Royal wedding to make Kate top UK girls' name

Kate is likely to be one of the most popular names for baby girls born in Britain next year following the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton, an ancestry website predicted Thursday.

Ancestry.co.uk found that 230 million birth and marriage records dating from 1837 revealed a royal wedding naming pattern which saw popularity for names of princesses rise dramatically in the years they married.

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Snoop Dogg Pens Song For Royal Wedding

Controversial American rapper SNOOP DOGG has dedicated his new single to PRINCE WILLIAM and insists that he recorded the track specifically to celebrate the engagement of the British royal to KATE MIDDLETON.

28-year-old PRINCE WILLIAM announced last month that he is to marry long-time girlfriend Middleton in London next year, and his brother PRINCE HARRY was reported to be organising a bachelor party featuring a performance from SNOOP DOGG.

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The Science Museum look back at royal wedding memorabilia from days gone by

Oh we all love a royal wedding. With memorabilia manufacturers wasting no time to issue commemorative souvenirs featuring Prince William and his future missus, Kate Middleton, it’s an opportune moment to examine a few monarchical mementoes from our own collections…

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'I 3D wed': William and Kate's nuptials could be screened using new technology

Prince William and Kate Middleton intend to make their wedding a people's event and on April 29 the happy couple may seem close enough for you to reach out and touch them.

Broadcasters are considering plans to screen the royal wedding in 3D.

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Prince William and Catherine Middleton make mugs of the merchandise manufacturers

St James's Palace's insistence on Kate Middleton being known as Catherine Middleton has an unfortunate consequence.

When the Prince of Wales married his first wife, the late Diana, Princess of Wales – then Lady Diana Spencer – there was a good trade to be done in mugs emblazoned with their initials "C" and "D".

The one problem with Buckingham Palace insisting that Prince William's fiancée should be referred to as Catherine Middleton is that Mandrake can't honestly see even the most ardent of royalists feeling altogether comfortable drinking from mugs with the letters WC written on them.

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Sharing a wedding day with Will and Kate

Prince William and Kate Middleton are not the only ones tying the knot on 29 April 2011. So what's it like sharing a wedding day with such a famous couple?

Robert Ashby and Angela Smith, a happily-betrothed couple from Birmingham, are already referring to 29 April as "our day"...

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David Cameron ignores calls to rearrange alternative vote referendum over royal wedding date

David Cameron yesterday rejected calls to postpone the referendum on voting reform because it will now clash with the royal wedding.

The national election on changing the polling system will be held just six days after Prince William and Kate Middleton's big day.

Read more at mirror.co.uk