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(waits to be told off for being flippant in the News forum)

I'm afraid I can't go. It's my brother's stag do that weekend.

Well, it's obvious then - he'll just have to cancel it -

I'm sure Camilla will be most understanding when Charles tells her the bad news!

GG your so funny! so Cameron is going to make a middle aged woman cry!

Is it obvious what I think about this marriage??

I hope you mean Charles and not Julyan.

But what would be the point in them not marrying? Believe me, I can identify with this situation - 2 days after my mother's funeral, my father announced his engagement to someone else (and my parents were not separated) - I think that's probably some shameful record. My mother died suddenly - it wasn't a case of waiting for the inevitable to occur, but obviously he had 'known' the other woman 'well' for a considerable number of years. The wedding was supposed to have been 4 months later - I managed to persuade him to wait 6 months! I didn't attend the ceremony, (we got a late invitation, but we had 'co-incidentally' already booked a holiday abroad by the time we were advised of the date) but as the years have gone by, (seven years), I've had to face up to the fact that I should grit my teeth and 'accept' the situation, and play 'happy-families', as keeping up hostilities would not achieve anything. This was really difficult, but I believe that my mother - who was a very kind, decent and forgiving woman - would understand that my loyalty to her will never waiver, but that hatred is never a good thing.

It makes me laugh when people say that Paul McCartney married Heather too soon after Linda died - though personally, I'm not too fond of Heather, but that's a different matter.

I totally understand what you mean GG - I think that I just object to the way Diana was used and had such a tragic life. She said right til the end of her life that the one man she always loved was Charles and he was the one who didn't want her. I find it offensive to see Charles and Camilla being paraded around as the royal love birds, although I don't doubt that they are in love.

If he wants to marry her then fine - but it should be very quiet and not shown on the TV and he should step down from his right to the throne.

I don't want either of them as King or Queen (or even Queen under another name) - let them retire to the Queen Mum's old place and get rid of the pair of them.

Sorry but I just feel strongly about this one.

Ant and Dec composed songs in honour of Charles and Camilla's wedding on Saturday Night Take-Away last night - they were somewhat 'informal'. Younger daughter was extremely impressed with Dec's song (we love Dec), and has been singing it all day today ..'Bob from Kent, says he hopes you don't dance like David Brent; Steve from Sheen says keep the speeches clean... and who will do Camilla's hair, and what will dear Prince Harry wear...Ding Dong..' etc.

As a citizen of the Republic of Ireland, I find the idea of a 'royal family' strange - but I would love to see one of our own - Graham Norton - as the future Queen of England.

There is no doubt that some of the Royal family work very hard - the Queen in particular.

I agree about the Queen - but Charles and Camilla get right up my nose GG!!!!

To me the whole marriage plan/thing has been a fiasco from day one.



But I think Graham Norton would make a great Queen (as he does already)

Mind you, in our Republic, we still managed to have a prime minister who was 'on the fiddle' in a major way - a man who told us to 'tighten our belts' while he was evading taxes and getting freebies...that was in the 1980's...

Wednesday, 30 March, 2005

Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles have chosen a young Russian contralto to perform at a church blessing, after their civil wedding.
Ekaterina Semenchuk, 29, has been flown over specially from St Petersburg to sing a Russian Creed.

Members of the Philharmonia Orchestra, and the St George's Chapel Choir, will also perform at the blessing, at St George's Chapel, Windsor.

It will follow a civil wedding ceremony at Windsor's Guildhall, on 8 April.

Ekaterina Semenchuk, who was a finalist in the Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 2001, will sing a Russian Creed set to music by Gretchaninov.

She has been flown over specially for the wedding, as a gift from the Mariinsky Theatre Trust of St Petersburg, of which the Prince of Wales is patron and a benefactor.

Clarence House says a combination of choral and orchestral music will be played during the Service of Prayer and Dedication, at St George's Chapel.

Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles have chosen a young Russian contralto to perform at a church blessing, after their civil wedding.
Ekaterina Semenchuk, 29, has been flown over specially from St Petersburg to sing a Russian Creed.

Members of the Philharmonia Orchestra, and the St George's Chapel Choir, will also perform at the blessing, at St George's Chapel, Windsor.

It will follow a civil wedding ceremony at Windsor's Guildhall, on 8 April.

Wedding gift

Ekaterina Semenchuk, who was a finalist in the Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 2001, will sing a Russian Creed set to music by Gretchaninov.

She has been flown over specially for the wedding, as a gift from the Mariinsky Theatre Trust of St Petersburg, of which the Prince of Wales is patron and a benefactor.

Clarence House says a combination of choral and orchestral music will be played during the Service of Prayer and Dedication, at St George's Chapel.

Rest of the story :BBC

FANFARE FOR ROYAL WEDDING

PRINCE Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles's wedding will feature a one-minute fanfare that will never be played again.

There will also be music from favourite hymns to a full scale orchestra.

The fanfare, by Welsh composer Alun Hoddinott, 75, will be played only once as the pair leave St George's Chapel, Windsor.

The world-renowned Philharmonia Orchestra will appear, along with 23 boy choristers and top Russian singer Ekaterina Semenchuk.

Hymns are Immortal Invisible, Love Divine All Loves Excelling and Praise My Soul the King of Heaven. There will also be works by Handel, Bach, Elgar and Grieg.

The April 8 service of dedication at St George's Chapel follows the couple's civil wedding at Windsor Guildhall. Mirror

Just saw this on the BBC website



He is SO grumpy!!! Doesn't he realise that public scrutiny is the price he pays for having riches and several homes and the title? That man makes me mad

Actually the funniest bit was when a journalist asked William and Harry if they had chained Charles to anything during his stag night - they both laughed and Charles looked totally bemused and said 'Why on earth does he think you would do that?'