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Marriage of the royal kind is what a lot of people around the globe are talking about these days. Britain’s Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton have now set a date. They will marry on April 29 at Westminster Abbey, no less. All the attention on the British royals got The World’s Carol Zall thinking about all those �other’ royal families out there.

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