Official Family Portrait on Royal Wedding Day

By Christine Fenno Posted Apr 30th 2011 08:36AM

The recessional march from Westminster Abbey that ended the historic wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton (make that Duchess of Cambridge) began a long day full of photo ops.

As the family gathered inside the throne room of Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth II sat next to her husband, Prince Philip, for their grandson's official family portrait with his new bride. The newlyweds look genuinely delighted striking a regal pose alongside their parents, siblings and young wedding party (on the far left, 3-year-old bridal attendant Grace Van Cutsem was typically contrarian about all the pomp and circumstance). Best man Prince Harry cracks a grin next to the groom, but why was Maid of honor Pippa Middleton banished to the edge of the group?

Below, William and Kate pose for more shots in their first moments as husband and wife.

Tags: Kate Middleton, Prince William, royal wedding

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Saturday 30 April

By Catamaran

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All of you who just simply love to hate Camilla - GROW UP! "Saint Diana" has been dead for 14 years now and it's time to move on. If Diana's sons can move on so can all of you who never knew any of these people personally. Camilla is, like it or not, part of the royal family and of course she would be at the wedding and included in the photos. The past should be left in the past especially in view of such a lovely occasion as Prince William and Kate's wedding. Life is for the living, not for the dead, and Diana is long gone. Time to move on!

By ffjjackson

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Man, there are some homely kids in that family!

Sunday 01 May

By Janice

Prince William and Kate should be the next King and Queen
Prince Charles and Camila should be skipped for unseemly
bahavior and mentally battering sweet Princess Diane.

By KG

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Princess Diana; you warmth, love and kindness does show through in both your fine young Princes'. William & Kate are very much in love! There photos are beautiful, as are they!
Wishing God's Blessings for this young couple to always have good health, happiness, RESPECT and LOVE on their wedding day and all their lives always, forever together!

By Pamela

A note to Christine Fenno - I'm sure Pippa wasn't "banished to the edge". The photographer was arranging the group by height.

By QueenKate

Uh, no he wasn't. Otherwise, the brother, James would be standing next to Kate as he is taller than both his parents. At best he was going for some sort of familial relationship. But then Charles would be next to William rather than Harry.

Where are Cimilla's children from her previous marriage? As the step-siblings of William, Harry and Kate, and stepchildren to Charles, shouldn't they have been in the photos also?

By elizabeth

I don't think Pippa was banished, it just wouldn't look right with two people in white standing next to each other... She would overshadow the bride.

By lauraluv896

It strikes me that Prince is somewhat naive beliveing that his fahter or his brother, have any good advice to give him. Both of these men are selfish and vain. ( I mean that in the most constructive way). I feel that their interference into Wills marriage will eventually end it..Harry and William do not think Camilla is wrong because they love their father.. But she is, and you cannot make a silk purse out of a cows ear.!When I look at those pictures of Diana and charles wedding, she looks like a naive little girl and he looks like an old man..It is disgusting, I don't know how anyone would want to go to bed with him unless she was uglier, Case closed.. Hey, does anyone else think that Harry does not look a bit like charles ?
I sure hope Kate and William have a long and happy marriage.

By LAURAL

DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE, MAY YOU LIVE LONG AND PROSPER,
MAY YOUR CHILDREN BE MANY AND HEALTHY AND STRONG..
AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD ALLOW NO ONE TO INTERFER WITH YOUR MARRIAGE.MAKE YOUR OWN DECESIONS., AND NOT LISTEN TO MEDDLERS, THERE WILL BE MANY. BELSSINGS TO YOU.

Thats BLESSINGS... NOT belssings.

By Laural

One more thing: I just hope Duchess Kate has her food tested before she eats it, when ever she has to dine with Camilla around
the old hag will probably try to kill her too.
She wants to be the queen.

By wyattd52

Actually, it wouldn't have mattered one bit if William hadn't wanted his step mother there. She would have been there anyway due to the fact that these people care more about how things look to others than how things really are. Most of their pathetic lives are for "show."

Ohhhh My Gawd..!!
I just looked up in google pictures of James Hewitt, and I have to tell you that Harry looks exactly like him.. Check it out.!!

By Charlie Taylor

Now google Diana's sisters.

One has Harry's red hair and his squared face....he resembles the Spencer family more than Hewitt

By jim

I'm watching uncle buck starring john candy.The royal wedding is over so everyone get on with your LIVES!

By Melody

Camilla is an old, used-up hoebag, and the ONLY reason she's in the picture is because the Queen knew that if she WASN'T, British tabloids would've had a field day. I doubt William wanted that hag in his wedding portrait, but the Queen trumped him. It was scandalous and utterly shameless the way Camilla endlessly chased after Diana's husband, and although Charles is equally as guilty, let's face it, he's a man, which means he's dumb. I can't stand that ugly, wrinkled tramp.

By the way, Harry is the son of James Hewitt. Harry knows it, the royal family knows it, and so does all of Britain. It's a no-brainer.

By Msmich

Change of subject: Why weren't Williams pants shortened? They are obviously too long in the picture of him with Catherine.

By howlofthewild

As anyone who was a royal watcher for years Charles dated Camilla in the 70's and the papparazzi treated her like garbage then,calling her Horse Face.Any wonder she ran away an dmarried someone else??

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