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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...ebrations.html

1,900 guests invited to Royal wedding celebrations

The invites to Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding have been sent out by the Queen.

The guest list will include 60 leaders of the Queen's realms such as Australia, Canada, and New Zealand and over 200 members of Government and Parliament.

But international heads of state, including President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle and Nicolas Sarkozy, the French Prime Minister, and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, will miss out.

Of the 1,900 people who will watch Prince William 28, and Miss Middleton, 29, exchange their marriage vows in the morning service at Westminster Abbey, the majority will be drawn from the couple's circle of family and friends.

St James's Palace has confirmed that other guests will include members of the defence services, representatives from Prince William's charities while celebrities like the Beckhams are said to be among the Westminster Abbey congregation on 29 April.

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That sounds about right. The British Royal Family is not the British government. Why would they invite political leaders who aren't their own territories? And besides, there's more important stuff going on than a royal wedding.