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0 Weddingâ€"works . LONDON (AP){Q.‘/fn his last official act as a bachelor, Prince Charles lit the first in | a nationwide chain of wedâ€" | ding beacons Tuesday night, | and London‘s sky Plazed with | a spectacular Areworks display, More than 900 people were reported injured !" the crush of spectators. â€",. Half a million people swarmed into 138â€"hectare Hyde Pare and Cheered wildly ag Charles â€" Using an Olympic torch handed him by a disabled YOUuth in a wheelchair â€" lit the first of 101 beacons symbolically carrying the news of his marriage: to the farthest reaches of the British Isles. Buckingham Palace said the event drew one of the largest gatherings of royalty and heads of states in modern times, with 150 members of royalty and foreign government leaders joining the 32â€"yearâ€"old prince of Wales in the royal box for the occasion. \_ The brideâ€"toâ€"be, Lady Diana Spencer, did not atâ€" tend the spectacle, spending her _ wedding eve in traditional seelusion at Clarence â€" House, the residence of 80â€"yearâ€"old Queen Mother, Elizabeth. THRILLED BY SIGHT Aerial panoramas of silver serpents, golden wheatâ€" sheaves, feather plumes and bursts of purple, sapphire, ruby, diamond and turquoise drew oohs and aahs from the crowd. Silver. star shells, golden rockets and octopus bombs with fiery tentacles flashed across the night. E The $121,000 fireworks show recreated a display in nearby Green Park in 1749. It celebrated the signing of the Treaty of Aixâ€"laâ€"Chapelle with France, ending the Austrian War of Succession.