
Engagement and weddingMain article: Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine MiddletonThe newly married Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.Prince William and Catherine Middleton became engaged in October 2010 in Kenya, East Africa, during a 10-day trip to the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy to celebrate William passing his RAF helicopter search and rescue course. Clarence House announced the engagement on 16 November 2010. The couple married in Westminster Abbey on 29 April 2011, with the day declared a bank holiday in the United Kingdom. The wedding was watched by a global television audience of over two billion people.Following international attention regarding the wedding,...