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Fact 1270 — William and Catherine’s wedding: forecast and record

Before Prince William and Catherine Middleton’s 2011 wedding, media reports predicted that up to two billion people might watch the broadcast. That was not a verified audience count and is not a Guinness World Records title. Guinness records a different achievement for the ceremony: 72 million live views of the official YouTube stream. The record for the largest TV audience for a wedding is instead attributed to the 1981 wedding of Charles and Diana, estimated at 750 million viewers in 74 countries.

AI-generated symbolic illustration contrasting a forecast bubble and a measured stream tally. It does not depict the real royal couple or an actual broadcast and is not documentary evidence. Creator: OpenAI image generation. No external media or reuse license applies.

AI-generated symbolic illustration contrasting a forecast bubble and a measured stream tally. It does not depict the real royal couple or an actual broadcast and is not documentary evidence. Creator: OpenAI image generation. No external media or reuse license applies.