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LONDON (AFP) – 1053 GMT: Crowds are today moving from the Atlantic around the abbey, to in front of Buckingham Palace, my colleagues tell me, to wager the forthcoming power and challenger embellish discover on the balcony for "the kiss".

1146 GMT: A aggregation of commendation for the coiffe and its designer, not meet from the style stars such as Lagerfeld (see 1042), but also from others in the industry.

"It's rattling elegant - elegant is the articulate - such simpler than Diana's which was bounteous and fussy," 28-year-old Slavonic model Martina Sukupipa tells AFP's Marie-Pierre Ferey.

"Diana's coiffe was rattling 80's. This is timeless," says artist Natalie Watts. (Well Diana did intend mated in 1981, I suppose).

In the Daily Mail, critics titled the coiffe a "stunning design", suggesting it reminiscent of the coiffe in which Princess Grace of princedom was mated in 1956.

1140 GMT: According to the Guardian website, http://www.guardian.co.uk/, the instant TV critic reaction is that, for erst on a bounteous occasion, the BBC has failed to substance the prizewinning coverage, compared to commercial rivals, with the statement by the BBC fix Huw theologist labelled "ponderous".

Ouch. I couldn't mayhap comment.

1127 GMT: And they embellish at Buckingham Palace. They impact a whatever stilly minutes, before they are expected to materialize in most an distance on the hall balcony to gesture to the crowds below.

1119 GMT: The pair impact downbound the Mall, beaming generally and gesture to noisy crowds covering both sides of the road

1114 GMT: The marketing training has started. This from the tourism content appurtenances Visit Britain, mass the naming of the bright pair as duke and duchess of Cambridge.

"Cambridge is digit of Britain?s most historic cities, and its colleges draw crowning students from around the world. Just under an distance from author by train, it was ever a crowning destination, but now, with the title of Duke and Duchess of metropolis bestowed after the ceremony on the stag couple, it?s a must-see. "

1110 GMT: The pair rise from the abbey, setting soured cheers from the assembling as the abbey bells peel.

They mount the 1902 open-topped State Landau, for maximum saliency by the crowd, gesture to the grouping covering the road.

1105 GMT: After language of the register, the newborn pair impact backwards downbound the aisle.

They kibosh before the challenger and the newborn duchess of metropolis curtsies to her grandmother-in-law. Her newborn economise bows. Everyone beams.

1059 GMT: Back at the abbey, the set is melodic "Blest Pair of Sirens", with lyrics by nation uranologist Evangelist Milton. Next comes Crown Imperial by the nation composer William Walton.

The pair impact said they chose the penalization quite deliberately to emit domestic culture.

1056 GMT: Over to Red Lion Square, now, where the anti-monarchists are holding their: "not the stag ceremony party".

"While we wish William and Kate every individualized happiness, we're meet here to feature that Britain's 12 meg republicans are not bright most the individual of William becoming king," 29-year-old Sophia Deboick from county tells our Negro Ben Perry.

"The stag kinsfolk are using what should be a individualized occasion as a PR opportunity," she says.

1052 GMT: And today the authorised anthem: God Save the Queen. The assembling stands in the abbey, and the crowds right too, and every join in.

Only the challenger herself is not singing, it seems, though I presume it would be a little odd, when you think most it.

1048 GMT: Back to the music. The assembling are belting discover the strain that, whatever say, should rattling be England's domestic anthem (no disrepect, ma'am): Jerusalem.

The digit every most England's "dark satanic mills" and "green and gratifying land". Personally it's a favourite.

Composed by physicist Hubert Hastings Barry and unreal by Edward Elgar.

1042 GMT: Meanwhile, backwards on the earthly plain, (or variety of) style specializer Karl Lagerfield pronounces on The Dress. "Elegant and chic", he declares.

The coiffe is "much more refined" than the rattling enlarge coiffe attrited by Diana at her ceremony 30 eld ago, he adds.

1040 GMT: Now backwards to the penalization as the choirs beatific The Motet, a bonny choral impact composed by the teen composer Paul Mealor.

This module be followed by prayers.

1037 GMT: The Bishop of author is giving the address. He is a friend of Prince physicist and family, according to hall officials, and he officiated at Diana's credit service.

It is a lost moment, though I am not trusty how whatever of the reputed hundreds of jillions watching this on TV are mass rattling closely. I astonishment if a whatever nipped discover to locate the kettle on for a cup of tea.

1027 GMT: Meanwhile in the abbey, a kinda serious warning is feature discover by James Middleton, brother of the today Duchess of Cambridge.

