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later slipped off to a pretty church in a hillside village in France for the ceremony. In the meantime, they entertained 180 of their closest friends with an
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wedding of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, and Sophie Rhys-Jones
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Behind Closed Doors: the tragic untold story of Wallis Simpson
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