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Prince William, Prince Harry & Kate Middleton Sign Book of Condolence for New Zealand

Britain's Prince William (L), his fiancee Kate Middleton (2nd L) and Prince Harry meet the New Zealand High Commissioner, Derek Leask (2nd R), and the Deputy High Commissioner, Belinda Brown outside the New Zealand High Commission, in central London February 25, 2011. All three visited the High Commission to sign the book of condolence following the recent earthquake in Christchurch. Reuters Pictures

William and Kate at St. Andrew's

ST ANDREWS, SCOTLAND - FEBRUARY 25: Prince William and Kate Middleton visit the University of St Andrews on February 25, 2011 in St Andrews, Scotland. The couple returned to the University to launch a fundraising campaign for a new GBP 13 million scholarship and students support. The couple will marry in a much anticipated ceremony at Westminster Abbey on April 29th. Getty Images

William and Kate Arrive at St. Andrew's

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A Perfect Day!

Britain's Prince William (R) watches as his fiancee Kate Middleton pours champagne over the 'Hereford Endeavour', during a Naming Ceremony and Service of Dedication for the Royal National Lifeboat Instution's (RNLI) new Atlantic 85 Lifeboat, at Trearddur Bay Lifeboat Station, in Trearddur Bay, Anglesey in north Wales February 24, 2011. Reuters Pictures

Kate's First Royal Engagement


TREADDUR, WALES - FEBRUARY 24: Prince William and Kate Middleton wave to the crowds after officially launching the new RNLI lifeboat 'Hereford Endeavour' at Trearddur Bay, Anglesey on February 24, 2011 in Trearddur, Wales. The newly engaged couple named the Trearddur Bay Lifeboat Station's new RNLI Atlantic 85 type inshore lifeboat the 'Hereford Endeavour'. The vessel was launched during the naming ceremony and the crew demonstrated some of her rescue capabilities. The country is gearing up for the much anticipated wedding of the couple scheduled to take place on April 29, 2011 at Westminster Abbey in London. Getty Images

William and Kate's First Royal Engagement


Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton arrive at a service of dedication for a new RNLI lifeboat at Trearddur Bay Lifeboat Station in Anglesey, Wales, Thursday Feb. 24, 2011. The visit had been highly anticipated because the couple have kept such a low profile since announcing their engagement in November, making only one other prior appearance at a charity event. They plan to marry April 29 at Westminster Abbey with just under 2,000 guests attending. AP Photo

Princess Diana's Royal Collection of Dresses

Auctioneer Kerry Taylor arranges the silk wedding dress calico prototype for Princess Diana, which is displayed at Sotheby's auction house in Paris May 17, 2010. The collection, taken from the royal archives of dressmakers David and Elizabeth Emanuel, was auctioned by Kerry Taylor Auctions in London on June 8, 2010. Reuters Pictures.

The real dress was featured on The Today Show today showcasing the beautiful dress worn by Princess Diana on her wedding day.

Making Your Own Wedding Cake Is Fun And Exciting

Your wedding day is the day you never forget. Getting ready for it is another memory you will not soon forget as well. While there are those stressful times during the planning of this special ceremony, the fun and excitement you feel will prevail. The most fun and exciting parts of the preparations you might enjoy is making your own wedding cake.

Start your plans ahead of time so you do not have to be stressed at the last minute. Check recipes to make sure you have all the ingredients you will need. Make sure you know the flavor you want for the cakes while also thinking about the best tasting icing as well. These are two of the most important decisions about this project you have to make.

Many people have recipes for their favorite icing. However, you can visit a bakery shop to get some great selections ready to use. While at the bakery, make sure you get the square pans you may need for creating the unique masterpiece. The baker can help you in choosing the right ingredients and let you know if you are missing an important part.

One way to help you remain organized throughout the planning of your ceremony is by making check lists. This is especially true for the ingredients and items needed for making cakes. You should look through online websites for the exact type of cake you would like to have. This will help you to know the pans to get, whether square or round, the colors you will need, and the other vital ingredients.

Fondant black and white square wedding cake.

Those unusual cakes you might have seen were made using a square pan. This is a great way to add a dimensional difference to your creation without it being hard to do. Check the bakery shop about the pans you need for making your sweet creation.

Many designs are out there for these types of cakes that are out of this world and sensational. Indeed, the cake you want will need to fit into theme of the entire ceremony. Many couples have made the ceremony around a certain design in cakes they favored.

