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LONDON - As the wedding bells echo from Westminster Abbey and millions tune in to watch the royal nuptials, the media will replay over and again the story of how Prince William and Kate Middleton began their fairy-tale romance at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where they met as frisky art-history students in 2001. (William later changed his major to geography.) The 600-year-old college has been elevated in the popular imagination as a magical Old World setting for royal

LAHORE - A Vintage and Classic Car Exhibition was held at Royal Palm over the weekend in coordination with Vintage and Classic Car Club of Pakistan (Lahore Chapter). Around 30 vintage and classic cars were line-up for display.
The event turned put to be big attraction for the fervent car-loving Lahorites and it appeared the bug of vintage car motoring had really hit them.
Classics on display included 1949 Humber,1958 Austin Princess, Triumph Spitfire, Mg miget, Cadillac,

LAHORE - After three rounds of competitive golf at the Royal Palm Golf Course, the team that worked hard but ended in agony was the Royal Palm 'A' who lost out to the defending champions Islamabad 'A' by the barest possible margin here on Sunday.
Islamabad ended the three rounds with an aggregate team score of 696 while the Royal Palm Team ended at 697. For Islamabad the performers were Taimur Hassan, Tariq Mehmood, Talha Sajjad and Fida Hussain. The winners captain Taimur

LONDON - Royal wedding guests have been sent a 22-page list of do's and don'ts - including how to hold their teacups. The etiquette guide has common-sense tips such as not clashing with bride Kate Middleton's outfit by wearing white or cream and keeping phones silent. But there is also advice for the 1,900 guests on how to greet the Queen.
Meanwhile, separate instructions to caterers have given strict orders that staff must not look at Her Majesty or other royals while serving. A

LAHORE - The Islamabad 'A' team led significantly at the conclusion of the first of the three rounds of the 5th Aquafina Royal Palm National Golf Tournament at the par 72 Royal Palm Golf Course.
Islamabad A, comprising Taimur Hassan, Tariq Mehmood and Umair Salim, showed their aggressive intent by managing to get a hold on the frontrunner position with an impressive team score of 229, made possible after some authoritative play by Taimur Hassan(gross 73) and Tariq Mehmood (gross

LAHORE - The 5th Acquafina Royal Palm Golf Team Championship will commence at the exquisite and testing par 72 Royal Palm Golf Course on Friday (April 8) and the team event and individual gross competition will be contested over three rounds with final round to be played on Sunday.
Addressing a press conference here, Lt Gen (retd) Mohammad Tariq, Captain Golf, said that around a dozen teams have entered and a couple are expected more before the events starts. The press

CANNES - British broadcasters are offering their international counterparts an array of royal-related products at the MIPTV trade show this week ahead of the much-anticipated royal wedding.
Up for sale at the world's premier market for buying and selling programming are documentaries about Prince William and fiancee Kate Middleton to historical shows about royal weddings over the decades.
A one-off special production by Britain's BBC Worldwide, "William and Kate: A Royal

LONDON - A British minister said on Wednesday that more than a quarter of the world's population was expected to watch television broadcasts of this month's royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Prime Minister David Cameron's spokesman said a figure of 2 billion people was provided by Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt during a briefing at a cabinet meeting where he also said preparations for the April 29th nuptials were going well.

LONDON - Britain's first official royal app was launched on Tuesday, and with the marriage of Prince William to Kate Middleton just weeks away, unsurprisingly it focuses on royal weddings.
The "Royal App", launched by the Royal Collection, will feature details of seven previous weddings, including Queen Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert in 1840 and the 1981 wedding of William's father Prince Charles to Princess Diana.
It culminates with Charles's wedding to second wife

WASHINGTON - While the British are already overwhelmed by the media frenzy surrounding Prince William's wedding, coverage in the United States is just now heating up and will reach fever pitch in the week before the April 29 ceremony at Westminster Abbey.
"It's catching on pretty quickly in the US. There is a fascination and the degree of media coverage is really starting to pick up now on the networks," said Diane Hall, president of 2 For Life Media, a Canadian company that

LONDON - Britons faced a right royal slew of April Fool's jokes Friday, with a leftwing daily pretending to endorse the monarchy and a fake poll saying parents were renaming their children William and Kate.
Just weeks before the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton, Britons were also asked to believe the opposition Labour Party was holding its own street parties to mark the impending nuptials of leader Ed Miliband. With the news dominated by the royal wedding, British

LONDON - Queen Elizabeth's head chef may be as eager for the royal wedding day to arrive as Prince William and Kate Middleton themselves. Mark Flanagan says he and his 21-strong team at Buckingham Palace are "excited" about treating the 600 guests to canapes made from the best of British produce.
He's keeping mum on the full menu for April 29, but the selection of canapes (two-bite decorative finger foods) could include smoked salmon on a beetroot blini, confit duck-leg terrine

LONDON - Britain's Royal Mail announced on Tuesday it planned to issue two official stamps to commemorate the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton. The stamps will feature photographs taken by Mario Testino to mark the couple's engagement and will be available at post office branches from April 21, eight days before the ceremony.
"We are honoured to be celebrating this very special and historic occasion," said Stephen Agar of the Royal Mail. "We believe that that this set

LONDON - Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton have picked an ornate multi-tiered fruit cake for their wedding on April 29, royal officials said on Sunday. The traditional cake -- which is usually made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, spices and sometimes spirits -- will be decorated with cream and white icing and will have "a strong British floral theme", Clarence House and St James's Palace said in a statement.
The website of the chosen cake designer, Fiona Cairns, who

LONDON - The official recording of the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29 will be available to download within hours of the service finishing. Decca Records, part of the Universal Music label which also released the recordings of Prince Charles's wedding in 1981 and Princess Diana's funeral in 1997, will have a recording of the royal nuptials for sale on the net within hours and then release the official album of the marriage ceremony on May 5. The

LONDON - Prince William's bride-to-be Kate Middleton will arrive at her wedding next month in the limousine attacked by students during riots in London three months ago, royal officials said. Middleton will travel to Westminster Abbey for the marriage service in the Rolls-Royce Phantom VI car which angry protesters targeted during protests in December while William's father Prince Charles and his second wife Camilla were on board. During the incident, the car was kicked, white paint

ISLAMABAD - Supreme Court was informed on Thursday that leasing of Railways land to Royal Palm Golf and Country Club, Lahore caused a huge loss of Rs 290 million.
A two-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and Justice Ghulam Rabbani was hearing a joint petition against irregularities involving over Rs 25 billion in leasing of Railways land at Lahore to a Malaysian consortium associated by two Pakistani's Lahore based companies- Husnain Construction