A string of key rulings have kept high-net divorces in the headlines. Helen Mooney charts the changing law and 
asks if London will remain the ‘divorce capital of the world’

No sooner had Prince William and wife-to-be Kate Middleton announced they were intending to get married than the rumours started. Would they or wouldn’t they? The speculation wasn’t about whether the now Duke and Duchess of Cambridge would make it up the aisle, but instead about whether they would sign a prenuptial agreement before the marriage. Despite advice to the contrary, Prince William refused to enter into a prenup. Had the couple chosen to make such a contract, however, they would have been mirroring the actions of many of their wealthy peers.

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