Prince William

LOS ANGELES -- They've been roundly cheered but occasionally jeered on their first foreign trip since they were married. But will Britain's Prince William and the former Kate Middleton now be revered when they arrive in Tinseltown?

There may not be time.

Following a nine-day visit to Canada, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are flying south Friday to spend a tightly scripted weekend in Los Angeles that is more business than pleasure and will leave little opportunity for the city's commoners to either jeer or revere.

OTTAWA, Ontario -- Prince William and Kate arrive in Canada on Thursday for their first official overseas trip since their wedding, in a visit that is expected to draw record-numbers of star-struck crowds and well-wishers hoping to catch a glimpse of the royal couple.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will celebrate Canada Day in Ottawa, open the Calgary Stampede and go canoeing in the Northwest Territories during their nine day-tour of their future realm before taking off to Los Angeles.

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.

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.

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.

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).

LONDON -- Thirty years after the fairy-tale nuptials with the unhappy ending, Britain will finally have another big royal wedding: its dashing helicopter-pilot prince -- second in line to the throne -- will marry the lovely commoner who may someday become queen. Prince William and Kate Middleton bubbled with joy Tuesday evening in their first public appearance since the palace announced their engagement after more than eight years of dating. Their wedding will be next spring or summer.