Meghan Markle’s final choice — her future father-in-law — was unconventional. But she is not the only royal bride to break with tradition and not have her own father by her side. When Queen Victoria married Prince Albert at St James's Palace in 1840, she was given away by her favourite uncle Prince Augustus Frederick, the Duke of Sussex, as her father died from pneumonia when she was eight months old. She then went on to walk two of her daughters down the aisle at their weddings following the death of her husband, Prince Albert, in 1861. The first was Princess Helena, her fifth child, who married Prince Christian of…

Source: The Times May 18, 2018 16:07 UTC