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I wonder how much that will cost?
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the condoms are 3 for £5
the wedding will cost hundreds of millions, and that's just for the security...
I'm thinking of leaving town, it'll be a circus.
xL
PS: Royal Wedding teatowels banned:
The Lord Chamberlain, Earl Peel – who works as the senior official in the Royal household – is believed to have issued a formal memorandum outlining which items are deemed appropriate for the wedding.
A Buckingham Palace spokesman admitted unofficial items were likely to be made in the build up to the ceremony on April 29, but added: ‘We want items that are permanent and significant.’
Official souvenirs of the Royal wedding will have to carry the official photograph of William and Kate taken by celebrity photographer Mario Testino.
Prince William and Kate Middleton will marry on April 29, with the British public being granted an extra Bank Holiday to celebrate the wedding.
Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/849793-royal-wedding-prince-william-and-kate-middleton-tea-towels-banned#ixzz1Cq1eFpNA
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the condoms are 3 for £5
the wedding will cost hundreds of millions, and that's just for the security...
I'm thinking of leaving town, it'll be a circus.
xL
PS: Royal Wedding teatowels banned:
The Lord Chamberlain, Earl Peel – who works as the senior official in the Royal household – is believed to have issued a formal memorandum outlining which items are deemed appropriate for the wedding.
A Buckingham Palace spokesman admitted unofficial items were likely to be made in the build up to the ceremony on April 29, but added: ‘We want items that are permanent and significant.’
Official souvenirs of the Royal wedding will have to carry the official photograph of William and Kate taken by celebrity photographer Mario Testino.
Official merchandise is also only allowed to be produced up to October this year.
Prince William and Kate Middleton will marry on April 29, with the British public being granted an extra Bank Holiday to celebrate the wedding.
Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/849793-royal-wedding-prince-william-and-kate-middleton-tea-towels-banned#ixzz1Cq1eFpNA
Well, William seems like he has a good head on his shoulders. Kate will have some serious shoes to fill in Diana's name but she's made it clear that no one will ever be or do what good Diana has done. She was definately a one of a kind.
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Diana was a virgin and Charles had a mistress. Bad history. But Di gave us two lovey young princes. The second one, Harry, is by James Hewitt, not Charles - and next time he gets drunk and rolls out of a nightclub at 5am in a daft fancy dress outfit, Charles will threaten him with the DNA test. Rumours were that Di was also preggers by Al-Fayed when she died, that wouldn't have been nice.
But Kate might be Queen, which Diana always knew she never would be.
Here's a pic of the commemorative mug they're selling on Amazon for £12.99... I must be able to find a better one though.
xxxL
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LONDON – They may not get chocolate on the pillow a but at least they’ll have a pillow.
Tourists eager to soak up the pomp of this spring’s royal wedding will be hard pressed to find a hotel room, as an estimated half-million others will be here with the same idea. But for those willing to pay a premium (and do without amenities) there’s a solution: their very own London flat.
[Related: Royal wedding: Who's on the guest list?]
"Hotels are going to be very full," says Jane Ingram, head of Savills Plc’s rentals unit. "People are going to need to look at private apartments as an alternative."
London’s roughly 120,000 hotel rooms are nowhere near enough to accommodate the hordes of royalty buffs expected for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. That means many Londoners plan to do what they always do whenever a big event hits town a rent out their homes for a huge profit.
[Related: Royal engagement photographer reveals all]
Homeowners have been known to rake in up to 50 percent more than normal rental rates during big ticket occasions such as Wimbledon, but around the April 29 wedding date, apartments are expected to go for three to four times normal.
But that won’t put off die-hard royal watchers eager to hear wedding bells chime.
"It’s not every day that a royal gets married," says Kim Bourke, who booked her ticket from Melbourne, Australia as soon as the wedding date was announced.
She opted for a "guerrilla approach" to accommodation hunting by posting an ad on the UK’s Gumtree website in hopes of finding a nice, cozy apartment to rent to witness the latest chapter of a "real life fairytale."
