The “British Open” comment was in fact a observant comment. The British Open has a tradition of ending with the crowd being control by police in the same way they did along The Mall today. The crowd fill in behind a police cordon that gradually leads them in an orderly manner.

Regrading identifying people in the abbey. Some USA networks did better than others prior to Catherine’s arrival. MSNBC’s Bashir (a Brit) did identify several people prior to the start of the service. Once the service started all networks essentially took the BBC feed. BBC only identified the names of Hymns via graphics, not the names of people in the abbey. Most of the people in the abbey were unknown to North American audiences. i.e. The Serbian Royal Family , King of Tonga, Governors General from the Commonwealth (54 countries) , Rugby players, etc. The only people USA audiences might have known were David Beckham, Posh Spice, Rowan Atkinson (“Mr Bean” or Blackadder”), John Major, Elton John and spouse, David Cameron British PM, Ian Thorpe (Australian swimmer) . Ben Fogle winner of “Castaway” the British version of Survivor and NBC Today Show correspondent, , singer Joss Stone, and Guy Ritchie (ex hubby of Madonna)