J-Lo dumped husband hours before meeting Wills and Kate

It should have been the highlight of their sparkling seven union.

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Multi-millionaire superstars Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony were due to guests of honor at the head table with Prince William and Kate at the gala last weekend glittering Bafta in Hollywood.

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Instead, J-Lo sashayed down the red carpet in a Pucci dress provocatively hanging green with her mother, Guadalupe, a former kindergarten teacher in the Bronx. She also missed her wedding ring.

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Royal aides, with millions of singer-actress fans were mystified.

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But on Friday night in a statement issued through publicist J-Lo, the couple, worth around £ 240 million, announced they are to divorce.

They called the decision "painful" and "difficult." But the Mail on Sunday spoke to several of the closest confidants of the couple and may indicate that they began to drift than three years after their marriage in June 2004.