Royal wedding fever for Caithness schoolchildren

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THERE was more than a touch of wedding fever for local children when Prince William married his fiancée Kate Middleton.

School pupils donned their best clothes, made flags and crowns, and enjoyed ceilidhs to celebrate the big day.

Normal schoolwork of maths and English gave way to wedding events as primaries (and secondaries) partied on April 29, with hundreds of local youngsters marking the historic day.

Many of the schools held special buffet lunches in dining halls bedecked with bunting or outside in street-party style.

At Dunbeath the pupils enjoyed a medieval theme, while the kids from Castletown took to the streets for a wedding procession, complete with their own “bride and groom” in a pony-drawn carriage. Youngsters in Halkirk also staged a wedding march through the village.

There were wedding cakes, competitions, mock marriages and, of course, the chance to tune in and see the real thing as the prince married his sweetheart in Westminster Abbey.

They may not have got an invitation to the main event, but for the county’s children the royal wedding was a day they will always remember.