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.
she will officially be princess of wales. the other tradition, a couple gets married and moves into the royal residence. not these two, they will live in his cottage in wales near the air force base where he works. they don t want help. they want no butlers. there will have to be a lot of security who want to get a glimpse of this very glamorous couple. i don t know if the queen will go for that. they want to live as normal a life of possible. before we get engaged, i want you to understand what are you getting into. the nickname waitie katie. she did wait. and all of these glorious traditions. when you see them together, they are you really do feel