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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/fan-flags-up-enthusiasm-for-wedding.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="This July 1981 picture shows 19-year-old Brian Balmer staking his claim to a seat outside St Paul's Cathedral" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-fan-flags-up-enthusiasm-for-wedding.jpg" alt="This July 1981 picture shows 19-year-old Brian Balmer staking his claim to a seat outside St Paul's Cathedral"/></a></p>
<p>One experienced Royal wedding-goer has started the preparations early for Prince William and Kate Middleton&#8217;s big day next spring, as he recreated a patriotic photo from nearly 30 years ago.</p>
<p>Brian Balmer, 48, was just a student when he watched his first Royal nuptials in July 1981.</p>
<p>The college lecturer, then aged 19, painted a Union flag on his face and joined up to 600,000 wellwishers camping outside St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral in London.</p>
<p>He waited three days to catch a glimpse of the Princess walking along the red carpet with her 25ft (7.62m) bridal train.</p>
<p>Mr Balmer, from Gin Pit Village, near Manchester, said the &#8220;real party mood&#8221; of the wedding day was something he will never forget.</p>
<p>His enthusiasm for the happy couple made the news worldwide, with his photo appearing in the Canadian press and on the front page of a British newspaper as The Face of Britain.</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;I had a Union flag draped over my shoulders and a large Dracula-style cape to keep me warm on London&#8217;s pavements for the next couple of nights.</p>
<p>&#8220;The lure of such a huge event as a royal wedding and a three-day party on the streets was too much to resist.&#8221;</p>
<p>He added: &#8220;Royal weddings always give the country a boost.</p>
<p>&#8220;Even today when we are surrounded by financial gloom stories every day, a national day of celebration, especially one that is celebrating love and romance and the promise of a bright future, has to lift everyone&#8217;s spirits.&#8221;</p>
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