Royal Wedding Timetable / Schedule

The Royal Wedding Timetable between Prince William and his lovely Bride-To-Be Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey on Friday the 29th of April 2011 has been revealed.

It is as follows:

8.15am:    The Congregation Will Arrive at Westminster Abbey.

9.50am:    Governor-Generasl and Prime Ministers of Realm Countries, the Diplomatic Corps, and VIPs arrive.

10.10am:  The Royal Groom-to-be Prince William and his brother and best man, Prince Harry leave Clarence House for Westminster Abbey.

10.20am:  The Arrival of Foreign Royal families at Westminster Abbey.

10.20am:  Kate Middleton’s Mother Carole and Brother James Middleton leave the Goring Hotel, Belgravia ,SW1, London.

10.25am:  Members of the Royal family make Their departure from Buckingham Palace To Arrive at Westminster Abbey at 10.30.

10.35am:  The Duke of York accompanied by his daughters Princess Beatrice, Princess Eugenie and The Earl and Countess of Wessex, The Princess Royal and Vice Admiral Timothy Laurence all make their way from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey.

10.38am:  The Grooms father The Prince of Wales (Charles) and his step-mother The Duchess of Cornwall (Camilla) leave Clarence House en-route for Westminster Abbey.

10.45am:  Her Majesty The Queen and her husband The Duke of Edinburgh arrive at Westminster Abbey.

10.55am:  The Royal bridesmaids and Pages arrive at Westminster Abbey.

10.51am:  The Royal-bride-to-Be Kate Middleton is accompanied by her father Michael Middleton, as they sets off together from the Goring Hotel, Belgravia, SW1, London, to Westminster Abbey.

11.00am:  The Marriage Service for Prince William and Kate Middleton begins and will be heard via speakers to everyone outside and all  along the Royal procession route.

12.15pm:   A Captain’s Escort of the Household Cavalry will Escort the Bride and Groom in their Royal Marriage Carriage which will be closely followed by her Majesty The Queen in her own Procession with a Sovereign’s Escort of the Household Cavalry,as it leaves Westminster Abbey en-route for Buckingham Palace.

12.30pm:   The Bride’s Carriage Procession arrives at Buckingham Palace.

12.40pm:   All other members of the Royal family and members of Foreign Royal Families arrive at Buckingham Palace.

12.45pm:   All the guests for the Wedding Reception arrive at Buckingham Palace.

1.25pm:      Her Majesty The Queen, Prince William and his new Royal bride Kate, together with all of their families, will make their  appearance on the iconic balcony at Buckingham Palace.

1.30pm      The British Royal Air Force and Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Make Their Fly Past In Honour of the Celebrations.

HTC Incredible S Australian release

Who really needs to read a thousand words about a new phone and its impending release. The early adopters thats who. Well thats fine but check out the other techy websites for that info. What I would like to see more of is mobile phones shops with working examples of their phones for the prospective buyer to really try it out before they make their purchase. Apple is well aware of this as a selling point but the likes of HTC and the other Android phones have to really rely on other phone dealers to do this for them. These dealers just want to get the phones out the door and are not too particular about one brand or another so it seems that the Android phones are already at a disadvantage. HOTheadlines gets about 10% mobile device traffic during the day and sorry if you were involved in the iphone auto redirect trial earlier this week. You will still see the message at the top of the screen though if you are on an iphone. Iphones and ipads make up over 60% of this mobile device traffic with Android devices responsible for only 13%. Granted Apple had the jump on everyone and the other makers are just trying to catch up but the iphone is right now leading the way. I can only guess that the traffic on here is representative of the rest of the market.

So back the HTC device. If any other maker is going to give Apple a run for its money then it is HTC. I have said this before. This is a solid device and is able to offer more than the iphone in some areas. This may be a more suitable phone for you than the iphone so make an effort to give it a try if you are in the market. It may surprise you but the iphone is not the only smart phone available and may not be the most suitable device for everyone shopping for a smart phone. I have nothing against the iphone, they are a real solid unit but dont rule out the other makers phones. As I said earlier HTC needs to give prospective buyers more access to the phones before they buy. This in my opinion will drive more sales and even up the gap between Apple and the rest.

