He had kept his mother’s engagement ring in his rucksack for weeks before popping the question. Against the beauty of the wilds of Kenya, William decided that it was time. Kate told a reporter, “It was a total shock.”
This royal marriage is billed as the “Wedding of the Century.” But so was the wedding of his parents, Charles and Diana. Can Will and Kate’s love affair turn into a royal marriage of “happily ever after”? The marital history of the House of Windsor has it successes and its failures, the most significant failure being Williams’ parents, Charles and Diana, the adored “people’s princess.
One role of the monarch, that of being the head of the Church of England, demands in theory that monarch and by extension his or her family present a moral example to the people of England. It is for this reason Charles’ grand-uncle, Edward VIII prompted a constitutional crisis when he insisted that he would marry his lover, twice-divorced Wallis Simpson. He chose to abdicate his throne rather than rule “without the woman I love.”
Until Will and Kate, Windsor marriages were either arranged outright or were the result of a carefully crafted pairing. Even when Queen Victoria chose her beloved Albert, it was not without matchmaking efforts by Albert’s uncle and thorough vetting by Victoria’s advisors. With a family history fraught with troubled marriages, and the weight of the role of future monarch, what are the prospects of a happy marriage for William and Kate?
Kate is a singular choice as a wife as she comes from a working class family. While Diana and George VI’s wife were legally commoners, they did descend from noble houses. And previous to George VI, the British royal family was expected to marry only princes and princesses from other houses. Kate is a first.
William and Kate met at school in 2001 when they were 19 years old though they did not start dating until two years later. Though the couple kept a low profile of their relationship media focused their attention on Kate as William’s girlfriend prompting her lawyers to ask newspapers editors to back off. In April of 2007 the couple split but apparently were back on a few months later. From then on Catherine was a fixture in the public events of William’s life, such as his graduation from army and later flight training. On a trip to Kenya in October 2010 William popped the question presenting her with his mother’s engagement ring. “It seemed the right time,” said William.
Indeed the astrology does indicate that it’s time for marriage for William but getting the girl of his dreams to consent was a little trickier than it appears on the surface. And just why is Kate that girl?
There are various astrological techniques that take x-ray looks into relationships. The first technique is comparing the planets of each other’s charts. This technique is called synastry.
William was born under the zodiac sign of Cancer, what astrologers call having his Sun in that sign. The Sun is the indicator of the primary drives of the personality. Cancer natives are focused on family, are in tune emotionally with the people around them, and tend to dig in and hold on to people with all their might. Cancer men are especially drawn to their mothers. Cancers want to please their families and will do almost anything to do so. However the natives born under the sign of the Crab in many cases will only initiate action when prompted to do so by a family member. For William this influence is magnified as his Moon, the planet of his emotions is also in the sign of Cancer. It is quite safe to say that women are very, very important in his life, much more so than the men in his life. The loss of his mother was much more emotionally devastating than he ever displayed in public.