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Friday, April 29, 2011
The King Edward VII 1902 State Landau
The happily married couple will ride on the 1902 State Landau from Westminster Abbey to Buckingham Palace!
Thursday, April 28, 2011
The Four Bridesmaids...
- Lady Louise Windsor, 7, William's first cousin on his father's side. She is the daughter of his uncle, Prince Edward and Sophie, Countess of Wessex.
- The Hon. Margarita Armstrong-Jones, 8, William's second cousin. The daughter of Viscount and Viscountess Linley first came into the public spotlight in 2006, when William swung the delighted 4-year-old into the air as they were walking to church for Christmas Day service.
- Eliza Lopes, 3, granddaughter of Prince Charles' wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall. Eliza's mother, Laura, is Camilla's only daughter from her previous marriage to Andrew Parker Bowles. When Laura Lopes got married in 2006, her stepbrother, Prince William, and Kate Middleton attended the wedding.
- Grace van Cutsem, 3, godchild of Prince William. The royal family and the van Cutsems are reputedly very close and Prince William often stayed with the van Cutsems as a child.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/28/nicki-macfarlane-royal-wedding-bridesmaid-pippa-middleton_n_855087.html
More Photos from the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Dinner
A handful of royals turned up to a pre-wedding dinner at London's Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park Hotel on Thursday evening, hosted by Lady Elizabeth Anson.
Princess Letizia of Spain led the way in a strapless lavender gown with a full skirt. Sweden's Princess Victoria opted for a gathered, crimson, column dress and Princess Beatrice upped the sparkle in a silver and white number.
As expected, Prince William and Kate Middleton skipped the festivites -- although Kate was spotted in the afternoon checking into her hotel.
Take a look at who was there and what they wore.
Continue reading...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/28/pre-royal-wedding-dinner-princess-letizia_n_855223.html
Princess Letizia of Spain led the way in a strapless lavender gown with a full skirt. Sweden's Princess Victoria opted for a gathered, crimson, column dress and Princess Beatrice upped the sparkle in a silver and white number.
As expected, Prince William and Kate Middleton skipped the festivites -- although Kate was spotted in the afternoon checking into her hotel.
Take a look at who was there and what they wore.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/28/pre-royal-wedding-dinner-princess-letizia_n_855223.html
Royal Dinner at the Mandarin Oriental
The Queen has arrived at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Knightsbridge for a pre-wedding dinner with various dignitaries. Lady Anson, the evening's host and the Queen's cousin, met her and was greeted with a kiss on both cheeks outside the hotel.
Earlier, the Princess Royal arrived by minibus along with Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall, and Peter Phillips and Autumn Kelly. Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, Lord Freddie Windsor and Lady Gabriella came in a separate coach.
Princess Victoria of Sweden and her husband Prince Daniel were also present.
Other guests included: the Duke of York, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, Prince Pavlos of Greece and Princess Marie-Chantal, Queen Sofia of Spain, Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia of Spain, Queen Margarethe of Denmark, Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia and Princess Katherine, the Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxemburg, King Harald of Norway and Queen Sonia.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/live/8466247/Royal-wedding-live.html
Earlier, the Princess Royal arrived by minibus along with Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall, and Peter Phillips and Autumn Kelly. Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, Lord Freddie Windsor and Lady Gabriella came in a separate coach.
Princess Victoria of Sweden and her husband Prince Daniel were also present.
Other guests included: the Duke of York, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, Prince Pavlos of Greece and Princess Marie-Chantal, Queen Sofia of Spain, Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia of Spain, Queen Margarethe of Denmark, Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia and Princess Katherine, the Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxemburg, King Harald of Norway and Queen Sonia.
Arrival of the Spanish Royal Family
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/live/8466247/Royal-wedding-live.html
Royal wedding: William greets fans ahead of wedding
Prince William has gone on an impromptu walkabout ahead of his wedding to Kate Middleton to meet royal watchers gathered near Buckingham Palace.
The couple say they have been "incredibly moved" by public reaction.
In a message in their official wedding programme they thanked "everyone most sincerely for their kindness".
During Friday's Westminster Abbey ceremony Miss Middleton will vow to "love, comfort, honour and keep" Prince William but will not vow to obey him.
The service will be the epitome of "Britishness", St James's Palace said.
VisitBritain has predicted more than 600,000 people will be on the streets to watch Friday's events and several hundred are already camping out in tents and sleeping bags outside the abbey and in The Mall.
'All ready'
Prince William, who is spending the evening with the Prince of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Harry, emerged from his London home Clarence House to walk to The Mall at about 2030 BST.
Some of the the crowd were spending the night on the street and the prince asked them about their preparations.
Earlier, the Duchess of Cornwall also met some of the fans in The Mall.
Continue reading...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13217693
The Notable Absentees
In what has been deemed "a snub of historic proportions," the last two British prime ministers, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, have been left off the guest list for the royal wedding.
As neither Brown nor Blair found much favor with Buckingham Palace during their respective tenures, authorities have been forced to dismiss numerous reports that the exclusions were intended as an act of royal vengeance, although they could be a mere oversight. The official explanation, according to the New York Times, is that neither Blair nor Brown are a member of the Order of the Garter, a royal honor dating to the 14th century that is traditionally bestowed on distinguished individuals for their service to the nation or the crown. And given that the wedding is not a state occasion, "there is no protocol reason to invite former prime ministers," a spokesman for Prince William tells MSNBC.
Apparently this criteria did not apply in 1981, as two of the five prime ministers who attended Prince Charles' wedding to Princess Diana were reportedly not members of the order at the time. Nor does it explain the other noteworthy exclusions, including U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, as well as two of Diana's close confidantes.
Continue reading...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/28/royal-wedding-guest-list-snubs_n_854640.html#s270285&title=Lily_Allen_British
As neither Brown nor Blair found much favor with Buckingham Palace during their respective tenures, authorities have been forced to dismiss numerous reports that the exclusions were intended as an act of royal vengeance, although they could be a mere oversight. The official explanation, according to the New York Times, is that neither Blair nor Brown are a member of the Order of the Garter, a royal honor dating to the 14th century that is traditionally bestowed on distinguished individuals for their service to the nation or the crown. And given that the wedding is not a state occasion, "there is no protocol reason to invite former prime ministers," a spokesman for Prince William tells MSNBC.
Apparently this criteria did not apply in 1981, as two of the five prime ministers who attended Prince Charles' wedding to Princess Diana were reportedly not members of the order at the time. Nor does it explain the other noteworthy exclusions, including U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, as well as two of Diana's close confidantes.
Continue reading...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/28/royal-wedding-guest-list-snubs_n_854640.html#s270285&title=Lily_Allen_British
On Second Thought...You Cannot Come to the Wedding!
LONDON — Global politics trumped ceremonial protocol Thursday, as Britain revoked a royal wedding invitation to the Syrian ambassador because of violent government attacks on protesters there.
Human rights groups had criticized the decision to invite Syrian Ambassador Sami Khiyami to Prince William and Kate Middleton's nuptials at Westminster Abbey on Friday.
More than 450 people have been killed since mid-March in the uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad's authoritarian regime, with 120 dead over the weekend.
The government said ambassadors from all countries with which Britain has "normal diplomatic relations" had been invited to the wedding — some 185 in all — and that an invitation did not condone regimes' behavior.
But the Foreign Office said Thursday that "in the light of this week's attacks against civilians by the Syrian security forces, which we have condemned, the foreign secretary has decided that the presence of the Syrian ambassador at the royal wedding would be unacceptable and that he should not attend."
http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-world/20110428/EU.Britain.Royal.Wedding.Politics/
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