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Americans wake before dawn to watch royal wedding

Last updated Friday, April 29, 2011 - 8:54am

Americans swept up in royal fever woke long before dawn Friday to eat full English breakfasts and attend British-themed parties across four time zones as they watched Prince William marry longtime sweetheart Kate Middleton.

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Guest list for royal wedding raises hackles, questions

Mackenzie Carpenter, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Last updated Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 5:47pm

LONDON -- "A 'Who's Who' of tyrants and their cronies," blazed one headline. "Riffraff at the royal wedding but no Tony Blair," screamed another.

The guest list -- who's on it, and who's not -- for Friday's wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton has stirred a huge outcry in the British press and among human-rights activists since its release Saturday for including unsavory dictators and excluding two former prime ministers who are members of a political party not particularly popular with Buckingham Palace: Labour.

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In run-up to royal wedding, an embarrassment of souvenir riches

Mackenzie Carpenter, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Last updated Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 5:50pm

LONDON -- Knit your own royal wedding.

Need we say more?

A 64-page manual with that actual title is for sale at the venerable Hatchards bookshop on Piccadilly here, along with slightly more tasteful royal-wedding-themed literary offerings. And yes, the book really does show you how to knit your own Royal Family, including Kate Middleton in her wedding dress, albeit one in wool with mohair trim.

From "Prince William" champagne to "Kiss Me Kate" beer, from refrigerators to Pez dispensers, from comic books to condoms, enterprising marketers are plastering the young couple's image and name on every conceivable type of merchandise. Much is available online, but stores are hawking royal-wedding memorabilia on the streets of this city to apparently eager American buyers.

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Diana's earrings will sparkle again during royal wedding ceremony

Kansas City Star

Last updated Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 5:54pm

KANSAS CITY, Mo -- You could call it the Case of the Missing Diamond Earrings.

Except in this mystery, we know where the earrings disappeared to.

A pair worn by Diana, Princess of Wales, at her wedding nearly 30 years ago arrived in late February at Kansas City, Mo.'s, Union Station along with everything else in the "Diana: A Celebration" exhibit.

But the 40,600 visitors who have seen the show so far haven't seen the earrings.

They were sent back to England before the show opened March 4.

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Royal wedding guests face strict security sweeps

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 5:38pm

LONDON -- It's not the type of welcome most wedding guests expect before they get into church -- background checks, ID verification and a security sweep.

But then again, Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding on Friday is no ordinary affair.

Britain hasn't seen a royal wedding of this size since Prince Charles married Diana in 1981 -- there were actually 200 more police on duty for that wedding, which had a longer procession route and a guest list of some 3,500 people, including foreign royals and heads of state.

Friday's wedding will offer much of the same pomp and circumstance with its 1,900 invited guests, but it also presents a modern security nightmare for the 5,000 U.K. police officers on duty. Police will be on the look-out for Irish dissident terrorists, Muslim extremists, anti-monarchists and protesters.

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Reporters descend on London for royal wedding

Mackenzie Carpenter, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Last updated Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 5:56pm

LONDON -- Dame Edna was there, nibbling pink cupcakes, weaving through the cavernous, gilded rooms and telling Jay Leno's "Tonight" crew that she knew where Kate Middleton and Prince William were going on their honeymoon.

Where?

"Libya."

Perhaps you had to be there, but at a party for the international print media Tuesday night at the grand Lancaster House -- a former palace in this city's West End -- the guests were laughing at Barry Humphries' famous comic character, queuing up to interview royal biographer Hugo Vickers, sipping Laurent-Perrier champagne and scarfing up the free canapes (they are journalists, after all).

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