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William and Kate's inner circle

While politicians and foreign dignitaries were out in force at Westminster Abbey for the Royal wedding between Prince William and his bride Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will have been most thrilled by those who had gathered in Statesmen's Aisle in the abbey's north transept to see them marry.

This was the space, overlooked by statues of Disraeli, Gladstone and Palmerstone, reserved for some of the couple's closest friends.

Also among them were long time friends of the Royal family, wealthy landowners and aristocrats who have known Prince William all his life, together with the mentors who helped him cope with his mother's death and saw his bride transformed from commoner to future Queen.

The friends have remained low key throughout the couple's romance, but the jigsaw of who's who within the Duke and Duchess's inner circle can now be revealed.

THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE SET

Friends of the Prince's from his home county of Gloucestershire, who have been entertained at Highgrove, the Prince of Wales's country estate, were well represented.

Known fashion cheap hermes handbags as the "Glosse Posse", its most glamorous member is Arabella Musgrave, 28, said to have been a former flame of Prince William and once described as "the only woman who could make Kate Middleton" jealous.

Now head of PR at Gucci, Miss Musgrave met the Prince through friends at the Cirencester Park Polo Club, run by her father Major replica hermes handbags outlet Nick Musgrave, an old friend of the Prince of Wales.

A regular on the London party scene, until recently she dated James Tollemache.

Seated in front of Miss Musgrave is Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs. Known as "Nats" to friends, she met Prince William while attending Westonbirt School, which is close to Highgrove.

Lady Natasha, 27, sat on Prince William's table at his "Out of Africa" themed 21st birthday at Windsor Castle. The daughter of the Marquess of Reading and older sister of Julian, Viscount Erleigh, she is also one of Prince Harry's best friends.

Lady Natasha runs the fashion label Beulah, selling clothes made by women who have escaped the sex trade in India, of which her grandfather was viceroy in the 1920s.

She dates Rupert Finch, a former boyfriend of the Duchess of Cambridge. Described as "affable" and "handsome", Mr Finch, 32, was a final year law student at St Andrews University when Kate arrived to study History of Art in 2001. The couple dated for less than a year. Some have suggested that Prince William "stole" his future bride from Mr Finch, but others insist that the relationship had run its course. He is now an employment lawyer in London.

Tom and Victoria Inskip "Skippy" and "Tor" to friends have known Princes William and Harry since childhood. Mr Inskip, 26, attended Eton with the Princes and helped to organise his stag party with Guy Pelly, the nightclub entrepreneur who was sat elsewhere in the abbey.

Miss Inskip, 27, who also attended Westonbirt, is the best friend of Prince William's first serious girlfriend Rose Farquhar. A Chelsea based estate agent, she is also friends with Prince Harry. The Inskips were regulars at "Club H", the nightclub William and Harry set up in the basement of Highgrove,

She has also been a fundraiser for Sentebale, the African charity set up by Prince Harry. Claire Inskip, their mother, is a sculptress.

Seated next to Mrs Inskip, is Jamie Murray Wells, an old Harrovian childhood friend of Prince William from replica birkin handbags Gloucestershire.

Mr Murray Wells, Hermes birkin bags fake 27, is the son of Simon Murray Wells, an investment analyst, and his wife Alison, who are close friends of the Inskips.

Mr Murray Wells is believed to be a multi millionaire after founding Glasses Direct selling cheap spectacles online during his final term at University of Bristol in 2004.

Renowned for his sense of humour, he once reportedly sent sheep into Specsavers stores in Newcastle upon Tyne to illustrate his belief that customers were being "fleeced".

In a prank in 2006, he and Mr Pelly, raided Westonbirt School in a hunt for girls (the school was empty at the time), with Mr Murray Wells falling from a wall and breaking his leg.

He showed loyalty to the Duchess during her brief split with Prince William in 2007, escorting her to nightclubs.

FRIENDS FROM SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY DAYS

Seated beneath the statue of Benjamin Disraeli are Sir Henry and Lady Cheape. Sir Henry, a landowner educated at Harrow and Newcastle University, and distant cousin of the Prince, rented Balgove House to the couple during their third year at university, where their romance was allowed to flourish away from scrutiny.

At the other end of the row from Sir Henry and his wife, Louisa, is Will Matthews, another old Harrovian. Known to his friends as "Stan", he lives in Fulham, where many of the couple's set have their London bases.

Mr Matthews is an associate in the country house sales department at Knight Frank, the estate agents and close friends with Rory Penn (seated beside him with his wife Francesca Penn) and Sir Henry.

All three attended Newcastle University, together with James Meade, Prince William's closest friend who, with Thomas van Straubenzee, delivered a joint best man speech.

Mr Penn, 30, is a City fund manager and a descendant of Sir Claude George Bowes Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, the Queen Mother's father.

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