How the Monarchy has gone from stiff to schmaltzy in 100 years
When Prince Har r y ' s great-grandparents announced their engagement in 1923, the palace released a photograph showed King George VI and the Queen Mother sitting face-forward and barely touching.
Fast- forward to less than a century later and newly released pictures of Prince Harry and his fiancée Meghan Markle could not be more different.
The heady shots - two in black and white - show the loved-up couple clasping onto one another as they stroll arm and arm through the grounds of Frogmore House, a private royal residence at Windsor Castle.
Wearing a £56,000 gown and a million dollar smile, actress Miss Markle looks every inch the Hollywood princess as she poses alongside the red-haired royal.
The tone of the images are a world away from the staid engagement shots of her lover's grandparents the Queen and Prince Philip who kept close distance for their photograph in 1947.
As these fascinating photographs document, Royal protocol has changed dra- matically across the course of a century with the first kiss displayed in a the form of a peck between Prince Edward and Sophie in 1999.
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