John and Frances Canning received a huge wedding day surprise Friday, March 23, 2012, when the Queen came to their wedding.
When engaged couple John and Frances Canning sent a wedding invitation to the Queen, they never thought she would actually come.
When they found out that the Queen would be at the Manchester town hall the same day of their wedding, they sent an invitation but received a nice letter from a lady-in-waiting saying that the Queen would be unable to attend. Little did they know that the Palace made behind the scenes arrangements for Her Majesty to make a personal visit to congratulate the newlyweds.
“When we had our ceremony, the staff asked us to wait for a moment in the corridor and just a few minutes later the Queen arrived. She knew both our names and apparently we had been especially added to her rota,” the groom told the Manchester Evening News.
The Queen and Prince Philip spent a few minutes wishing the couple well and taking photographs. “It was a lovely present from them to us, one of the best presents you could wish for,” John told the BBC.
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