What she found was a sobering reality a offers from homeowners asking sky-high rents. "I don’t want to pay for someone’s holiday," she complains. Still, after surveying the market, she’s resigned to having to pay a royal wedding premium.
[Related: A commoner monarchy in the making]
"It’s a special occasion," Bourke says. "I have to be realistic because it’s going to cost a little bit more."
Some property websites are specifically geared to connecting homeowners with people looking for housing during major London events. Matthew Parker’s londonrentmyhouse.com started as such a matchmaker for the London 2012 Olympics, but expanded once inquiries about the wedding streamed in from owners looking to cash in.
"People love the royal family," said Parker. "So a lot of people are willing to pay top dollar to actually be near them."
After seeing friends pocket sizable sums for renting their apartments during Wimbledon, Jonathan Thornton decided to try his luck for April.
"Its a way of getting a bit of extra cash," says Thornton, a 27-year-old bass-guitarist. The spare room in his apartment near London’s Tower Bridge normally rents for about 150 pounds a week ($237) but Thornton has put it on Gumtree at 500 pounds ($792) a week for the royal wedding.
He’s hoping that staying in an apartment will appeal to travelers looking for a home away from home. The rental boasts a double-room with a TV, wardrobe, chest of drawers, private bathroom, free subway card and the city smarts of Thornton, who has lived in London for six years.
That will help a as Tower Bridge is several miles (kilometers) away from the likely wedding route.
One rental website, HomeAway.co.uk, has already had 300 inquiries about holiday rentals in the Westminster area a two or three times its typical volume for this time of year. That’s the neighborhood where William and Kate will exchange vows a a prime location for royal watchers looking to bask in the wedding hubbub.
To some Londoners like Andrew Shillam, getting out of town is as appealing as some extra income. The 52-year-old property developer is hoping to rent out his four-bedroom home right "in the thick of it" near Westminster Abbey.
"It doesn’t interest me whatsoever," he says.
Ed Thornton, no relation to Jonathan Thornton, and his wife already had a holiday booked when the prince and Middleton set a date. They had paid about 1,500 pounds for two roundtrip tickets to attend a friend’s wedding in Australia and hope that they can break even on the trip by renting out their Victorian home.
Thornton had no qualms about leaving Britain during the historic moment.
"We’d much rather be at the wedding of a close friend," he says, "than at a wedding of people we don’t know."
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I'm leaving town and my flat'll be empty. No way I'm renting it out, I trust noone. Pity is, it'll be great here, all the helicopters and flybys... Guns and all. (Will they be doing the 21 gun salute, I love that, the ground rocks.
My lesbian friends have planned their wedding for the same weekend. I'm going to Cambridge, we'll tape the other wedding and watch it and laugh later. We're also doing Easter bonnets and chicks.
madly xL
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What are your feelings on "royals" Linda? What do you perceive your general public's feelings are regarding them?
I think it's something Americans can't really relate to because we don't have them.
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Our Queen is fantastic, never put a foot wrong. Her hubby Phillip is scathingly funny. He's nearly 90?
Don't know really, I'm British but moved to Canada when I was 14. And Canada is more British and multicultural and quirky than the USofA, so as a Brit, I've always appreciated our Royal Family. It's history after all.
the world has changed enormously, and many non-capitalists denounce the waste of space and money our Royal Family represent... William didn't choose to be born King, but he's coping well with his reality.
I grew up in Canada as a child and came back, grown up, to our UK many years ago. I adore my heritage and our royal family.
The jokes though are magnificent. He's marrying a commoner? She's not a virgin?
About all anyone wants to know now is whether she'll wear her hair up or down. They're taking odds at the betting shop. I reckon it'll go up in pinned-in ringlets about a foot high with a massive tiara. (there's a news item someplace I googled explaining all the choices of tiaras she has.
I just dislike tourists when they take over town.
God help us next year with the Olympics. A Royal Wedding we can do well, but...
madly
xxxLinda
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Our Queen is fantastic, never put a foot wrong. Her hubby Phillip is scathingly funny. He's nearly 90?
