced. Present at the announcement were King Paul I and Queen Frederika and their children Prince Constantine and Princess Irene and Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, Count of Barcelona and Dona Maria de las Mercedes de Borbon y Orleans, Countess of Barcelona.
14 May 1962: The glittering royal wedding of the future King and Queen of Spain in Athens, Greece. The maids of honor were Irene of Greece, Irene of the Netherlands, Alexandra of Kent, Benedikte and Anne Marie of Denmark, Anne of France, Pilar of Spain and Princess Tatiana Radziwill. The best were Prince Michael of Greece, the Duke of Aosta, don Alfonso de Bourbon and Infante Alfonso of Orleans.
Source: Seegerpress, Corbis and LIFE magazine
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