15 Massive Royal Wedding Fails You Never Knew About

Turns out Marie Antoinette’s sumptuous wedding dress was made with incorrect measurements and didn’t fit her. Her shift was even visible from behind!

Apparently, the Duchess of Northumberland said, “the corps of her robe was too small and left quite a broad stripe of lacing and shift quite visible, which had a bad effect between two broader stripes of diamonds. She really had quite a load of jewels.”

Diana’s wedding dress is understandably one of the most iconic royal gowns out there (so puffy and ’80s!), but no one anticipated how wrinkled it would get during the carriage ride to St. Paul’s Cathedral. As you can see in this photo, the dress (and accompanying 25-foot train) was infamously rumpled.

Okay, so this wedding was never going to go well. First of all, King George IV and his wife Caroline were cousins. Second of all, they’d never met prior to their engagement, and George only agreed to marry her because he was in debt. Lovely!

Even worse, the King got so drunk during their wedding day that he had to be physically held up. He also burst out crying when no objections were made to the marriage. Oh, and Caroline said that on the wedding night George passed out in front of the fire.

This moment is more sweet than disastrous, but legend has it that a 5-year-old bridesmaid in Diana’s wedding (who, FYI, happened to be Winston Churchill’s granddaughter) tripped on her dress and started crying. Diana reportedly asked her if she’d “bumped her bottom,” which is just about the most British sentence we’ve ever heard.

Poor Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. While walking down the aisle to marry Frederick Prince of Wales, she ended up vomiting all over her wedding dress, and all over her mother-in-law. No one can really blame her, considering she was 17, had just arrived in the country, didn’t speak a word of English, and was marrying some random she’d never met.

Honestly, though, this was the best part of their wedding. Let’s be real.

When Lady Charlotte Wellesley (descendant of Queen Victoria and daughter of the Duke of Wellington) married in 2016, the wind caught her veil and lifted it sky high. She didn’t seem too bothered, though, and laughed it off shortly after.