The most famous motor vehicle accident in the history of the world claimed the life of Prince William’s mother and was the start of years of nightmares. “Pure terror,” is how William would describe the frightening dreams from which he would regularly wake up shaking and sweating.

In the dream, the paparazzi are chasing a beautiful princess in a speeding car. Yet the princess is not Diana, and the highways are not those of Paris. In William’s nightmare the photographers are pursuing the love of his life, Kate Middleton; and the streets are those of London.

During William and Kate’s nine year courtship, the Prince was reassured that his security detail would protect Kate when they were together. However, any time that Kate was away from William, she was preyed about by the insatiable British paparazzi. They would stalk her in the grocery store, pop out of alleys and bushes, and blind her with their flashes as she emerged from the gym.

If you have never experienced being hounded by a hundred photographers, it is difficult to imagine how daunting the experience can be. “It’s worse,” Princess Diana used to state, “than sexual abuse.”

For a while Prince Charles paid for a private security guard to protect Kate, however it was deemed either inappropriate or illegal for a member of the royal family to pay for the security detail of a commoner — no matter that she was the most famous girlfriend on the planet.

Scotland Yard spent over three years and enormous resources on Operation Paget, to determine the cause of Princess Diana’s death. In the end, the conclusion was as ordinary as it was obvious: the driver’s blood alcohol was three times the legal limit at the time that he drove Diana and her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed. However, Diana’s boys always blamed the “bloody paparazzi” for their mother’s death. It is a given that they would not have needed to be driving so fast had they not been trying to shake off the paparazzi who were trailing them in cars and motorcycles.

As we have poignantly shown in the Protect Princess Kate video, let us hope and pray that the media has learned its lesson, and that Princess Kate will be treated respectfully.

Next post: The Franklin Mint Princess Kate Royal Wedding Bride Doll.

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Over three-quarters of a billion people in seventy-four countries tuned in to watch Lady Diana Spencer marry Prince Charles. Over two billion people watched the funeral of the People’s Princess live on television. Which leaves us wondering: How many people will have viewed William and Kate’s wedding on April 29, 2011?

Predictions run the gamut from the same 750 million who watched Prince William’s parents marry in 1981 to over three billion people from various media experts.

Online search engine experts expect the nuptials of William and Kate to become the most Googled wedding of all time, which will break a record currently held by Khloe Kardashian and L.A. Lakers star Lamar Odom. Obviously, there is no Google data from 1981 to compare searches for Diana and Charles’ wedding searches to the current Royal Wedding web searches.

An interesting point made by media broadcasters is that the number of people who tune into the royal Wedding via computers, cell phones, and ipads may be far higher than the amount who watch it on television!

Princess Diana had royal blood, and her breeding was deemed perfect for the Prince of Wales. (Too bad that nobody cared to see if their personalities were a perfect match.) Unlike Diana, Kate was a commoner without any ties to royalty. The intrigue of an ordinary girl capturing the Prince’s heart and becoming a Princess — and then a Queen — is too magical a story for people to overlook. The fairy-tale aspect of William and Kate’s romance creates an aura of spellbinding excitement that just might bring a very significant percentage of the globe’s population to watch the wedding as it unfolds.

Interestingly, Princess Diana’s funeral was the most widely viewed live event in history, with over two million people who tuned in via television to watch the tragic event in 1997. In short order we will see if Diana’s eldest son, William, will break that viewing record.

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