I suspect that there may be some truth to the Daily Mail article about Lord Frederick Windsor's forthcoming marriage to Miss Sophie Laura Winkleman. But I also think there may be a bit of an exaggeration. I don't believe protocol prevents the Queen from being invited to Frederick's wedding. She did attend his baptism.
There is also something spurious about the article. Why would the bride and groom be worried about the attendance just one week before the wedding. Here in the US, invitations are mailed out about eight weeks before the wedding. The pre-stamped RSVP cards are usually due back at least 2 weeks before the wedding, but never in the last two weeks. (If the invitation comes to Miss Jane Smith or Mr. John Doe and the invitation does not include "and guest", the invitee cannot bring a guest.) This eight week period allows the invited guests to decide if they can come, and if they need to travel, they have time to make the appropriate travel plans.
It seems unthinkable that Sophie and Frederick are still waiting for responses to their wedding. If this is true, they have a lot of rude friends.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1211447/Windy-Winkys-wobbly-wedding-How-Lord-Freddie-Windsors-wedding-spiralled-control.html#
The bride's wedding list
http://www.weddingshop.com/buyapresent/ViewList.aspx
The Guardian's take: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/sep/08/freddie-windsor-royal-wedding
2 comments:
Princess Michael will be plased that the article states that she is only 45... well she is born 1945. .. not excatly the same isn't it
well this article is typical of article written about the princess and plays to her reputation tha the facts
I feel that the UK press has been always very unfair with her
The problem is that too many people were invited and not all guests will fit in the chapel...oops!
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