Experts Predict Royal Wedding Betting Fever

(States Twitter)-Bet on whether or not there will be a successful wedding crasher. It’s 50-1 odds. You could bet and then try to become that crasher.

But you can also judge a few things about the expectations of the about-to-be newest royal couple.

Quite a few people seem to think that Kate and William are going to make it. At least to their 10th anniversary. The odds are only 7% that they will be divorced by then.

Odds are 150 to one that Kate will be a no-show and oh-oh butterfingers, the chances of the ring being dropped during the ceremony have been set at 25 to 1.

All of a sudden this is getting a whole lot more interesting. Who had even thought that a ring could be dropped? Has anyone ever been to a ceremony where that has even happened?

The there are the classics. Colour of the dress. Black is listed at 40 to 1. There’s the colour of the Queen’s hat. Yellow is leading at 2 to 1.

So far no site that is offering any of these prop bets is offering wedding day coverage as well. If they were, this thing might actually be worth watching.

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Friday sees a monumental day in the British monarchy, its the Royal Wedding between Kate Middleton and Prince William.

British public loves a wedding and the Royal Wedding is sure to be one of the most watched television programmes in history. Because of this, Ladbrokes is offering you the chance to bet on how many people will be watching events at Westminster Abbey over BBC and ITV.

Current favourite is under 30 million people which can be backed at 2/5. The Royal Wedding between Charles and Diana was watched by 28.40million people back in 1981, making it the seventh most watched programme in British television history.

Royal wedding: military in full-scale dress rehearsal

Full-scale walk through in preparation for the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton saw Army, Navy and RAF members lining the route the couple will take to and from Westminster Abbey.

Participants wore full military dress, but marching bands refrained from playing their instruments as the whole exercise was complete before 6.30am.

The eyes of the world will be on Prince William and Kate Middleton when they begin their journeys to and from Westminster Abbey.

Forces left Westminster's Wellington Barracks shortly before 5am to begin their way along the route.

Some of the soldiers, sailors and airmen practising their duties were Prince William's colleagues.

First to arrive at the abbey were two of the royal fleet cars - Rolls-Royces which arrived at about 4.50am.

Shortly after 5am the action began.

When the Ministry of Defence announced the Armed Forces' extensive ceremonial role, General Sir David Richards, head of the military, described it as a "huge honour" for those involved.

When the couple leave the abbey as man and wife, two groups of 12 military personnel will line their route as they make their way to their horse-drawn coach. The tribute is traditionally performed at many military weddings.

Dozens of soldiers on horseback from the Household Cavalry made their way to Westminster Abbey via a different route from the wedding cars this morning.

The cavalry, who led the cars and carriages back to Buckingham Palace through the arch of Horse Guards Parade and along the Mall, performed a loop, parading down Buckingham Palace Road and along Victoria Street to get them to the Abbey.

As the horses walked through the parade ground at Horse Guards, clouds of dust kicked up covering the Welsh Guards, who were lining that part of the procession.

Military precision in wedding rehearsal

(States Twitter)-UP to a thousand members of the military carried out a pre-dawn royal wedding dress rehearsal today.

The full-scale walk through in preparation for Friday's big day involved the Army, Navy and RAF. Nothing was left to chance with the dry run, in which timings were tested to the second.

So nothing was left to chance with the dry run in which timings were tested to the second and all armed forces taking part got the chance to practise their role in their service uniforms.

Royal wedding rehearsal

(States Twitter)-Hundreds of Kingdom troops paraded through the deserted streets of London on horseback overnight in a final dress rehearsal ahead of Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding Friday.

Soldiers, airmen and sailors started taking up positions from 2 a.m. for their final practice run, which began at dawn.

Entire run-through lasted several hours, and each detail of the procession was timed to military precision.

Everyone who took part in the rehearsal wore uniforms, with members of the British Royal Navy, Army and Air Force lining the route on foot.

Rolls Royce that will carry the future princess to the service beside her father, Michael, was also involved in the procession and arrived at the wedding venue first, at about 4:50 a.m.

Middleton's final journey as a single woman will take her via Buckingham Palace along the Mall, down Whitehall and past the Houses of Parliament to Westminster Abbey, and is expected to be lined by tens of thousands of well-wishers.

When the couple emerges from Westminster Abbey as husband and wife after the hourlong ceremony, they will climb into a horse-drawn carriage and travel the same route in reverse, escorted by mounted troops from the Household Cavalry.

Excitement is palpable in London ahead of Friday's festivities, and dozens of excited royal fanatics have now pitched tents to secure the best vantage point.