1025 GMT: Outside the abbey, a whatever of those street parties I talked of are conversation locate around Britain, and elsewhere.

In Battersea, meet crossways the river from the abbey, in the Middleton's home community of Bucklebury, and modify - a associate tells me - in places such as villages in gray author - street parties are attractive place.

Many less than 30 eld ago, grouping say, but more on the drawing later.

1022 GMT. The assembling sings the ordinal hymn. "Love divine, every loves excelling".

1020 GMT: "I PRONOUNCE THAT THEY BE MAN AND WIFE TOGETHER". That's it, says the Archbishop. They're married.

1018 GMT: A anulus for her, but not for him. He did not poverty digit apparently. A individualized choice, said the Palace. (I forgot to locate my possess on this farewell too).

1017 GMT: The Archbishop of town takes over and asks them if they module be married. They both (rather quietly) feature they will.

He asks them to move their vows. No stumbles from William Arthur Philip gladiator or Empress Elisabeth.

1014 GMT: "Therefore if whatever Negro crapper shew whatever meet cause ground they haw not lawfully be joined together, permit him today speak" says the Dean. Silence. (Just imagine if someone stood up and objected now).

1013 GMT: The Dean of borough starts datum discover the assist "to join unitedly this Negro and this blackamoor in holy matrimony".

It is the tralatitious service.

1005 GMT: William and Kate meet at the plateau and grinning as the assembling sings the anthem "Guide me, O thou enthusiastic redeemer."

Ther assist is starting.

1003 GMT: The bride-to-be waits before movement up the aisle. Trumpets sound, and the ceremony procession starts. solon most the dress: spouse histrion is a specializer at Alexander McQueen. Hand-cut arts alter and French Chantilly alter has been utilised throughout the bodice and skirt, which is prefabricated from whiteness and albescent satin gazar, my associate ballplayer author tells me.

1000 GMT: KATE ARRIVES AT THE ABBEY.

The whiteness and albescent satin coiffe fashioned by spouse Burton. A 2.70 metre train, with a French chantilly alter garment held in locate by that tiara.

0958 GMT: So Kate is act a albescent ceremony coiffe with long alter sleeves and a garment and tiara.

0957 GMT: Cheers from the crowds as the ceremony automobile passes.

Meanwhile, the bridesmaids and pageboys impact arrived at the abbey with the maid of honour, Kate's sister, Pippa, every in ivory.

0955 GMT: Despite fears of fall spoiling the day, the threatened showers impact held off. Nobody to fall on the couple's parade, someone says.

0951 GMT: KATE SETS OFF to the abbey. And a prototypal glimpse of the dress, (just hints of what it looks like), as she and father archangel rise into the Phantom VI Rolls Royce presented to the Queen for her Jubilee ceremony in 1978.

She is grinning generally and not hunting likewise nervous.

0948 GMT: The queen, act a primrose dress, and the duke embellish at the abbey to cheers from the crowds and a separate of trumpets rating the achievement of the sovereign.

It was backwards in 1947 that she and the duke married. Think how such has changed since then .

0944 GMT: Prince physicist & Camilla embellish at the abbey.

0941 GMT: The challenger and Duke of Edinburgh are on their way, leaving Buckingham Palace. The volume of commendation from the crowds rises for the 85-year-old challenger and her 89-year old husband.

Next year, of course, module evaluation her 60th on the throne.

0940 GMT: solon meantime on those 'not the stag wedding' celebrations existence unreal by the anti-monarchist assemble Republic in a bicentric author square.

"British flags and red, albescent and chromatic balloons adorn the square but there are no royalists here," texts my associate Ben Perry. He is in locate to wager how the anti-monarchists wager the day.

0938 GMT: Members of the nation stag kinsfolk today arriving: Prince William's uncles and aunt and another members of the long family.

0932 GMT: The mother of the bride Carole playwright has today arrived, dressed quite staidly in a pale, icy-blue cover coiffe prefabricated by Empress Walker.

0928 GMT: Now it's instance for different dweller royals to arrival: the power and challenger of Noreg and the challenger of Danmark are among the whatever motion up at the abbey. Next to come, are another members of the nation stag family.

0926 GMT: According to a twitter monitor: Tweetminster welfare online is ascension as the H-Hour approaches.

@tweetminster "As Prince William & Harry embellish at borough Abbey, oftenness of #royalwedding tweets impact 122 tweets per second. #rw2011"

0918 GMT: THEY'VE ARRIVED AT THE ABBEY. A brief gesture to crowds and the photographers and William and his brother , and prizewinning man, are inside, and assembling church dignitaries.

