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Last week, I enjoyed the 13th season of Call the Midwife. Tina liked the complicated relationships and story in The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue.

As wedding season approaches, our local PBS station replayed the two-episode series from 2019 called Victoria and Albert: The Wedding. Host Lucy Worsley takes us through the process that the BBC used to re-stage the wedding to be as accurate as possible to the event from February 1840.

Many of today’s wedding traditions, particularly the white bridal gown, stem from this wedding. The show also explains how the wedding of the young queen and her prince was used to reignite enthusiasm for the monarchy, a purpose that every royal wedding since has continued.

This show has been released on DVD and is available to stream from here using the PBS Passport. I believe that it’s also available to British viewers in the BBC iPlayer.

I recommend this gentle and fascinating look at one particular historical wedding to get yourself in the mood for any weddings that you’ll attend in the next few weeks. Or, if like me, you have no engraved invitations to add to your social calendar, enjoy this wedding from afar.