Royal Wedding Lip Reader Decodes Secret Conversations

LONDON (AP) -- Tina Lannin, a professional lip reader who was born deaf, caught the private whispers during the royal wedding that television microphones couldn't capture.

Lannin, who has worked for 7 years as a forensic lip reader for police forces and media outlets with O'Malley Communications, picked out comments from Prince William, his bride and Queen Elizabeth II in a partial transcript. Her assessment couldn't be verified.

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10:20 a.m. – Prince William: "Looking forward to it." To Harry, "shall we go in then?

Prince Harry: "Sure, everyone has arrived."

William (to Bishop): "Make sure everything's alright. It's beautiful the way it is."

10:25 a.m. – William to lady in congregation: "You look very pretty, very pretty."

10:55 a.m. – Michael Middleton to Kate Middleton as they left hotel: "You okay?"

11:00 a.m. – Pippa Middleton to sister Kate: "You look amazing."

Michael Middleton to Kate Middleton as they entered Westminster Abbey: "You okay?"

Kate Middleton to her father: "Yeah."

11:05 a.m. – Kate to Bishop before walking down the aisle: "Yes I suppose so ... I expect I'll be worn out today. Thank you."

Harry to William: "Right, here she is now."

William to Middleton at the altar: "You look lovely ...(unclear)... You look beautiful."

William joking to Michael Middleton: "We're supposed to have just a small family affair."

12:00 p.m. – Queen Elizabeth II to Prince Philip: "It was excellent."

Prince Philip: "Yes?"

12:15 p.m. – William to Kate Middleton: "Alright?"

Kate Middleton: "Yes."

William: "Wish I was out."

Kate Middleton: "I'm beginning to find (unclear)."

William: "Yeah, alright." Hands bouquet to Kate after they climb aboard their carriage, "here you are."

Kate Middleton: "Thank you."

Kate Middleton: "Now, are you happy?"

William: "Yes ... (unclear conversation) ... wave to everybody."

Outside abbey – queen: "I wanted them to take the smaller carriage."

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall: "It all went very well."

Queen: "Very well."

In wedding carriage – William: "I don't think you should bow quite yet. I think you should just bow your head, okay?"

Kate Middleton: "Okay."

William: "I hope I remember ... It's mad, it's mad! Oh my goodness it ... really loudly here (unclear) these people are clapping."

Kate Middleton: "Did they?"

William: "I think so. I went out here the first (unclear)."

In separate carriage – Prince Charles: "Yeah it looked nice."

Camilla: "Yes, but you have to know how to do it."

In wedding carriage – Kate Middleton to William: "You look happy."

1:30 p.m – On Buckingham Palace balcony, Kate Middleton: "Oh wow."

William: "Alright? You'll be okay?"

Kate Middleton: "Oh I'm fine, thank you."

William: "Yeah! Yeah! There's a lot of people down here." To pageboys, "I know but look up there as well." To his bride: "Okay? Look at me, let's kiss, okay."

William, shouting balcony: "Harry! Your go!"

Kate Middleton: "What's next?"

William: "They want more time I think."

William shouting across balcony, possibly to Camilla: "You could have brought up (unclear) as well."

Camilla: "Oh, very heavy."

William: "Just do a bit of everything. Do you like the balloons (unclear) they go up in the air."

Kate Middleton: "Look at these people."

William: "I want to see the plane, I think I'm (unclear)."

William to Harry: "Okay."

William to pageboys: "...to stop them coming in here, to stop them coming in this side, I mean it's hard."

William to Kate Middleton: "One more." The couple kiss for a second time. "That's it, come on!"

Comments

[Holymolly]

03:34 PM on 05/08/2011

Nonsence, I'm sorry I read it!

[Betsy Girl]

11:19 AM on 05/04/2011

Princess Anne should be apologizing to Catherine for the nasty comment she made when Wills and Catherine left to sign the register. She said "RAGS TO RICHES ". I wonder why no one has interpeted this lip reading ?

[sf girl]

09:37 PM on 05/06/2011

Really? Where was this shown? On the NBC coverage? Did she say that to her husband?

