The BBC’s live stream of the Royal Wedding crashed, at the moment that Kate Middleton arrived at Westminster Abbey.

The live stream for the whole website went down across all of the live feeds, which was made up of four feeds – one within the Abbey, another of the crowds, another summarising the day so far and one of the guests arriving – all crashed leaving the message 'This content doesn't seem to be working. Try again later.'

Reaction on Twitter was vocal.

“Thank you #BBC for having a crap online stream, just missed her walking up the aisle. #RoyalWedding” says Keyleigh O’Dell, while Ryan Davenport tweeted “#BBC Live Stream is down on their website. Good think I tuned into @ABC more than an hour ago. #royalchaos”

Live coverage being streamed by YouTube which is being provided by the BBC however was not affected during the same time period.

Updated:

A statement from the BBC press office said: "We are experiencing some technical issues with BBC Online due to the sheer weight of traffic which may cause the site to be slower than normal in some cases."
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