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This was recorded during Prince William and Kate Middleton's visit to St Andrews University whilst launching its 600th anniversary celebrations. Crowns packed North Street as the Royal couple greeted well wishers.

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And the titles are old, old Scottish titles, re-appropriated for Kate Middleton and the prince to use when in Scotland . The Duke and Duche File:William and Kate wedding.jpg ss of Cornwall, when in residence there, use the …

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30 November 2011, 3.30pm Vice Chancellor, Fellow faculty members, university colleagues, family, friends, and, most importantly, graduates: Congratulations! You have done it. Not only have you made it through your course of studies and received a well-earned degree; you have also made it through this ceremony and are undoubtedly looking forward to a well-earned pint or other libation with friends and family. And, indeed, you deserve it. St Andrews does not grant degrees lightly. At times, I am guessing, this day may have seemed very far away. It may have seemed impossible. But, you made it. I have only a few minutes to tell you something interesting, so I am going to tell you a story about a famous lecture here at St Andrews. I know, you have heard many lectures during your time here. But I hope this one will be instructive in some small way. On 9 March 1939, a professor from Oxford University came to the University of St Andrews to deliver the Andrew Lang lecture. The lecture series was in honour of the great Scottish folklorist, Andrew Lang (no relation to me, I’m afraid) who had collected a wide range of fairy tales in a series of coloured volumes that captured the European and British fairy tale tradition. The lecturer chose a topic that would have been of great interest to Lang. He entitled it “On Fairy Stories”. The lecturer argued that the distinguishing feature of a fairy story is that it has a happy ending. But, crucially, the ending of fairy stories does not come about easily. No, a fairy story is defined by the fact that there is a dreadful set of circumstances that must be overcome at the last minute. The lecturer coined a neologism to describe this fact – a “eucatastrophe”. Combining the Greek prefix “eu” which means good with the word catastrophe, or abrupt change, the lecturer suggested that in a fairy story the happy ending only comes about because of an earlier decision that may not have seemed the right one at the time. The person who gave that lecture went on to write one of the most famous fairy stories of the 20th century. JRR Tolkien delivered this lecture between the time that he wrote The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings . For those of you who know these stories, you might remember the eucatastrophe that Tolkien put into his own fairy tale: Bilbo Baggins decides not to kill the creature Gollum, a decision that means Gollum helps to destroy the One Ring and hence save Middle Earth.

St Andrews in Scotland is famous around the world as being the first meeting place of Prince William and Kate Middleton, now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

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DORNOCH, Scotland — The story of St . Andrews is well told: It's golf's oldest known grounds, the most regular host of the Open Championship, and its cobbled streets are where Prince William and Princess Kate found true …

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