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   >> nbc news royal expert robert jobson is the royal editor for news of the world. good morning to you. i know that you were at that briefing, let's start with the date of the wedding , april 29 , what is the significance of that date?

   >> well, this is the date they wanted, they wanted a spring wedding , but it's also the date of katharine of sienna, queen katharine . but it basically shows to me that prince william has won his first battle, he wanted a wedding sooner rather than later and it's going to be a bank holiday .

   >> we saw kate middleton visiting there last week, and the significance of that.

   >> this is the royal family 's church, this is where the queen was married and this is where princess diana 's funeral was held.

   >> william and kate want to control every detail of their wedding and we have heard that that's caused some friction with the queen's staff, what can you tell us about that?

   >> there's a little bit of a debate about the timing because william and kate want to get married sooner rather than later and yet a summer wedding would have looked better. you guys know what the british weather is like and there were fears if they had had it earlier in the year, say, march, it could rain. april 29 is just about the last day of spring.

   >> but april showers , you never know, that's the problem.

   >> let's talk about the price tag for this wedding , we're hearing numbers in the range of $40 million. prince charles will pick utmost of the bill but another $30 million for security. that's going to fall on that taxpayers during tough times, how do you think they'll respond to that?

   >> the second part of that statement is about the cost. the security will be taken over by the government as well. we're going to have heads of state here, the rest of the money will be footed by prince charles and also the middleton family will contribute as well. but in all honesty, i think we should be looking in a very upbeat way about this wedding . this wed will constitution billions of pounds for the british economy . it will actually raise awareness. william and kate are very concerned that it not be toos of citizen tod citizen --

   >> prince william doesn't want what happened to his mother, but how can he control that?

   >> this couple are going to be the future king and queen of england and there's huge media interest in them. they want to be in control of the situation, not only for themselves because they're the ones that are pressing all the buttons because if they don't control it now it will spiral out of control and that's why they're putting their feet down and saying this is what we want and you're going to have to do it. we know that prince william is very good at digging in his heels and clearly he has won the first round.

   >> when princess diana met her horrible death in paris, she had no body guards. this time katharine, kate is protected by scotland yard . so the paparazzi just better watch out.

   >> and very quickly, robert, at the briefing, was any mention made about the guest list, the reception or the wedding dress ?

   >> actually it's quite interesting, they want the guest list to be as much as they can be to do with their personal guests. but obviously there will be heads of state. there will be a lot of their friends. when i asked how many people would be there, they said the church will be full. so you're talking a few thousand people there. i think it's going to be a gate occasion full of pomp and pagea pageantry. they will be riding in one of those state carriages, you can bet your bottom dollar.

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