Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten on 20 November 1947 at Westminster Abbey

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The King gave his formal consent to the marriage in his British Privy Council, in accordance with the Royal Marriages Act 1772. The same was done in Canada at a meeting of the King’s Canadian Privy Council, with the Chief Justice of Canada, Thibaudeau Rinfret, standing in as deputy to the King’s representative, the Governor General of Canada.

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