Middleton Looking at
an April Wedding?
Will it be a spring affair?A date in late April is emerging as a frontrunner for Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding, a palace source tells PEOPLE. "There is a date they have in mind, and it's a case of working it out with the relevant parties," a spokesman for the prince told PEOPLE Monday.
William and Kate, both 28, are focusing on the period just after Easter – around April 28 – but are still speaking to all the "relevant parties," such as the government and police, a palace source says. And there is reportedly a plan B if their first date doesn't work out.
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The young couple informed officials of their preferred date and venue within a day or two of their engagement announcement on Nov. 16. Talks have been taking place since then to ensure the main guests can attend.
Palace officials earlier said in a statement that the wedding would be in spring or summer. Late April or early May would fit that, and would also be well ahead of the polo season that William likes to take part in.
Also, it would be after Easter and the preceding period of Lent, which Queen Elizabeth takes seriously and would want to observe.
Going forward, Kate will have meetings with senior staffers in the royal household to help her settle into the unique and rarefied atmosphere and workings of royal life and protocol, the source adds. The source in the prince's office adds: "She will have all sorts of preparations in the run-up to the wedding."
The couple, meanwhile, spent this weekend apart. William was at a bachelor party in the northwest seaside resort of Blackpool, while his fiancée spent Friday at her parents' Party Pieces company and was pictured for the first time with one of the prince's security detail alongside her as she drove her Audi.
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