When Katharine Worsley married the late Queen Elizabeth II's cousin, Prince Edward , Duke of Kent , in 1961, she broke with centuries of royal tradition. Rather than opting for Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral, the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace or St George's Chapel at Windsor , she insisted that they tie the knot in her home county of Yorkshire , at the historic York Minster, which had not been used as a royal wedding venue for 600 years.

It was only fitting, of course. The royal couple had met when the Duke of Kent was stationed with his regiment near Katharine's childhood home, Hovington Hall, the family seat of her father, Sir William Worsley. They announced their engagement in March 1961, with the royal wedding itself taking place that June. The Duchess

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