Royal Marriage of Freddie Windsor and Sophie Winkleman

[EmpressofIndia]

Daily Mail article on the wedding:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1213039/Here-trips-bride-Sophie-Winkleman-takes-tumble-marries-Freddie-Windsor.html

[fawbert]

Lord and Lady Frederick Windsor have spurned a possible £600,000 glossy mag deal.... more than can be said for some of the other members of the family...   now read on, dear reader

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article6832411.ece

[Fabulous Fake]

fawbert   :bignono:

Did you read page two of this thread? :P

[Trudie]

I just want to wish the bride and groom a long and happy life together. I thought they both looked lovely.   :wub2:

[drezzle]

http://legacyeditorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=82002854&cdi=0

Here's a picture of Lady Rose Windsor's wedding, and she is as closely related to the senior royals as Freddie and managed to get more senior royals to attend.  So what is so unacceptable about Freddie's wedding?

[Fabulous Fake]

The groom's mother perhaps was the stumbling block. :hehe:

[drezzle]

If the royals want their privacy and mystic, this isn't the way to get it -- it's more like airing dirty something in public, but I'm not sure what and the public is left to imagine the worse.  Ignoring this wedding sent duty and dignity out the window for the senior royals.  

If the problem is the groom's mother then instead of just annoying, there must be something terribly wrong with her -- and besides, it wasn't her wedding.  It just makes the senior royals look insufferably petty and snooty and my estimation of Princess Eugenie has just gone up several fold.

[brittanylala]

I hope Freddie and Sophie had an unforgettable day - the couple look beautiful together.

I'm so disappointed in Harry and William for failing to attend. There is just absolutely no excuse for snubbing immediate family unless your facing certain death itself. It seems I've been brought up to have more class than the Windsors. The vast majority of the world have more class than the Windsors. I'm quite dumbfounded they couldn't attend the main ceremony and then leave before the reception to celebrate his birthday privately afterwards. I'm sure Freddie and Sophie would've understood, or at least pretended too.

[Stix Chix]

grandmother's cousin's son isn't immediate family imho although i'm a little surprised too.  maybe they should have sent Kate as their representative? ;)

Sophie's dress was lovely although i thought the bodice was a little too low for church.  did Princess Michale really pick it out?

[Kate]

Yet the Queen and father of the bride , Prince Michael , are first cousins and I certainly have gone to my cousins childrens weddings!! 
I agree about the mystique...They have set tongues wagging and rumour flying by adopting the attitude they have done...IMO

[drezzle]

.................................maybe they should have sent Kate as their representative? ;)

Kate did go to Lady Rose Windsor's wedding ;)

[brittanylala]

grandmother's cousin's son isn't immediate family imho although i'm a little surprised too.  

Oh yeah, thanks! Is it inappropriate to type 'lol' on this forum? As I really am laughing out loud at my typo! But still Freddie isn't a far flung 3rd cousin they've only met once. It's the basic principle.

[fawbert]

The Queen was otherwise engaged at a very important military occasion in Yorkshire ------ a long standing pre-arranged trip. Handing out the Elizabeth Cross to war widows.....

[Lucy]

I find that the groom's mother looked tawdry:

And even the somewhat showy Princess Eugenie dressed far more maturely and appropiately.
The VERY senior Kents were there as was Lady Helen Taylor, with she and her Mother looking the height of fashion and glam instesd of cheap and ostentacious.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1213039/Here-trips-bride-Sophie-Winkleman-takes-tumble-marries-Freddie-Windsor.html
Lady Ella's gown was a tad inappropiate as well but not nearly as extreme as her Mum's.
As for the newly weds, they were gorgeous together...even though a slight bit more demure neckline would have benefitted Sophie as well..at least she wasn't horribly gaudy....but glowed as brides should do.
IMO
http://picture.belga.be/belgapicture/editorial/all/coverage/1288325.html

I think it would have been false and pretentious of Harry and William to attend because they don't associate all that much with that branch of the family...they attended Lord Nicholas Windsor's wedding either. He was first married in London befoe the ceremony at the Vatican.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article625565.ece

[Ella Kay]

.................................maybe they should have sent Kate as their representative? ;)

Kate did go to Lady Rose Windsor's wedding ;)

I think Kate was invited to that wedding on her own, though.  She and George and Rose Gilman seem to travel in the same circle of friends (they were all at the recent van Cutsem wedding, for example).  I don't think she was a "representative" in the same strange way she was for the Phillips wedding.

[marine2109]

Royals, high society and showbiz stars celebrate Lord Freddie's marriage to his beautiful actress bride

http://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/200909142013/frederick-windsor/wedding-winkleman/hello-michael-kent/1/

[Trudie]

With the exception of HM it seems the others couldn't be bothered leaving Balmoral. It really was in poor taste to schedule the wedding knowing the others would not interrupt their vacation. After all one can remember the inconvenience Diana's death caused by the family having to go to London for her funeral.

[drezzle]

http://www.anorak.co.uk/celebrities/hello/223612.html

Freddie Windsor And Sophie Winkleman's Special Hello!