Customer Reviews

ABC News Classics Royal Wedding: Prince Charles and Lady Diana

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I was so excited to watch this when it arrived. I loved the actual wedding back in 1981--great music, great scenes of London, a really beautiful event. This dvd chops out so much of what I was looking forward to. It just barely shows the highlights, has way too much commentary from Barbara Walters and left me feeling cheated and disappointed. It's better than having no reminder at all of the royal wedding, but I'm now off to eBay to see if anyone has the original BBC video. I'm not a complainer or hard to please, so sorry to be negative.

I stayed up all night when I was 13 to watch this wedding live on television. Recently, I began a search for coverage of the wedding as the 10th anniversary of Diana's death approached. This dvd was suggested to me and I was thrilled to find it. It does have wonderful coverage of the event and covers all the high notes. If what you are looking for is a reminder of the beauty and pagentry of this "wedding of the century", this dvd will be a wonderful addition to your collection. However, for a fan such as myself on whose teenage brain the wedding made such an impact, I found that some of the strategic cuts on the coverage eliminated things that I was looking forward to seeing again.

If you are looking for the highlights of the Royal wedding of HRH the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer, then this is it! This shows highlights of the wedding, not the entire uncut wedding. I enjoyed the commentary of Peter Jennings and Barbara Walters. It is a time capsule as to 1981.

I wanted the entire, uncut wedding, not a news broadcast. This is interesting for fans of Diana, but disappointing to those of us who remember that day and would like to remember it in its entirety.

This DVD of Charles and Diana's wedding was okay; it did include some news footage from the day that I hadn't seen before. I was looking for a comprehensive DVD of the wedding with every moment, which only seems to be available on ebay in its original form; I can't find a comprehensive copy that was produced later. I guess not many people are interested in that kind of thing these days!
This DVD was basically highlights, which I knew before I bought it because I looked at the length. This is an excellent, inexpensive look at the wedding for anyone who wants to see the main points.

THIS IS TRUELY A GREAT VIDEO OF THE WEDDING FOR PRINCE CHARLES AND LADY DIANA SPENCER. WATCHING THIS VIDEO TAKES ME BACK TO THAT GLORIOUS DAY THAT SHY DI CAPTIVATED THE WORLD. I WAS ALWAYS SORRY THAT I NEVER TAPED THE WEDDING THAT DAY ON MY VCR. I'VE BEEN BIDDING ON VIDEOS OF THE ROYAL WEDDING ON EBAY. THE PRICES RANGE FROM $30.00 TO $130.00 SO WHEN ABC NEWS CAME OUT WITH THIS VIDEO I WAS THRILLED. IF YOU BUY THIS VIDEO YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED. WATCHING THIS VIDEO, LOOKING AT A COUPLE WHO TRUELY LOOKED IN LOVE(AT THAT TIME ANYWAY)YOU CAN SEE HOW PRINCESS DIANA LOOKED EVERY BIT THE FAIRYTALE. MAKING HER FAMOUS MISTAKE OF SAYING PHILIP CHARLES ARTHUR GEORGE, INSTEAD OF CHARLES PHILIP ARTHUR GEORGE. WATCHING A NERVOUS BRIDE AT HER WEDDING AND FEELING LIKE YOU WERE FRIEND SHARING HER HAPPY DAY.I COULDN'T IMAGINE ANYONE NOT LIKING THIS VIDEO. IF YOU ARE A PRINCESS DIANA FAN YOU'LL WANT THIS VIDEO OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS ICON, NOT TO MENTION ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS DAYS IN HISTORY. JUST IMAGINE A VIDEO OF HISTORY THAT'S ENJOYABLE TO WATCH.

This dvd was very infrmative, it brought me back to that time of hope and inocence the the young Diana on her wedding day. ABC did this very tastefully and well documented. Its a best of...but I will always treasure it. Highly recommended

This is a great way to look back at "The Wedding Of The Century". A must for any Diana fan...

I WAS NOT SO HAPPY WITH THIS DVD. NOT ENOUGH FOOTAGE OF THE WEDDING AND THE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC. TOO MUCH OF BARBARA WALTERS.

A great addition to our DVD collections. Alway fun to have history DVD's that can be share with younger generations to come.