29 April,2011 08:05 AM IST | | Agencies
Echoes from Princess Diana's wedding and funeral will be present in her son Prince William's marriage ceremony, the official schedule released yesterday showed. Music played at Diana's 1981 wedding to Prince Charles, and at her funeral in 1997 will be included at Westminster Abbey when their son ties the knot with his fiancee Kate Middleton today. Charles helped Middleton to choose the music by listening to tunes on iPods, a spokesman for William's St James' Palace household said.
Remembering ma: Prince William, Harry and Charles mourn at Princess
Diana's funeral in 1997. One of the hymns to be played at the wedding
was the last one sung at her funeral. File Pic/Getty Images
"Catherine is very familiar with classical music. She had a lot of input from the Prince of Wales. They spent a a lot of time listening to the music together on iPods," he said. Middleton will walk up the aisle to The Introit, from the Latin meaning entrance, which was used as The Anthem at 1981.
Other links to Charles and Diana's wedding include Edward Elgar's Sonata for Organ Opus 28', William Walton's Crown Imperial and Ralph Vaughan Williams' Rhosymedre. The first hymn may have bittersweet memories for the princeu00a0-- the congregation will sing Guide me, O thou great redeemer, which was the last hymn sung at Diana's funeral 14 years ago.
