that s kate s sister pippa there looking absolutely exquisite. ever seen more adorable bridesmaids and pageboys. look at the uniforms! i want to put them in my bag. they re so cute. one is the son of tiggy, a great former nanny of william and harry. the boy on the right with the blonde hair is her son. yep. pippa looks exquisite too, by the way. with those with pippa and kate they both love those necklines again, always just going for the v. and the other one is william william s closest confidant. and they re getting closer to westminster abbey.
and william s not flash. some of the royals have been over the years accused of being quite vulgar. who, piers? we all know. but the great thing about the wedding is it s a meeting of pomp and pageantry and a couple of people you know, she is a commoner, as we say. do people still use the term here? yes. i don t like it much. you don t mind it. it sounds to an american every american is a commoner. all commoner means is you re not part of the establishment, if you like, not a member of the royal family or the extended family. you re not someone born with a silver spoon and privilege. to a brit having kate middleton come through as one of them. she s come from a similar background to many people watching. she s one of us. she s very much, as diana was the people s prins sesz, she s the people s duchess. let s listen to the band. let s listen in.
anderson, the last time those boys will have been into the abbey in any formal sense was for their mother s funeral when we all remember them having to walk behind their coffin, young teenage boys. william was 10 years old. terrible ordeal for them. to have this amazingly happy occasion, i think is just a wonderful thing to watch. those images of them walking behind the coffin, are definitely ingrained in our brains and i think you re right, piers, we have to look at what a fantastic job prince charles actually did. you know, they were teenagers at the time they lost their mother and although she kind of set up the infrastructure, it was charles that actually, you know, led them through the terrible teenage years where you re just awful. you were saying, you can t beat a man in a uniform, can you? no. eat your heart out, hollywood. you haven t got heart throbs like these two. these are the heart throbs of the nation. biggest stars in the world right now. yeah.
erratic and dysfunctional family for all of them. i think william saw what happened there. he revels in william likes normality. this middleton family seemed grounded, normal, hard working, made their own money. i think he s learned lessons here choosing a bride you re not going to have problems down the line. a lot of people admire them for that. credit their own business, made a lot of money, self-made people, and they haven t just been handed things on a plate in their life. the difference between that and diana who came from a wealthy, establishment kind of family, never had to really work any of them, just handed stuff on a plate, blue blood stock, doesn t always work.
it says something about who prince william and kate that they wanted it it s the intimacy. it s on the world stage and will be watched by so many people. but it maintains the level of intimacy if it s a small church. and william s not flash. some of the royals have been over the years accused of being quite vulgar. who, piers? we all know. but the great thing about the wedding is it s a meeting of pomp and pageantry and a couple of people you know, she is a commoner, as we say. do people still use the term here? yes. i don t like it much. you don t mind it. it sounds to an american every american is a commoner. all commoner means is you re not part of the establishment, if you like, not a member of the royal family or the extended family. you re not someone born with a silver spoon and privilege. to a brit having kate middleton