What time can I watch the royal wedding - Harry and Meghan - on TV?

Problem
If I can't be sure to be in the UK, when can I watch the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on TV?

Answers
I just ran the times through a time converter and these were my results:

UK
Wedding starts at noon in Windsor.
12.00

To be sure to avoid confusing the clock or myself I typed in 11.50, then added ten minutes to all the results. This is what I found:

USA
Noon in London, England is 7 a.m. in New York.
Five hours behind.
So, if you can get up by 7 am, you can watch it live.
Set your alarm. Make your muesli up the night before.


Australia - you might go to Australia and stop in the Far East en route.

Over in Singapore,
If you live there or stopover, when it's noon in London it's 7 pm in the evening.

Or Perth in Western Australia, it's 7 pm. That might be before, during or after your evening meal.

In Sydney, the other side of Australia, a difference of two hours, 9 pm.

Football museum, UK.

What about the football, starting, kick-off, at 5.30 pm in the UK?

Add five and a half hours to the other numbers, assuming they are correct. (Or, to be safe, re-set your time converter page.)

USA
For football fans in the USA, that is good news. The 5.30 start in the UK is 12.30, lunch time on Saturday in the USA.

Australia
Sorry to say that if you are in Singapore, or Perth, Australia, the football starts at 12.30 - gone midnight.

In Sydney it will be two hours later, 2.30 am, starting and finishing in the middle of the night.

You'll have to watch the re-play, unless you are a night owl.

Check which day! I remember ringing a friend in Australia, one Friday afternoon, and hearing that the person I was calling was out to lunch. I said, "He's out late to lunch on a Friday afternoon on a weekday."
The person the other end, his wife, replied, "No. He's out early to lunch at the weekend - here it's Saturday. Where are you calling from?"

So check your clocks.

And decide when and which way you wish to fly.

If you are watching on TV, check the schedules on the day in your country or better still the day before. Usually the broadcasts start an hour earlier, of even from dawn, with shots of the preparations, visitors arriving, VIPs, chats to foreign tourists, views of the streets before they are cordoned off for the carriage. Plus any arrivals by car or on foot. And pre-recordings of snippets of previous programmes about the venues.

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Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.