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People around the world watched Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton get married. The
_royal_wedding_broke_records_for_live_streaming_on_the_Internet. It also produced more than
two million tweets on Twitter.
The ceremony took place Friday at Westminster Abbey in London.
Kate wore a flowing white gown designed by Sarah Burton, the creative director of Alexander
McQueen. William wore a red army uniform.
It was Britain's biggest wedding since William and Harry's parents, Prince Charles and Princess
Diana, were married in nineteen eightyone.
Nearly two thousand guests filled the church on Friday. Hundreds of thousands of people went to
the streets and parks of London to watch the wedding on video screens.
Among the wedding guests were English football star David Beckham and his wife Victoria, British
Prime Minister David Cameron, the king of Norway and singer Elton John.
Bahrain's crown prince(皇储) was invited but decided not to attend because of unrest(骚乱) in his
country. Britain took back an invitation to the ambassador(外交官) from Syria over violence against
protesters there.
After the ceremony, the royal couple traveled to Buckingham Palace. Crowds cheered when the
newlyweds appeared on a balcony greeting to them.
Later, William drove his wife out of Buckingham Palace in an opentop Aston Martin car. William
and the newest member of the royal(皇家的) family will now be known as the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge.
Kate is twentynine years old. William will be twentynine in June. His grandmother is Queen Elizabeth.
His father, Prince Charles, is first in line to become king. William, as the older son, is second in line.
Kate would not become queen, however, since she is not in the royal blood line. There was a big
celebration at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. That was where William and Kate first met as
art history students in two thousand one.
1. Why was the crown prince of Bahrain was absent from the grand British royal wedding?(No more than 10 words)
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2. Why can't Kate become queen? (No more than 10 words)
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3. Where was it that William and Kate got to know? (No more than 10 words)
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4. What can we infer from the sentence "The royal wedding broke records for live streaming on the Internet." in Paragraph 1? (No more than 10 words)
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5. What can be the best title of the passage? (No more than 5 words)
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