'They just lolled about': Actor Simon Callow's amazing Royal Wedding outburst

By Daily Mail Reporter


Relaxed... the attitude of the royal couple upset actor Simon Callow


It was a wedding which captured the nation's heart.

But for leading actor Simon Callow, Prince William and Kate Middleton didn’t take their royal nuptials nearly seriously enough.

The Four Weddings and A Funeral star launched into an extraordinary tirade against the royal couple while promoting his latest play, saying the pair looked like ‘they were in their front room’.


The actor, who was awarded a CBE by the Queen for services to acting in 1999, accused the newly-weds of being too relaxed and undermining the grandeur of the event.

Speaking to the Sunday Express, Mr Callow said: ‘I was struck by the extreme relaxation of the protagonists, and that was kind of amazing, but it was a little disappointing too, I thought because it was such an epic event yet they looked as if they were in their own front room.

‘I saw them lolling around a bit on their seats and making little jokes and all the rest of it.

‘Clearly the contrast between them and Charles and Diana was all to their advantage, and yet if these events are to be held and the taxpayers pay a great deal of money for them…it would be kind of nice if the participants seemed to have some sense of grandeur.’

Mr Callow admitted his views were out of step with the general public who had heaped praise on the couple for being down to earth.

Prestigious actor Mr Callow, who in 2007 was named 28th most influential gay person in the UK, said he didn’t even bother to watch the Royal Wedding as he was working.

‘It didn’t interest me very much and it was bewildering to me how excited people were about it’, he added.

The Queen and the late Princess Diana, however, left lasting impressions on the actor.

He told the Sunday Express: ‘I was sitting next to Princess Diana at the première of a film I’d been in called Postcards From The Edge.

'It was the first time I met her and she said: ‘You are not going to fall asleep on me are you?

Comparisons... Simon Callow said William and Kate were down to earth compared to Charles and Diana but 'lacked grandeur'

Joking... Simon Callow said the couples demeanour was too relaxed for the occasion


'Film stars have seen the film so often that they fall asleep when it starts. I said I promised I wouldn’t.’

And far from being frightened his comments may dissuade the royals from handing him a knighthood, Mr Callow said he has no aspirations to a title.

He said: ‘Perhaps if I do something remarkable I might get a knighthood.

‘But I don’t sit around thinking: When is it coming?’


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Mirror mirror: The striking similarity between Kate's Royal Wedding dress and the gown worn by Berlusconi's princess goddaughter

By TAMARA ABRAHAM

Similarities: Italian-born Isabella Orsini (left) was stunned to notice the likeness between her own gown, from her wedding two years ago, and the Sarah Burton dress worn by the Duchess of Cambridge last month


There were gasps across the world when the new Duchess of Cambridge stepped out in her wedding gown at Westminster Abbey last month.

But another princess across Europe was more stunned than most as Prince William's bride walked down the aisle in her couture gown by Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen.

Isabella Orsini, who is the goddaughter of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, married Belgian Prince Edouard de Ligne two years ago in a startlingly similar dress.


Mirror mirror: Both women are slim, very pretty brunettes, who married into European royalty


Although hers was made for her by Belgian designer Gerald Watelet, it bore many similar hallmarks, from the lace applique bodice and sleeves to its full skirt and dramatic train.

The similarities are heightened by the fact that both women are slim, very pretty brunettes, and though the hairstyle differed, they both wore veils with diamond tiaras.

The likeness is so striking that newspapers and magazines across Germany, Belgium, France and Italy branded Catherine's dress a copy, with headlines reading 'Copy-Kate' and 'Copycat Kate'.


Making an entrance: Like Catherine, Ms Orsini had a long train on her gown by Belgian designer Gerald Watelet


Ms Orsini, 36, who is an actress, makes no such claim, though she does agree that comparisons between the two sets of wedding pictures are uncanny.

She told Italian magazine Novella 2000: 'As soon as the Duchess of Cambridge went out to go to church, I thought her dress was a copy of mine.

'It means Kate Middleton has good taste.'


Fashion statement: Catherine's dress had a full skirt and dramatic train to match the Westminster Abbey venue


The style, it appears, is a popular one for those marrying into European royalty.

Both the Duchess and Ms Orsini's dress mirror the wedding gown of Grace Kelly, who became Princess Grace of Monaco when she married Ranier III, Prince of Monaco, in 1956.



Style inspiration? Grace Kelly, who became Princess Grace of Monaco when she married Ranier III in 1956


Miranda Eason, editor of You & Your Wedding magazine, made the same observation.

She told the Daily Express: 'The reason they are similar is they both referenced Grace Kelly’s iconic wedding dress.'

But she added, there were plenty of differences between the Duchess and Ms Orsini's gowns.

'It’s a similar neckline and there are other similarities but the skirt, for example, is different,' she said.


Scoop: Kate ha copiato l'abito da sposa all'attrice italiana Isabella Orsini



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