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Royal wedding: Prince William to wear Irish Guards uniform

By Henry Chu

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While details of Kate Middleton‘s wedding dress were still under wraps, it was announced Friday in London that Prince William will be married wearing the uniform of the Irish Guards regiment, of which he is an honorary colonel.

William will wear a gold and crimson sash, and his uniform will have gold ‘sword slings,’ but he won’t wear an actual sword.

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William’s cap will bear the Irish Guards’ insignia, featuring the regiment’s motto, ‘Quis separabit?’

Fittingly on this royal wedding day, the translation is, ‘Who shall separate us?’

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-- Henry Chu, reporting from London

Ministry of Gossip
Henry Chu

Henry Chu first joined the Los Angeles Times in 1990 and worked primarily out of the San Fernando Valley office before moving to the foreign staff in 1998. He served as bureau chief in Beijing from 1998 to 2003, Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2005, New Delhi from 2006 to 2008 and London from 2009 to 2014. He was a 2014-15 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. From 2016-19 he was international editor at Variety magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, Chu returned to The Times in March 2020 as deputy news editor based in London. He left in 2024.

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