Don't know really, I'm British but moved to Canada when I was 14. And Canada is more British and multicultural and quirky than the USofA, so as a Brit, I've always appreciated our Royal Family. It's history after all.
the world has changed enormously, and many non-capitalists denounce the waste of space and money our Royal Family represent... William didn't choose to be born King, but he's coping well with his reality.
I grew up in Canada as a child and came back, grown up, to our UK many years ago. I adore my heritage and our royal family.
The jokes though are magnificent. He's marrying a commoner?
About all anyone wants to know now is whether she'll wear her hair up or down. They're taking odds at the betting shop. I reckon it'll go up in pinned-in ringlets about a foot high with a massive tiara. (there's a news item someplace I googled explaining all the choices of tiaras she has.
I just dislike tourists when they take over town.
God help us next year with the Olympics. A Royal Wedding we can do well, but...
madly
xxxLinda
Interesting...thanks.
We were in France during the Tour de France one year. We found out the race was supposed to end near our hotel, we got the heck out of there. We're not really crowd people either...then we went to London for a couple days before coming home. Couldn't see too much in 2 days but it was beautiful.
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Top Stories Kate Middleton will be offered Princess Diana's tiara to wear on her Wedding day
Kate Middleton will be offered Princess Diana's priceless pearl and diamond tiara to wear on her Wedding day.
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The Cambridge Lover's Knot Tiara, originally made for Queen Mary in 1913, was passed down to Diana by the Queen.
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It has been kept in a Buckingham Palace safe since her death in 1997. Search Mirror.co.uk
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Her Royal Majesty the Queen's Norman Hartnell dress (1953) next to Prince Phillip's Naval Uniform
courtesy of Royal Museum...
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The Queen's Norman Hartnell dress (1953) next to Prince Phillip's Naval Uniform
courtesy of Royal Museum...
For shits and giggles I would love to know how much that dress and tux fetches for.
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For shits and giggles I would love to know how much that dress and tux fetches for.
It's not a tux, it's his Royal Navy Uniform and obviously both garments are priceless.
I'd like to know how much the tiaras are worth, according to the Royalist websites there are more than 10 of them which she may take her pick from.
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Linda
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It's not a tux, it's his Royal Navy Uniform and obviously both garments are priceless.
I'd like to know how much the tiaras are worth, there are more than 10 of them. But like the wedding dresses, they're historic and are not for sale.
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Linda
attached: Queen Mary's "Girls of Great Britain & Ireland" tiara
Yes, I meant to say uniform. The wedding dress itself must be easy six figures or more?
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Elizabeth & David Emanuel designed Diana's wedding dress. Ivory silk pure taffeta, it was made of old lace and included 10,000 pearls & sequins. It had a 25 ft train!
Read more http://www.kgbanswers.co.uk/who-made-dianas-wedding-dress-what-was-it-made-of-and-how-long-was-the-train-x/2388112#ixzz1Dg8o2IPn
Kate's dress, train, veil and tiara will remain secret until the day she marries. It will cost millions (as I said above), just for security.
madly
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Linda
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I'm hoping Kate will wake up that morning and get smart and run off with the tiara, take it as a souvenir and just forget about the wedding...
this is rather a wonderful one, I'm loving this one, can't decide. I really really liked that Burmese Ruby one...
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The media sure is making a big deal of it. Diana's wedding too. Everyone stopped what they were doing to watch. I sure hope the dress is better than Diana's; that was hideous.
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I've found another tiara :
xL
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What are your feelings on "royals" Linda? What do you perceive your general public's feelings are regarding them?
I think it's something Americans can't really relate to because we don't have them.
Undecided. Over here, most think they're rather wonderful and they only cost the British taxpayer 76p per person per annum, so for the tourism and prestige, I reckon they're worth every penny.
Unfortunately you only get exLady Sarah Ferguson over there? She does weightwatchers and QVC and Oprah?
The ex duchess ex wife of the ex 2nd-in-line to the throne? I feel sorry for her, she got no divorce settlement whatsoever, but thankfully she's still allowed to live in Andrew's castle.
