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Where did Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer wed in 1981?

wed

[wed] / wɛd /




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Still, fortune eventually smiles upon them, and they meet again and wed before a tragedy sends Benjamin fleeing back to the sea, and eventually to America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Brittany Bee was wed to a man when she was a teen.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

He was previously married to his “Dumb and Dumber” co-star Lauren Holly from 1996 to 1997 and before that wed to actor Melissa Womer from 1987 to 1995.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The 34-year-old singer and actress purchased the six-bedroom, 8.5-bathroom dwelling for $4.89 million in 2020, around three years before she began dating Benny Blanco, 38, whom she wed in September 2025.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

“She urges me to wed the noble Hizdahr zo Loraq.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Sophie Piper, who came third on their All Star season, and TikTok star GK Barry also shared their support with the newly weds.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

The resulting book, a deliberately meandering account of her Steel City sojourn, weds memoir, travelogue, philosophical rumination and journalistic investigation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

While Dbeibah has sought to consolidate his position with new roads, better power supplies or social benefits such as payouts to newly weds, faction leaders have complained about corruption in state spending.

From Reuters ● Aug. 17, 2023

Martin's "Fire & Blood," Alicent is 18 when she weds the 27-year-old Viserys, while Rhaenyra is only 9.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2022

"I love you as much as I ever have, my lord. Though I do not relish being played for a fool. If Myrcella weds Trystane Martell, she can scarcely wed Robert Arryn, can she?"

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

They earn more than four times the average worker—the most seasoned pilots earn far more—but they have little control over the management of the company they have wedded themselves to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

My wife, Elvira, and I celebrated our first wedded year atop the World Trade Center.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Yes, he was so wedded to it, this idea that different, new mediums liberate the ones that come before.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

It would be unusual for a new superintendent from the outside to be wedded to Chait’s strategic plan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

And Aragorn the King Elessar wedded Arwen Undómiel in the City of the Kings upon the day of Midsummer, and the tale of their long waiting and labours was come to fulfilment.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Related: ‘She’s a Type A personality’: My stepmother wants me to repay my late father’s $40,000 wedding gift.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

At the wedding reception, he stood up with a champagne glass and called it “the best wedding present” a father ever got to give, and said we knew we would use it wisely.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

Instead, Bridget Devaney turned to the internet with a proposal that sounded equal parts hopeful and improbable - come to Northern Ireland and celebrate the wedding that never happened.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

News of the Qualley-Antonoff split arose days after the latter was spotted attending Swift and Travis Kelce’s lavish wedding bash at New York City’s Madison Square Garden without his wife.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

“He probably just ran away to keep Mrs. Brenner from wedding him off.”

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros


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