Inside Westminster Abbey, final preparations are also being made.

Floral decorations were brought into the venue Tuesday afternoon and have been designed by London's Shane Connolly.

Eight 20-feet-high trees also arrived - consisting of six English Field Maple and two Hornbeam - and the display will remain in place until May 6 so the public can enjoy them.

Music rehearsal will take place Wednesday, and the bride and groom are also expected to have their own run through in the coming days with senior clergy.

British royal wedding news

(States Twitter)-LONDON, UK — I asked a London cab driver what he was planning to do to celebrate the royal wedding and he replied without hestitation: “I'm getting out of town.”

What about television? Was he going to watch it on the tube? “My wife will. Not me.”

With the big event only a few days away, he didn't sound very excited.

Whopping 47 percent of British adults told a recent poll that they were “not very” or “not at all” interested in the wedding of their future king and queen. And a surprising 43 percent said they were unlikely” or “definitely will not” watch it on TV.

Brits are blase about their monarchy, but what about Americans, who are supposed to be fascinated by the royal family their ancestors fought to get rid of? In another reality check, 65 percent of Americans told a recent poll they were “not interested” in the royal wedding.

So who should we believe, the polls or the celebrity-obsessed media, which have been the flogging the William and Kate story for all it is worth.

Where have the world's media been getting their information? Much of it from the British government and the hyperventilating UK tabloids.

It's Her Majesty's Government that is predicting a worldwide television audience of 2 billion for the wedding. As far as I can tell, that is at best a wild guess snatched out of thin air. The actual audience — those who will tune in to watch the entire ceremony — is likely to be much smaller, even counting the village of Visci Brasov.

Actual ceremony is a magical, made-for-TV event. I covered the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana in 1981 for CBS News, and will be glued to my television at home for this one. Forget the hype and enjoy a real feel-good story. They are rare these days.

Wedding Is an Invitation to Party for pour

Many as one million spectators are expected to line the streets of London to watch the procession from Westminster Abbey, where Kate and William will be married, to Buckingham Palace, where their reception will take place.

Capitalize on the event, convenience stores and supermarkets are peddling paper masks of Kate, William and other members of the royal family. Union Jack balloons and buntings are ubiquitous. Pubs are pumping pints of specially brewed ale and setting up big-screen TVs for viewing the ceremony and procession.

Polls have shown interest in the royal wedding is significantly lower in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Other surveys suggest an archetypal wedding enthusiast would be a politically conservative woman who is more than 60 years old and hails from southern England. Most likely to be apathetic: a libertarian-leaning Scottish man between 25 and 39 years old.

Local Government estimates there will be at least 11,000 street parties nationwide, including those that don't need permits. Chris Gittings, director of Streets Alive Ltd., a group in Bristol that helps people plan such events, said he's received "thousands and thousands" of inquiries.

UK street parties date back to at least 1919, when public "peace teas" were a common way of celebrating the end of the World War I. Since then, they've become a way to mark national or royal occasions. In 1977, at the Queen's "Silver Jubilee" celebrating 25 years of her reign, some 10 million Brits attended them, Mr. Gittings said.

Festival will feature stuntmen dressed as knights fighting on stage. There will be a parade. Shops will be decked in medieval-themed bunting. Employees will be dressed in period costumes.

And of course, there will be a beer tent, offering up pints of mead, ale and cider.

Celebrate British royal wedding

(States Twitter)-Napans have gone mad — royally mad, that is.

The UK royal wedding may be 5,000 miles and eight time zones away, but that won’t stop a number of locals from celebrating the nuptials of Prince William and Kate Middleton during the wee hours Friday morning.

Come early Friday morning, Cave said she’ll be watching the event live on TV. On Friday night, she’ll dish up traditional English tea food like scones and tea sandwiches, “and of course, a wedding cake,” she said.

Cave isn’t the only Napan to get royal wedding fever.

“I have been in the countdown phase since the announcement of the royal engagement and the wedding date,” Jeanne Doty of Napa said.

Doty said she’s taking Friday off from work to be able to fully immerse herself in the royal wedding experience. She’s even purchased a Kate Middleton faux sapphire ring to wear Friday, along with a royal blue outfit and tiara.

UK royals fascinate some Americans?

“It’s something Britain has that is unique,” Rock said. “It’s pageantry carried on through history. It’s special.”

And with the death of Princess Diana, “I think everyone has a soft spot for William and Harry,” she said.

Terry Bremer Allison is married to John Allison, a retired British Army officer, who also happens to be the president of the St. Andrew’s Society of San Francisco. That means the Allisons are invited to a real royal wedding party hosted by the British Consul General at the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco.

