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- New wedding video shows tragic singer Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown sharing an intimate dance at lavish 1992 ceremony
- Their daughter Bobbi Kristina tells filmmaker Daphne Barak she is still grieving ahead of the second anniversary of Whitney's death
- Whitney was pregnant at wedding - but didn't find out until honeymoon, daughter reveals
- Bobbi, 20, married De facto step-brother Nick Gordon, 24, earlier this month - and Nick calls Whitney his 'mom'
- Bobbi adds: 'Our mom taught us to be royal. We are different - there is royalty in our veins'
- She says: 'Mom always said that if they made a film about her, only I could play her - I'm the only one who could sing her songs like she did'
- Whitney died on February 11, 2012, after years of battling drug addiction
Gazing into each other’s eyes, Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown sway on the dancefloor as they celebrate their wedding in a haunting video that only serves to highlight just how tragic their union was to become.
It is footage that will be both difficult and inspiring for daughter Bobbi Kristina to watch as she admits she is still struggling to recover from her mother's death in a revealing interview with feted documentary maker Daphne Barak, who unearthed the video.
As Whitney the bride regally embraces a line of children at the ceremony, all dressed in white and playing classical music with small violins, Bobbi, now 20 and married only weeks ago, tells Daphne: ‘She WAS royal. People don’t know that about her…I called her My Royal Woman’.
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Indeed, as they croon to each other at the lavish wedding on July 18, 1992, Whitney and Bobby - who were very much considered music's odd couple at the time - look every inch royalty, with Bobby even teasingly wearing one Whitney’s earrings.
The wedding, held at Whitney’s $10million home in Mendham, New Jersey, was an excessive affair, attended by a guest list of 800 – a figure Brown was later to sigh was ‘too much'.
Both the bride and groom wore white, with Whitney’s dress created out of French lace by Mark Bouwer and costing $40,000, and the wedding party dressed in shades of purple, the star’s favourite colour.
It is all a far cry from the circumstances of how Whitney’s life would end on February 11, 2012, after she was found dead in a bathtub at The Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles, aged just 48.
The couple had divorced in 2006 following a fiery and very public marriage.
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Since the death of Whitney, one of the world’s biggest singing stars in her heyday before she spiralled into a desperate addiction to crack cocaine, Bobbi now has only her memories of her beloved mother to cling on to.
Now living in Atlanta with her husband and De facto step-brother Nick Gordon, Bobbi makes it clear that both she and Nick considered Whitney their mom, insisting: ‘Our mom was royal.'
While Nick, 24, whom Whitney moved into her home about 10 years before her death after learning his mother could no longer care for him, tells Daphne: ‘She was my mom too!’
Confirming their marriage earlier this month, Bobbi - who has said Whitney would have wanted their union - adds: ‘Our mom taught us to be royal. We are different.
‘There is royalty in our veins. She taught us how to move, how to talk. We want you to know, that where we come front, WE are royals, because SHE was royal.’
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Left with this memento of one of the happiest days of her parents’ lives, Bobbi reveals: ‘I was there…she was pregnant with me, but she didn’t know. They found out about me during their honeymoon.’
Speaking about her parents' wedding, Bobbi adds: ‘I love her dress, and the headpiece, the matching earrings…Mom is beautiful. You see, you picked it up, how royal she was.’
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‘She used to call me ‘Stina,’ Bobbi tells Daphne as it becomes clear that time is not helping the grief-stricken daughter: ‘I miss her like hell. She taught me everything. Now I’m working on my career, but also on myself.
‘I’m working on learning how to be a woman without the woman who taught me to be a woman.’
Referring to the star she also called ‘Lioness’ because of her Leo birth sign, Bobbi says the upcoming anniversary of her mother’s death makes her realise just how much people did not really know Whitney.
‘People did not know her’, she tells Daphne: ‘They write things. But for me, she wasn’t Whitney Houston.'
Dedicated to embarking on a music career like her mother, she says: ‘I am the only one who can sing her songs like she did. She always said that if they would make a film about her, only I could play her.
‘She taught me how to sing Acapella. She taught me that singing Acapella would make my voice stronger and stronger. She taught me Gospel, she taught me for 18 years how to be royal, how to be her daughter, a woman…I am very proud of her.’
On the video, images of the reception filled with candles and lavender and white orchid arrangements alongside an 18-layer cake flash up on screen, as A-list guests ranging from Donald Trump to Whitney’s aunt Dionne Warwick and even P Diddy, can be seen sipping Cristal and Dom Perignon champagne.
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Stooping to thank the line of children musicians, Whitney tells them: ‘Thank-you, thank-you for the treat…come, give me a kiss.'
As Daphne asks what Bobbi would want the world to know about Whitney, Bobbi pauses: ‘That she had a heart, you could not fall in love with her. Even if she cast you off - she so lovable.’
Bobbi is now awaiting the first $1.2million from her the $12million estate her mother left her to claim by the time she’s 30.
Sadly, it is patently clear just how much Whitney and Bobby were thrilled to be expecting baby Bobbi.
The couple had met at the Soul Train Music Awards in 1989 and in an interview on their marriage in Vanity Fair in December 1992, Whitney, then three-months pregnant, prophesised: ‘I think it’s a girl…’
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The couple kissed and Brown patted Whitney’s stomach, adding: ‘I’m gonna spoil that baby girl….I want presents. Lots of presents. Shoes and dresses and diamonds and all that for her.’
‘You want everything, baby’, Whitney replied….’We’ll see, we’ll see.’
More of the 25-minute wedding video will be aired globally next month in a Daphne Barak special.
Filmmaker Daphne, who was also on hand to watch some of Amy Winehouse’s tragic last days in St Lucia, tells MailOnline: ‘When I saw Whitney in the video she looked like Princess Diana, so regal. In her imagination, she was royal and Bobby was her prince.
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