Wedding answers

Well the reason Her Majesty the Queen is not attending the wedding is because the Windsor-Mountbattens are a religious family and regard the religious service as the wedding not the signing of a bit of paper in the Guildhall down the road.

I suppose this is fair enough, one will be a 20 minute ceremony using words from the Marriage Act 1949 in a niceish room in a nice building and one of them will be a ceremony using words thousands of years old over an hour long in one of the grandest gothic structures in the United Kingdom, amongst the tombs of dozens of kings and queens in a the oldest and largest residential castle in the world in the sight of God - if you believe in that sort of thing.

Nobody other than the two Wales boys and the Parker-Bowles children will be attending - I suspect a lot of this is actually to do with security. Technically anyone can attend a wedding and if you had HMQ and her entire family in a very small space and then permitted all and sundry to attend, its like giving the red button to Al Qaeda.

Hope this answers the question.

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