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Friday, April 29, 2011

Watching and listening to the Royal Wedding of Prince William & Kate Middleton via BBC-TV and Radio's 5live



On the 5 live website yesterday, I spotted a very interesting video in which former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond "explains what life as a Princess for Kate Middleton could be like."

You can see it here, along with some other Royal Wedding related videos:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/5live/bestbits/


Above, my screen-shot of David Furnish and Elton John at Westminster Abbey around 10:05 a.m. looking around at the impressive scene all around them.
This morning, as planned, I'm listening to BBC Radio 5 live's coverage of the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton -the future Duke & Duchess of Cambridge- and watching the BBC-TV's worldwide coverage, the latter of which I'm watching on the local Miami PBS affiliate, WPBT, Channel 2.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/5live/#two

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

5 live's Victoria Derbyshire, Richard Bacon and Gabby Logan are hosting the coverage on the radio side and have already been mentioning some good factoids, anecdotes and stories of a sort that American reporters flown over to London for the occasion couldn't possibly know or tell as well, which is one of the reasons that I'm observing the wedding this way, and not watching the U.S. TV networks.

More of those factoids are here from Channel 4 News:
http://www.channel4.com/news/royal-wedding-prince-william-and-princess-catherine




And if you didn't already know, the nasty business with the Syrian Amb. to Great Britain and the Royal wedding invite has been resolved -he's out!

Channel 4's Snowmail of yesterday put it this way:

Syrian Ambassador's wedding invitation withdrawn
http://www.channel4.com/news/syrian-ambassador-uninvited-to-royal-wedding

SERVICE REVEALED
St James’ Palace, which is the official residence of the bridegroom's father - has issued an order of service for tomorrow’s proceedings which it boldly claims to be “the epitome of Britishness'. We will be examining whether it is, with three people who have some degree of access to the question of what ‘Britishness’ actually is.


Prince William and Kate's Royal Wedding details revealed
http://www.channel4.com/news/prince-william-and-kates-royal-wedding-details-revealed

You can watch the last seven days of Channel 4 newscasts on their catch up player - available on iPhones and iPads too:
http://www.channel4.com/news/catch-up/



And Hip Hip Hooray for Pippa
!!!
http://www.celebuzz.com/2011-04-29/pippa-middleton-and-bridemaids-dresses-what-they-wore-photos/