Britain’s Prince William announced his engagement to his long-time girlfriend Kate Middleton at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy a top Kenyan game reserve famous for saving endangered black rhinos.
William, 28 — the eldest son of the heir to the throne Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana — and Middleton, also 28, became engaged in October while on holiday in Kenya, Clarence House, the official residence of Charles and his sons said.
“The Prince of Wales is delighted to announce the engagement of Prince William to Miss Catherine Middleton. The wedding will take place in the spring or summer of 2011 in London,” said the statement.
Kate Middleton’s engagement ring is a huge sapphire surrounded by diamonds, last seen in public on the day Charles and Diana divorced in 1996. Asked about the ring the Prince said “It’s my mother’s enagagment ring, so of course it’s very special to me, and Kate’s now very special to me, so it was only right to put the two together,”
His brother Prince Harry, released a statement saying “I’m delighted for my brother, it means I get a sister which what I have always wanted”
The wedding is slated for Summer or Spring 2011.
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