小学英语双语阅读系列幸福生活：威廉王子和凯特米德尔顿订婚素材2

威廉王子和凯特米德尔顿订婚Prince William Engaged to Kate Middleton 威廉王子和凯特米德尔顿订婚The 28-year-old heir to the throne and his fiancee will marry next year, royal aides said. Announcement of the engagement had been rumored for weeks, as palace watchers looked ahead on the royal calendar and speculated that a marriage would have to take place sometime in 2020, sandwiched between other official royal activities. Announcing the engagement now gives Buckingham Palace time to prepare for the most highly anticipated royal event since the lavish wedding of Williams parents, Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana, in 1981.英国王室宣布威廉王子和交往已久的女友凯特米德尔顿订婚。王室人员称，这位28岁的王位继承人和他的未婚妻将在明年结婚。订婚的消息被传了数周，王室宫务官员计划着皇室日期，推断婚礼将在2020的某天举行，安排在其他王室官方活动之间。订婚消息的宣布使得白金汉宫有时间去准备一场最高规格的皇家活动，这将是继 1981年查尔斯王子和戴安娜王妃的世纪婚礼之后最盛大婚礼。The marriage will end bachelorhood for William and the hopes of young women around the world who have followed his every move and been charmed by his good looks and affable manner. The prince and Middleton, who is also 28, met as students at University of St. Andrews near Edinburgh, Scotland. Their relationship has been minutely dissected in the British tabloids, which have gleefully picked on Middletons middle-class background. With no royal or aristocratic pedigree, Middleton will be the first commoner to marry an heir to the throne in centuries.这场婚姻将结束威廉的单身生活，全世界为王子英俊的外表和温和的品行所倾倒的青年女子的幻想也将破灭。王子和米德尔顿都是28岁，是苏格兰爱丁堡圣安德鲁大学的同学。英国小报对他们的关系进行系列的分析，并且极富热情地挖掘探究米德尔顿的中产阶级背景。由于没有王室或贵族的血统，米德尔顿将成为几世纪以来第一个与王室继承人结婚的平民。Her parents are entrepreneurs who became millionaires from a mail-order party-supplies business, which has prompted some ridicule in a society where snobbishness can still be a prized trait. Middletons mother, Carole, has been especially sneered at as a social climber who once worked as a flight attendant and who was caught on camera chewing gum during Williams graduation ceremony from military academy. The couple have reportedly split up at various times over the years, but their closeness in recent times has led to speculation that marriage was imminent. Middletons parents were recently invited for a shooting party at the royal residence in Scotland, which was taken as a sign that a blending of the two families was in the offing.她的父母是经营儿童玩具邮购业务的企业家，这引来社会上一些嘲笑，称势利仍然被看做是重要的特征。米德尔顿的母亲卡罗尔，曾经做过空姐，她被舆论嘲笑成追求更高社会地位的人。她在威廉的军校毕业仪式上被拍到嚼口香糖。据报道，一直以来这对夫妻分开很多次，但最近他们的亲密，导致外界猜测婚礼迫在眉睫。最近米德尔顿的父母受邀参加了在苏格兰皇室公馆举办的打猎聚会。此举动成为了两个家庭正在融合的信号。William is second in line to the British throne, after Prince Charles. His low-key style and resemblance to his mother have made him a popular figure for a family battered by tragedy and scandal. The princes aides said the pair became engaged while on vacation in Kenya last month. The wedding is expected to take place sometime in the spring or summer of next year. Royal watchers said that Westminster Abbey, where Williams grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II was married, is a likely venue. After their wedding , the couple will live in northern Wales, where William will continue to serve in Britains air force. Congratulations quickly began pouring in. British Prime Minister David Cameron said he was passed a note with news of the engagement during a Cabinet meeting and that, when he informed his colleagues, a cheer went up around the table.威廉是英国王位第二继承人，