Royal wedding by the numbers

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FOUR: Vows Kate Middleton will reciteFOUR (and counting?): Facebook fan pages dedicated to Kate Middleton's engagement ringMINUS 1: Buckingham Palace guards working during the wedding1,900: Guests invited to the royal weddingFIVE: Carriages that will transport William, Kate, the wedding party and the family22: Chefs who will prepare food for 600 guests2 billion: Potential worldwide audience for William and Kate's wedding10: Years since William and Kate first met15: Previous royal weddings at Westminster Abbey$265,000: Estimated value of Kate's engagement ringEIGHT: Members of the royal wedding partyZERO: Wedding rings for WilliamFIVE AND A HALF: Hours of live streaming coverage on BBC America8,000 TV, radio reporters and support staff flocking to London for the wedding695 (and counting): Tweets from the Westminster Abbey Twitter500: Number of days that transpire during the course of the royal wedding movie screenwriters' last film$33.25: Cost in U.S. dollars for a bottle of Prince William Champagne2,066: Population of Kate Middletons hometown, Bucklebury$1,000: Approximate price of a last-minute plane ticket from Los Angeles to London13: Number of times Princess Diana met with Prince Charles before their wedding

Boy, have things changed. While Prince William and Kate Middleton have been busy playing house, it bears bringing up that Princess Diana had only met Charles 13 times before their big day. The topic came up in those <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-328510/Diana-tapes-reveal-sex-life-secrets.html">damning tapes Di made in the mid-'80s</a> with her confidant Peter Settelen. On the recording, she recalls an engagement interview with her future husband. A reporter asked if the couple was in love, and though Diana quickly replied, "Yes, of course we are," her fiance answered, "Whatever 'in love' means." When Settelen asked if she was too frightened to confront Charles about his response, she said, "Must have been, yeah ... we met 13 times before we got married."

13: Number of times Princess Diana met with Prince Charles before their wedding

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Boy, have things changed. While Prince William and Kate Middleton have been busy playing house, it bears bringing up that Princess Diana had only met Charles 13 times before their big day. The topic came up in those damning tapes Di made in the mid-'80s with her confidant Peter Settelen. On the recording, she recalls an engagement interview with her future husband. A reporter asked if the couple was in love, and though Diana quickly replied, "Yes, of course we are," her fiance answered, "Whatever 'in love' means." When Settelen asked if she was too frightened to confront Charles about his response, she said, "Must have been, yeah ... we met 13 times before we got married."

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