Prince William Engagement - A Calculation of Age 2011

The only other royal wedding there has been in the last half of the 20th Century to a leading British Royal was that of Prince William's aunt: HRH The Princess Royal (at the time of her wedding HRH the Princess Anne) When she and captain Mark Phillips wed Anyway, Andrew was 26 when he and Sarah became man and wife.. And incidentally these subsequent events have played a pivotal role in framing British privacy laws in relation to the press more to the point the tabloid press. Subsequent events have been as colorful as events before their betrothal. After a sometimes ( as reported in the British press) colorful love life, Andrew Albert Christian Edward  Prince Andrew to you and me, wedded Sarah Ferguson on July 23rd 1986.

He was 35. And at the greatest age at which any of them had thrown in the towel'. That became an annoying pre occupation of his wife-to-be too, When he and Sophie Rhys Jones walked up the aisle at St George's Chapel Windsor in June 1999, the queen's 3rd son and 4th child was then the last to commit. Prince Edward had waited even longer to commit, meanwhile having to field y unsavory personal rumors. Charles was then 32.

The announcement in February that year had followed months of intense media speculation, and denial. A worldwide audience of three quarters of a billion people saw his dad and mother tie the knot in July 1981 in St Paul's cathedral.  What's the right age for an heir to the throne to marry at?