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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Mark Oliver

The royal wedding cam

If you're a fan of the royal family and live in Mongolia, or some other far flung place, and you are panicking about how you are going to follow tomorrow's royal wedding, we may have an answer.

A Scottish firm, Network Webcams, has started beaming footage on a free webcam that it has positioned on a hotel overlooking Windsor Guildhall. The happy couple will be married in a civil ceremony there at 12.30pm tomorrow before a blessing service and reception at nearby Windsor Castle.

The firm hopes three million viewers will visit the webcam site. I've been watching it for the last half an hour and it is very exciting. You can see the castle looming in the background and at the time of writing there are various figures in fluorescent jackets wandering around, who I am pretty sure must be police officers.

A casual observer may regard the officers as looking bored beyond all comprehension but I am sure they are vigilantly keeping a look out for bad people (as well as comedians dressed as Osama bin Laden and tabloid reporters with fake bombs).

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