With the world going ballistic over P-Willy and Kate’s marriage, we track down the least-boring facts on the couple’s big day…








1 - Prince William’s wedding on April 29, 2011, at Westminster Abbey looks set to trump his mother Diana and father Prince Charles’ wedding in terms of television viewers. Around 750 million people watched Charlie and Di tie the knot, making it the most popular program ever broadcasted. It’s been estimated that Will and Kate’s wedding will be watched on TV and the internet by over two billion people


2 - For Kate’s sake, let’s hope she doesn’t get Willy’s name wrong during the vows like Diana did — she accidentally reversed the order of Charles’s names, saying Philip Charles Arthur George


3 - If Kate is going to outdo Diana’s wedding dress, she’ll have to best a $14,000 puff-ball meringue dress with a 25-foot train and 10,000 pearls


4 - Kate has opted for a multi-tiered traditional fruitcake that needs four weeks to fully mature. In addition to this, sweet-toothed Will has requested famous British biscuit maker McVitie’s make a chocolate-cookie cake, made from 17kg of chocolate and 1700 of the company’s buttery Rich Tea cookies. It will be big enough for all 600 guests to have a taste of history


5 - The cooks will be using copper pots to create the wedding breakfast, some of which were first used 190 years ago during the reign of George IV


6 - Will saved a few bob by giving Kate his mum’s engagement ring — an 18-carat white gold ring with a 12-carat oval sapphire and 14 round diamonds


7 - When Kate Middleton sashays down the aisle, at age 29, she will officially be the oldest royal bride to ever get married


8 -  Will and Kate are actually fifteenth cousins — having Sir Thomas Fairfax and his wife, Agnes, as common ancestors


9 - Sales of wedding-related merchandising are expected to reach a whopping $70 million