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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Nancy Withbroe rose before the sun on July 29, 1981, to watch Lady Diana Spencer, she of the tremendous white train, marry Charles, Prince of Wales and heir to the throne. She joined her sister and mother in front of the television in their Arlington, Mass., home to watch the nuptials taking place across the Atlantic. "I was 13 ... ripe for romantic fantasies," she told AOL News. "I'm sure we had scones, tea, strawberries and jam. That may even have been my first introduction to clotted cream." Now a fundraiser at a Washington, D.C.-area nonprofit and, like the late Diana, mother of two ...
LONDON -- British police say guests at the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton will have to pass through security checks to enter Westminster Abbey. Indigo / Getty Images Security checks will be required for guests at Friday's wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey. Police would not say what methods will be used. Some 5,000 police will be deployed at the wedding and 60 people have been barred as part of their bail conditions from entering the area. Metropolitan Police Commander Christine Jones said Wednesday that there is no ...
LONDON - David Beckham, Elton John and Mr. Bean actor Rowan Atkinson will mingle with dozens of royal guests at Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding, according to an official guest list released Saturday that includes one uncomfortable presence - the Bahraini crown prince accused of a brutal crackdown on protesters. St. James's Palace also released the seating plan at Westminster Abbey, which showed that relatives of William's mother Princess Diana are sitting across the aisle from the royal family, joining the Middletons in an exception to the traditional division of a church into a ...
When Prince William ties the knot with Kate Middleton on April 29, there's a good chance they will break lots of world records in the process. Many media experts believe the nuptials will break the current world record for the largest TV audience for a wedding, which was set July 29, 1981, during the marriage of William's father, Prince Charles, to Lady Diana Spencer. That wedding was watched by an estimated 750 million people in 74 countries. Considering that the world population has jumped by more than 2 billion people since then -- from 4.5 billion to 6.7 billion, with a corresponding ...
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The royal wedding is still a month a way, but Lego is already offering the public a little taste of the festivities. Model makers at the Legoland theme park in Windsor, England, have created a brick-by-brick model of Prince William and Kate Middleton's upcoming nuptials. The Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall are all present at the miniature Buckingham Palace, which required approximately 160,000 Lego bricks and 550 hours of work, all to display Lego Prince William and Lego Kate Middleton as they grace the royal residence's famous balcony. ...
Britain's future princess Kate Middleton will ride to her nuptials at Westminster Abbey on April 29 in an already infamous set of wheels: the Rolls-Royce Phantom VI that Prince Charles and Camilla were in when they were attacked by student protesters in December. "Rolls Royce 1," which suffered a cracked window and the indignity of a splash of paint during the attack, is being repaired at the Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace, CNN reports. Middleton has chosen to buck tradition, which dictates that royal brides roll to their weddings in carriages. But starry-eyed lovers of fairy-tale weddings ...
With little more than a month to the British royal wedding, preparations are frantically under way to ensure an immaculate turnout for the horses and carriages that will form the regal procession through London's streets. ...
LONDON -- Kate Middleton and Prince William are a match made in heaven. Just check their horoscopes. The couple will be delighted to know their star signs, Capricorn and Cancer, indicate they are highly compatible and have a good chance of having a successful marriage, according to leading British astrologers. "They probably feel like soulmates," said Wendy Stacey, chair of the Astrological Association of Great Britain. Sang Tan, AP Astrologer Wendy Stacey drew up these star charts for Kate Middleton and Prince William; the charts indicate that the royal couple are a match made ...
All the talk is about Prince William and Kate Middleton, but theirs isn't the only royal wedding in the works. William's cousin Zara Phillips and her fiance, Mike Tindall, will tie the knot on July 30 in Scotland, Buckingham Palace announced today. Phillips, 29, and rugby star Tindall, 32, will trade vows at Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh. The date was fixed after another couple who had already reserved the church agreed to move their wedding, British media reports said. The reception will be held at Edinburgh's Palace of Holyroodhouse, Queen Elizabeth II's official home in Scotland. The BBC ...
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