THE WEDDING of Princess Cristina (31) of Spain to Olympic handball player Inaki Urdangarin will take place in October. Cristina is third in line to the throne after her unmarried younger brother Crown Prince Felipe, and her elder sister Elena, who married two years ago.
Princess Anne's former husband, Captain Mark Phillips (49), and his wife Sandy Pflueger, are expecting their first baby in October nine months after their wedding in Hawaii.
The Monster Raving Loony Party today celebrate the life of their leader's mother, who died last week, aged 80.
The funeral of Annie Sutch will be a mix of bizarre politicians and showbusiness, party leader Screamin' Lord Sutch said yesterday.
He said: "I want to give her the kind of send-off she would have wanted so I've invited mates from Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin." Jeff Beck has also been invited, and "we'll have an acoustic guitarist and a violinist as well as playing her favourite record, Slim Whitman singing Rose Marie".
He said: "I hope a lot of musicians will come along because mum used to love making cups of tea for the guys in the old days."
Rock stars Patti Smith and John Cale will hold a concert in New York next month to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the Chinese government's treatment of dissident students in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.