LONDON Today 29th April: Prince William married to Kate Middleton:
Kate, look's Georges because, she wearing a stunning ivory and white satin wedding dress with long lace sleeves, a veil and a flowing train, stood composed at the altar with the second in line to the throne who wore a smart scarlet military tunic.
“I will,” the future king and queen says, before William put a ring fashioned from a nugget of Welsh gold on her finger and then Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams pronounced them man and wife.
William’s late mother Diana was married to Prince Charles in 1981 and offers Britain’s royal family a chance at renewal after Charles and Diana’s bitterly public split.
About two billion people, one third of the world’s population – are expected to watch Diana’s eldest son wed the commoner he began dating at St Andrews university in Scotland eight years ago.
William Arthur Philip Louis – as Diana’s eldest son and the second in line to the throne was called during the service – arrived at the church 45 minutes earlier accompanied by his younger brother and best man Prince Harry.
Kate however did not promise to obey her husband in her marriage vows – following in the footsteps of Diana, who married Charles on July 29, 1981 at St Paul’s Cathedral. Charles and Diana divorced 15 years later.
Guests inside included footballer David Beckham, singer Elton John and “Mr Bean” actor Rowan Atkinson. Fifty members of the royal family and dozens of foreign royals were due after William.
Queen Elizabeth II granted the couple the titles Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as a wedding gift earlier in the day.
Hundreds of thousands of campers transformed The Mall, the wide boulevard leading to Buckingham Palace, into a sea of Union Jack flags.
“They will make the monarchy fashionable again. It’s good for the country,”said Louise Akehurst, 25, an administrator from London.
William, a 28-year-old Royal Air Force search and rescue helicopter pilot, has long been seen as the great hope of the royal family for the future after a string of failed marriages and scandals.
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