PRINCE WILLIAM TO HONOR PRINCESS DIANA WITH PRINCE GEORGE'S BAPTISM.

Prince William and Kate selected a non-traditional location to have their son’s christening ceremony — the Chapel Room at St.James Palace. The royal family traditionally holds baptism ceremonies in the Music Room,a much larger venue at Buckingham Palace that makes for a elaborate affair.

In addition to Will and Kate’s desire to keep their ceremony small and relatively informal, Will also holds a special relationship to the Chapel Room: his mother’s body was kept in the room for the time before her funeral in 1997.

“It’s a special place for William,” according to a royal source“Having the service there is his way of involving his mother,who he so wishes could be here for all of this.”


The couple also chose the location for its intimacy, to assure that the ceremony is a personal memory shared among close friends — not a room full of distant royal relatives!