Gallery: Crowds cheer at Royal Wedding

 

Hundreds of thousands of tourists and Londoners lined the streets leading up to Westminster Abbey on Friday morning as guests began to arrive for the historic royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

 
April 29, 2011 6:02 AM
 
 
 
Well wishers with flags and cameras prior to the Royal Wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey on April 29, 2011 in London, England.
 

Well wishers with flags and cameras prior to the Royal Wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey on April 29, 2011 in London, England.

Photograph by: Julian Finney, Getty Images

 
Well wishers with flags and cameras prior to the Royal Wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey on April 29, 2011 in London, England.
Soldiers leave Wellington Barracks to make their way to Westminster Abbey on April 29, 2011 in London, England.
Ceremonial guards perform along the Mall ahead of the Royal Wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey on April 29, 2011 in London, England.
Members of the public line the streets before the wedding of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton in central London April 29, 2011.
A well wisher wears a novelty head band ahead of the Royal Wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey on April 29, 2011 in London, England. The marriage of the second in line to the British throne is to be led by the Archbishop of Canterbury and will be attended by 1900 guests, including foreign Royal family members and heads of state. Thousands of well-wishers from around the world have also flocked to London to witness the spectacle and pageantry of the Royal Wedding.
A royal supporter waves along the processional route on the day of the wedding of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton, on April 29, 2011, in central London.
Megan Walker from Lancashire holds the Union Jack flag along the Mall in central London ahead of the Royal Wedding of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton, on April 29, 2011.
Royal supporters wave British Union Jack flags along the processional route on the day of the wedding of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton, on April 29, 2011, in central London.
A balloon with a picture of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton flies past the clock of Westminster Abbey before their wedding in central London April 29, 2011.
Guests arrive at Westminster Abbey before the wedding of Britain?s Prince William and Kate Middleton, in central London April 29, 2011.
A Royal fan pushes her child on a stroller as she heads to Buckingham Palace to watch Kate Middleton and her father, Michael, travel in a Rolls Royce to Westminster Abbey for Kate's marriage to Britain's Prince William in central London April 29, 2011.
 
 
 
 
 

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