There's an old joke here about Fergy: she'll sell you her two virgin daughters, plus access to her ex husband and all his mates for a bottle of cheap red plonk and two packs of ciggys?
I always felt sorry for her.
xL
She was given rather a nice tiara. Wonder whether she still has it or has she had to pawn it yet?
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Princess Margaret's tiara:
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Princess Anne, the Queen's Daughter's tiara:
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I never realized (paid attention) there were so many different styles.
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no offense but the new chick is a step up in looks from the previous princesses.
the brunette is pretty good looking imho
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USA Today: 73 days remain until the royal wedding of Prince William of Wales and Catherine "Kate" Middleton on April 29, and shiploads of souvenirs are starting to pour into online marketplaces.
Diverse offerings: The Royal Worcester group of royal wedding commemorative items made of fine-bone china. The items range in price from about $20 to $525.
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The palace banned the use of the couple's faces on the official Royal Collection memorabilia (royalcollection.org.uk), but luxury purveyors and knockoff artists alike are slapping pictures of the couple on everything from a brass commemorative coin (about $12) to a limited-edition Royal Wedding Lion Head Vase of fine china by Royal Worcester (about $525).
"There were mugs in supermarkets the day after the engagement," says Stephen Church, managing director of Church's China, a china-and-glass shop north of London. "Hundreds of thousands of products are going to be available online. The goods are only starting to come out of the factories. Loads and loads (of cheaper items) will be coming from China."
In the USA, you can go to leading collectibles maker The Franklin Mint's website (franklinmint.com) to reserve a Kate Middleton Portrait of a Princess Doll ($195) and a Kate Middleton Royal Wedding Doll ($295), to be produced after the wedding when her dress is finally revealed.
On Church's site (www.TheUKGiftCompany.co. uk ), Aynsley China's line of four fine-bone china pieces, adorned with the couple's picture and ranging in price from $13 to $53, has been selling briskly since late last year. Halcyon Days produced one of its signature enamel boxes for the engagement (about $232) and it sold out, so a second one ($152) is now on sale.
And that's not all. This first royal wedding of the Internet age is expected to bring forth an avalanche of items spanning the silly to the sublime. To wit: royal wedding condoms. A British company already has sold about 1,000 packs of souvenir Crown Jewels condoms at about $6.50 for three, available in a royal-purple box decorated with a picture of the couple and the date of the wedding.
In March, a British cosmetic company will be selling a blue-gray nail polish named after Middleton's former tabloid nickname, "No More Waity Katie" (about $22). And a British alcohol distributor plans to release a limited-edition Prince William Champagne to commemorate the wedding (about $33).
Americans are among the most enthusiastic consumers of royal collectibles, Church says. He says 50% of the firm's total online sales of Royal Collection items so far have come from the USA, and he expects his U.S. sales will be in seven figures by the wedding.
"We believe (Americans buy) because it enables them to feel they are part of the celebration," Church says. "Americans see them as a spectacle, and they buy into the fairy story. They're more excited than the British are."
Gwynne Gorr, marketing director for The Franklin Mint, says she expects the 5,000 Middleton engagement dolls to sell out before the wedding.
"It's not a stretch to think that people watching will go online and very easily place an order for a product without getting out of their easy chairs," Gorr says. "In the week surrounding the wedding, you will see a huge jump in sales because of press coverage and the emotion tied to the event."
They've put the price of the condoms up from £5 to $6.50 already !
xL
funny isn't it, that Diana was a virgin when she was marched into marriage with Charles. And she never bothered with condoms, got pregnant by 3 different men (if you believe the rumours and theories...
whereas Kate and Wills will be gagging to do away with the condoms, they've been so very careful for so very long. So I reckon she'll be expecting like immediately and due perhaps 9 months after her wedding, like around next Christmas...
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I never realized (paid attention) there were so many different styles.
(http://img.ezinemark.com/imagemanager2/files/30004254/2010/12/2010-12-20-21-11-40-6-kate-wont-wear-the-crown-that-princess-diana-wo.jpeg)
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I have recently taken an interest in and have been researching tiaras, but I've not seen this one before.