Princess Diana's Dress Travels to The Today Show

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Philip Treacy, Has Been Chosen Official Hat Designer

Photos Courtesy: hellomagazine.com

With the date for the royal wedding ever closer the all-important decision of who will design the wedding party's headgear has been revealed. Philip Treacy.

Award-winning milliner Philip Treacy has a long-standing affiliation with the royal family, having designed Kate Middleton's hat for Prince William's passing-out parade at Sandhurst in 2006.

Royal Ascot is usually marked by pictures of Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie in his daring creations.

And in 2005, he was commissioned to create the two striking headdresses worn by the Duchess of Cornwall on her wedding day. Click link for full report from Hello Magazine.com

Royal wedding, Philip Treacy, official hat designer - hellomagazine.com

Taking the Bus Tour to Bucklebury, The Town Where Kate Grew Up

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Touring the Town Where Kate Middleton Grew Up

Visitors leave The Old Boot Inn to board their bus during a whistlestop tour of the Berkshire childhood haunts of Kate Middleton, fiancee of Britain's Prince William, in Bucklebury February 20, 2011. The couple are to be married on April 29 in London's Westminster Abbey. Reuters Pictures

The Royal Wedding Day Festivities

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The Official Invitation

In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 at Buckingham Palace in London, invitation to the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton is shown before posting them to the lucky guests who will be present at the April 29, 2011 royal wedding to be held in Westminster Abbey. AP Photo

The Royal Invitations

In this photo taken Wednesday Feb. 16, 2011 at Buckingham Palace in London, a member of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, no name given, places invitations into envelopes, to the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, before posting them to the lucky guests who will be present at the April 29, 2011 royal wedding to be held in Westminster Abbey. AP Photo

Sarah Ferguson is Not Invited to The Wedding

Photo: Snubbed: Sarah Ferguson dropped off her daughters for a night out with other Royals on Thursday, but is not among the 1,900 guests invited to the Royal Wedding in April

Sarah Ferguson has not been invited to the Royal wedding.
About 1,900 invitations have been sent to family, dignitaries, charity workers and friends of Prince William and Kate Middleton but the Duchess of York was snubbed, royal aides confirmed yesterday.
Friends of 51-year-old Fergie claimed she ‘never expected’ to be asked and would have missed the ceremony anyway owing to ‘private plans overseas’.

She is also understood to have been reluctant to go to the ceremony ‘alone’. As cousins of William, her daughters  Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie are expected to sit at the front of Westminster Abbey while their mother, who divorced Andrew 15 years ago, would have been much further back. Courtesy: MAIL Online. Click link for full post:

Prince William and Kate Middleton choose Hugo Burnand as Their Wedding Photographer

 Hello Magazine has the scoop:

Unconfirmed reports are stating that the coveted commission has gone to Hugo Burnand, who immortalised Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall's wedding in 2005.
He has photographed Michael Jackson, Victoria Beckham and former prime minister Baroness Thatcher. Click link for full post from Hello Magazine.

Prince William and Kate Middleton choose Hugo Burnand as their wedding photographer - hellomagazine.com

Royal Invitations Are In The Mail


Start watching the postbox! ABCNews has learned that invitations to the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton went out from the Lord Chamberlain's office on Thursday. Of course, most of the guests already know who they are since many of them received a save-the-date fax from the Queen a few weeks ago. The 1,800 invitees will receive a "traditional, gold-embossed handwritten invitation," according to the Daily Mail.

Several European royals have already RSVPed including one of William's godfathers, King Constantine, the former ruler of Greece. A spokesman for him and his wife Queen Anne-Marie and their son Crown Prince Pavlos confirmed to the Daily Mail that the Greek royal family received a fax and plan to attend.

(Copyright 2010 Mario Testino/Clarence House Press Office/AP Photo)Courtesy: ABC News. Click Link for full post from ABCNews.

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First Official Overseas Trip Announced: Prince William and Kate Middleton to Travel to Canada in June

It has been confirmed that Prince William and Kate Middleton will travel to Canada for their first overseas tour as a married couple.

The trip will take place from June 30 to July 8, this year.

During their two week tour of the Commonwealth Nation, the couple will visit Alberta, the Northwest Territories, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and the capital, Ottawa.

Click link from Hello Magazine for full posts from Hello Magazine.


