Pippa Middleton Wedding Live Stream? How Many People Watched Kate’s Marriage To Prince William

Pippa Middleton, the sister of Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton, is slated to wed fiancé James Matthews Saturday at St. Mark's Church in Englefield, Berkshire. The couple did not immediately reveal if their nuptials would be filmed for television the way her sister’s marriage to Prince William was televised.

When Kate married William in 2011, an estimated 2 billion people from 180 countries watched, the Telegraph reported at the time. In London alone, more than 8,500 reporters covered the event.

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It was also a popular event on Facebook. Within 24 hours, people in Britain and America wrote 2.8 million status updates about the wedding, according to Facebook calculations.

When it came to twitter, people posted 237 tweet per second about the wedding.

It’s unlikely that the union between Pippa and Matthews will cause as much excitement, however, people still would like a glimpse of the big day. According to Google searches, the term “Pippa Middleton Wedding Live Stream” amassed 27 million search results.

What most people likely want to see, aside from Pippa’s wedding dress, is the royal family. Prince George, 3, is to be the pageboy and Princess Charlotte, 2, is set to be the flower girl.

Kate reportedly will not be the maid of honor so she does not steal the limelight from her younger sister. “If your sister is a future Queen, she is going to upstage the bride and draw attention. Kate would want to be in the background as much as possible,” Royal author Judy Wade told People Magazine in July.

“Kate would upstage her sister,” she added. “It’s a tricky situation for Pippa. She would want her sister by her side, as who else would she trust to make things go well?”

Aside from the royal family, another person people are interested to see at the nuptials is “Suits” actress Meghan Markle, who is dating Prince Harry. The couple made their relationship official in November, with Kensington Palace confirming they could get married at Westminster Abbey, even though Markle is divorced.

There were are no rules that prevent Markle and Harry from tying the knot there. “The Abbey follows the General Synod Ruling of 2002. Since then it has been possible for divorced people to be married in the Church of England,” a spokesperson told The Express Sunday.

Markle is Jewish, but that does not pose a problem for the church, either. The statement added her backround would not stop her from having an “interfaith” marriage.

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Harry was not please when some in the media criticized his relationship because of Markle’s faith and background. He released a statement in November saying a “line was crossed.”

“His girlfriend, Meghan Markle, has been subject to a wave of abuse and harassment. Some of this has been very public – the smear on the front page of a national newspaper; the racial undertones of comment pieces; and the outright sexism and racism of social media trolls and web article comments,” part of the lengthy statement read. “Some of it has been hidden from the public the nightly legal battles to keep defamatory stories out of papers; her mother having to struggle past photographers in order to get to her front door; the attempts of reporters and photographers to gain illegal entry to her home and the calls to police that followed; the substantial bribes offered by papers to her ex-boyfriend; the bombardment of nearly every friend, co-worker, and loved one in her life.”

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