In the early morning of April 29, 2011, Vanessa Gilbreath and her friends gathered at her Marietta, Georgia, home to watch the fairy-tale wedding of Britain’s Prince William and his bride, Kate Middleton. As a native of Guildford in Surrey, this English expatriate knew the occasion called for a grand fête, and the tables were dressed to perfection with treasures inherited from her grandmother and her great aunt.
