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YOUR GOAL
Master of History's most awkward royal moments
andy Queen Mary's Fringe Tiara
Her wedding tiara snapped right in two, but they raced through London to weld it back in time!
andy A major measurement mistake left teenage Marie Antoinette with a wedding dress that could not be fully fastened at Versailles.
andy An archbishop's careless mistake turned Queen Victoria's 1838 coronation into a painful ordeal involving a tightly wedged ring.
andy Match each awkward blunder to its monarch to discover history's most embarrassing royal moments.
Victoria's ring pain: During Queen Victoria's 1838 coronation, the Archbishop forced the ring onto the wrong finger, requiring ice water and painful pulling to remove it later.
An embarrassing clothing mishap, especially one involving an accidental slip or tear. In 1980, Lady Diana Spencer wore a skirt that unexpectedly became translucent in the bright sunlight.
What did Queen Victoria have to use to remove her coronation ring after the Archbishop forced it onto the wrong finger?
Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury responsible for the painful ring mistake at Queen Victoria's coronation?
What was the age of Marie Antoinette when she wore the ill-fitting wedding dress to marry the future Louis XVI?
Why did Marie Antoinette's wedding dress fail to close during her 1770 royal wedding at Versailles?
How many handkerchiefs did King George IV reportedly use to wipe away sweat during his heavily robed 1821 coronation?
Which British king locked his own wife, Queen Caroline, out of Westminster Abbey during his 1821 coronation?