Why Kate Middleton and Prince William’s wedding was ‘perfect’ but ‘not a fairytale'

Kate Middleton and Prince William’s wedding day was not a fairytale wedding, a body language expert has claimed.

The pair married in front of almost 2,000 people at Westminster Abbey, London. They had been dating for almost a decade when they became husband and wife.

So what did Judi James, body language expert and author of The Body Language Bible, think of the wedding?

Looking back at the royal wedding compared to others, she said it was “controlled” but in its own way “perfect”.

She explained to Express.co.uk: ““In terms of romance this wedding was primarily the result of the media circus that had surrounded Charles and Diana and Andrew and Fergie, meaning the body language was more controlled and subtle than any of the previous royal events.”

This wedding was not a “fairytale” because the couple had been together for such a long time, she said.

Meghan Markle, 37, and Prince Harry, 33, had been together for less than two years by the time they got married.

She said: “We knew the couple had been together for a long time and so the ‘fairytale’ aspect of young love was removed.

“It was perfect but also less memorable because the drama and speculation was missing.

“William’s facial expressions ranged from bashful to proudly loving and Kate’s super-perfect congruent-looking smile did not slip once. 

“They looked regal and they looked confident in their love and suitability in a way that Charles and Diana did not.

“Their trait of intensive mirroring one another showed a strong like-mindedness that suggested this love would last.

“There was no edge-of-the-seat tension, just some charming and solid signals of a more mature and ‘potted in’ love.”

Judi James also recently analysed the wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.

She said: “With their touch rituals and their intense eye connect and tie-signs and their high levels of sexual attraction signals we saw less fairytale fantasy and more congruent and genuine romance from these two.

Meghan and Harry were new to the public as a couple in a way that Charles and Diana and William and Kate were not. 

“This was a far more modern wedding, with Meghan showing all the signs of utter confidence as she walked alone up the aisle and took her vows and it was Harry who we saw reduced to a series of anxiety rituals.”

Judi also spoke of Harry’s “nerves” on the day which contributed to the romance of the occasion.

She said: ““Unlike his father, Harry unwittingly injected a lot of the romance into the day by a series of nervous glances and feature-softening looks of love that suggested he was totally smitten and still unable to believe his luck in pulling such a beautiful US TV star.”