All The Spotlight-Stealing Bridesmaids And Page Boys From Royal Weddings Past

As the third daughter of Queen Victoria, Princess Helena married Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein on the 5th July 1866 only etchings of her bridesmaids - Lady Margaret Scott, Lady Laura Phipps, Lady Mary Wentwoth-Fitzwilliam, Lady Muriel Campbell , Lady Caroline Gordon-Lennox, Lady Albertha Hamilton, Lady Alexandrina Murray, and Lady Ernestine Edgcumbe - remain as a visual reminder of bridal party.

King George V married Queen Mary in the July of 1893.

It was on the 27th February 1919 that Queen Victoria's granddaughter Princess Patricia of Connaught wed the Hon. Alexander Ramsey and thus relinquished her title of Princess as Ramsey was considered a commoner. Their wedding was witnessed by a contingent of bridesmaids and page boys - Lady Mary Cambridge and Lady Helena Cambridge, The Princess Mary, Lady Ida Ramsay and Lady Jean Ramsay, Princess Maud of Fife, Lady May Cambridge, Princess Ingrid of Sweden, Alastair, Earl of Macduff and The Honourable Simon Ramsay

Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (better known as the Queen Mother) and the Duke of York, Prince Albert's nuptials occurred on the 26th April 1923. The couple had eight bridesmaids: Lady Mary and Lady May Cambridge, Lady Mary Thynn, Lady Katherine Hamilton, The Hon. Diamond Hardigne, The Hon. Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, The Hon Mary Elizabeth Elphinstone and Miss Betty Cator.

The Royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II0 and Prince Philip Mountbatten (Duke of Edinburgh) on the 20th November 1947 took place at Westminster Abbey, London. The bride was attended by eight bridesmaid including her younger sister Princess Margaret. The full list includes, Princess Alexandra of Kent, Lady Caroline Montagu-Douglass-Scott, Lady Mary Cambridge, Lady Elizabeth Lambert, Pamela Moutbatten (Philip's cousin), Margaret Elphinstone and Diana Bowes-Lyon. For her page boys she chose cousins Prince William of Gloucester and Prince Michael of Kent.

Most notably Princess Margaret served as one of seven bridesmaids to Sir John Colville and Lady Margaret Egerton when they wed in Westminster in 1948.

Queen Elizabeth II's lady-in-waiting, Lady Margaret Egerton married Mr John Colville, the Queen-to-be's private secretary on the 20th October 1948.

At the wedding of Lady Mary Cambridge To Peter Whitley in 1950, Lady Rosemary, Mackay Anne, Abel Smith, Robina Grosvenor and Rosea Vickers served as bridesmaids.

Princess Margaret along with her groom Anthony Armstrong Jones, Countess of Rosse, Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, the Queen Mother, Mr. Ronald Armstrong Jones and eight bridesmaids are pictured in Buckingham Palace's Throne Room on the 6th May 1960. Her bridal party included , Princess Anne, her goddaughter Marilyn Wills, her cousin's Annabel Rhodes and Lady Virginia Fitzroy as well as Sarah Lowther, Catherine Vesey, Lady Rose Nevill and Lady Angela Nevill.

When Lady Pamela Mountbatten tied the knot at Romsey Abbey in Hampshire with interior designer David Hicks on the 13th January 1960, everyone knew it would be a stylish affair. She herself has been a bridesmaid to Queen Elizabeth II, so naturally she chose Princess Anne as well as Princess Clarissa of Hesse, her god-daughter Victoria Marten, Lady Amanda Knatchbull and the Hon. Joanna Knatchbull to be her own bridesmaids.

Princess Anne (centre) along with Lady Mountbatten served as bridesmaids to Lady Pamela Mountbatten and David Hicks on 13th January 1960.

Princess Margaret and Lord Snowden married on the 6th May 1960 and kept with tradition by picking eight bridesmaids from their close family circle. The cohort were led by Princess Anne and included Marilyn Wills, Annabel Rhodes, Lady Virginia Fitzroy, Sarah Lowther, Lady Rose Nevill, and Lady Angela Nevill.

