# Prince William to marry
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-william-to-marry/560847
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 16, 2010, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-william-to-marry/560847 "2010-11-16T11:18:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ColdPhoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdPhoenix)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-william-to-marry/560847/1 "2010-11-16T11:18:09Z")
It’s been on the cards for a while and today it’s been announced that Prince William is to marry Kate Middleton next year.
Should be a good bash. I’m hoping it there will be a bank holiday in honour of the occasion!
(nice to get a free day off) 😃
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-william-to-marry/560847/2 "2010-11-16T11:24:02Z")
They seem like a nice couple.
I’m not looking forward to the insane royal wedding tourists in town though. Here’s hoping they have the ceremony in Balmoral.
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-william-to-marry/560847/3 "2010-11-16T11:34:32Z")
Charles and Di was a bank holiday wasn’t it? Hopefully that tradition will continue. Good luck to them.
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-william-to-marry/560847/4 "2010-11-16T11:35:38Z")
Squeeeeeeee! A royal wedding! Ohboyohboyohboy! (Yes, I know there was one a few years ago, but…) And yeah, Balmoral would be great!
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### Author:  [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-william-to-marry/560847/5 "2010-11-16T11:41:48Z")
The wedding’s going to be in London, apparently, so I’m opening bets on St Paul’s vs Westminster Abbey.
I, for one, despite by left-leaning tendencies, am very excited at the prospect of a big old bit of pomp, and very happy that Kate is a commoner like the rest of us. I DREAD the constant moaning that will now start about the cost, but it’s about time we had something nice to look forward to, instead of a steady stream of budget cuts and job losses.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-william-to-marry/560847/6 "2010-11-16T11:42:44Z")
What’s Kate Middleton like, does anyone know? She seems nice enough, but I’ve only seen photos. Is she a snob, or generally pretty decent?
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-william-to-marry/560847/7 "2010-11-16T11:45:56Z")
May they have a nice, happy, long marriage, with nothing more tabloidy than “OMG, Kate hasn’t returned to a completely flat stomach three months after having her baby! Oh noes!!!”.
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### Author:  [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-william-to-marry/560847/8 "2010-11-16T11:46:36Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#):
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> Charles and Di was a bank holiday wasn’t it? Hopefully that tradition will continue. Good luck to them.
Charles was the heir to the throne (and still is) I wonder if we will get the same for #2 getting married?
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-william-to-marry/560847/9 "2010-11-16T11:53:12Z")
> [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](#):
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> Charles was the heir to the throne (and still is) I wonder if we will get the same for #2 getting married?
Good point. It’d be good PR I reckon.
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-william-to-marry/560847/10 "2010-11-16T12:01:45Z")
He’s not #2 in the same sense that Andrew was before he was born, though - unless Charles died without issue, or was removed from the chain of succession, Andrew was never going to get the throne. William will, although his father will get it first, barring tragedy, a sudden upswing of republicanism, or someone getting disowned.
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### Author:  [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-william-to-marry/560847/11 "2010-11-16T12:33:09Z")
> [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](#):
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> Charles was the heir to the throne (and still is) I wonder if we will get the same for #2 getting married?
William is heir too, albeit one step removed, plus he’s by far the Royals’ biggest PR asset (after HM, obviously), so it would make perfect sense.
They’re already talking about how nice ‘Queen Kate’ sounds.
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-william-to-marry/560847/12 "2010-11-16T13:15:04Z")
As I recall, Diana’s father vouched for her virginity before she married Charles. Is that even an issue anymore? I hope we’ve all moved past that sort of thinking.
Can the royals marry commoners and have their children be in line for the throne? Or does Kate have some royal blood that I haven’t read about?
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### Author:  [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-william-to-marry/560847/13 "2010-11-16T13:21:16Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#):
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> As I recall, Diana’s father vouched for her virginity before she married Charles. Is that even an issue anymore? I hope we’ve all moved past that sort of thinking.
they’ve been going out for 8 years. How big a liar is he rfather anyway?? 😉
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### Author:  [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-william-to-marry/560847/14 "2010-11-16T13:24:52Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> What’s Kate Middleton like, does anyone know? She seems nice enough, but I’ve only seen photos. Is she a snob, or generally pretty decent?
I don’t know how accurate this is, but she’s been nicknamed “Waity Katie” because apparently she hasn’t done much in the last eight years except wait around for William to propose. A few years ago she worked for a brief time as a buyer for a clothing chain, but I’m not sure if she presently has a job.
I haven’t heard anything about her being a snob. She seems like a perfectly nice, if somewhat boring, person. She should fit in with the royal family quite well.
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-william-to-marry/560847/15 "2010-11-16T13:25:13Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#):
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> As I recall, Diana’s father vouched for her virginity before she married Charles. Is that even an issue anymore? I hope we’ve all moved past that sort of thinking.
They’ve been together for 8 years, and live together, so I imagine they’ve had sex.
> [@](#):
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> Can the royals marry commoners and have their children be in line for the throne?
Yes. Lady Diana Spencer was a commoner, albeit one from a very old aristocratic family. (Technically, Prince William is a commoner, as silly as that sounds)
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> Or does Kate have some royal blood that I haven’t read about?
If she does it’s not recent.
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-william-to-marry/560847/16 "2010-11-16T13:44:44Z")
Okay, I’m officially sick of it. The BBC seem to have launched Operation Royal Glurge and are already talking non-stop about the history of their relationship and Kate’s “troubled post-university years”. At the moment they’re interviewing the Prime Minister about it, and there’s a “William and Kate” program on television tonight.
Cue an entire freaking year of tabloid and tabloidesque gibberish. Plus The Daily Express is probably going to go dig up the corpse of Diana and put her on display outside their offices. Again.
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### Author:  [@ColdPhoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdPhoenix)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-william-to-marry/560847/17 "2010-11-16T13:55:15Z")
Already sick of it? They only announced the news less than 3 hours ago.
People will go overboard a bit on it over the next few months but it’s nice to have some good news for a change.
And an extra holiday! It seems that the general consensus is that there will be a public holiday. Even if they weren’t planning on one I bet they will now. 😃
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### Author:  [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-william-to-marry/560847/18 "2010-11-16T14:04:03Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#):
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> I don’t know how accurate this is, but she’s been nicknamed “Waity Katie” because apparently she hasn’t done much in the last eight years except wait around for William to propose. A few years ago she worked for a brief time as a buyer for a clothing chain, but I’m not sure if she presently has a job.
Ostensibly she works for her parents’ business, which is a party and event supply company, but whether she actually does anything or ever shows up is unlikely.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-william-to-marry/560847/19 "2010-11-16T14:25:23Z")
Congratulations to them!
Granted I don’t know them. I don’t know anyone who knows them. I’ll never meet anyone who has ever or who will ever know them. Its not like I’m getting an invite or that they’re registered at MACYs.
Doesn’t mean I don’t wish them well, though.
(Can I wish them privacy too? Is that ok?)
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### Author:  [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2010, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-william-to-marry/560847/20 "2010-11-16T14:29:07Z")
I’m stoked. I can’t wait to see the wedding. I think it’s awesome that the royal family is… you know… doing something wholesome. Since I was born in 1980, I really can’t remember the last time that happened.
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