The BIG DAY
6.00am: Guests and principals must be early to rise for big day ahead.
8.15am: First guests arrive at Great North Door of Westminster Abbey. All 1,900 guests – except VIPs – to be seated by 9.45am.
9.50am: Governors-general, prime ministers of Commonwealth countries, diplomatic corps and other distinguished guests arrive, including footballer David Beckham and wife Victoria.
10.10am: Prince William and best man Prince Harry leave Clarence House for Abbey in Bentley.
10.15am: Prince William and Prince Harry arrive at the Abbey.
10.20am: Members of foreign royal families arrive from Buckingham Palace. Kate’s mother Carole Middleton and brother James leave The Goring.
10.25am: Minor Royals leave the Palace.
10.27am: Carole and James Middleton arrive at the Abbey.
10.30am: Minor Royals arrive.
10.35am: Princess Anne and husband Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence, Prince Andrew and his daughters Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice and Prince Edward and his wife Sophie leave Buckingham Palace.
10.38am: Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, leave Clarence House.
10.40am: The Queen and Prince Philip leave the Palace. Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward and family arrive at Abbey.
Holy vows: Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, will conduct the marriage service in Westminster Abbey
Holy vows: Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, will conduct the marriage service in Westminster Abbey
10.42am: Charles and Camilla arrive at Abbey.
10.45am: The Queen and Prince Philip arrive.
10.48am: Maid of honour Pippa Middleton and bridesmaids and pages – Margarita ¬Armstrong-Jones, eight, Lady Louise Windsor, seven, Eliza Lopes, three, and Grace van Cutsem, three, and pages Billy Lowther-Pinkerton, ten, and Tom Pettifer, eight – leave The Goring for the Abbey.
10.51am: Here comes the bride. Kate and her father Michael leave The Goring by Rolls-Royce for Abbey, travelling slowly via The Mall and Horse Guards Parade and giving crowds a first glimpse of THE dress.
10.55am: The bridesmaids and pages arrive.
11.00am: The bride arrives. Marriage service begins, relayed by loudspeakers along route and shown on screens in Hyde Park and Trafalgar Square.
12.15pm: William and Kate’s Carriage Procession with a Captain’s Escort of the Household Cavalry, followed by the Queen’s Procession with Sovereign’s Escort of the Household Cavalry, leaves Abbey for the Palace. The couple will use 1902 State Landau, unless it rains, when they will use the Glass Coach.
12.30pm: The Procession arrives at Buckingham Palace for Wedding Breakfast, hosted by the Queen. The newlyweds will be joined by more than 650 guests.
12.40pm: Royal Family and foreign royals arrive at Buckingham Palace, followed by other Wedding Breakfast guests.
1.25pm: The Queen and William and Kate break off from Wedding Breakfast, together with their families, to appear on balcony. Crowd awaits the balcony kiss.
1.30pm: Flypast by Royal Air Force and Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
3.30pm: Start of Middletons’ party at The Goring for just over 100 family and friends who attended ceremony but were not invited to the Palace for afternoon or evening.
7.00pm: Prince of Wales hosts drinks reception followed by dinner and dance at the Palace for the couple and 300 close friends and family.
11.00pm: The Not Flippin’ Invited Party at Mahiki, in Piccadilly, begins to get lively. The all-day street party may be attended by Royal rave companions who didn’t make guest list – such as Virgin heir Sam Branson and Beatrice and Eugenie’s boyfriends.
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Posted: 26. April 2011 09:48