Monday, April 11, 2011

The protocol in a real wedding

They have already started to leak to the press during times of ceremony between Kate Middleton and William of England, and some patterns of behavior inside and outside Westminster Abbey for example, do not use mobile phones so that no guest can use social networks. No doubt we'll miss tweets Rania of Jordan, as he did at the wedding of Victoria of Sweden ...

A few days before the ceremony, the Lord Chamberlain, which will complete the list of attendees and assigned a sector number , row and seat of each person, mailed to the guest house of a card informing you of these details, so that at Westminster do not hesitate to enter, or have the need to ask anyone.

The guest list The approximate number of guests is distributed as follows: 1,000 guests, including friends and family. 50 belonging to members of the royal family and 40 from other royal families. 200 will be the members of the government, parliament and diplomatic corps. 80 guests of charities in which Prince William is implicated.

30, Armed Forces and 60 governors of the Commonwealth countries, as well as soldiers who served and were wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq. For security reasons, the list will not be known until the last moment, days before, the Abbey is closed to visits by the public and guarded by security staff.

At the invitation of the protocol marks "morning coat" or military etiquette and cocktail dress with a headdress or pamela for them. The wedding day From 8:30 in the morning is expected to start arriving lower-ranking guests. In this type of wedding you do not come when you want or can, park your car where there is room and starts to run (not going to be that between the time the Queen).

As we have said, here is not any detail for improvisation. Moreover, most of the guests will go to the Abbey in coaches, which have established a schedule of arrivals with British punctuality. From 10 am, guests start arriving and senior members of the reigning royal houses and not prevailing invited to the ceremony.

These guests will be escorted to his seat by a military field or body of Yeomen of the Royal Family. From 10:45 am Westminster reach members of the British royal family, who come from low to high range, taking into account the preferences of step of the protocol. The last to go will be the Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Elizabeth II.

No visitor can enter the ceremony after he made the queen. While this is happening at the Abbey, the bride and her father and godfather Michael Middleton, will go towards Goring Hotel Westminster in a Rolls Royce in 1950, not float, as did the previous royal brides. The road to the altar Kate Middleton and his father will be the last to arrive at the Abbey.

Once inside, and at 11 o'clock, the bride along with her wedding party, always behind her and her sister Pippa as maid of honor will begin the road to the altar. Prince William and Prince Harry, who are already at the Abbey, will come from a side corridor, while the bride starts walking.

Both will be in the chancel area, enabled the development of the ceremony, which will last approximately one hour. The Dean of Westminster, John Hall, will officiate the ceremony, Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, will marry, and the Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, a personal friend of Prince Charles and the priest in charge of the funeral of Princess Diana, will officiate the sermon .

After the ceremony, William and Kate will be inclined to bow to Queen Elizabeth II. Afterwards, the newlyweds, as husband and wife with the royal title by Queen announced that morning, leave the Abbey for its maiden tour of the city to the Palacio Buckingham. With regard to the title will provide, it says it could be the Duchy of Cambridge and Clarence or simply opt for the Princes.

English according to the protocol, she will not be the princess Catherine, but the Princess William of Wales, since it takes the name of her husband and daughters are princesses only the king or queen. The tour post-link His first tour of London will be in a carriage with horses Landau State in 1902 and, if the weather is not, it would be in a glass cover, 1881.

Once in Buckingham, will pose for the photographer privately H. Burnand, while 650 guests will go to the reception. Later, about 13:30 appeared at the balcony of Buckingham Palace accompanied by some members of both families, while enjoying the air show of the Royal Air Force. This cocktail reception will end at 15:00 so that the couple can rest.

In the afternoon, at 19:00, there will be another reception in Buckingham, where they have invited 350 people. No one knows exactly who will attend or where they will spend their first night of marriage, nor the destination of your honeymoon.

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