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Originally Posted by Alexandria
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!
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. |
For the wedding of the children of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, I think their weddings will be more elaborate than Lady Davina's. I assume there woud be at least one gala, banquet, or party the night before, probably at Kensington Palace (depending on where the weddings take place) that would no doubt be grand. Yet Lady Davina had a low key wedding because she is a low key person, and Freddie and Gabriella aren't as low key. On Prince and Princess Michael's own marriage, I think even though she was divorced and Catholic, his mother Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent who didn't live to see the marriage, would have supported it simply because she wanted all of her children to marry people of royal or noble birth and Michael is the only one that came close.