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Phillips Wedding Sale

$1M for pictures

I wonder what else was on the registry!

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2 Stories

  • May 2008
    • Selling out one's belief is much worse - icWales

      MUCH has been made of the Queens anger at Peter Phillips and his Canadian bride splashing their nuptials all over 100 pages of Hello! magazine.How very Footballers Wives, splutter mortified courtiers as the £500,000 magazine deal parades every last detail of the big day.Such naked commercialism has been deemed unspeakably vulgar by palace staff. But a far worse act of selling out was performed before a Hello! snapper got anywhere near Windsor Castle. Peter Phillips fiancee Autumn Kelly renounced her Roman Catholic faith before the marriage so Phillips could retain his right to the throne.

    • Queen's Grandson Weds, Sells Pix for $1M

      Queen's Grandson Weds, Sells Pix for $1M

      (Newser) - Queen Elizabeth’s grandson Peter Phillips married Canadian Autumn Kelly this weekend, with the royal family smiling gamely for "official" photographers from Hello! magazine, which paid $1 million for exclusive rights to cover the nuptials. Other tabloids were not amused. “What a start to married life for Peter Phillips—cashing in on the accident of his birth and literally selling his grandmother to Hello!,” groused the Daily Mail. More »

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Peter Phillips, the eldest grandson of Queen Elizabeth II and Canadian Autumn Kelly leave St. George's Chapel in Windsor, England, after their marriage ceremony, Saturday, May 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Shaun...   (AP Photo)
The wedding group assemble at Frogmore House, Windsor, England Saturday May 17, 2008.   (AP Photo/ Sir Geoffrey Shakerley, Pool)
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, front left, Duke of Edinburgh, front right, Duchess of Cornwall, center left, Prince Harry, center, and Princess Beatrice, center right, smile after the wedding.   (AP Photo/Shaun Curry, Pool)
Peter Phillips, the eldest grandson of Queen Elizabeth II and Canadian Autumn Kelly leave St. George's Chapel in Windsor, England, after their marriage ceremony, Saturday, May 17, 2008.   (AP Photo/Shaun Curry, Pool)
Peter Phillips, the eldest grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, and Canadian Autumn Kelly leave St. George's Chapel in Windsor, England, after their marriage ceremony, Saturday, May 17, 2008.   (AP Photo/Sang Tan, Pool)
Peter Phillips, left, the son of Britain Princess Anne, and his fiancee, Canadian Autumn Kelly, walk back to Windsor Castle after an Easter Service in Windsor, England, March 23, 2008.   (AP Photo/Sang Tan/pool)
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