Kate and William are getting married

Prince William and Kate Middleton have announced their engagement to be married, at long last. The British love a royal fairy-tale romance, and this wedding will surely generate as much interest as that of Prince Charles and Lady Di. Hopefully they'll have a much happier marriage than William's parents did. Kate was not born into privilege. She's the middle-class descendant of coal miners. (For more on this, read Eamonn Fitzgerald's blog). She's classy in a way that charms people both high and low. Just watch the couple as they talk about themselves and their families. The video is 17 minutes long, but well worth watching.

So: Where did William propose? How did Kate's mother react to the news? When did the two of them first set eyes on each other? How does William talk about how they went from being flatmates to being a couple? And what does William say when the interviewer asks Kate, "Does William do anything useful around the house?"

On the next page, come review the vocabulary of engagement and marriage.

Anne Hodgson