HE’S NOT going, but she is. It was confirmed yesterday that Amy Huberman will be attending Friday’s royal wedding without her rugby captain husband, Brian O’Driscoll.
Due to the security involved in screening guests at the event, the author and actor, who married O’Driscoll last summer, will be attending on her own.
Protocol dictates that you can’t turn up for a royal wedding with another relative or friend if their name is not the one on your joint invitation, even though there would be no shortage of people eager to attend the occasion.
There are three parts to the Prince William and Kate Middleton wedding and it is to the 11am ceremony at Westminster Abbey, that the couple had been invited. O’Driscoll is unavailable because of Leinster’s semi-final Heineken Cup game against Toulouse on Saturday.
As he told the Guardian newspaper yesterday: “I have a captain’s run on Friday and as big an honour as it was to be invited, I can’t ask for team runs to be at 6.30 in the evening so I can go to the wedding. The team ethos comes first, even after 12 years.
“I know William and he’s a nice, chatty, normal guy. On a conversational level with him and Harry, it’s extremely normal. The rest of their life is abnormal – for want of a better word. But Amy’s going as we felt there was an element of our representing Ireland as well.”
It will be an early start for guests on the Westminster Abbey invitation list who are being asked to turn up between 8.15am and 9.45am.