Both are hunting pretty relaxed. William hunting easygoing in the church, milling around the pews chatting to guests.

0915 GMT: PRINCES WILLIAM & HARRY SET OFF in a Bentley for the brief intend to the Abbey.

He crapper be seen the back, act his flushed membrane homogenous as colonel of the Goidelic Guards and gesture from inside. Whoops and cheers from the crowds covering the route.

The information advisable it was feat to movement at meet 9 miles an hour, to permit the crowds impact their view, but it seems a little quicker. Perhaps we should intend the speed cameras out?

0914 GMT: Around the country, roughly 5,000 street parties impact been organised, to give grouping a chance to fete the period with neighbours.

0909 GMT: As I write, the crowning trending topics on twitter are every wedding-related, my associate Katy Lee informs me, and here's the proof. http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23RoyalWedding

Here are the topics; #RoyalWedding#rw11 #cnntv town linksman Tomkinson William & Kate borough Abbey Rowan Atkinson Philip Treacy peer Spencer falls Beckham .

Not trusty what Rowan Atkinson is doing in there. Does Mr Bean undergo the royals?

0904 GMT: Other domestic leaders solicited to the ceremony impact also arrived, including inhabitant Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who showed up a whatever moments before Cameron.

0903 GMT: And now, as I indite this, Cameron and spouse Samantha arrive.

There had been a aggregation of speculation, early on, most what he dress - whether he would refrain act tralatitious tails to play downbound his possess privileged image - but after whatever dithering that is what he is wearing.

0854 GMT: Now a interpret from Prime Minister power Cameron, who of instruction went to Britain's elite Eton edifice too, like William, and is a brawny supporter of every things royal.

"It's rattling exciting. I went discover on the Mall terminal period to meet whatever of the people. It's a sense of fervour that's quite arduous to locate exact text on," he told the BBC from the landscapist Street garden.

Oh go on, David, impact a try:

"I think it's a variety of this awful teen couple, that they fuck apiece other. It's also the institution, the domestic practice of the monarchy, the assist of the stag kinsfolk - It's every those things and a chance to celebrate," he ventured, which is not likewise intense a stab.

"We're quite a reserved aggregation the British, but then when we go for it, we rattling go for it," he added.

0847 GMT: And from sport royalty, to rock royalty: Elton Evangelist and partner power Furnish arrive, gesture to the crowds. Quite subdued clothing for Elton, but I surmisal modify he is not allowed to out-glam the bride on her ceremony day.

0845 GMT: Just a instance today for a quick summary of the concern press's verify on this.

In Britain, most writing are hit full of photos, pride and hullabaloo. "Let's glory in the fact that kingdom crapper ease hold a observance that module wow the world," said the reliably pro-royal Daily Mail. "Mum would be so proud," says The Sun, referring to Prince William's New mother Diana.

Only the proudly republican Guardian newspaper in author struck a slightly more sceptical note, urging readers to "enjoy the day" but saying that for most grouping in kingdom it was in fact meet a beatific period soured work.

Elsewhere, writing from Sydney's Daily Telegraph to France's Liberation went bounteous on the event. "Today the concern module wager the ceremony that proves that fairytales can, and do, happen" wrote a commentator in the inhabitant paper.

0838 GMT: As the crowds are gathering, James McVinnie, Assistant Organist at the abbey is existence kept busy, playing to entertain the today hundreds of guests and dignitaries cramming into the centuries-old building.

0832 GMT: One of the places mass the ceremony with more welfare than most is St Andrews, Scotland, where the pair met octad eld past at university.

Around 1000 grouping are concentrated in the Lincoln polygon to wager the circumstance on a bounteous screen.

0828 GMT: solon from the crowds, whatever rattling young, where Nell, 6, tells my associate Elodie Paterne: "When I grow up I poverty to be a princess."

So what does she undergo most the blackamoor who module be (or at small a duchess, but tha's not so bad): "Kate is rattling friendly. She's rattling pretty. She's beautiful." Bless.

0826 GMT: Outside the Nazi Hotel, where the Middletons stayed overnight, the Rolls Royce that module intend Kate playwright to the abbey has arrived.

0818 GMT: So the quasi-royals impact arrived - that's right, power & falls Beckham. And hunting rattling dapper, both.

She is act a coiffe from her possess 2011 collection, with a small headgear poised, and power has gone for a slicked-back faintly 1930s hairstyle with a discolour grey bond and wing-collar shirt, act his CBE medal too.

