Head teacher Daran Bland was delighted, on behalf of his pupils with severe learning difficulties and disabilities, to receive £500 from Pinchbeck florist Josie Williams and her friend Wendy Ablett of Spalding.

Josie snapped Kate Middleton and Prince William at his cousin Laura Fellowes' wedding after she and Wendy were beckoned into a pew at Snettisham parish church.

Her picture - the first of the couple together at a royal wedding - aroused massive interest when it appeared in the Lincolnshire Free Press and attracted more than 8,000 hits on this website.

Josie was courted by the media and last week received £500 for her picture from Hello! magazine.

She said: "I loved William's mother Princess Di and she was all for children - that's why we decided to give every penny of the Hello! money to the Garth School as it is a special school that does great things for its pupils. We think she would have liked that.

"I turned down other offers for the snap before settling on £500 from Hello! Then I had a sleepless night over it, worrying what Laura's family might feel about it and there was no way I wanted to make money for myself.

"Wendy and my husband Brian agreed with me. We're not rich but we wouldn't have felt right about keeping the money."

Read the story of how she stumbled upon the scoop here and for exclusive pictures of the order of service for the wedding click here.