“I’m quite excited about this,” Allison said. “I remember being a teenager and watching Princess Anne and thinking, 'Wouldn’t it be nice to ride horses and wear a tiara?',” she said.

“It’s very romantic. I think part of it is the princess syndrome. The fairy-tale aspect.”

She may not have a tiara, but Bremer Allison said her husband ordered her a William and Kate commemorative wedding mug.

Britain's royal weddings past

(States Twitter)-LONDON,UK - British royal weddings have ranged in scale from huge events broadcast around the world to quiet events in intimate venues.

Prince William's April 29 marriage to Kate Middleton will be held at London's Westminster Abbey, where most of the big royal weddings of the past 60 years have taken place.

Here is a list of royal weddings during Queen Elizabeth II's reign, and what became of the marriages.

PRINCESS MARGARET and ANTONY ARMSTRONG-JONES

-- 1960, May 6, Westminster Abbey, London

Queen Elizabeth's sister was talked out of marrying equerry Peter Townsend in 1953, as he was a divorcee.

She married photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, who was created Earl of Snowdon, in the first royal wedding to be broadcast on television. Their arty friends attended the ceremony.

They had two children, David, who became chairman of Christie's auction house, and painter Sarah.

Reports of numerous affairs first circled in 1966 and the couple drifted apart by the early 1970s and they divorced in 1978, when he remarried. Margaret died in 2002.

PRINCESS ANNE and MARK PHILLIPS

-- 1973, November 14, Westminster Abbey, London

Anne was the first of Queen Elizabeth's children to tie the knot, marrying army lieutenant Mark Phillips in an ceremony at Westminster Abbey that was filmed in colour and televised around the world.

Unusually, Phillips, an Olympic gold medal-winning equestrian, did not take a title and their two children, Peter and Zara Phillips, bear no titles. They divorced in 1992.

Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer

1981, July 29, St Paul's Cathedral, London

Billed as the wedding of the century, the heir to the throne married Diana Spencer in a huge ceremony attended by royalty and heads of state from around the world. Britain had a national holiday and the event was broadcast live across the globe.

It was held at St Paul's Cathedral because it can hold more people than Westminster Abbey and allowed for a longer procession route.

Though not of royal blood, Diana was the daughter of an earl.

They had two children, Princes William and Harry, but separated in 1992 and divorced four years later. She was killed in a car crash in 1997.

Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson

1986, July 23, Westminster Abbey, London

After Charles's wedding, all eyes were on Queen Elizabeth's second son, who married Sarah Ferguson, a commoner and the daughter of a major, five years later. The big-scale event followed the template set by Charles's wedding.

Andrew was created Duke of York. They have two children, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. They divorced in 1996 but remain close.

Anne, Princess and Timothy Laurence

1992, December 12, Crathie Kirk, Balmoral

Anne became the first British royal divorcee to marry again since 1905. She wed Royal Navy commander Timothy Laurence in a low-key ceremony at the church used by the royals when they are at the sovereign's Balmoral estate in Scotland.

The Church of England did not allow divorced people to remarry in its churches, while the Church of Scotland did.

Wedding of Prince Edward & Sophie Rhys-Jones

1999, June 19, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

Queen Elizabeth's youngest son Edward married public relations manager Sophie Rhys-Jones in a smaller-scale event than his brothers' weddings. He was given the title Earl of Wessex. They have two children.

Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Camilla Parker Bowles

2005, April 9, Windsor Guildhall

After a long courtship in which Camilla Parker-Bowles was gradually accepted as the prince's partner, the couple married in the royal town of Windsor, in a low-key civil ceremony.

It was followed by a religious blessing at St George's Chapel in Queen Elizabeth's presence.

The wedding was to have taken place in Windsor Castle, but was switched to the town's Guildhall.

Both divorced, there was controversy over whether they could have had a church wedding, especially given Charles's future role as supreme governor of the Church of England.

The wedding was also delayed by a day to allow the prince to attend pope John Paul II's funeral.

Royal wedding: Peter Phillips and Autumn Kelly

2008, May 17, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

Queen Elizabeth's eldest grandchild Peter Phillips married Canadian management consultant Autumn Kelly in a low-key family wedding. She converted from Catholicism to Anglicanism to keep his 11th place in the line of succession to the throne.

Anne's son works for the Royal Bank of Scotland and carries out no royal duties.

