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UK royal wedding fever "set to build up"

With one month to go from Tuesday before Prince William and Kate Middleton tie the knot, royal watchers note little excitement in Britain -- but believe wedding fever is just around the corner.

"Over here at the moment it's probably the least excited bizarrely," said Robert Jobson, royal commentator and author of "William and Kate: The Love Story".

"In America, it's crazy," Jobson told AFP, adding the US television network NBC were interviewing him about three times a week about Britain's biggest royal wedding for 30 years.

But he believes enthusiasm in Britain will quickly begin to mount in the coming weeks as royal officials release more news and the couple's appearances increase ahead of the April 29 ceremony.

"It's more of a slow burn, and they'll do more public appearances and so you'll get to see them more and more -- and that's when the excitement will build up," he predicted.

Ever since the second-in-line to the throne William and his university sweetheart Kate announced their engagement in November after an eight-year romance, palace officials have only sparingly released information.

Visit London, the capital's tourism body, predicts that an extra 600,000 tourists will flock to London on the day of the wedding, pushing the number of visitors up to 1.1 million compared to a normal day.

But a search of the Internet reveals that there are still hotel rooms available in the city on those days.

The couple are to marry in London's historic Westminster Abbey, in Britain's biggest royal wedding since William's parents Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana married in 1981.

Kate, 29, will travel to the wedding in a Rolls Royce limousine, passing by some of London's most historic sites.

And it will likely only be when she walks down the aisle on her father's arm that a global TV audience, expected to be in excess of one billion, will finally see the dress she has chosen for her big day.

William, 28, and Kate will say their vows in front of about 1,900 guests, including foreign royals, family and friends.

While guests' names have not been released, it seems certain British Prime Minister David Cameron will attend, while among the few celebrities reportedly invited are football star David Beckham and his wife Victoria.

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