Sixteen years later, as a newly-dumped twenty-something, Princess Diana's death also affected me deeply. I was eight years old and enthralled by the romance of it all. I remember how excited I was the day Diana married Charles. The original idea came out of my own experience of a late engagement! Well, the news about Prince William and his Kate got me thinking about the Royal Wedding back in 1981. It was about a woman in her late thirties, getting married for the first time a whole decade later than her friend. I had already made several pages of wedding-related notes for my next novel, which was tentatively titled (quite by coincidence), Kate's Wedding. It happened on the day Kate Middleton and Prince William announced their engagement. She reveals on her website: "I was struck with a bolt of inspiration that seemed too good to waste. The engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton inspired Chrissie Manby to take a new direction with her novel-in-progress called Kate's Wedding.
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