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Queen hosts Kate Middleton's parents for lunch

Published:Thursday | April 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM
A poster depicting Britain's Prince William and his fiancée Kate Middleton, with a headline in French reading, 'Do the British still want a king?' is seen at a newsstand located on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, southern France, on Tuesday. Prince William and Kate Middleton are to marry on April 29. - ap

LONDON (AP):

PALACE OFFICIALS say Queen Elizabeth II hosted the parents of Kate Middleton, who is set to wed Prince William on April 29.

Buckingham Palace said on Wednesday the queen and her husband, Prince Philip, hosted Carol and Michael Middleton for a private lunch at Windsor Castle.

The palace says the lunch - also attended by a few members of the queen's royal household - was a long-standing engagement and declined to give further details.

The visit comes just one week ahead of the much-anticipated royal wedding in London, and is believed to be the first time the monarch has met Middleton's parents, self-made millionaires who run their own party-planning business.