Kate and Wills: A Royal Courtship

On Track
Up to 5,000 well-wishers greeted Kate and Wills in a soggy Lancashire park during their final public appearance (on April 11, 2011) before their April 29 wedding. Officially Kate came to start a girl's track race. Unofficially she was testing the spotlight one final time before becoming a Windsor. "It's raining today, but it'll be nothing but sunshine in their marriage," Marion Riley, 57, told TIME at the event. Under those expectations, Kate must have found balancing in her three-inch heels a cinch.

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