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Here is another video from the Monaco princely wedding gala dinner. Click here to watch the video!

Photo courtesy of: Reuters/Jean-Paul Pelissier

The Palais Princier de Monaco finally released the official wedding portrait of Their Serene Highnesses Princess Charlene and Prince Albert II of Monaco this morning.

The image was taken in the courtyard, where the couple had their religious ceremony, on the grand marble steps.  In the portrait you will see the many of the royal guests including Kings, Queens, a Grand Duke, a Grand Duchess, Crown Princes, Crown Princesses,a head of state, an Earl and a Countess.  And, of course you will notice the bride’s parent’s and the groom’s sisters.

Finally, here is a nice photo of the couple during their first dance.  If you would like to view photos of the fireworks show please click the link here.   To view photos of the reception and guests please click here.

Photos courtesy of: Palais Princier de Monaco and Nice-Matin

This afternoon on the official site for the princely family of Monaco, Palais Princier de Monaco, released details about H.S.H. Princess Charlene’s wedding dress, bouquet, wedding ring, and interestingly the bouquet ceremony at the Sainte Dévote Church.

Click here to read. 

Photo courtesy of: Palais Princier de Monaco

You know that you can always count on Isabelle Kumar and the Euronews team for providing all the latest video reports from Monaco regarding the princely wedding.  Click here to watch the segment, Final Preparations.

Photo courtesy of: DM

On June 30, 2011, the guest-list for the princely wedding in Monaco was released and just as we all expected there are a number of reigning and non-reigning royal and princely houses throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia represented.

New to the list are:

1. H.R.H. Lalla Mariam and Lalla Soukaina of Morocco
2. H.R.H. Prince Feisal al Hussein of Jordan
3. H.R.H. Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana of Thailand
4. H.R.H. Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad of Bahrain
5. H.H. Aga Khan IV
6. H.S.H. Princess Ira von Fürstenberg
7. H.I.R.H. Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia
8. H.R.H. Prince Luis Alfonso de Bourbon, Duke of Anjou
9. H.R.H. Prince Michael of Kent
10. H.M. King Letsie III of Lesotho
11. Farah Pahlavi
12. H.R.H. Prince Leopold of Bavaria
13. H.R.H. Hereditary Prince Bernhard of Baden
14. H.I.H. Grand Duke George of Russia

To read other royals on the guest-list please click the link here and scroll down.  

If you want to read the PDF press release version of the royal as well as dignitaries guest-list, via the Palais Princier, please click here.  

Here is the PDF press release for the celebrities attending.

Source: Palais Princier de Monaco press release

Euronews is going all out with the highly anticipated upcoming princely wedding between H.S.H. Prince Albert II and Charlene Wittstock, and this afternoon they released another news report about the future princess.

Click here to watch.   Plus, yet another report here.

Photo courtesy of: News Pictures

Here is the Euronews wedding schedule for the princely wedding. Second, I am still receiving information, via Email, regarding the wedding  so I will be updating.

Also, I will post all the new online streaming links, information, and other crap collectively on June 30, 2011 so you won’t have to search here, there, and everywhere on TRC.    :)

Euronews or Euronews NC 

Bookmark both links.

Your hosts will be Isabelle Kumar and Laurence Alexandrwicz.  Yes, they speak English so don’t freak-out.   The duo will cover everything under the sun until you just cannot take it anymore.

• June 29, 2011: A barrage of all things princely wedding mania in Monaco.  Meaning there will be a special about the up-coming events, a portrait of the couple, the wedding preparations, and much more.
• June 30, 2011: A incredibly long segment about the wedding including who the guests will be, the menu, the wedding dress.  Then there will be a review about the economy of the principality of Monaco, merchandising at the wedding, last minute preparations and finally an interview with J.M. Jarre.
• July 1, 2011: 5pm the civil wedding will be broadcast live from the Throne Room in at the Palais Princier de Monaco.
• 5:50pm: Live balcony appearance wave-a-thon where the Brass Band will play “Charlene’s Anthem” for the first time. Then on the giant screens in the Palais square the AC monogram will appear.
• 6pm: Live cocktail reception at the Palais square (link)
• 8pm: Reception at the port (link)
• 10pm: Jean Michel Jarre concert at Port Hercule (link)
• July 2, 2011: Live beginning at 5pm
• 6:30pm: CET Live the driveby wave-a-thon through Monaco in their new Lexus.
• 9pm: Guests arrive for dinner (link)
• 10pm: Fireworks (link)
• July 3, 2011: Re-cap of the entire two-day wedding extravaganza on Euronews.  You’ll probably be sick of it by then.

Photo courtesy of: Hola.com

According to the newspaper, Monaco-Matin, 22 reigning royal families from all over the world have confirmed their attendance to the upcoming princely wedding in Monaco on July 1 and 2, 2011 “There will be 22 heads of states or represented, and 22 families ruling royal or princely families…”

These confirmations were, well, confirmed by Paul Masseron, the Government Minister for the Interior in Monaco.  Furthermore, it was announced that, “…French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni have been invited. But, the Elysee has not yet sent an answer” said Paul Masseron.   Unfortunately, Mr. Masseron did not state which royal families accepted their invitations; however, we do know that the crown princely couple from Norway, H.R.H. Prince Willem-Alexander of Oranje and H.R.H. Princess Maxima of the Netherlands, and the entire Swedish royal family have confirmed their attendance to the princely wedding.

Finally, Mr. Masseron noted that sixteen non-reigning royal families will also attend including Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia (source).

Interesting.

To read the article in its entirety please click the link here. 

Source: Monaco Matin  Photo courtesy of: Bild.de