Two sisters have been highly commended in a Radio Times Royal Wedding picture competition out of 10,500 entries.

Emily and Clare Gorton, aged 8 and 10 and pupils at St Josephs Catholic School in Epsom, were two of just 24 children whose entries were highly commended.

The competition invited children to design a magazine cover celebrating the upcoming wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.

The girl’s entries will now be featured in this week’s Royal Wedding souvenir issue of the Radio Times.

Mother, Mary Gorton said: “I’m totally proud of them.

It’s just amazing, especially as it’s a nationwide competition.

You don’t expect to win anything.

We are obviously very thrilled and very proud.

We are very pleased they both got through to the same stage.

It’s always difficult if they both tried hard and only one gets it.

But they are very pleased for each other.”

And with the wedding just round the corner, the girls are looking forward to the big day.

“They definitely want to see the dress and Emily wants to see the cake.

We’ll certainly be watching on the day.”

Of this year’s entries Radio Times’ art director, Shem Law, said: “For the most part, you could tell the difference between boys’ entries and girls’ entries with boys going ‘off brief’.

We had several Doctor Whos and a couple of wrestlers.

Some people thought Westminster Abbey wasn’t grand enough for the wedding and relocated it to Downton Abbey instead!”