All of them are historic and handed down.
& I've got my facts wrong: Kate won't have her 'choice' of British Royal Tiara's, she'll be given one by the Queen.
I also noticed that the punchline under your pic of Di says" Kate won't be wearing this one...
xxxL
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Royal wedding gnomes expected to bring perfect bliss
Britain's biggest hardware chainstore predicts DIY boost from royal wedding bank holiday
B&Q is hoping for a royal wedding boost, if not from DIY enthusiasts using the extra bank holiday for jobs around the home, then from enthusiastic gardeners snapping up its special royal wedding gnomes.
It is not the first time the company has turned to celebratory gnomes to take advantage of major national events – it produced a special football gnome for last year's World Cup.
"We expect demand for the gnomes to be very high as royal items are always sought after as a collectible item," said Tom Kuhr, Garden Equipment Buyer at B&Q.
"While some people may turn their nose up at gnomes thinking they're a little kitsch we feel there is room for humour in everyone's lives, and the garden should be no exception. However, with the interest in the royal wedding and the number of collectors of royal memorabilia I wouldn't be surprised to see our gnomes popping up on Antiques Roadshow in the future."
B&Q-owner Kingfisher is hoping that it will sell more than just the gnomes – on sale from mid-April and priced at £12.98 each or £20 for the pair – over the royal wedding period. It is hoping the nation will knuckle down and get some big DIY jobs done. A bank holiday has been called for the day of Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding on 29 April, giving a four-day weekend thanks to the May Day holiday
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I'm not getting one of these either:
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they're selling sick bags...
xL
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Olympic volunteers could be drafted into action early to act as tourist guides during the royal wedding.
Mayor Boris Johnson plans to ask Londoners who have signed up for 2012 duties to help out on April 29. About one million visitors are expected in the capital for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
A City Hall source said: "It is something we are looking into if time allows. It would be the best possible induction for the Olympics as the basic task of meeting, greeting and offering friendly advice will be the same."
Almost 34,000 people - against a target of 25,000 - have applied to become one of the 8,000 "London Ambassadors".
Among those hoping to be chosen are retired taxi driver Gerry Sheridan, 77, and his wife Jean, from Ilford. Mr Sheridan was 15 when he attended the last London Olympics in 1948 and saw two running legends, Dutch quadruple gold medallist Fanny Blankers-Koen and Czech Emil Zatopek, at Wembley. He said: "I got a free ticket and went with a few of my mates. We each took a bottle of pop and it rained all day but we had a wonderful time. The 1948 Games were so special because it gave a lift to the nation three years after the war.
"I'm hoping 2012 and the royal wedding will be similarly uplifting after difficult times we are coming through."
Mr Sheridan will attend a Redbridge council workshop this week. For those who have registered, Monday is the deadline for completing an application at www.londonambassadors.or g.uk. Shortlisted applicants will be interviewed between April and July.
A further 70,000 people will volunteer their skills in a scheme run by the London Organising Committee of 2012.
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Satirists must be in tears today, as reality outdoes anything they might imagine.
Be a serf for a day! Free forelocks issued with every smock!
Can someone explain what budget this is coming out of?
- mdj, london uk, 23/02/2011 14:46
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Ok, so you've forgiven Prince William for not proposing to you. You've also come around to the idea that Kate Middleton (while not you) is actually very pretty and stylish and down-to-earth-seeming. So you want to buy a little royal engagement souvenir to celebrate the big event, but crockery with unflattering images of the future King and Queen simply won't do. We think we've found the solution.
Knitter extraordinaire Donna Wilson has come up with a witty royal wedding souvenir: Kate and Wills gloves. The camel gloves are made of 100 percent lambswool and are emblazoned with the name "Kate" on the left hand and "Wills" on the right. A final adorable touch is a knitted blue engagement ring on the left hand (sadly, it's not a sapphire).
Not only will these winter warmers make a cute souvenir for yourself or a friend (they cost £35), but they can actually keep you cosy as well.
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Wel,, they look happy and good together. I wish William and Kate all the best.
