PRINCE WILLIAM has ensured that close friends of his mother late Princess Diana are invited for his marriage to Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey here on Friday.
India will be represented at the wedding by the country’s high commissioner to Britain Nalin Surie. Among the religious leaders invited for the marriage include Anil Bhanot, a founding member of the Hindu Council UK.
According to the Sunday Times, Sir Elton John, who sang at Diana’s funeral, is on the list along with Tessa Green, who used to chair the Royal Marsden foundation trust — the cancer specialist centre which had been supported by Diana.
William’s friend Joss Stone, the singer who performed at the concert for Diana, are also on the list.
Diana’s family, including her brother Earl Spencer and his fiancee Karen Gordon, will sit behind the Middletons and their friends at the abbey, rather than on the royal family’s side of the aisle. Among the foreign royals on the guest list are the Sultan of Brunei, Prince Albert II of Monaco and Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco.
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Not all Brit stag-dos civilised
London: While Prince William managed to keep his stag party civilised and discreet, some Britons go on the rampage abroad, waking up upside down and naked in trash bins, the foreign office said on Sunday.
One stag do reveller ended up being hurled into an Amsterdam canal while others have found themselves chained to police cars or falling off hotel balconies, the ministry said.
Around one million were planning to travel abroad for pre-wedding parties in 2011. “Stag and hen dos are all about having a great time but the celebrations can come to an end if things go wrong,” a foreign office spokesman said. —AFP