Mandy, Harriet and Co Skipping Charles and Di's Wedding to Go On a Republican Away-Day. So What Will They Do This Time? [Scot Region]

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SMILING for the camera, a moustachioed Peter Mandelson enjoys an away-day to France with fellow Left-wing activists as they deliberately avoid being in the UK for the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana.

On the far left is Sue Nye, who would later become Gordon Brown's 'gatekeeper', and in the middle is bearded former union leader Jack Dromey, now an MP. His future wife Harriet Harman was behind the camera to capture the republicans' day trip to Boulogne to avoid the national fervour surrounding the Royal wedding on July 29, 1981.

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Mandy, Harriet and Co Skipping Charles and Di's Wedding to Go On a Republican Away-Day. So What Will They Do This Time? [Scot Region]

However, 29 years later,...

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