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Ron Brind
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quotePosted at 19:21 on 16th November 2010
Yes, it's been officially announced today that Prince Willian will marry Kate Middleton. I am sure that POE members would want to congratulate them both, so here is the thread to be able to do just that!
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quotePosted at 19:37 on 16th November 2010

After so many years of being together and the fact that they are both 28, (old enough and mature enough to know their own minds) and by now used to being in the spotlight wherever they go,  leads one to hope that they will have a good chance at having a long and successful marriage. 

So warm congratulations and very best wishes to them both for a bright and happy future together.

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quotePosted at 20:59 on 16th November 2010

Congradulations to both of them; Kate being a local lady near where I live, and the ring Prince William gave her was his mother's engagement ring which, when Princess Diana received it, cost some £28,000 back then.

Wonder if they're looking for someone to do their wedding photos? Wasn't it Lord Snowdon who did Diana's wedding photos?

Now to guess, when and where?  I'll go for St George's chapel, Windsor Castle as a nice venue. Smile

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Barbara Shoemaker
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quotePosted at 22:19 on 16th November 2010
I for one am thrilled.  Need to start shopping for the perfect hat!  I believe they mentioned something about marrying in London, but didn't mention a specific venue.  I think she's absolutely gorgeous and can't wait to see what sort of gown she chooses.  And I think it's very sweet that Prince William gave her his mother's engagement ring.  I think she would have been pleased.
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quotePosted at 23:20 on 16th November 2010
You're right Barbara about London; St Paul's cathedral has to be a non-starter surely, so Westminster Abbey would be a good choice too I think.
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quote | editPosted at 23:22 on 16th November 2010

Well, congradulations...I watched him on Tv yesterday payng respects to the Veteran's...at an memorial service. My has he ever grown up!!

I hope his marriage goes well...it should. Princess Diana is one of the family Larkin (my mother) relatives over here...Spencer family...but we probably did not name each other like what has happened...though there is an increasing full circle route going back to the relatives to England and around again. My grandfather's name was Charles, his father's name was Henry, his father's name was William and I married the Jerry in the family of my mother's side...England doesn't  have one as of yet. Our Jeremiah was named after his grandfather Jereimah Reed (Reade)...and is mentioned in his will...my hubby though may be named possibly after the Rev. Jeremiah Lawson..as yet still undetermined by some family members..but this lineage anscetory is not saying we are not kin. They run one of the biggest Genealogy sites in America and an huge book publishing house world reknown(Heritage books)...they are also an "Scottish" line affilated and very through in where their roots came from. I have talked to them considerably over the years. As you know in England it goes just the opposites in name...Charles, William and Henry. I remember reading Diana received one year as an present an huge yellow topaz...that was my mother's birthstone ring. It has some rather interesting gem stone powers to it...it was given by some of her Dodies middleastern associates. There are many things said about her over the years...but I think she dearly loved her son's and her purpose in life was one that was an awesome shoe to fill for anyone. I think that would please thier grandmother to see another generation in the family. Maybe that's why my father showed up yesterday. We had been talking about roast beef dinners and England. My dad's side sold the ground for Windsor Castle at one time also in the past...an long line of Reverands...quite famous one's as the episcopal church they were preacher of was where George Washington and his group planned the Rev. War. and has an lot of history to it..it was the first Church In America to celebrate "Sunday School" and the first to send missionaries to other parts of the world...it is now an Historical Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania..USA. It has an famous known preacher named "Rankin" also.... and that is my dad's maternal line....they also married into the Rev. Jeremiah Lawson lineage. If they came to my house an meant my nieghbor gal down the street when she was younger, they would think she was thier mother's "double" in looks. I've lost track of where "Nicole" is these days as the kids aged and left thier parents house. I asked about Diana after her death and was shown on the other side her and "dodie" was his name...later on with an small son of their own...as alive she protected her sons well as she could against society and its possibilties....and her "motherhood" is part of this stone's gem power and possibly her death also. As I was told one time that her latest project she had taken up was to try to help eliminate the road sides bombs that so often years later untouched are doneated killing inncocent children in the process and the world's miltary might in small countries without arms would of never have let her wage an war and win it..witht what they consider the only thing they have to fight with miltarily...so she was aimed to die perhaps...we may never know for certain...bit if true, look at the number of our Americans fighting over in the  middle-east that have died since then because what she had on her mind was not allowed to go through...she was an thoughtful person.... her son's can be proud of despite... anything said about her.   Those in India that beleive in re-incarnation...beleive family members come back to them..at least four times(according to the bible) and resolve issues, before moving on..maybe she will be one of her son's children reincarnated...we never know..perhaps? Love is an strong bind in the world of events. God's rightousness prevail in good and mercy for all. The world needs something besides its problems right now and this is an wonderful time to marry...it gives promise to the future for many young people...and blessings to go all those involved for an special  and good wedding day...to people whose lives are expected in all times to be open to the world over in everything they do...not always an easy job. Congraulations to the couple..and to England.  

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quotePosted at 04:52 on 17th November 2010

Gee, now I'm invisible again...something I did, something somone  else did.... or something you people did...where's Sherlock at?

I got to watch them on the news stations tonight.

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Patrick Van Calck
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quotePosted at 07:37 on 17th November 2010

congratulations to them both !!

I hope they have a smashing day like I had.

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quotePosted at 08:21 on 17th November 2010

And will the Queen, once the wedding day is decided, declare it a public holiday, which my firm would ignore as they do all of them. 

And do the shops in London or Windsor have their souvenir  mugs, plates, tea towels, etc on sale yet?  

And this morning at 7-30, the milkman was delivering to Windsor Castle  with seemingly, the lights to the library on. Was Her Majesty checking up on her family tree during her morning tea? 

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Ron Brind
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quotePosted at 08:52 on 17th November 2010

Shirley says>>>Gee, now I'm invisible again...something I did, something somone  else did.... or something you people did...where's Sherlock at?

The answer is it took you longer than an hour to type and post it Shirley. Remember to keep one eye on the clock, post before the hour is up and it won't happen again!

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