A Look Back at Prince Charles and Lady Di's Wedding

(EndPlay Staff Reports) - There was one giant void at Friday's royal wedding.

Prince William's mother, Princess Diana, died in a tragic vehicle accident in August 1997. William, the older of her two sons, was only 15 at the time of her death.

Just like the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer on July 29, 1981, William married Kate Middleton on Friday as a worldwide audience looked on.

When Charles and Diana were married at St. Paul's Cathedral, some 600,000 people filled the streets of London to catch a glimpse of the royal couple. There were 3,500 invited guests at the service and an estimated global TV audience of 750 million, a record at that time, reported the BBC .

Highlights included:

• Lady Diana making the three-and-a-half minute walk up the red-carpeted aisle with the 25-foot train of her Emmanuel-designed, ivory taffeta and antique lace gown flowing behind her.

• Both Diana and Charles mixed up their lines. Diana called him Philip Charles Arthur George, rather than Charles Philip. Charles said "thy goods" rather than "my worldly goods."

• A private signing ceremony was followed by the couple walking back down the aisle to the refrain of Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance."

• The newlyweds took an open-topped state landau to Buckingham Palace. They emerged on the balcony and kissed – a moment the crowd had been waiting for.

• With a "just married" sign attached to their vehicle, the newlyweds were driven over Westminster Bridge to the train to Romsey in Hampshire where they would begin their honeymoon.