ROYAL WEDDING TIMETABLE (with historic details from print edition)

NY POST (TWO PAGE PRINT EDITION) ^ | 4/28/11

[Liz]

EXCERPTED FROM NY POST PRINT EDITION

4:00 AM Live media feed begins.

5:10 AM Wills and and best man Prince Harry first to leave Clarence House for Abbey. Charles and Camilla leave. Clarence House is Charles, Camilla, sons' home. Built 1825-27 for William IV. William and Kate's London home after marriage.

5:40 AM Queen and Prince leave Buckingham Palace---built in 1702 by request of Duke of Buckingham. Queen Victoria was first sovereign resident in 1837. Ballroom---site of the reception---is 120' long

5:51 AM Kate and dad leave Goring Hotel in 1950 Rolls Royce Phantom IV---auto attacked with Charles and Camilla inside. Five-star Goring Hotel is fave of Queen and Queen Mother; operated by same family since 1910.

6:00 AM Wedding begins. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams performs ceremony. Right Rev Richard Chartres, Bishop of London gives address. Services conducted by Dean of Westminster, the very Rev John Hall.Abbey has hosted 15 royal weddings including Prince William's grandmother and great grandmother.

7:15 AM Couple rides back to the palace for reception in open 1902 state landau carriage (weather permitting).

ORDER OF PROCESSION BACK TO PALACE

Kate and Wills

Price Harry and Pippa Middleton

Bridesmaids and page boys

Queen and Prince Phillip

Prince Charles, Camilla and the Middletons

8:00 AM Wedding reception at Buckingham Palace.

8:25 AM Kate and Wills appear on balcony.

8:30 AM RAF aircraft from Battle of Britain fly-by as royal family appears on balcony.

8:45 AM Lunchtime reception for 600 guests hosted by Queen --- served on solid gold dinnerware with gold cutlery. Queen makes champagne toast.

10:30 AM Couple leaves for St James Palace to change for evening reception.

2:00 AM Reception and dinner for 300 guests. Nightclub disco scene with 80's theme til dawn, planned by Pippa, Kate's sister/maid of honor.

[reegs]

Very nice! Err... Dress, that is.

[Wyatt's Torch]

Pippa looks absolutely beautiful.

[Quilla]

OMG! Camilla just threw a shoe. :)

[Eurotwit]

I have been wondering what muslims think of this.

This has been live on Al Jazeera - reading from the Roman letters.

It’s such an opposite message from that of islam. I wonder what muslims who have watched it today think...

Perhaps this service has done some good missionary work among good hearted muslims...

[Jemian]

I have always thought that Di’s mother-in-law picked that dress and she picked it so Di wouldn’t upstage HER too much. I have always suspected that when Di became too popular that the Queen worked to undermine Di. A lot of Di’s problems were self-made but the Queen added to those problems.

[Red_Devil 232]

Actually some of us know how to act civilized - witness the Glen Beck crowd in D.C.

[heylady]

Agree, Pippa is a very beautiful girl.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Thanks guys and guyettes! I enjoyed the thread and the wedding. But,

Hi ho! Hi ho! It's off to the Cape we go!

[patriot08]

The ‘Amish’ would have been having brawls in the streets and yelling MF! LOL

[Explorer89]

I kind of remember hearing that Diana had that monstrosity picked for her, as well. I did like Kate’s dress.

[STARWISE]

Apparently William has been furiously BEGGING Harry NOT to mention hair in his toast or comments at the reception. It truly bugs him to no end .. LOL. Sibling rivalry .. it never dies .. and I know this as Mom to two very adult sons. It's *maddening* !!!

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

My eyes!
Is she wearing something from Moochelle’s closet?

[paulycy]

The ‘Amish’ would have been having brawls in the streets and yelling MF! LOL

Good point. LOL!

[patriot08]

Pippa’s dress is ok. Nothing spectacular.
Why white? Should have been pastel, don’t you think?

[srmorton]

Harry is handsome, but I have always thought William to be the better looking because he looked so much like his mother growing up. Now that he is a little older and is losing his hair, he is beginning to resemble Prince Charles, but William still has his mother’s lovely smile.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Meant to add: Looks like a royal version of “scratch the crotch” :)

[newzjunkey]

It just overwhelmed her.

The dress and the marriage.

[patriot08]

What, good hearted muslims?

[Wyatt's Torch]

Lady Thatcher on the British Monarch:

Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.

[LibFreeOrDie]

They’re on the balcony!