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Id been carrying around the ring with meI would not let it go You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things go horribly wrong but it went really really well --HRH Prince William of WalesThe marriage of Prince William to Catherine Middleton is one of the most significant royal events of recent times As second in line to the throne the elder son of the much mourned Diana Princess of Wales-whose famous sapphire and diamond engagement ring he bestowed on his future bride-William embodies the hopes and expectations of millions of people around the world And as a commoner who will become a princess Catherine brings romance and freshness to a very traditional unionAcclaimed biographer Andrew Morton who was trusted by Diana herself to recount her true story to the outside world has been covering Prince William since birth Now he brings his unique insights to this portrait of the histories and characters of the bride and groom-from their family backgrounds their childhoods and the early days of their relationship at university through their ups and downs as a couple in the public eye their private engagement in Kenya and all the glamour and drama of the wedding itself Lavishly illustrated with color photographs both a chronicle and a lasting memento of a day to remember William Catherine brings us both the public spectacle and the private moments as only the author of Diana Her True Story can reveal them.
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Andrew Keith Paul Morton (born 1959 in England) is an Australian software engineer, best known as one of the lead developers of the Linux kernel. He is currently a co-maintainer of the Ext3 file system and the journaling layer for block devices (JBD). In the late 1980s, he was one of the partners of a company in Sydney, Australia that produced a kit computer called the Applix 1616, as well as a hardware engineer for the (now-defunct) Australian gaming equipment manufacturer Keno Computer Systems. He holds an honours degree in electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales in Australia. Morton maintains a Linux kernel patchset known as the mm tree, which contains work-in-progress patches that might later be accepted into the official Linux tree maintained by Linus Torvalds. "mm" as a primary testing ground became unmanageably large and busy, and in 2008 the "linux-next"…