FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

JULY 10, 1947

THE King’s consent to the betrothal of Princess Elizabeth to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten was announced in the Court Circular last night. The wedding ceremony, like many state occasions, may be robbed of much of its colour because of a lack of Court uniforms and robes due to rationing.

JULY 10, 1969

SINGER Marianne Faithfull (pictured) is critically ill after a drugs overdose. Miss Faithfull, 22, has been in a coma for 36 hours. She arrived here in Sydney on Tuesday with Mick Jagger to begin making a film about the Australian outlaw Ned Kelly. [Jagger was the first person she saw after waking up six days later. Her first words to him were: ‘Wild horses couldn’t drag me away’, which inspired the Stones’ song Wild Horses.]