Prince William: Queen told me to bin wedding guestlist

Prince William has revealed that the Queen advised him to bin the guestlist for the royal wedding when he realised he knew no-one who had been invited. William, who married Kate Middleton in April, wanted close friends at the ceremony but Buckingham Palace had advised him to invite dignitaries.

Speaking in a new book called Our Queen, which is excerpted in the Mail On Sunday, William confessed that he approached his grandmother for advice.

“I came into the first meeting for the wedding, post-engagement, and I was given this official list of 777 names – dignitaries, governors, all sorts of people – and not one person I knew,” he recalled. “They said, ‘These are the people we should invite’.

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“I looked at it in absolute horror and said, ‘I think we should start again’. I rang [The Queen] up the next day and said, ‘Do we need to be doing this?’ And she said, ‘No. Start with your friends first and then go from there’. And she told me to bin the list.

“She made the point that there are certain times when you have to strike the right balance. And it’s advice like that, which is really key, when you know that she’s seen and done it before.”

William added that he wanted to decide what to wear for the ceremony but the Queen intervened and insisted he wore his Irish Guards uniform.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridged  (Prince William and Kate Middleton)
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