British royal wedding etiquette

Britain's Caribbean territories and former colonies, judges wear thick wigs of white curls in the tropical heat, sports fans follow cricket religiously, and Queen Elizabeth II is the titular head of state. That doesn't mean people here will be breaking out the tea and crumpets to watch this week's royal wedding.

Friday's nuptials between Prince William and Kate Middleton is breaking down along generational lines in the ethnically diverse British Caribbean. It elicits excitement in some middle-age and older people who see the British royal family as a symbol of stability, and yawns from a younger generation more captivated by the latest dancehall reggae stars.

Caribbean grandmothers and mothers will stay glued to their television sets in much the same way people did during the 1981 marriage of William's parents, Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.

Dozens of wedding-watching parties are planned on British-influenced islands in the Caribbean. Some restaurants are promising "royal" goodies such as raspberry scones, crustless cucumber sandwiches and aromatic teas in honor of the couple. A few hotels are readying royal-themed music including "God Save the Queen" and "Rule Britannia.

UK officials expect several million Britons will head abroad, thanks to the timing of the wedding day — a holiday for most — between the Easter weekend and the May Day public holiday.

Wedding-watchers in the Caribbean said the TV broadcast will allow them a glimpse of the formal, pomp-filled world of the British monarchy that they only know from books and films.

In the former British colony of Guyana, 47-year-old hotel manager Liz Rahaman said she plans to spend the entire day watching royal wedding coverage at home. For Rahaman, following the wedding will be her way of paying homage to the late Princess Diana, who died at age 36 in a 1997 Paris car crash.

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Betting On the Wedding

(States Twitter)-Royal wedding fever yet? Commemorative plate manufacturers and television broadcasters are making a mint of the wedding, and Britain's bookmakers aren't about to be left out. The U.K.'s largest betting outlets say they expect more than £1 million. Wagers include how late the bride will be, the color of Queen Elizabeth's hat, and whether Kate Middleton's father will cry when he gives her away. William Hill has odds at 25:1 that Prince Harry will be too drunk to finish his best-man speech. Even less likely is that the royal limo will break down before the ceremony or that Middleton will leave Prince William at the altar. At Ladbrokes you can also bet on how the royal wedding will compare to the nuptials between supermodel Kate Moss and rocker Jamie Hince.

Terms of royal betting, the wedding blows it out the window," said Rupert Adams, a gameers. "I think we will take the same amount as we've taken on royal betting in 30 years." gameers said it will be the second largest nonsports event in company history.

people are placing small wagers as a lark rather than making substantial bets. The average bet on the wedding is between £2 and £6, while the average bet placed with William Hill on soccer is around £14. Adams also pointed out that unlike sporting events where the outcome can only be guessed, royal insiders may actually know the outcome of some of the wagers like the designer of Kate's dress or the wedding-reception entertainment.

Royal wedding's lone American will guard Queen on horseback

Streets of Manhattan, riding skateboards and listening to punk rock, Denton John never expected to find himself where he'll be on Friday -- on horseback, boots gleaming, as the only American in the royal wedding of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton.

Just where he will be, in white gloves and red plume, as a member of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, protecting Queen Elizabeth II as she leaves Westminster Abbey to return to Buckingham Palace.

Spring sunshine glints off his breastplate outside the palace, Trooper John, 23, explains that he grew up in New York City, the son of immigrants from the small island nation of Grenada.

Prince William and Prince Harry, the second and third in line to the British throne, served in after they graduated from Sandhurst, the British military academy.

Unlike the royals, though, John had never been on a horse before joining the army.

That's actually not unusual in the storied unit, he says: "About 90% of Household Cavalry troops never sat on a horse" before entering the Army.

But with two years of training now under his belt, John will spend all day Friday on one, culminating when his squadron, the Blues & Royals, escorts the queen's carriage home after her grandson's wedding.

And although tourists rightly see the Household Cavalry as a showpiece of the British monarchy, John is quick to point out that they are soldiers first and foremost.

John will be in a unique position Friday, says Captain James Hulme of the Household Cavalry.

"He is the only American in the Household Cavalry, and as far as we know, the only American in the Royal Wedding," Hulme says with a grin. "It's our version of the 'American Dream.

Museum’s British Royal Wedding Tea will be a civilized

(States Twitter)-Museum is welcoming all to an April 30 British tea, featuring scones with clotted cream, Murchie’s tea, Batenburg cake imported from England as well as a variety of baking from volunteers.

To commemorate the event, the museum has put together a new display featuring artifacts and memorabilia commemorating past Royal visits to Revelstoke. In addition to several large paintings of queens, kings, princes and princesses, there are also photos of royal visits to Revelstoke.