The HTC Incredible S will be released soon, in Australia, if it has not already been released. Check it out as it looks like a great phone. There may not be a line of people around the block through the night waiting for its release but that doesn't make it any less of a phone. Also demand that the shops give you a working example of the phone before you buy.

POLLUTION

Noise pollution is something that we rarely think about. Just ask yourself when was the last time that all you could hear was total silence. We humans are really a noisy lot. Radio. TV. Trains. Cars. Industry. Aircraft. Games. just to name a few things. Most of these things have come about in just the last few hundred years and some of them in just the last few. We can only try to imagine what our world sounded like back say two hundred years ago. It would have been a much quieter place. I can hear some of you say, "So what?" Then let me ask you a question can you really concentrate on something if there is a lot of noise? Also for those of us that live in cities do you feel comfortable when there is silence? We go for a day's outing to a nice quiet place and then have to either turn on a radio, CD player or plug sound direct into our ears. The norm for many thousands of years has been a quiet earth with just nature mostly supplying the sound. It is my opinion that we should treat noise pollution the same as all other types of pollution and try to limit its impact on us and the environment

The Royal Wedding and the Media's Responsibility

The Royal Wedding of Kate and William, one of the biggest tabloid events in history, is about to happen. Of course without a doubt the tabloid magazines and the media in general around the globe are buzzing with excitement and the action has already begun. Of course any wedding is a cause for celebration and a time for happiness but it is also a time for a little stress, especially for the bride and groom. Let’s take a little time to look at the issues at play here and how the situation should be approached.

Kate Middleton the now fiancé of Prince William went from leading a rather normal life to one under the spotlight of the global media, obviously due to her relationship with Prince William. Here you have two young people in love who are making one of the biggest decisions of their life. Now that this decision has been made, Kate has no choice but to become a public figure. This is a kind of stress that anyone else would not have to deal with when getting married. Images of Kate and William are spread right across the media and it is just accepted that Kate has now become public property and we can do with her what we like. Not only her present day behaviour is scrutinised but her entire past is dragged out in front of the public. This would be a very stressful situation to deal with for her and the enormity of that would probably in fact overshadow the wedding for her and William.  Kate and William's smiling faces are almost daily in the media right now and my only hope is that the media storm around their wedding is not enough to cause any problems for the two.

Williams past experiences with the media especially surrounding the death of his mother would have galvanised him from its effects. His whole life in fact has been played out in front of the public; after all he does have royal blood. This kind of exposure to the media would have to have some kind of effect on a person and it cannot be disregarded. The media by its very nature has to bring stories to the public. Media agencies have to compete with other media agencies so they have to make their stories the best available. This means squeezing the subject of their story for every last drop that they can get then making up the rest of the information. Once they have everything that they want the subject is dropped for the next big thing. The public has had their fill of information on this topic so they are able to move on also. However this leaves the subject of the story to deal with the aftermath of all this attention. It is this aftermath that can cause serious problems for people. I hope Kate Middleton is not one of them as she seems like a nice person.

People should be allowed their privacy, even if they are public figures. Public figures are also human and need to be treated as such. If I was a public figure such as the likes of Prince William then I would like some privacy too. Ofcourse he has a duty to the people but there has to be a line. The death of Williams mother very much highlighted this issue so lets not let the same happen to this young loving couple.

The media usually does not care for the effect that it is having on any given sutuation. Merely by being present and breaking a story the media can have an effect that can influence a situation. This will then just feed more stories to the media outlets that have created them out of thin air in the first place. The media needs to take more responsibility for the effects that it is responsible for and start caring more for the people that make them their money.

Thank you Kate and William and good luck.