I also heard on TV that the Dutches of York was banned from the wedding. True?
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no, no, they don't do stuff as uncouth as ban people here. Sarah is simply not invited. After her divorce from Prince Andrew, she got diddly squat, no settlement, no pay off, nothing: hence the jump to America to star on Oprah and Weightwatchers.
I feel sorry for the poor daft woman. There are awful jokes about her here, as in: She'd sell you access to her ex-hubby and her two virgin daughters for a pack of ciggies and two bottles of cheap red plonk. She has had a truly tough time and dreadful press. She still lives in Andrew's castle though, when in England. And she still probably moans.
She was never royalty, was never accepted. And after the toe sucking photos with her financial advisor lover years ago, she was never again talked about or referred to by the Royals. They've blanked her as if she doesn't exist. And in my honest opinion, she's had to ungracefully accept that and bow out. She will never be invited to another Royal do, she's lucky Andrew still has the common decency to house her and bail her out every once in a while. She is the mother of two of Her Majesty's grandchildren, that's all she'll go down in history for.
The Obama's aren't invited either, although I suspect that's a conflict of schedules, either that or they're unable to have everyone important in the world all together in one place at one time?
Your President is instead Royally invited for a private shindig red carpet and gala dinners visit here at Buck House shortly after the big wedding.
with love from London
Linda
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here's the new "it's a 4-day bender full-on party we're planning" plate - which will hopefully get smashed by the 3rd day.
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I thought she'd been stripped of the Duchess title - but maybe she can still get away with it in America.
Tonight they're discussing whether or not to disentitle Prince Andrew The Duke of York of his "United Nations International Envoy" title due to his connections with Libya.
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Knitting patterns for royal wedding
(UKPA) – 3 days ago
Royal wedding fans who are keen knitters can now combine their two passions - by creating woollen figures to mark Prince William and Kate Middleton's nuptials.
Knitting patterns for 10 characters from the bride and groom to the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are set out in a book published this week.
There is also a design for the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams - who will marry the couple on April 29 at Westminster Abbey - and for corgis, the monarch's favourite breed of dog.
The patterns can be found in the book Knit Your Own Royal Wedding by Fiona Goble.
Her detailed designs even include William's blue Garter sash and his Golden Jubilee medal and Kate's diamond and sapphire engagement ring and a tiny tiara.
And in a pointer to a possible design for the bride's dress, Mrs Goble has created a sleeveless gown.
Suggestions have been included for making customised guests so knitters can add famous faces or themselves to those taking part in the big day.
A backdrop of Westminster Abbey is also included and Buckingham Palace's famous balcony so the characters can be displayed in an authentic setting.
Mrs Goble told the Daily Mail: "Kate was the hardest for me to create because she is pretty. They're not supposed to be caricatures. Some of the others have more obvious features.
"Harry was the easiest - he has small eyes and a long face. And Rowan Williams because he has very distinctive wild hair and glasses."
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Fully layered with 24 carat gold and inlaid with a genuine blue sapphire!
As one of the first customers you can now order the commemorative for £4.95 only (plus £1.95 P&P).
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Royal Wedding Tat
Just how much tat is it possible to generate around the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton?
These are the future collectibles to be found in charity shops, landfills and dustbins worldwide. None of the content here is endorsed or paid for in any way, it is suggested you do not buy any of the items featured .
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the Chinese have printed and imported and sold worldwide a mug with the face of the wrong (the bastard redhead) prince on it, which is now making news and will be highly collectable and worth megabucks...
guess we all look the same to them
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The Prince of Wales’ official online shop is selling a jigsaw featuring Prince William and his fiancée, Kate Middleton.
The internet store for Highgrove, the heir to the throne's Gloucestershire home, is advertising a 250-piece jigsaw puzzle for £29.95.
The game is advertised as "a finely cut wooden jigsaw featuring unique Wentworth 'whimsy' pieces showing the engagement photograph of HRH Prince William and Catherine Middleton".
Miss Middleton's famous blue Issa dress and Princess Diana’s sapphire ring are clearly on show, while Prince William smiles proudly alongside her.