Royalty have visited Revelstoke on many occasions over the years, especially during the time when the railway was the preferred method of transcontinental travel.

Here’s a summary of some of the past Royal visits, most of it compiled directly from text provided by the Revelstoke Museum & Archives:

The Prince of Wales returned with his brother Prince George, the Duke of York, in 1927, when the Prince officially opened the mountain highway that is now known as Meadows in the Sky Parkway in Mount Revelstoke National Park. A special dais with the Prince’s insignia was created for the occasion.

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth toured Canada in the Royal Tour of 1939, in what has been termed the most important Royal visit in history. The citizens of the commonwealth were concerned about the rumours of oncoming war with Germany and were greatly comforted and reassured by the visit of the Royal couple. Over 9,000 people gathered in the pouring rain at the Revelstoke CPR station on May 28, 1939, to catch a glimpse of the King and Queen. This was well more than double the population of Revelstoke at the time. The Queen was quite distressed when she heard that children and elderly people had been waiting for hours in the rain.

Only twice in the last 50 years has snow covered the ground prior to October 25th, the first in 1926. The second time was last Friday, when four inches of snow covered the ground.” This was the first line of the Revelstoke Review’s article after the Oct. 25, 1951, visit of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip. Snow was still falling when Mayor Walter Hardman welcomed the Princess at the CPR station.

Elizabeth and Philip again visited Revelstoke in 1959 as Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. The Revelstoke Museum & Archives doesn’t have any photos of that visit. If you have any, they’d love a copy for the museum.

British royal wedding dress remains a mystery

Brides are desperate to keep their wedding dress a secret from their husband-to-be until they walk down the aisle.

Middleton is battling to keep hers a secret not only from Prince William but the entire world.

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So far she's done a good job, despite the frenzied speculation about what she will wear as the clock ticks down to the couple's April 29 wedding.

Couple announced their engagement in November the media has been in a spin about who would design Catherine's dress for her Westminster Abbey wedding.

Reports have suggested it is being made behind the secure walls of Buckingham Palace to ensure that not a skerrick of information gets out.

Despite being able to call on any designer in the world, most fashion watchers believe Catherine will choose a home-grown British one.

One of Princess Diana's favourites, Bruce Oldfield, and Brazil's Daniela Issa Helayel, who created Catherine's elegant blue engagement dress, were early hot tips.

speculation pointed to Sarah Burton from the edgy UK label Alexander McQueen.

McQueen issued firm denials that it had received the royal nod after The Sunday Times splashed a front-page story in March saying Burton had won the fashion world's most coveted commission.

However, fashionistas believe Burton, whose clients include Cate Blanchett and Michelle Obama, is a credible candidate given her talent for producing stunning sculptured gowns.

Royal Seal of Approval for UK £5 Coins

Royal Mint, the UK’s official coin producer for 1,100 years, has released a fantastic range of £5 coins and anticipates a large demand from collectors worldwide.

Approved by Her Majesty the Queen and Prince William, it is the only official coin to commemorate the marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. The coin was presented to the UK Privy Council on 16 March 2011 and is now deemed UK tender.

Coin Presentation Folder at £12.99 to the exclusive Platinum Piedfort Proof Crown, which has limited worldwide presentation of 200 and costs £5,450.

The obverse bears a portrait of the Queen by Ian Rank-Broadley FRBS, the year and the denomination. The reverse features profiles of Prince William and Catherine Middleton by designer Mark Richards FRBS and the date of their wedding 29 April 2011.

Official Royal Wedding Collection Launched

Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton not far away now, the official Royal Wedding Collection china has been launched. The high quality souvenirs for the wedding which will take place on 29th April, 2011, use Kate’s formal name, Catherine. The souvenirs are just one way in which you can join in the celebration of the day and have something by which to remember the special day. Also, if you choose one of the high quality official china souvenirs from the Royal Collection, you are also sure of getting a piece which will rise in value and could even be seen as an investment for the future.

Prince William and Kate have personally given the Royal Collection their official stamp of approval. The products are all in a background of pale grey with white decorations of ribbons, hearts and doves.

piece from the official Royal Collection features an intertwined ‘W’ and ‘C’, the couple’s correct initials, with Prince William’s coronet over them and of course the wedding date. The initials were said to have been personally sanctioned by Kate herself after it was decided she would be officially known as Princess Catherine.

Online sales of the Royal Wedding Collection are already going well and the website carries warnings that due to high demand, it may take up to three weeks for your orders to be sent out. So, you may need to make your choices soon if you want your goods to arrive in time for the big day.