23/10/2013 09:08
Prince George due to be christened in private ceremony
Prince George - the three-month-old son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - is to be christened later, the BBC reported.
The private ceremony will be carried out by the Archbishop of Canterbury at the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace and attended by the Queen, Prince Philip, other relatives and friends.
Well-wishers have already started setting up camp outside the palace.
But after the intense, perhaps at times frenzied, interest in his birth the christening is set to be low key.
The names of Prince George's godparents are set to be announced in advance of the ceremony.
By royal standards the chapel is a small, even intimate place to christen a future king.
The tradition would be to hold the service in the Music Room of Buckingham Palace.
But the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are again doing things their way and have chosen the Chapel Royal.
It is where the duchess was confirmed into the Church of England ahead of her wedding and it is a place that must hold some painful memories for the duke.
In the days before her funeral, the coffin of his mother, Diana, rested here.
It was where her family paid their respects privately ahead of her very public funeral.
The guest list will be small and media access is being carefully managed - something that has come as no surprise to royal author, Penny Junor.
"I think they want this to be a private, family, normal kind of event," she says.
"I don't think they want it to be overly royal, overly posh or overly formal. They just want to get their child christened."