BUCKLEBURY, England — Kate Middleton’s picturesque country village of Bucklebury is never going to be the same.

Starting Sunday, tour company operator Adrian Morton plans to send bus tours to Bucklebury, where Middleton was raised in privileged style some 55 miles west of London.

He hopes they will be filled with visitors looking to experience what he dubs “Kate Middleton country,” figuring the home of a likely future queen of England should provide a draw.

Americans in particular seem transfixed by the upcoming royal spectacle of Middleton’s April 29 marriage to Prince William at Westminster Abbey in London.

“There seems to be more interest in the States than in our own country,” said Morton, who has long-standing ties to Bucklebury. “I’ve been contacted by an American tour operator about possible tours. You can see the places where she went to school and where she was christened. And locals are interested too.”

The bus tour idea came from Morton’s twin brother, who lives in the United States and has seen an explosion of public fascination with the royal wedding.

Adrian Morton anticipated some local resistance to the plan but claimed that none has surfaced.

“I was thinking we might get some bad press, like ‘What do you think you’re doing sending great big coaches round our little country roads?’ but I haven’t heard anything negative or positive,” he said. “I imagine from a business point of view the pubs and restaurants will probably cash in on it, but as far as locals are concerned, they might not want the intrusion.”

He predicted, however, there’s nothing Bucklebury can do to avoid the changes.

“It’s going to happen. The press is already camped out on their doorstep. We’re going to be very much in the background,” he said.

Morton may not have asked enough people in this affluent town of 2,000 what they think. The bus tours, which will begin on a small scale but grow as the wedding nears, are just one reminder of how life in this pastoral village is changing now that Middleton is set to join the world’s most famous — and famously difficult — royal family.

“I wish they’d leave her in peace,” said Sue Fidler, who along with her husband runs the Bladestone Butchery, which features beautifully dressed rabbits and pheasants hanging in the window for sale. “We don’t want it.”