Royal Wedding Draws a Worldwide Crowd
29 April 2011
Prince William and KateKate, Duchess of Cambridge, appear after the wedding
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.
People around the world watched Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton get married. The royal wedding broke records for live streaming on the Internet. It also produced more than two million tweets on Twitter.
The ceremony took place Friday at Westminster Abbey in London.
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KATE (AFTER ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY): "I, Catherine Elizabeth, take thee, William Arthur Philip Louis, to my wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward ... "
Kate wore a flowing white gown designed by Sarah Burton, the creative director of Alexander McQueen. William wore a red military uniform.
Hats were a big fashion statement. Many of those invited wore them.
Kate's sister, Philippa, was her maid of honor. William's brother, Harry, was his best man.
WILLIAM (AFTER ARCHBISHOP): "I, William Arthur Philip Louis, take thee, Catherine Elizabeth, to be my wedded wife ... "
It was Britain's biggest wedding since William and Harry's parents, Prince Charles and Princess Diana, were married in nineteen eighty-one.
Charles, Prince of Wales, and Princess Diana kiss at their wedding in 1981
Nearly two thousand guests filled the church on Friday. Westminster Abbey was where the funeral for William's mother took place after Diana died in a car crash in nineteen ninety-seven.
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