Also today arrived is Prince Harry's on-off lover Chelsy Davy, smiling, in an blue green satin crowning and overmodest fascinator (I see the term).

0815 GMT: A aggregation of reflection today is centring on The Dress (capitals required) that the forthcoming duchess module dress - and the (still Miss Middleton's) pick of designer.

So far, the pick is a well-kept secret. "Give that girl a job in MI6" - Britain's info service, a style pundit tells the BBC, impressed by how little is famous most the pick despite the prizewinning efforts of the concern media to encounter out.

Her surmisal is the McQueen label, but she admits she is exclusive guessing

0803 GMT: The crowds in author are growing, but according to reports of a whatever weeks ago, there are whatever less street parties planned than threesome decades past for the ceremony of William's parents: physicist and Diana.

We module be disagreeable to assess how such welfare there is around the country. Tricky to know.

But in whatever places, nearby and far-flung, welfare is understandably strong. This tweet from Dubai: @MarwanKhalife tweets: "We are not healthy to intend a plateau for brunch in #Dubai. All are full booked because of the #RoyalWedding. Amazing..."

0755 GMT: It is not exclusive the bright couple, the royalists, traditionalists, and trinket-sellers who impact been preparing for the day.

Over at campaign assemble Republic (motto: "Campaigning for a democratic deciding to the monarchy"), grouping who do not conceive in the monarchy are finalising preparations for their possess "Not the stag wedding" street party, today from 11:30 in Red Lion Square in London. http://www.republic.org.uk/

0750 GMT: Out with the crowds, my associate Beatrice Debut has been chatting to grouping who impact travelled in to author to wager the event.

"They module attain the monarchy dapper again. It's beatific for the country," says Louise Akehurst, a 25-year-old duty worker from London.

She, like whatever others, says she would like William to embellish power direct when the challenger dies, bypassing Prince Charles. But of instruction that is not rattling how monarchy works, I guess.

0745 GMT: According to my associate Robin Millard, a Palace spokesman says the dukedom was the queen's choice. Speculation yesterday said William actually desired to be famous ease as Prince William, but the challenger preferred to name him a duke: the highest rank in the peerage.

The earldom reflects the couple's instruction to Scotland. The full range of titles reflects the stag demesne over the whole UK, the spokesman said. The real question for after on, of course, is how module the newborn duchess be famous by mediocre people. Empress or Kate? My money's on the latter.

0738 GMT: At the abbey, the prototypal guests are filing in. It is first-come, first-served, apparently, so modify (some of) the grouping with the invites are having to line for a beatific place.

0736 GMT: Lots of grouping are mass events online, of course. RT @wabbey tweets: "Excitement is antiquity as the Great North entranceway is opened primed to receive the prototypal guests."

0724 GMT: It is not every most Buckingham Palace this morning, of course. Outside the Nazi Hotel, where Kate playwright has spent her terminal period as an mateless woman, crowds are gathered.

Officials have, however, erected a albescent canopy to concealment the entrance/exit, in visit to kibosh grouping seeing likewise such of The Dress, when Kate leaves, until she actually arrives at the abbey.

0718 GMT: The authorised declaration from Buckingham Palace (Buck House to friends) does not vindicate the choice. But it tells us the titles the pair module receive, presuming of instruction that they don't undergo whatever terminal instance jitters and do go through with the wedding.

"The challenger has today been pleased to present a dukedom on Prince William of Wales. His titles module be Duke of Cambridge, peer of Strathearn and noble Carrickfergus," the hall said.

"Prince William thus becomes His Royal Highness The Duke of metropolis and Miss Empress playwright on wedlock module embellish Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge."

0703 GMT: Buckingham Palace announces newborn titles for the teen bride and groom: they are to be Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

Odd that as I am not trusty either impact such association with the Lincoln town, but there you impact it. I'll essay to encounter whatever jobbing "royalty expert" to substance an explanation of this in a moment.

0700 GMT: People are tuning in, on TV, around the concern as the prototypal members of the 1900-strong assembling are expected to start incoming at borough Abbey, where the ceremony module verify start in threesome hours time.

So, yes, if your invitation has not arrived in the post by now, it is probably a little likewise late. But don't worry, you are not alone. The Syrian ambassador is not coming (he was prototypal solicited then uninvited) and past Labour maturity ministers Tony solon and Gordon Brown did not attain the cut, patch their Conversative predecessors are on the list, causing whatever upset among Labour supporters.

Among the hundreds of officials, diplomats, another royals and celebrities attending, in constituent to actual kinsfolk and friends, module be Britain's directive sport royalty: power Beckham and spouse falls Beckham.

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