The heir to the throne of oil-rich Brunei married a teenaged commoner on Thursday before a glittering array of foreign dignitaries in Asia`s grandest wedding in more than a decade. After a 21-gun salute, Crown Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah Bolkiah, 30, formalised his marriage to half-Swiss student Sarah Salleh, 17, in a cavernous hall of his father Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah`s 1,700-room Istana palace.
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