Royal couple opt for delayed honeymoon
The new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have decided not to go on
honeymoon immediately and will spend the weekend in the UK before the
duke returns to work next week. William and Catherine left Buckingham
Palace by helicopter on Saturday, following their wedding parties.
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Clarence House has released the official wedding photographs |
They celebrated at the palace with 300 friends and family on Friday
evening, after a larger lunchtime reception. Meanwhile, Clarence House
has released three official wedding photographs.
Privacy plea
The locations of the couple’s weekend and their honeymoon - which
will be overseas - will not be disclosed in advance. The couple have
asked that their privacy be respected during the coming days and while
on honeymoon.
Prince William will go back to his job as an RAF search and rescue
pilot next week. They live on Anglesey, but St James’s Palace said they
would not be spending the long weekend there. The duchess’s family,
along with some of their guests, stayed at the exclusive Goring hotel
near the palace.
Wedding photos released
The official photographs of the wedding were released on Saturday, as
the couple departed. The pictures were taken in Buckingham Palace’s
throne room immediately after the bride and groom arrived from their
marriage service at Westminster Abbey on Friday.
Three photos have been released, with one showing the couple alone,
and a second that includes their bridesmaids and pageboys.
The final image adds the bride and groom’s parents - the Prince of
Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and Michael and Carole Middleton - along
with the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Harry, maid of honour
Pippa, and the bride’s brother James. Society photographer Hugo Burnand,
who took the official wedding photographs, said there was a ‘buzz’ in
the room when he took the images.
An estimated one million well-wishers gathered in London for the
wedding while more than 24 million viewers in the UK watched the event
on television according to industry body Barb. At its peak some 20
million had tuned into the BBC’s coverage of the wedding.
The service at the abbey was attended by 1,900 guests and ran
smoothly, aside from a brief struggle to place the wedding ring on the
bride’s finger.
Later in keeping with a royal tradition begun by the Queen Mother,
the bridal bouquet was left on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior in
Westminster Abbey.
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