[Betsy Girl]

02:16 PM on 05/09/2011

I taped it from "E". Wills and Catherine stepped out with their families to sign the register and the camera went around and I caught what she said to her husband im guessing. Pretty easy to guess what she was saying.

[JePense]

12:33 AM on 05/02/2011

If the transcribers could just get their AMs and PMs correct.

Noon is 12 p.m.; midnight is 12 a.m.

[jena132]

10:00 PM on 05/01/2011

Okay, that was all quite silly.....but I did laugh out loud at the queen saying "I wanted them to take the smaller carriage".

[onlythetruthcounts]

08:22 PM on 05/01/2011

The Prince sure inherited all his dad's bad traits: balding hair, funny nose, big teeth, and all the rest. I'm on team Harry.

[jena132]

10:00 PM on 05/01/2011

He used to be quite the hottie, but he's looking more like dad as he ages.

[kandem]

09:17 AM on 05/02/2011

me, too. I think Wills peaked at 19. Beautiful wedding, gorgeous bride, though. I wish them the best.

[onlythetruthcounts]

08:15 PM on 05/01/2011

Ok for one thing they were in public for another it's not like they were discussing intense classified secrets. From their boring comments to one another they probably know they are being watched closely (wow big shock there). I fail to find anything personal or even interesting in their conversations...

[deatrix]

08:02 PM on 05/01/2011

next: they are going to publish a book about their conversations the lip reader spied upon..... more drama yuch...

[Larkin31]

07:50 PM on 05/01/2011

Well, another look at really boring stuff from a bunch of voyeuristic interest. Ho-hum....

[1reasonedtruth]

07:43 PM on 05/01/2011

How utterly invasive and rude.

[logic-a-go-go]

06:47 PM on 05/01/2011

I did notice Kate and William several times asking each other "you okay?"; for example when she asked him that in the carriage. I thought she said NOT "are you happy now?" to the Prince, but, "I'm so happy" followed by a beaming smile, in the carriage.

[onlythetruthcounts]

08:18 PM on 05/01/2011

Because it matters if she said "are you happy now" or "I'm so happy." How boring and trite. Now honeymoon pictures, that would be a little interesting. And you know which one's I mean. (:

[Harrietinthecity]

06:44 PM on 05/01/2011

This is an example of "just because you can do a thing, doesn't mean you should."

I think the person who lip reads should be ashamed of themselves. They'll be the first to claim "discrimination" when events start barring people like this.

What was the point of HuffingtonPost posting this?

I didn't bother to read it. Just scrolled to the bottom to say this is a disgusting invasion of the couple's few moments of privacy.

[steffi]

06:36 PM on 05/01/2011

This is how it starts. They create a hunger for information and in no time they are chasing people thru tunnels. I hope that all media services respect their privacy and not publish anything that's not intended to be public.

[edejan]

06:09 PM on 05/01/2011

This is a really distasteful invasion of privacy.

[Sam Salinitis]

05:30 PM on 05/01/2011

who cares my country kicked these clowns out in 1776- for a reason- why do we insist on worshiping this garbage in our country. If you want to be a serf for a family move to Canada and then you can worship these creatures.

[steffi]

06:36 PM on 05/01/2011

The fact that you think your country is any different in the modern age shows you that you are seriously out of touch.

[Bob Alberti]

06:51 PM on 05/01/2011

Heh, 400 families own half of everything, and Sam thinks we got rid of royalty in 1776.

[DemocracySimulation]

06:52 PM on 05/01/2011

Yes maybe celebrities have become our modern-day royalty but they are not paid with taxpayer money AND when they fall out of the public's graces that's the end of the line for them. The monarchy is for the Plebeians.

[BlazeKING]

07:48 PM on 05/01/2011

Yep..the royalty in England can shut down parliament and streets etc in Canada..they own half the land. And they don't even teach this stuff there, the people just don't know that they are still owned.

[Rubyfoo]

04:50 PM on 05/01/2011

That was utterly...mundane.