The couple, who were expected to be the next King and Queen of England, married at St Paul's Cathedral in July 1981, the wedding was watched by more 600,000 people on the streets of London and an estimated 750 million watched the live broadcast.
Her life, romance, and family have been followed and chronicled in the media, and we consider it our entertainment.
He was the very reason she was there: to meet, and with any luck, to marry the future monarch, Andersen writes.