The 14in by 10in puzzle was made in Britain using wood from sustainable forests. Profits go to Charles' charitable foundation.
A spokesman for St James’s Palace said: "In response to customer demand, the Highgrove shop sells a variety of products for customers who wish to commemorate the royal wedding. All profits go to the Prince’s Charities fund."
Other Royal souvenirs for sale include Royal Collection porcelain, Highgrove champagne flutes and whisky tumblers.
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Prince Charlie, heir to the throne, is selling jigsaws on his website. Now his future in-laws (Kate's parents) are selling lottery scratchcards on theirs...
By Harry Wallop, Consumer Affairs Editor 9:27PM GMT
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The scratch cards – designed to be used to play a game of trivia – are part of a Best of British range that has gone on sale at Party Pieces, the website owned and run by the Middleton family.
The cards risk further accusations that the website is taking advantage of the forthcoming wedding of Miss Middleton to Prince Wiliam.
Party Pieces, set up by Kate Middleton's parents Carole and Michael, has already been criticised for selling street party paraphernalia to coincide with the wedding.
And last year the website was forced to hurriedly take down an interview on the website with "Kate from Party Pieces", which saw Miss Middleton offering tips for hosting perfect parties next to a smiling, soft-focus photograph of herself. The interview, with details about Miss Middleton's childhood, was published by the website just a month after she won a controversial claim for alleged invasion of privacy after a photographer took pictures of her playing tennis during a private holiday in Cornwall.
The Britannia Scratch Trivia card costs £3.99 for a pack of ten. It is designed to be played by adults, allowing them to test their knowledge not just of British history and celebrities, but also the Royal Family. "Scratch away one crown to reveal the correct answer and impress your guests with your British knowledge," says the advertisement on the firm's website.
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One question is: "What is the Royal Standard of England. A. Boat, B. Book, C. Flag"
There are three questions on each card. On the back of the card there is a humorous instruction, which is likely to raise eyebrows at Buckingham Palace.
It says: "Got three answers correct? Queen of England. Got two answers correct? Close to the throne. Got one correct? The Queen's corgi. Got none correct? To the Tower. Off with your head."
Party Pieces has become a very successful website, selling busy parents all the equipment they need to throw a children's birthday party – from plates and table cloths, to invitations and fancy dress outfits. It has branched out to adult parties, including hen nights.
The website is also offering the "Best of British" range with all the accessories to hold a traditional street party, with plates, cups, bunting, hats and a host of other items featuring the British "Union Jack" flag – a decision which has, according to some Palace insiders, led to concerns that the Middletons run the risk of being seen as too commercial and taking advantage of the wedding on April 29.
Mrs Middleton, 56, a former air hostess, set up Party Pieces in 1987. Her husband, a former British Airways flight dispatcher, helps to run it. Miss Middleton worked as a photographer and web designer for the firm for three years until Christmas.
Her sister Pippa runs Party Times, an online magazine for her parents' company which featured in a newspaper magazine two weeks before the engagement. And her brother James, 23, promotes his cake-making business on the website.
The finances of Party Pieces are unclear because it trades as a partnership rather than being registered as a company, which would entail lodging accounts with Companies House. But it is thought to have made millions of pounds for the family.
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Royal Wedding mobile phone at Carphone Warehouse
March 24, 2011
A special royal wedding mobile phone has been released in time for the April 29 marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton. As wedding fever gets underway, many companies are looking to cash in on memorabilia for the exciting occasion, with mobile phone Alcatel the latest to join the trend.
The handset, which sports the Union Jack flat and the initials C and W on the back, will also record the date of the wedding. The Alcatel Smartphone is just one of many items which have been given a royal treatment since the announcement at the start of this year.
Costing only £14.95 for the actual handset, the phone is available on a pay as you go basis from Carphone Warehouse. Additional features include a ring tone of Mendelssohn’s Wedding March and a special wallpaper of Kate and Wills.
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Prince Harry throws William a 'top secret' stag do
Prince William enjoys low-key celebration with friends
Prince William's secret stag party is believed to have been a low-key affair on a sprawling Norfolk country estate with 22 of his friends.
