It is much more intimate than either Westminster Abbey and certainly St Paul’s Cathedral.

It is the chapel of Britain’s oldest (established 1348) and highest order of Chivatry the Most Noble Order of the Garter - the blue sash seen on members of the royal family.

Total seating would be 800 at a squeeze and the chapel is of two distinct parts, the choir seating 200 and the Nave 600.

It will be interesting to see if the Green Confers a Garter Knighthood on Harry, it is always a personal gift from the Queen, I think she will.

It is the burial chapel of the House of Windsor, King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra (Sax-Coburg Gotha) near the High Altar, King Edward V and Queen Mary in the Nave and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in a small chapel on the left hand side.

It is a Royal Peculiar like Westminster Abbey, where the Dean of Windsor is in complete control and may well conduct the service with the Archbishop of Canterbury just giving the final blessing.

It will be ideal for television coverage with the splendid banners of the Knights of the Garter.

Above the stalls and the magnificent High Altar, it will be interesting to see what hymns and other music is selected.

Are Australians interested in this wedding? Boy are they ever.

DARRELL Matthews (The Examiner, December 5) appears to be seriously misinformed about refugees, and in particular the men on Manus Island.  

Those single men have not been revealed as leaving behind any females and were originally sent to Nauru when offshore processing restarted in 2012. Families, couples and single females were sent to Manus Island.

The situation changed in 2013 when families, couples, single females and some single men were sent to Nauru and the single men all sent to Manus Island.  

Of the more than 600 men currently on Manus Island over two-thirds of them have been found to be genuine refugees.

They did not jump some mythical queue and nor are they ‘economic refugees’ (which is not a refugee classification; either a person is a genuine refugee or they are not).

It is a shame that people don’t take the time and effort to find out the truth of a situation before propagating false information as some sort of fact.

WITH ALL of life’s distractions, we sometimes forget the true meaning of Christmas.

When we are caught up buying presents and over-indulging in food, Christmas can be a time when we often forget what really matters.

But bad experiences and misfortunes can culminate at Christmas time, which means for vulnerable and marginalised Australians, Christmas can be the hardest time of the year.

For the Salvos it’s our busiest period, with more than 300,000 families and individuals seeking assistance. We give out more than 500,000 gifts and toys, and serve more than 10,000 meals to those who don’t have the means to celebrate Christmas.

We can only meet this need because year after year Australians come together and stand by those doing it tough. This, I believe, is the true meaning of Christmas.

So this holiday season let’s remember those going it alone.

By donating $29 to the Salvation Army's Christmas Appeal, you can help put a present under the tree and food on the table, bringing hope where it’s needed most.

IF DIFFERENT ministers from a specific religion have different views about same-sex marriage doesn't that mean that we are not seeing objections and discrimination on the basis of a clear religious view, but we are seeing objections and discrimination based on the personal views of individuals.

Anti-discrimination laws were written to prevent exactly this kind of behaviour?

WHILE I’m undecided on global warming, I have noticed that 2017, here in Tasmania, has been the “windiest” year I can recall during the past 50 years.

Last year we had record floods and this year the hottest spring on record.

We also had a “killer flu” outbreak.

IT IS somewhat curious that, in order to ensure loyalty to Australia, politicians may not hold a dual citizenship or even be eligible for a dual citizenship.  

Even the possibility that an individual inherited eligibility for citizenship of, say the UK, is not acceptable at all.

And yet, ironically, when a person is elected to parliament they are required to pledge allegiance to the British Queen who does not reside in Australia and has no Australian citizenship at all.  

How can a dual British citizen be any more a loyalty risk than those with their hand on the Bible pledging allegiance to a British monarch?

COULD state Liberal Health Minister Michael Ferguson explain how the Launceston General Hospital is going to recruit specialists and who is going to do the work with the loss of a medical registrar and orthopedics on probation?

Is this a deliberate downgrade of our great institution by the Liberal government or just a stuff up?