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and in May 2010 they got engaged. Since then she has accompanied the Prince on all his visits and meetings with members of other royal families. She is also head of the Queen
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in Tirana. The ceremony was a non-official ceremony, held in Tirana in the Royal Palace, with more than 300 members of other
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