WILLIAM AND KATE - Tapa dura

This unique book is a fully illustrated biography of a very modern, some would say unprecedented, British royal romance between the man who will, one day, be king and a beautiful, middle-class English girl. It is also the story of a love that will, arguably, help shape the future of the monarchy as a 21st century institution. In a series of over 130 outstanding pictures - many of which are entirely exclusive - brought together here for the first time, Robin Nunn the UK's leading royal photographer examines the intertwined lives of Prince William, second in line to the throne and grandson of Her Majesty the Queen, and Catherine 'Kate' Elizabeth Middleton, daughter of self-made millionaires. From their first meeting at St Andrews University to the extraordinary moment at William's passing out parade at Sandhurst, when Kate became a global figure of fascination and speculation in her own right, the book offers a comprehensive, insightful look at what might be a defining relationship that helps secure the British Monarchy for the next generation. Public interest in Kate has never been greater, and with the prospect of the most important Royal marriage in a generation increasingly likely, this book provides the perfect opportunity to find out more about the young, beautiful woman who seems to have captured the heart of the country's most eligible man.

Robin Nunn is the world's top, contemporary royal photographer and founder and proprietor of Nunn Syndication, the world's top specialist royal archive. Robin has travelled the world photographing the Royal family since the early eighties, and his work continues to be published in newspapers and magazines around the globe. Robin is the author of William, The People's Prince, an illustrated biography of Prince William published in 2003 (hb) and 2004 (pb) and Happy & Glorious, A Celebration of the Life of HM Queen Elizabeth II published in 2006.