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Event
Information:
The Royal Wedding between Prince
William and Kate Middleton takes
place on Friday 29th April . The
ceremony itself will be held at
Westminster Abbey, where large
crowds are expected to gather. This
will be followed by a procession
Buckingham palace, where the newly
married couple will greet the crowds
from the balcony. The royal wedding
day has been declared a bank holiday
in the UK, and is expected to be
marked by street parties across the
country, as well as being watched by
an estimate 2 billion people in
total worldwide. The live webcams at
Westminster and Buckingham Palace
bring you as close as possible to
all the action without actually
being there.
Prince
William, who is second in the line
of succession to Queen Elizabeth II,
first met Middleton in 2001, while
he and Middleton were studying at
the University of St Andrews. Their
engagement, on 20 October 2010, was
announced on 16 November 2010. After
the wedding, the couple intend to
continue residing on the Isle of
Anglesey in Wales, where Prince
William is based as an RAF Search
and Rescue pilot.
St
James's Palace announced on 5
January that the ceremony is to
start at 11:00 and that Middleton
will arrive at the abbey by car
rather than by carriage, which is
the traditional transport for royal
brides. The planned route is along
The Mall, through the Horse Guards
Parade and down Whitehall to the
abbey. After the ceremony, the
bridal couple will return along the
same route by carriage to a
reception hosted by the Queen at
Buckingham Palace. The Prince of
Wales is to host a private dinner
that evening. After the service, The
route of the bride and groom goes
between Buckingham Palace and the
Westminster Abbey, by The Mall,
passing Clarence House, by Horse
Guards Road, Horse Guards Parade,
through Horse Guards Arch,
Whitehall, the south side of
Parliament Square, and Broad
Sanctuary.
On 16
and 17 February, three sets of guest
lists were sent out in the name of
the Queen. As William is not the
heir apparent, protocol has dictated
that many guests (or their
successors in office) who were
invited to the wedding of Charles,
Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana
Spencer in 1981 need not be invited
to William's wedding. More than half
of the guests will be family and
friends of the couple, though there
will be a significant number of
Commonwealth leaders (including the
governors-general who represent the
Queen in Commonwealth realms other
than the UK, prime ministers of the
Commonwealth realms, and heads of
government of other Commonwealth
countries), members of religious
organisations, the diplomatic corps,
several military officials, members
of the British Royal Household,
members of foreign royal families,
and representatives of William's
charities and others with whom
William has worked on official
business. Although St James's Palace
declined to publish the names of
those invited, a breakdown of guests
was published by category−the list
made no mention of foreign heads of
state, though it was announced that
about 40 members of foreign royal
families had been invited.
Royal
Wedding Timetable (BST):
1015 - The groom and Prince Harry
arrive at Westminster Abbey
1051 - The bride, and her father,
leave the Goring Hotel for the abbey
1100 - The marriage service begins
1230 - The bride's carriage
procession arrives at Buckingham
Palace
1325 - The Queen and the bride and
groom appear on the balcony
1330 - Fly past by the Royal Air
Force and Battle of Britain Memorial
Flight
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