So we made it down to the mall after our very fun party in the morning for the wedding. Initially I was NOT interested in the wedding at all and we were going to head out of town all together But we thoguht it would be too difficult to get back into the city afterward so we stayed and got into the spirit of the wedding.
I'm so glad we did. We had a marvellous time at our friends house and then around 2:30 headed down to the mall that runs from Trafalgar Square to Buckingham Palace - it was wonderful. The crowd was huge but everyone was in great spirits, the bobbies were nice enough to let me slip out into the mall to snap photos of the palace. We just missed William and Kate in his father's car driving from the Palace to Clarence house - by a few minutes. Darn. But we saw plenty:
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| St. James Park with London Eye in background |
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| Royal horses nearly ran us over |
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| The royal horse yard with London Eye |
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| Buckingham Palace from the mall (a bobby let me dash out into the mall for this one) |
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| Cate and me at Westminster across from Big Ben |
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| Big Ben and Downing Street in the background |
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| The press boxes across from the palace |
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| Red carpet at Westminster - the workmen let me slip out to snap this. Red carpet was yucky! |
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| Westminster - could get the flags on top as I was too close to the fence and it was crowded |
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| Me and the kids on the mall facing Trafalgar |
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| He was more delighted to crawl around in the golfcart ambulance (with their permission) |
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| Cate asleep on Daddy's head infront of Westminster |













You are a brave, brave woman. I watched the flyover from my terrace. Then I had some bubbly. x
ReplyDeleteI am glad you had a good time. Did you see the little girl on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with Wills and Kate? She looked so bored and kept on complaining about the noise! I found that a little funny!
ReplyDeleteI wept and drank my way through it, (via the TV as my ticket got lost in the post,)the 8yo beside me. Loverleee, really loverleee. Sigh, blishh...hic!
ReplyDeleteThe Larches males were less impressed.
Well done you bagging your own bits of history. xx
What a great looking family. I think they'll be happy to say in later life "Yes I was there".
ReplyDeleteBrilliant!
ReplyDeleteI just have to say how much I love this post! I just came back from London and miss it so much. I hope that one of these days I can relocate there too! Until then, you have an avid reader!!
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