More than 350 guests, including the queen, are expected to attend the wedding at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle and the reception that will follow at the royal estate.
Mingling with the well-heeled and aristocratic wedding guests will be Kelly’s family from Ontario, New Brunswick and the West Island neighbourhood where she grew up.
Her father, Brian Kelly, will be walking her down the aisle. The wedding is the social event of the season not just in England but in Pointe Claire, too.
In the West Island suburbs, where everyone seems to know Autumn Kelly or one of her friends or family members or someone who knows one of her friends or family members, the uninvited are doing the calculations to determine if they are one or six degrees of separation from being seated next to the queen, Prince Philip, Princess Anne – insert the name of your favourite royal…
But as for bona fide details about the wedding – who will be wearing what or sitting where, or what the maid of honour plans to say to her best friend before she formally joins the royal family – that’s another matter.
“I’ve known her forever,” is all Aubie would offer as she walked to her car at the end of the school day one afternoon last week. “I really can’t talk about it right now,” she said. “Maybe later.”
It was the same story when Kitty Kelly answered the door of the family’s home, a two-storey cottage with an above-ground swimming pool in the back yard and a hockey net in the driveway.
“I’ve been asked not to (comment),” she said when asked what she would be wearing and whom she would be sitting next to at the wedding.
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