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Royal wedding to be streamed on YouTube
2011-04-21
UK palace officers said Tuesday they may stream the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton live on YouTube, the 1st such coverage of a royal event. As well as the 4 hours of Net coverage on the Royal Channel on Apr twenty-nine, there's also going to be a live multi-media blog put together by royal officials, they revealed. St James's Palace, the office of Prince William, asserted it was "in accordance with the couple's wishes to make the marriage as accessible as practical for as many folks as wish to participate". The feed will included William and Kate's journey from and to Westminster Abbey ; the service ; the appearance of the couple on the balcony of Buckingham Palace ; and an army flypast. Royal officials would offer a live blog with historical info and other details, the 1st time a blog has run alongside a live stream on YouTube for all occasions, the palace related. An official video "marriage book" also invites folks to submit their own video congratulations. There's also going to be a composite eat the Twitter microblogging service while extra footage will be released on photosharing site Flickr. It might be the "most digital and interactive coverage of a royal marriage to date", the palace asserted. In the meantime the official Twitter hashtag for the wedding would be rw2011, Clarence House, the home of William's dad Prince Charles, declared on its Twitter feed. Internet giant Google, which owns YouTube, claimed it was "excited" by the streaming statement. 2 bill folks around the world are anticipated to watch the wedding, the govt recounted last week. About 750 million folk studied William's folks Prince Charles and Woman Diana Spencer marry in 1981.
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