Prince William and Kate Middleton to travel to Canada on first official overseas tour - hellomagazine.com

William and Kate to Visit St. Andrews University - February 25th


A general view of buildings on November 22, 2010 in St Andrews, Scotland. The newly engaged Prince William and Kate Middleton studied at the University of St Andrews and will marry in the spring or summer of 2011. Getty Images

On February 25 they will attend a reception launching St Andrews University's 600th anniversary celebrations. It will be their second official engagement together.

Click link from Hello Magazine for full post.  William and Kate visit St. Andrews University - hellomagazine.com

Breaking With Tradition - Kate Travels to the Church by Car


A general view of the ceiling at Westminster Abbey in London November 23, 2010. Britain's Prince William is to marry his fiancee Kate Middleton on Friday, April 29 next year at London's Westminster Abbey, his office said on Tuesday. Picture taken with fisheye lens. Reuters Pictures

The Dress That Caught the Prince's Eye


Undated photo released Monday Feb. 14, 2011 by Kerry Taylor Auctions of designer Charlotte Todd with the dress she designed, which was worn by Kate Middleton at the St Andrew's University charity fashion show, in 2002. AP Photo.

Dress is to be auctioned off.

Royal Wedding Party Revealed - a Break With Tradition

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Lisianthus Wedding Cake

3 tier wedding cake topped with Lisianthus flower.

Pippa, Kate's Sister, to be Maid of Honor



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http://abcnews.go.com/International/pippa-middleton-things-kate-middletons-sister/story?id=12866412

Royal Wedding Party Announced

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Kate Middleton and Diana: Princesses With Style



How will the new royal bride handle her iconic legacy? With Diana's example before her, Middleton's road to style royalty is actually paved quite nicely. Read below and then see the photos of Kate and Diana. Courtesy Harpers Bazaar. Click link for full post from harpersbazaar.com

Kate Middleton and Diana: Princesses With Style

Royal Flashback: The Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana


Picture of Lady Diana, Princess of Wales with Prince Charles of Wales at their wedding at St Paul Cathedral in London in this file photo dated 29 July 1981. Lady Diana and her lover, the Egyptian millionaire businessman Dodi al-Fayed died after a midnight car crash in Paris 31 August. At far (R) Earl Spencer, father of Lady Diana. Getty Images

Souvenir Picture of The Royal Engagement, Past and Present

A souvenir picture frame is seen at a shop in London, January 27, 2011. Prince William, son of heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles and the late Diana, is to marry fiancee Kate Middleton at London's Westminster Abbey on April 29. Reuters Pictures

Camilla, The Great Survivor, Is a Charming Ally

Ladies who lunch: Kate Middleton, with Camilla Parker Bowles, pictured together this week. Photo: IKON PICTURES
As she prepares to marry into the Royal family, there are few people who can be more helpful to Catherine than Camilla. For she too is a relative newcomer, and what she went through on the road to Clarence House is recent and wildly relevant to what Catherine is embarking on.
Camilla has been married to the Prince of Wales for over five years, but she cannot have forgotten what her old life was like. For many years, the world’s press gossiped about her relationship with the Prince and monitored her movements from the supermarkets of Chippenham to the hunting field of the Beaufort. A less resilient woman would have cracked under the strain but, eventually, Mrs Parker Bowles married the man she had first consorted with 40 years before.

Courtesy: The Telegraph. Click link below for full post from The Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/kate-middleton/8317254/Camilla-the-great-survivor-is-a-charming-ally.html

Why Is Kate Called Common?

Souvenir jewellery boxes on sale to mark the forthcoming wedding of Britain's Prince William and Catherine Middleton are seen at a shop in London, January 27, 2011. Prince William, son of heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles and the late Diana, is to marry fiancee Kate Middleton at London's Westminster Abbey on April 29. Reuters Pictures

Palace Intrigue: Camilla's Comments Cause a Stir - Who Will be the Next Queen?

Britain's Queen   Elizabeth II's crown is carried out of the House of Lords after the State Opening of Parliament 17 May 2005. The Queen's Speech set out the government's legislative programme for the new parliamentary session following the Labour Party's return to power in the General Election earlier this month. Getty Images

The Duchess of Cornwall Gives Kate Middleton Advice Over Lunch

Courtesy: HelloMagazine.com

Diners at an upmarket London restaurant were surprised when the two ladies arrived for lunch, and the Duchess of Cornwall proceeded to giving the princess-to-be some pointers.

Joining them at Koffmans, the new restaurant at the Berkeley Hotel in Knightsbridge – were Kate's sister Pippa and Camilla's daughter Laura Lopez.

"It was high spirits all round. Kate and Pippa were sitting on banquettes with their backs to the wall opposite Camilla and Laura.

