Here's Who's Going to the Wedding

Other royals, politicians, celebrities, even normal people
By Polly Davis Doig,  Newser Staff
Posted Apr 23, 2011 8:03 AM CDT
Royal Wedding: Prince William, Kate Middleton Release Guest List
Just in case this royal wedding business is driving you to drink, there's Royal Wedding Celebration Ale.   (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

You might not have heard, but Prince William is getting hitched in six short days, and the confirmed guest list is out today. A list of the notables, as per the AP:

  • Foreign royals: Denmark's Queen Margrethe; Norway's King Harald and Queen Sonja; Spain's Queen Sofia; Prince Albert II of Monaco and fiancee Charlene Wittstock; Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa of Bahrain

  • Military: Holly Dyer, sister of 2nd Lt. Joanna Dyer, killed in Iraq; Susie Roberts, widow of William's Sandhurst platoon commander Alexis Roberts, killed in Afghanistan; all 27 members of William's search and rescue unit.
  • Celebs: David and Victoria Beckham; Elton John and David Furnish; Rowan Atkinson; Guy Ritchie; Joss Stone; Mario Testino
  • Politicians: British PM David Cameron; British PM Minister Nick Clegg; Labour Party leader Ed Miliband; US Ambassador Louis Susman
Click for more on the royal wedding, or here for who's not going. For the truly obsessed, go to the BBC's entire section on it. (More royal wedding stories.)

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