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By Hasan Suroor
LONDON, APRIL 4. The wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles has been postponed by a day so as not to clash with the Pope's funeral on Friday. The marriage will now take place on Saturday. An official announcement late on Monday said this had been done "as a mark of respect'' to the Pope. "It is expected that the arrangements will be largely the same as previously planned and more details will be announced as soon as possible,'' a spokesman for the Prince said. The change will allow Prince Charles to attend the funeral, which is also expected to be attended by his father, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, on behalf of the Anglican Church. The announcement followed widespread speculation about the appropriateness of holding the wedding on the same day as the Pope's funeral. The royal family was said to be concerned about the sensitivities of the Queen's five million Catholic subjects who were likely to be offended if the wedding coincided with the funeral. More crucially, a wedding on Friday would have created awkward protocol problems for many of the prominent guests including the Duke of Edinburgh, who is expected to represent the Queen at the funeral. There were also strong indications that Mr Blair may skip the wedding and go to the funeral, if the two events clashed. His wife, Cherie, is a devout Catholic and Mr Blair himself had much personal respect for the Pope whom he described as a "man of extraordinary faith, dignity and courage''. Meanwhile, Mr Blair on Monday put off plans to announce the date for the forthcoming general election as a mark of respect to the Pope. Mr Blair, who was to meet the Queen on Monday to seek the dissolution of Parliament, decided against it as he believed that it would be "disrespectful''. The informal election campaign, already underway, was suspended as Mr Blair and other senior political leaders attended a memorial service at Westminster Cathedral.
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