Kate Middleton working for an exhibitions of her photography work

Wonderful, if true.  Would love to see some of Kate’s work.  Hope having the story leaked to the press won’t jeopardise any existing plans.

Snap happy Kate Middleton is focusing on developing her role as print-cess in waiting – by landing a job as a photographer. The girlfriend of Prince William – often slammed for being workshy – is said to be “exhilarated” after landing the deal for an exhibition of her work.

Robert Jobson of News of the World reveals that Kate has been secretly preparing a portfolio of pictures for months while living with William in Wales.

Kate – who studied photography as part of her History of Art degree – is now finalising details of the London show due to take place later this year.

An insider says: “This is Kate’s passion. She has always wanted to be a photographer since she was a student. It is a bit ironic that after all her run-ins with photographers she has now become one. I suppose if you can’t beat them, join them.”

Among Kate’s best work to be exhibited in the autumn is a hazy sunset. There is also a brilliant “wild seascape”. It’s hoped the show will raise money for charity.

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Kate Middleton watches William play polo. Click to see more pictures from Getty Images

**Updated with link to more pictures below** Finally!  An appearance from Kate this polo season!

Kate Middleton was all smiles yesterday as she watched Prince William take part in a polo match.

The 28-year-old beamed as she chatted with a male friend in the glorious sunshine at the Beaufort Polo Club in Tetbury, Gloucestershire. Wearing a belted light green summer dress and carrying an enormous bag, she was there to watch her Royal boyfriend and his brother Prince Harry compete in a charity event.

William, 28, and his 25-year-old brother were taking part in the Chakravarty Cup and were left with big smiles on their faces after their team won the match. It was put on to raise funds for charities including the English Schools’ Swimming Association and Wellchild, which helps sick children and their families across the UK.

Last year the event, which is named after Saroj Chakravarty, a patron of The Prince’s Trust, raised more than £50,000.

Article: Daily Mail
Pictures: Getty Images
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Day 3, June 17, Lesotho

visiting Sentebale & Lesotho’s children…

Prince Harry in Lesotho

Prince Harry and Prince William are on a two-day visit to Lesotho, where Harry’s Sentebale charity – set up in memory of his mother – helps vulnerable children. They visited a remote village in one of the world’s poorest countries.

William and Harry met children infected with HIV. Wearing a traditional tribal blanket and a beanie hat, Harry rode a pony alongside his brother to the village of Semongkong before he and William visited schools supported by the charity for village children and nomadic shepherd boys. They also took part in a friendly soccer match with the Lesotho orphans

Prince Harry wants to be a photographer or surfer, or live in Africa…

Later, the princes traveled to the palace of the Lesothan king. In a confidence-building exercise through Mamohato Network Club, which allows HIV-infected youths to work together without being stigmatized for their disease, Prince Harry said that his dream job would be to be a surfer, helicopter pilot or wildlife photographer. He also dreams of living in Africa, a fact which has reportedly caused Prince Charles some concern.

Prince William just wants to be a successful helicopter pilot… and to be happy, lucky and caring.

Prince William and Prince Harry will travel to South Africa tomorrow, to watch the England vs. Algeria deciding match.

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Prince William spent the last 2 days doing what he’s been doing — playing polo for charity and becoming patron of social movements.

Prince William helps team win charity polo game

Prince William plays polo for charity

Prince William was instrumental in helping his team win a charity polo game that raised money for two of his favourite charities – Centrepoint and Mountain Rescue. A keen player, he helped his team Umbogo beat Cirencester Park four to three-and-half.

Several hundred spectators watched the Prince play an “excellent” game at the Cirencester Park polo club, Glos., on Sunday. Organisers said Kate Middleton, his girlfriend, did not attend the game after speculation the pair would announce their engagement last week fizzled.

In the same event, William has told how he took part in his first helicopter mountain rescue mission. Sadly, the Prince’s first taste of a real-life rescue attempt involving the RAF Search and Rescue force, ended in tragedy. The climber, who was suffering from severe head injuries after falling down a mountainside, died.

“I did my first mountain rescue the other day. It was amazing after all the training to see it all work in practice. But it was someone with head injuries. Unfortunately, he didn’t survive” he said.

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Prince William backs bid to save playing fields

Prince William launched a nationwide campaign to prevent thousands of playing fields being sold off by granting them royal approval. The prince will become a patron of the Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge, which is aimed at slowing the decline of playing fields and giving millions more children the chance to play outdoors. The scheme is to commemorate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012.

