@usna.khan93: Prince Edward was the last of Queen Elizabeth's children to marry. His wedding was the only one that has lasted. The marriage record among Queen Elizabeth II's four children has, by any measure, been a complicated one. Prince Charles and Princess Diana married in 1981 and divorced in 1996. Princess Anne and Mark Phillips married in 1973 and divorced in 1992. Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson married in 1986 and divorced in 1996. Princess Anne remarried in December 1992, and Prince Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005, so of the four first marriages exactly one is still standing. It belongs to the youngest. Prince Edward married Sophie Rhys-Jones at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on June 19, 1999, when he was 35 and she was 34. By then he had watched all three of his siblings either separate or spend years having their private difficulties catalogued in print, and people who know the couple have always said that experience shaped the way the two of them decided to operate from the beginning. They have now been married for 27 years and have two children. Lady Louise Windsor was born in 2003, and James has used the courtesy title Earl of Wessex since his father was created Duke of Edinburgh in March 2023 — a title borrowed from his father, and worth distinguishing from the HRH both children have been entitled to since birth under the 1917 Letters Patent and have simply chosen not to use. On every measure the public can actually see, the marriage looks precisely as steady as it appears. Commentators who have covered the family for decades tend to describe the two of them as the least complicated couple in the inner circle, and the arithmetic supports it. In a family whose marriages have produced more front pages than almost any other British institution, theirs has produced the fewest and outlasted all of them.

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