Ten years of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge: what does the next decade hold for royal couple?
Philip Collins
At their wedding reception, in Buckingham Palace on 29 April 2011, the couple that was still very much known as Kate and William danced their first dance, miming the words as they went, to John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John’s You’re The One That I Want. Ten years on, even if that much remains true, almost everything else has changed.
The recent death of the Duke of Edinburgh has suddenly made the idea of succession real. Suddenly, the way the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have lived out their marriage, which has never been a private affair, starts to matter. At least some of the tension that exists between William and his brother Harry is about their order of birth. Even before Harry and Meghan left for North America, William and Kate were the future of the monarchy.