I dag för 80 år sedan

Jag googlad och fick lära mig att det är vad man kallar platinabröllop.
Tyvärr finns inga tillgängliga foton av Harriet Vane och lord Peters bröllop, så håll till godo med en fiktivt bröllopsbild — också det från 1937.

Nu kan man ju fråga sig hur vi vet när Harriet och Peter gifte sig — jo, av den enkla anledningen att Peters mamma, the Dowager Duchess of Denver skrev om det i sin dagbok:

8 October. — Peter's wedding-day. Too exhausted to do more than put down that it all went off very well. H. looked genuinely lovely, like a ship coming into harbour with everything shining and flags flying at wherever modern ships do fly flags — Peter terribly white, poor darling, like the day he had his first watch, and could hardly bear himself for fear it would come to pieces in his hands or turn out not to be real, or something — but he pulled himself together to be specially nice to all the guests (believe if he were in Inquisition he would exert social talants to entertain executioners).

... Got back to Town at 5.30 (Peter's face a study when he realised he had to go 60 miles over crowded roads in a closed car with somebody else driving! — but one really couldn't let him drive H. back in an open Daimler, all in wedding-garments and a top-hat!).... Got them smuggled out of the house at a quarter to 7 —  Bunter was waiting for them with the car on the far side of the Park...

11 p.m. Hope all is really well with them — must stop nowand try to get some sleep or shall be a rag in the morning. Find The Stars Look Down not quite soothing enough for a bed-book — will fall back on Through the Looking-Glass.

Detta går att läsa i den mycket läsvärda boken "Busman's Honeymoon", av Dorothy Sayers — utkommen 1937.