On This Day In 1973 ...

[ichkeria]

Princess Anne married Capt Mark Phillips on her brother's birthday.

He was the first "commoner" to marry into the Royal Family since the Queen Mother, another fifty years previously.

[The Builder]

I don't know if you ever take part in pub quizzes Ich. As a setter of the occasional quiz, I've learnt to stay clear of this kind of thing. A minefield of contention and semi-polite punch-ups.

If you want to be picky (yes I know. Life's too short etc), then there was Prince Richard of Gloucester's commoner wife. He's a grandson of George V, and cousin of the late Queen.  They married a year earlier in 1972.  😋

I'm sure Prof. P. Pedant will be along shortly to confirm.  😁

[douglas9401]

"He was the first "commoner" to marry into the Royal Family since the Queen Mother, another fifty years previously."

Lady Elizabth Bowes-Lyon. Aye, common as. 🙄

[ichkeria]

I do quizzes occasionally builder but not in pubs any more. Mobile phone cheats put paid to that but I've never experienced a punch-up.

A friend of mine ventured into a rough local pub on its quiz night and was alarmed to be accosted by the landlord asking him: "Here! Can you read?!"

On admitting that he in fact could, he had the questions thrust in his hand and asked to read them out! 

[THECORBYLOON]

What about Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones' marriage in 1960?

[Ellipsis]

I suppose it depends on the fuzzy definition of "the Royal Family"?

[The Builder]

I know what you mean Ich. The chap I work with is seriously dyslexic. He got lumbered like that once in a pub.

Lucky to get out alive  😆

[Peter Pedant]

or Edward VIII ( that was, that is) amd Mrs SImpson

you er cant get as commmon as that !

[Peter Pedant]

The chap I work with is seriously dyslexic.

oh and he thought it was Ricky Tomlinson of the Royle famly ?

[ichkeria]

It was from a BBC news report: one of those "on this day" commemorations: I assumed by "Royal Family" they meant "family of the monarch" tho it doesn't have to be that I agree.