But even these signals did not prepare the world's 1.2 billion Catholics for the announcement that the 264th successor to the apostle Peter would resign his pontificate at the end of the month.
For her, hackgate is not an abstract concept but one that affects her – and her children – directly.
A day when two young people exchanged the most sacred and intimate of vows with the gaze of the world as their witness. And so, as all royal marriages must, a private promise became a public event played out before an enraptured global audience of two billion when the groom tenderly kissed his new bride on the balcony at Buckingham Palace.
