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I captured some shots of the royals arrivals but saved them in the WRONG FORMAT!!!!!!
Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco arrives for a party at the Hotel "Mandarin Oriental" in London on Thursday, 28th April, 2011 on the eve of the royal wedding of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29.
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I was disappointed that they didn't show the church arrivals of the foreign royals. I was really looking forward to it. It seems there was a caravan of buses and they went to a side entrance so they didn't have to go down the main aisle.
Princess Michael looks gorgeous. I'm amazed.
We were very badly let down over the guests. We were allowed only brief glimpses of the foreign royalty, and also of the members of the extended BRF whom we don't see too often. Goodness knows why the BBC saw fit to show us the choir all the time instead.
I have a feeling that Lalla Salma had been in the UK for a few days prior to the bombings. Also, it may have been more dangerous to fly immediately back to Morocco and disrepectful to HM Queen to ditch the wedding. After all, what could she accomplish by flying back to Morocco right away? I am sure Lalla Salma expressed concern about the killing of innocent people in her home country.
As a side note involving Lalla Salma, I was flipping between CNN coverage of the wedding and my local PBS/BBC channel (which is the channel I watched most of coverage on - because of the HD quality mostly). When the foreign royals were arriving, right behind the Sultan of Brunei and his wife I knew it was Lalla Salma because I saw the bottom half of her Moroccan caftan. Just as I saw all of Lalla, the British commentator stated, "Next is the Sultan of Brunei and his wife followed by Lalla Salma of Thailand." !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe I misunderstood, but that is what I heard!
Also, I did not notice HSH Albert of Monaco and Charlene. Where did they sit.
On a third note, the three daughters of Earl Spencer are quite knock-outs, aren't they? Are any of them models like their mother? All in all, I enjoyed the wedding and considering I got only 90 minutes of sleep this morning ( I worked until 11pm and by the time I got home and to bed it was 130amET and I was up at 3am!)
True, the media did not pay enough attention to other Royal Houses. But, I'm must agree with whoever said it. Majority of people don't care so they don't feel the urge to do it like we would like it.
As to the lack of opportunity to see foreign royals, that may have been deliberate. The couple had gone to great lengths to include as many "normal" people as possible, e.g. postmistresses, school traffic wardens etc.
The royals, foreign or not, have all the time and opportunities in the world.
The coverage that I saw on CNN mostly showed British royals or British celebs. Didn't show other royals from other countries. I know that many of them attended the wedding.
I agree; I think the television coverage was designed to appeal to the British Commonwealth countries (and, to a lesser extent, an American audience).
And many people in those countries are only really aware of the British Royal Family, not the others.
No, I shouldn't think they did. Worse still, the BBC commentators seemed to be equally ignorant. No one had bothered to do any preparation. It was piss-poor. Sorry, but it was.I watched much of the coverage on American network television, and when I complained that the anchors were not identifying most of the guests, my friend said quietly that she didn't think they knew who the guests were.
thank you for all the image posts of the lovely pre-wedding gala. I have never seen so many foreign royals looking so good. Princess Alexandra wins for her generation, a tie w/Princess Michael of Kent.
Would love to see a better picture of Charlene's dress, it looked exquisite.
My favorite was MC's dress. Love the rich simplicity, the bodice, the sleeves, and the little train.
Can anyone ID charlene's and Mc's dresses?
Also, Tatiana's jewlery?
Frelinghighness said:Would love to see a better picture of Charlene's dress, it looked exquisite.
Can anyone ID charlene's and Mc's dresses?
Nadine said:Additionally, AKRIS has made at least three outfits for Charlene this past year ~ a black one (1st pic), her sea foam engagement dress, and "The Swan" one at the pre-wedding dinner the night before, and also the dove gray one for the wedding itself:
http://forum.purseblog.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1316977&d=1296837059
http://img.shopstyle.com/uim/y2010/d214/64/6421226a95c32bbea792163819717732.jpg
yfrog Fullsize - http://yfrog.com/gy91e4j
yfrog Fullsize - http://yfrog.com/h8wk20j
Can anyone link to a photo of Princess Alexandra, please? I only saw her for a split-second.