LONDON — Prince Charles will have no best man at his April 8 marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles, his household said Tuesday.

Heirs to the throne are usually accompanied by two "supporters" -- the royal term for best man -- when they wed, and it had been speculated that Charles's sons William and Harry would perform the role.

But Clarence House said Charles will not follow this tradition at the civil ceremony at the town hall in Windsor, west of London.

"There will be no best man or royal supporters. It's not that sort of wedding," said a spokesman for the prince, speaking with customary anonymity.

"The two boys will have a role throughout the wedding in so much as being by their father's side."

When he married Princess Diana in 1981, Charles chose his brothers Andrew and Edward as supporters.

The civil ceremony, which will be followed by a blessing led by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, is designed in part to allay concerns of Anglican traditionalists.

The Church of England -- of which Charles will become titular head when he takes the throne -- traditionally frowns on church remarriages for divorcees whose spouses are still alive.

Charles, 56, divorced Diana in 1996. She died in a car accident the next year. Parker Bowles, 57, also is divorced, and her ex-husband is still alive.