On the 14th November 1973 when Princess Anne wed Mark Phillips in front of Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Andrew, Prince Philip and the Queen Mother, her nine-year-old cousin Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones served as her only bridesmaid while Prince Edward, her brother, acted as her page boy.

Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer (Princess Diana) on the 29th July 1981 at St Paul's Cathedral in London. The pair had seven bridal attendants: Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, India Hicks, Catherine Cameron, Sarah-Jane Gaselee, Clementine Hambro. While the page boys were Lord Nicholas Windsor, the son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent and the Prince of Wales' godson Edward van Cutsem.

One glance at Sarah Ferguson's (Duchess of York) dress and it's immediately apparent that she married Prince Andrew in the 1980s - it was 23rd of July 1986, to be specific. The wedding party included a selection of flower girls and page boys: Lady Rosanagh Innes-Ker, Alice Ferguson, Laura Fellowes, Zara Philips, Andrew Ferguson, Peter Philips, Seamus Luedecke and Prince William of Wales.

Prince William served as page boy at the wedding of Camilla Dunne to Rupert Soames in 1988, and this black and white image can hardly do justice to his powder pink braces (matching the bridesmaids' gowns and head-dresses).

As a page boy at the wedding of his Uncle, Viscount Althorp (now Earl Spencer) and Victoria Lockwood, Prince Harry sported this unusual get-up (complete with wide-brimmed hat).

The Queen's niece and daughter of Princess Margaret, Lady Sarah Chatto (nee Armstrong-Jones) married Daniel Chatto in July 1994 at St Stephen Walbrook in London. The couple met on a film set, where the son-of-a-theatre agent was working as an actor and she was assisting in the wardrobe department. All three bridesmaids - her cousin Zara Phillips, her half-sister Lady Frances Armstrong-Jones and her friend Tara Noble Singh - wore Jasper Conran, just like the bride.

Two bridesmaids arrive at the wedding the Duke of Westminster's daughter Lady Tamara Grosvenor and Edward van Cutsem at Chester Cathedral on the 6th November 2004. While Prince William and Harry were ushers, Lady Viola was one of the bridesmaids.

On the 17th May 2008, the Queen's grandson Peter Phillips married Canadian management consultant Autumn Kelly at St George's Chapel, Windsor. The pair had met at the 2003 Montreal Grand Prix weeks before Kelly found out that he was Princess Anne's son. Wearing a sage green Vera Wang dress the groom's sisters, Stephanie and Zara Phillips was a bridesmaid alongside the bride's friends Jacqueline Aubie and Susannah Toynbee and her sister Jessica Kelly.

At Conongate Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotland, Zara Phillips married rugby player Mike Tindall with chief bridesmade Dolly Maude and Stephanie Phillips, Sandy Pflueger, Nell Maude, Jaz Jocelyn and Hope Balshaw attending while wearing frocks by Sue Palmer.

On the 29th April 2011 after dating for a decade, Prince William and Catherine (Nee Kate) Middleton wed and became the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. She, like her maid-of-honour, Pippa Middleton, wore McQueen dresses while their young bridesmaids (Lady Louise Windsor, Margarita Armstrong-Jones, Grace van Cutsem and Eliza Lopes) wore Nicki Macfarlane. There were two page boys: William Lowther-Pinkerton and Tom Pettifer.

Pippa Middleton (sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge) was maid-of-honour and her sister's wedding to the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, on 29th April 2011 at Westminster Abey. She was flanked at Westminster Abbey by young bridesmaids Grace van Cutsem and Eliza Lopes.

As a bridesmaid at Lady Melissa Percy and Thomas van Straubenzee's wedding on the 22nd June 2013, Chelsy Davy bumped into the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, who was an usher at the nuptials. The ceremony took place at St Michael's Church in Northumbria.