I read about sixty biographies of the royals profiled in "Notorious Royal Marriages," in addition to a couple of dozen biographical articles published in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
The BBC looks back at some of the other high profile royal weddings which have taken place over the past 60 years.
Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahayan, a member of Abu Dhabi's royal family, raised his profile after purchasing U.K. soccer team Manchester City and investing $5 billion in Barclays Bank.
Recent DNA tests suggest she was a full sister of his father, Akhenaten, but there are disputes about that, because of the age of the mummies, the possibility of cross-contamination, and the way that royal incest blurs genetic profiles.
Profile The Royals lost the 2014 World Series in seven games to the San Francisco Giants.
The Duke of Cambridge has met Chinese President Xi Jinping, as the prince begins the highest-profile UK royal visit to China in nearly 30 years.
Fang et al. compared the protein profiles of royal jelly produced by Apis mellifera ligustica and Apis cerana cerana using proteomic approaches and identified that royal jelly proteins (MRJPs), peroxiredoxin 2540, and glutathione S-transferase S1 were differentially expressed [ 13].
Suspending Urdangarin from all royalty-related duties and removing his profile from the royal website (as well as his possibly coincidental disappearance from the royal tableau in Madrid's biggest waxworks museum) did little to slow the downward trend.
In many ways, the Queen has set the agenda for other royals and high-profile female political figures in need of a style persona that delivers stature and poise.
While we have tracked the fortunes of a few high-profile royals, like the Queen of England and Sultan of Brunei, for years, this is only the second time we have published a definitive list of the richest royals.