Wills's brother and Best Man Harry, 26, changed plans for the event at the last minute as details of his original water-themed do in Devon were leaked.
'I can confirm that Prince William's stag party happened this weekend,' a source at St James's Palace tells the Daily Mail.
'It was an entirely private event and we don't intend to make any further comment.'
The stag party, which cost no more than £2,500, was held early because Prince William has a number of royal engagements in the run up to the Royal Wedding on 29 April.
The future King, 28, will marry Kate Middleton next month. Her hen night, as well as her tiara and dress, remain a mystery...
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Greedy Kate Middleton and Prince William are having loads of wedding cakes, although we expect it’s because they’ve got lots of guests coming to their low-key day at the end of April.
Fiona Cairns has confirmed she’s making two cakes for the wedding – one multi-layered fruit cake for the wedding and then a McVities chocolate biscuit cake will be made for the reception.
Apparently, the biscuit cake will have ‘a few hundred slices’ and contain about 35 lbs. of chocolate and approximately 1,700 McVitie's Rich Tea biscuits.
Fiona, who’s made cakes for the royals (and unofficial royal Paul McCartney) before, met Kate at Clarence House six weeks ago to choose what she’d like and Kate was well prepared. “She knew very much what she wanted, and she brought us mood boards and told us what influences she would like us to use on each cake,” says Fiona.
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April 2, 2011 Last updated at 02:56
Royal wedding: Tours follow in couple's footsteps
By Peter Jackson
BBC News
From trips to Kate Middleton's home village in Berkshire to a Kate and Wills walking tour of London, travel firms are unashamedly cashing in on the royal engagement. But what do the paying public think? We joined a tour to find out.
For many, the royal wedding in April amounts to little more than a welcome day off, but for a dedicated band of tourists and royalists, it is a golden opportunity to indulge their love of the monarchy.
A thriving industry in royal wedding tours is attracting a steady crowd for whom a tea towel or mug no longer cures their royal fever.
For the princely sum of £15 - about half the cost of a half-decent replica royal engagement plate - one such operator is offering a guided stroll around the London sites that "helped define the golden couple".
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Prince William admits: 'my Royal Wedding day nerves'
Wedding-day jitters and sleepless nights are normal experiences for most grooms. And it seems a future king is not spared bouts of pre-ceremony nerves.
Providing a rare insight into the pressures faced ahead of the Royal Wedding, Prince William has confessed to being nervous and daunted about marrying Kate Middleton in fewer than four weeks.
The 28 year-old admitted to being so nervous that his knees starting knocking during a recent wedding rehearsal at an undisclosed location. He also says he has also suffered through sleepless nights worrying about "the whole thing".
In a break from a training exercise at the RAF Valley base in Anglesey, he also confessed that marrying his 29 year-old fiancée in front of hundreds of guests – and the biggest worldwide TV audience since his parents' wedding in 1981 – remained "quite a daunting prospect”.
The Prince, who regularly deals with life-threatening situations as an RAF search and rescue pilot, acknowledged to being wracked with nerves about his pending nuptials on April 29.
Prince William shows the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh the Sea King Helicopter he flies as a Search and Rescue pilot Photo: PA
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I've been ambivalent. I'm loving the jokes.
But it seems that we will all be getting into it and going with the party. I've taken a poll of my mates and neighbours and people in the corner shop and it turns out we're all going to be celebrating.
We're reckoning AlQueda won't bomb us till next year, the Olympics...
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Phew...
Truly incredible, I'm so proud to be British, it was wonderful.
I'm surprised I'm as moved as I am, it was so perfect. I feel grateful and relieved that it went without a hitch. Wills looked like he was about to burst into laughter and Catherine looked tired but happy. Sweetness.
It didn't rain, absolutely nothing went wrong.
We do perfect pagentry and pomp and circumstance here in London and I'm celebrating. The fly past went over my back garden at 1:29pm and I'm on my way out now to the street party at 8:15pm.
Wonderful.
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