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By Mahira Sobral
Here are 20 fun facts you should know about the wedding:
1. Britons are said to spend £163 million on royal wedding souvenirs- but only 3 out of 10 will admit it. (Smart World News Service)
2. A quarter of the world's population was expected to watch television broadcast of wedding, that is a total of 2 billion people. Charles and Diana's wedding in 1981 attracted an incomparable 750 million spectators. (Reuters)
3. YouTube will also be streaming the event live for the other 4.9 billion people not watching it on television. (Independent)
4. Queen Elizabeth's own wedding was 64 years ago. (Reuters)
5. Bring your brolly, it's not gonna be pretty: 18 degrees with heavy rain on Friday. (BBC Weather)
6. Kate has waited a whopping eight years for Will to pop the question. (Mirror)
7. The term 'Royal Wedding' has been Googled 450,000 times per month in the past year. (Google Adwords)
8. Journos have been busy writing about the happy couple, according to Bing's index a ridicolous 7 million news stories per day has been added recently. (Online Social Media)
9. What a cop out! 5,000 police will be on duty to ensure the marriage will be a "safe, secure and happy event". (BBC)
10. The 'Anti Royal Wedding Celebrations' group on Facebook has 3,310 fans and at this moment there are 30 'anti wedding' parties listed on events page.
11. The 'William and Kate - anti royal wedding song' has been viewed 6,263 times on YouTube..so far (YouTube)
12. 50 heads of state will be attending the ceremony. (BBC)
13. The wedding's souvenir programme costs two pounds. When Queen Elizabeth got married in 1947 it cost two shillings and sixpence, or, fittingly half a crown. (Reuters)
14. Getting 5,000 policemen to work double time on a bank holiday will cost The Metropolitan Police £20m, which dwarfs the £7.4m price of security at the G20 protests in London in 2009...The Met is so hard up with this one it has sent a 'begging letter' to the Home Office asking for help in meeting the extra costs. (Daily Mail)
15. The Prince went to one of his favourite pubs with a five of his lads to talk football and stag party details, lets assume. Here is what he ate: a £10.95 cheeseburger and chips, standard..followed by a £5 Bramley apple and blackberry crumple. (Daily Mail)
16. While the Middleton's are paying £100,000 (most of which is Kate's inheritance from her grandmother) for their daughters wedding which covers the bride's dress, bridesmaids' dresses, the maid of honour outfit, hotel suite and honeymoon. (Yahoo)
17. Prince William is making sure to keep his inheritance in one piece by organising a 'low budget' stag party, where he will be taking his friends to a paintball centre for £9.99 a person. (Daily Mail)
18. 8,000 international journalists will cover the event. CNN alone sent 400 staff. (Jouranlism.co.uk)
19. The wedding will inject £620 million into the U.K. economy. (Financial News)
20. A couple in Nanjing, China spent £4,600 to have 'royal' inspired wedding, with a english themed guards, a horse-drawn carriage parade around the city and fireworks. (Guardian)
By Mahira Sobral
Here are 20 fun facts you should know about the wedding:
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So some guys that knew Kate Middleton at uni has done a little posh mash-up for her. Sweet. Now where is that funky royal throne up sick bag...
So some guys that knew Kate Middleton at uni has done a little posh mash-up... more
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Here's a quartet of seriously heartbroken-but-quite-talented singers pleading for for Kate’s hand.Here's a quartet of seriously heartbroken-but-quite-talented singers pleading for... more
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George Michael is giving the gift of song to Prince William and Kate Middleton — and anyone else who wants to download it.
The musician is making his increadibly cheesy cover of Stevie Wonder's "You and I" available to download for free and hopes fans will make a donation to the Royal Wedding Charity Fund.
Michael debuted the song Friday on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight."
Michael said he spent about two days in the studio crafting the cover and that Wonder provided clearance to distribute the track for free. If you like the track so much you feel the need to put it on your MP3 player click here to download it.
"The idea came to me last week, about a week ago, that I should express my happiness at the marriage publicly," Michael told Morgan.
Michael was a friend of William's mother, the late Princess Diana, but he said he wasn't expecting to attend the April 29 wedding. He tweeted that the couple should be "surrounded by people they love, not dodgy ex-con pop stars." The former Wham! singer spent a month in jail last year for crashing his Range Rover while under the influence of drugs.
Source: AP via TheLedger.com
George Michael is giving the gift of song to Prince William and Kate... more
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Ben Hoffman is a real prince of a guy, so infoMania felt he was the perfect choice to weigh in on the Royal Wedding. Prince William and Kate Middleton might well disagree, however, after Ben launches the biggest American offensive against the British since the War of 1812. With an emphasis on "offensive."
infoMania is a half-hour comedy show that airs weekly on Current TV. Picture the ultimate office water-cooler, only with funnier co-workers who willingly stay up late imbibing all forms of media so you don't have to. Caveat: Bring your own water. Hosted by Brett Erlich and co-starring Sergio Cilli, Erin Gibson, Ben Hoffman and Bryan Safi, infoMania airs on Thursdays at 11/10c on Current TV.
Go to http://current.com/infomania for more, and make sure to check out our Facebook profile for special features at http://facebook.com/infomania.
Current Media, the Peabody-and Emmy Award-winning television and online network founded in 2005 by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, engages viewers with smart, provocative and timely programming -stories that no one else is telling in ways that no one else is telling them. Current's programming shines a light where others won't dare and boldly explores important subjects -- opening minds, sparking conversations and forming deep connections with its viewers. The channel's audience is comprised of affluent, curious, social and connected adults who crave the kind of entertaining, enlightening, witty and informative programming found on Current's TV and online properties. Current is now available via cable and satellite TV in 75 million households worldwide - 60 million households in the US - through distribution partners Comcast (Channel 107); Time Warner ; DirecTV (Channel 358 nationwide); Dish Network (Channel 196 nationwide); Verizon and AT&T. In the UK and Ireland, Current is available on BSkyB (Channel 183) and Virgin Media (Channel 155), and in Italy, Current is available on Sky Italia (Channel 130). Viewers can also find Current online at www.current.com.Ben Hoffman is a real prince of a guy, so infoMania felt he was the perfect choice to... more
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As if the preparations for the royal wedding is currently underway, the American female-oriented station, Lifetime, has announced plans for a TV movie of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Nico Evers-Swindell will be playing Prince William and Ben Cross as Prince Charles, so far they've yet to cast Kate. Filming begins in February and it is expected to air across the US in April, the same month the actual William and Kate get married (on April 29th).
Source: http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/01/27/william-amp-kate-lifetime-movie/As if the preparations for the royal wedding is currently underway, the American... more
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The bride will arrive by car and leave in a carriage, as befits a newly minted princess.
Those key details and others about the upcoming nuptials of Prince William and Kate Middleton emerged Wednesday in advance of their April 29 wedding at Westminster Abbey.
http://www.indiareport.com/India-usa-uk-news/ap/International/76595The bride will arrive by car and leave in a carriage, as befits a newly minted... more
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