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Flags are seen flying outside the Goring Hotel in London in this April 13, 2011.Royal bride-to-be Kate Middleton will spend her last night as a commoner in a five-star hotel next door to Buckingham Palace, officials confirmed on April 15, 2011.

Kate Middleton decided she will spend her last night as a singleton on “neutral ground.” Forgoing the Queen’s offer of lodging for the night before the April 29 wedding, Ms. Middleton has instead opted to stay with her mother Carole and her sister Pippa in London’s Goring Hotel, reports the Sun. The paper reports Ms. Middleton has booked a five-room suite that mixes old, new and just plain quirky decor for a mere £5,000 a night.

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People are seen leaving the Goring Hotel in London in this April 13, 2011.

After the suite was booked, the owners of the hotel decided a £150,000 spruce-up would be in order. A source at the hotel told the Sun: “There are things we really love about the suite’s new look. The bathrooms are amazing and the gadgets are state-of-the-art. But some of it looks a bit over the top, almost cluttered with antiques and ornaments.”

In the morning a group of expert makeup artists and hair dressers will arrive at the Goring to transform the suite into a studio and prepare Ms. Middleton for her stroll down the aisle.

Some of the room’s amenities include:

• An original Crapper toilet…and, no, they are not being intentionally crass. The original “venerable” toilet is by the 19th-century plumber Thomas Crapper, the supplier of lavatories to several royal households, reports the Sun.
• A waterproof television in one of the bathrooms
• A flatscreen TV that can be summoned at the press of a button in front of the wooden four poster bed.
• Silk wall paper goes for £500 per square metre.
• “The master bathroom is decked out in ground-to-floor white marble,” reports the Sun, “with a vast walk-in shower that boasts an oil painting behind a glass screen.”
• The room also sports, according to the Sun, “an antique wedding dress believed to be a prototype for the gown worn by Queen Victoria…hung in a glass-fronted display wardrobe in the bedroom.”

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Kate Middleton (L), Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II (C) and Prince William lookalikes pose for photographs in central London.