been opened and the royal wedding guests will start to arrive. from the vantage point over here, i can tell you there is no massive throng and thus of people to get in. let me tell you a bit about this magnificent abbey while we wait for, excuse me, the first guests, the abbey was first c s consecrated in 1065. the first monarch to have been crowned here was william the kw conquerer in 1066. we can look at it in being in three phases, the great west door of the abbey and it is through that part that was constructed by henry iii in the middle of the 13th century. that is where the queen, the heads of state, the prime ministers and commonwealth countries, members of the royal family along with prince william and harry will arrive in just 40