The Nation Celebrates

As temperatures reached 22C and nearly all of the UK basked under glorious blue skies, Britain’s towns and cities thronged with party-goers hoping to soak up the Royal Wedding atmosphere! CelebratesTHE NATION As temperatures reached 22C and nearly all of the UK basked under glorious blue skies, Britain’s towns and cities thronged with party-goers hoping to soak up the Royal Wedding atmosphere!

A Royal Wedding is always a great public celebration, and thousands of people packed streets up and down the country to toast the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Many people even made long journeys to join the thronging crowds in the narrow streets of Windsor, 30 miles west of London, while countless more celebrated at street parties or with get-togethers in their own homes in front of the TV!

Windsor was brought to a standstill by the event, and air traffic controllers for nearby Heathrow Airport, one of the world’s busiest, even closed the airspace over the town 15 minutes before the ceremony to avoid marring proceedings with the roar of low-flying aircraft.

The Prince and his Bride had already issued 2,640 invitations to members of the public, Palace staff and charity workers, granting them special access to the big day.

But while the favoured few were celebrating the wedding at first hand, across the country thousands were staging their own celebrations, if perhaps on a slightly less lavish scale. For many of these it was out with the bunting and on with the street party, a great British tradition when it comes to landmark Royal events. Though fewer such parties were staged for the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan than took place for the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton in 2011, crowds still made merry across the nation, with the most parties held in leafy Richmond, where 100 such celebrations took place.

THE MARKLE SPARKLE