Prince William's Bride

Is Kate Middleton the only option? The reason that royalty in the days gone by would usually marry into other ruling families was not just to make a foreign alliance for diplomatic purposes, but to insure that the bride and groom both came from a similar background. When a foreign bride was a princess, it was a given that she would have some basic experience of court life and of the lack of privacy that goes with it, as well as understanding that a royal marriage was about duty and service, not glamor and fun. One of the problems that Marie-Antoinette experienced as a teenager at the French court is that, even as a daughter of the Imperial house, her upbringing had been informal compared to life at Versailles. Share