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I I n the spring of 2011 an estimated 2 billion people around the world were riveted by a televised wedding. The event, attended by 1,900 guests, took place with pomp and pageantry and images of scarlet-and-gold uniformed soldiers on horseback before an old Gothic church. It was a royal wed- ding, held at the 700-year-old Westminster Abbey, in London, England. When the ceremony was over, 28-year-old Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, had wed Catherine “Kate” Middleton. With their marriage, Kate, who has no royal blood, became a duchess and a member of the royal family. The wedding thrilled the estimated one million people who thronged the streets outside the abbey, as well as millions more who celebrat- ed at parties in England that night. The royal wedding allowed

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