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Originally Posted by Elspeth
Yes - Westminster Abbey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Glass Coach, the Household Cavalry, the London Symphony Orchestra...
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Don't forget all the foreign dignitaries, European socialites and Hollywood celebrities that will surely be on the guest list and the week-long festivities!
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Originally Posted by samitude
I doubt Gabriella and Frederik will have large weddings. I don't think their parents did. Their weddings will probably be on the scale of Lady Sarah Chatto's wedding or something like that....
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I think Elspeth, and certainly me, mean that Princess Michael has some rather grand expectations and would likely expect a much bigger, fancier, more publicized wedding for her kids than the Gloucester's two children have had so far. I would say that Lady Davina's and her brother, the Earl of Ulster's wedding before her's, was even more low key than Lady Chatto's wedding. Lady Rose's wedding will no doubt be as low key. I would say that while Lady Chatto's wedding was low key in comparison to say Charles and Diana or Andrew and Sarah or even the Wessex wedding, it was still more prominent than the Gloucester wedding. Sarah is the niece of the Queen, while the Gloucester's children are merely second/third cousins of the Queen.
The reason Prince and Princess Michael did not have a big wedding was not necessarily because of Princess Michael's choosing. Prince Michael's decision to marry Marie-Christine (Princess Michael) was a bit of a "controversial" one in that she was a divorcee and of the Catholic faith -- two no-nos for the Anglican British royal family. Were Marie-Christine not a divorcee or Catholic, the circumstances might have been different.