On Saturday, she became the closest thing this waning empire has to a Kate Middleton figure by marrying Nico Thomas Evers-Swindell, the Kiwi actor who played Prince William in the Lifetime original movie "William & Kate: Let Love Rule," and who shows no signs of sharing a balding pattern with the Duke of Cambridge.

Last week Kate Middleton flew solo at a royal engagement for the first time. Ms. Ferguson and her prince recently finished filming a pilot for MTV called "Dumb Girls."

Ms. Middleton met Prince William at St. Andrews University in Scotland. Ms. Ferguson attended Yale.