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哈里王子将担任威廉婚礼伴郎

Britain's Prince Harry is to be Best Man at the wedding of his elder brother William to Kate Middleton, the princes' office confirmed on Monday.

英国王储办公室本周一表示,哈里王子将担任兄长威廉王子与准王妃凯特•米德尔顿婚礼的伴郎。

Britain's Princes William (left) and Harry stand during a photocall at RAF (Royal Air Force) Shawbury near Shrewsbury in 2009.
Britain's Princes William (left) and Harry stand during a photocall at RAF (Royal Air Force) Shawbury near Shrewsbury in 2009.
Middleton has also, as expected, chosen her sister Pippa to be her Maid of Honor when the couple tie the knot(结婚) at London's Westminster Abbey on April 29.

Other bridesmaids(女傧相) and page boys(听差的男孩) are made up of young children from friends and members of the royal family, including Louise Windsor, the daughter of William's uncle Prince Edward.

Margarita Armstrong-Jones, daughter of Viscount Linley, who is son of Queen Elizabeth's late sister Margaret, Grace van Cutsem, William's goddaughter, and Eliza Lopes are the three other bridesmaids.

William Lowther-Pinkerton, son of William's private secretary, and Tom Pettifer, son of the prince's former nanny and his godson, will be the two page boys.

Details of all the outfits(装备) they will wear will not be given out until the wedding day, Clarence House said.

It also announced the couple will undertake two official engagements later this month, a naming ceremony for a lifeboat, and a reception to mark the start of the 600th anniversary of St Andrews University in Scotland where they met as students.