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Kate and William will be celebrating their ninth wedding anniversary later this month. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are currently under intense pressure as they attempt to assist with the coronavirus pandemic, while reassuring the nation - but they are likely to be thinking back to the momentous occasion on April 29. Their wedding was considered an international moment of cheer. However, the two unintentionally caused a stir when they left the then-President and former FLOTUS off their invite lists.

According to The Telegraphs Tim Walker, Michelle Obama was particularly disappointed.

Back in 2011, he wrote: Even after it was clear that Prince William and Kate Middleton would not be sending a wedding invitation to the White House, Michelle Obama still appears not to have given up hope.

She told US TV programme Live With Regis and Kelly Show two months before the wedding that if I get invited, Ill go.

However, she was still waiting for her invitation at the time.

Mr Walker pointed out: Her comments are likely to exasperate senior courtiers, who had to put off naming the wedding date until a week after announcing the engagement because White House officials were not at first certain when Barack Obama and his wife would make their first state visit to Britain.

Obama's men, adamant that the two events should not clash, subsequently agreed May 24 to 26, almost a month after the royal wedding, as the dates for his visit.

However, Mr Walked added that the President may feel he had a lucky escape.

Political tensions could have arisen at the event, after Hamad bin Isa Khalifa, the King of Bahrain, confirmed his attendance.

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Their first overseas tour was to the US as well, which started later that same year.

They then invited Mr and Mrs Obama over to their Kensington Palace apartments in 2016.

The couple were delighted to meet the third-in-line to the throne Prince George, who was in his dressing gown at the time.

The US President was visiting the UK to congratulate the Queen on her 90th birthday.

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