Topic: United Kingdom

Royal fans from far and wide descend on London

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - For some fans, no distance or discomfort is too great if the prize is a prime view of the wedding of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton.Some 200 people were already camped out Thursday across the street from ...

Royal wedding apathy matches passion in Britain

LONDON (Reuters) - For every Briton who will tune in to watch Friday's royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton, one definitely will not.That was the finding of a recent Ipsos MORI poll for Reuters which underlines how, for all the ...

Hordes gather for William and Kate wedding

Hundreds of thousands of spectators gathered in London on the eve of the biggest royal wedding for 30 years after Prince William and Kate Middleton took part in a low-key rehearsal for their big day.Well-wishers camped in front of the Westminster Abbey ...

Royal Wedding frenzy turns off many Americans

For every American setting an alarm clock to go off before dawn Friday to catch the Royal Wedding, there is at least one curmudgeon glowering in a corner, eagerly waiting for the whole thing to be over.In America, as in Britain, the ...

Tent city tea party awaits Wills and Kate

The atmosphere outside London's Westminster Abbey resembled a good old English tea party on Wednesday as royal wedding fanatics camping on the streets let the excitement flow.With a tent city sprouting up across the street from the wedding venue despite the 48-hour ...

Rain showers forecast on Britain's royal wedding day

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Britain's Met Office has forecast rain showers in London on Friday, when hundreds of thousands of people are expected to line the streets for the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.Although the precise location and timing ...

Rain threatens to dampen royal wedding

The world's first glimpse of Kate Middleton at her wedding to Prince William on Friday could be under an umbrella after forecasters said it may rain and even thunder on the big day.But the grim prediction failed to dissuade devoted fans of ...

Australian support for republic slumps: poll

Support for Australia becoming a republic has fallen to a 17-year low, according to a poll published on Monday, just days ahead of Britain's royal wedding.The Newspoll survey found that almost as many Australians wanted to retain ties to Britain's royal family ...

William and Kate say 'give to charity, not to us'

What do you give the couple who have everything? The answer, in the case of Prince William and Kate Middleton, is a donation to charity.Not for them the entire roomful of antique furniture including a four-poster bed in maple which Canada gave ...

Shower us with donations, say William and Kate

What do you give the couple who have everything? The answer, in the case of Prince William and Kate Middleton, is a donation to charity.Not for them the entire roomful of antique furniture including a four-poster bed in maple which Canada gave ...