April 27 (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince William and his wife
Catherine will be celebrating their first wedding anniversary on
Sunday.
Intolerable media intrusion was cited by many sources as the
reason the couple broke up in 2007, but they soon got back
together and married in a global ceremony on April 29, 2011.
Here is a look at what has happened in the royal couple’s
lives since then:
* Following his marriage to Catherine Middleton, Queen
Elizabeth conferred the title Duke of Cambridge on William,
making Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge.
* The couple flew off on a delayed honeymoon to the
Seychelles in May 2011.
* In July 2011 an estimated 300,000 people, many of them
wearing the red and white colours of the Canadian flag on the
nation’s 144th birthday, crammed onto Parliament Hill and
chanted “Will and Kate” as the future king and queen arrived on
their first foreign engagement.
* William and Kate toured seven cities as part of their
nine-day Canadian tour.
* They then headed to California on July 8 and started their
maiden U.S. visit by networking with the technology and
entertainment industries.
* Mattel Inc, the U.S. maker of Barbie dolls, said in
February it would release a special two-doll set in April to
mark the couple’s one-year anniversary.
* Kate gave her first speech in March during a visit to the
Treehouse, a hospice for sick children at Ipswich. William went
on military assignment in the Falkland Islands.
* In a further representation of the couple, Madame Tussauds
unveiled this month waxwork figures of William and Kate. The new
figures were dressed in replicas of the outfits they wore when
announcing their engagement in 2010.
Sources: Reuters/www.princeofwales.gov.uk
(Reporting by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit;