Click link below for entire post from HelloMagazine.com


The Duchess of Cornwall gives kate Middleton advice over lunch - hellomagazine.com

Kate and Camilla Do Lunch

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Huge Demand For Kate's White Dress

Shipping labels are seen on the packaging for a rack of "Nannette" model dresses made famous by British royal bride-to-be Kate Middleton at a Reiss store in New York February 8, 2011. The company has re-released the dress after high demand for it following the official engagement photos of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton. Reuters Pictures

Does Harry Have a Date?


Prince Harry walks on Pariser Platz while visiting the Brandenburg Gate on December 19, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. Prince Harry is on a two-day trip to Germany and spent the morning touring sites including the Brandenburg Gate and the Berlin Wall memorial at Bernauer Strasse. Getty Images

Step Into Kate's Shoes!!!

American artist Jennifer Rubell stands beside her life-sized wax statue of Prince William bearing a replica of the sapphire and diamond ring, made famous by Princess Diana, on his arm , Monday, Feb. 7, 2011, in London. Visitors to the Stephen Friedman Gallery in Mayfair are invited to stand next to the statue, 'stepping into the shoes of Kate Middleton' by inserting their own fingers into the ring. AP Photo

Up Close and Personal with Prince William

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William, The Working Prince

An RAF search and rescue helicopter takes part in an exercise near RAF Valley on the Isle of Anglesey, North Wales, November 19, 2010 in Valley, United Kingdom. Prince William and Kate Middleton, who have been in a relationship for the past 8 years, will marry in the spring of 2011 and live near RAF Valley where the Prince is stationed as an RAF search and rescue helicopter pilot. Getty Images

THE Kate Middleton Dress

A Reiss employee holds a dress similar to the one worn by Kate Middleton in her official engagement photographs with Prince William, at a store in central London, on February 3, 2011. Reiss said that the dress had sold out online and that it would be going into US stores and some other internationals shortly. Getty Images

The Will and Kate Walking Tour

Tour guide of "Will and Kate Royal Wedding Walking Tour", Hana Umezawa talks to a tour group in front of an office at 13 Albenarle Street in London where Kate Middleton's grandfather had a base, Friday, Jan. 14, 2011. AP Photo

Which Royal Tiara will Kate Middleton Wear on her Wedding Day?

A diamonds and silver tiara given to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on her wedding day 20 November 1947 by Queen Mary was displayed 27 July 2007 in London. To mark the 60th anniversary of marriage of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Buckingham Palace opened its doors to the public for a special Summer Exhibition 28 July 2007 in which the wedding day in 1947 was re-created with archive footage and costumes on display.Getty Images

Which tiara will Kate Middleton wear on her wedding day?

When Kate Middleton weds Prince William on April 29, the whole world will be watching. But apart from the question of what her dress will be like, royal watchers are also wondering what she will wear on her head.

Click link for full post from Hello Magazine which includes a gallery of tiara's - one of which Kate may wear.

Which royal tiara will Kate Middleton wear on her wedding day? - hellomagazine.com

Finding Bakeries That Make Square Wedding Cakes With Flowers

The best way to find a bakery that can make square wedding cakes with flowers is set up meetings with the bakeries that you are considering using. Having a meeting with each baker or designer is a great way to find out if they can create your perfect design. Try to have these meeting far in advance of the big day, so you have less to worry about.

Better yet, if you have an event planner and they know what you are looking for, have them meet with the vendors. One thing that may help everyone is to have a picture to reference. Though there may be differences in terms of colors or type of flower, they should still be able to get the idea of what you want.

Another thing you will want to look for in your special dessert is to make sure it is tasty. For some reason, whether or not the cake was good is something a lot guests remember long after the big day is over. This special trip is a good way to get your fiance involved in the planning process, so bring him along.

If you are having trouble finding someone who can make the design you are looking for, ask your friends if they recommend anyone. If nothing else, they can tell you their experiences and if they liked how well their baker did. They will also be able to tell you if they did not like the person they chose.

A beautiful square wedding cake with flowers.

One way to find out if your preferred bakery can do the design you like is to ask to see pictures of what they have done in the past. If square wedding cakes with flowers are not in their book, they may still have done something similar. Maybe they could come up with a design for you ahead of time to reassure you they can get you the dessert you want.

You should also find out what the delivery and set up procedures will be. You want to be sure the baker will take care of all of that on your big day. Make sure you ask about insurance in case someone knocks over the cake table too.
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