Members of the public will vote for their favourite playing fields and 2,012 will be designated as “Queen Elizabeth II Fields” over the next 3 years. Playing field owners will sign a legal deed with Fields in Trust, the organiser, to grant protection to the area beyond the existing planning laws.

William said: “The sad truth is that, over the years, thousands of playing fields have been lost to development and many more are under threat today. Being able to play outdoors is a basic right of childhood”

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The Help for Heroes centre features a range of resources including a new swimming pool and gym. William, 27, met service personnel rebuilding their lives after being injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Prince Harry is to visit New York for the 2nd straight year this June. This time, it’s on a mission to improve treatment for British and American troops wounded in Afghanistan. He will visit military and veterans’ organisations on a fact-finding tour designed to explore how UK and US charities can work together and learn from each other to help severely wounded servicemen and women.

A senior aide said the Prince, who served in Afghanistan as a forward air controller two years ago, will be accompanied on his visit by two British officers representing veterans’ organisations and wants to act as a facilitator, encouraging charities in both countries to cooperate.

During the 3-day visit from June 25 to 27, Prince Harry will also play in the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic to raise funds for his African charity Sentebale. Last year, he raised £245,000 playing in the same match on New York’s Governors Island.

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The two Princes will visit Botswana and Lesotho before traveling to South Africa in time for England’s World Cup match against Algeria in Cape Town, where they will be supporting England’s bid to host the World Cup in 2018.

However, because of rules forbidding the two Princes from flying together, William and Harry will undertake the tour without ever traveling on the same flight. Although it has involved drawing up a complicated itinerary for the pair — the week involves half a dozen flights for each of them — St James’s Palace has been at pains to ensure that the rule is adhered to. “Particularly after the death of the Polish president, it is something we take very seriously,” a Palace source said.

It said that Prince William’s international travel was being paid by the FA, while Prince Harry was paying his own costs.  They will be in Africa from June 14 to 21. Would that mean William is spending his 28th birthday on a plane?

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Marathon not a sprint for Prince William and Jecca Craig

Prince William's "former fiancee" Jecca Craig

Prince William supports marathon on Kenyan estate of his ‘former fiancée’ Jecca Craig.

Jessica Craig, with whom Prince William reportedly carried out a “pretend engagement” while he was staying at Lewa, her family’s wildlife reserve in Kenya, before going to university, still looms large in his life. The latest project which has brought them together is the Safari Marathon, on Lewa, which William is supporting. Last week, the Prince received prospective runners at St James’s Palace.

Jecca is the only woman to have precipitated an official bulletin about William’s love life. In 2003, the Prince of Wales’s staff issued a statement in which it was denied that the couple were involved in a relationship. They had never done this for any of William’s other alleged girlfriends. Shortly after, Jecca was the guest of honour at William’s 21st birthday party at Windsor Castle. In an interview, he insisted that he did not have a steady girlfriend at St Andrews University, where he had first met Kate Middleton two years earlier. It was not until 2004 that he was happy to be photographed with Kate.

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Kate Middleton to be charitable princess?

Kate Middleton has been cruelly mocked as “Waity Katie” for the low profile that she has taken while being courted by Prince William. Now, however, she is preparing to take on a more public role.

The Telegraph’s Mandrake hears that the 28-year-old graduate has let it be known that she will be available to attend events for a number of charities from the autumn. “Kate’s name is already down for certain events,” says a royal courtier. “She will take a higher profile before the engagement is announced.”

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Kate Spotted at Raffles Last Week

Princess-in-waiting Kate Middleton is renowned for being the model of decorum but there is a lesser known wild side to Prince William’s girlfriend.  Kate was spotted dancing on a podium and waving her arms around to disco music at London nightclub Raffles on Wednesday night.

With Prince William nowhere to be seen Kate, 27, joined her friend Astrid Harbord for a Children’s Trust charity bash.

‘Kate was surrounded by boys who kept putting their arms around her and twirling her around,’ one of their friends says. ‘At one stage The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air theme song came on and Kate saw the funny side when everyone sang the lyric, ”Looked to my kingdom I was finally there, To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel-Air”.’

Kate was wearing a bright orange silk top with skinny jeans and stayed out sipping champagne until 4am.

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Princess Beatrice is the first royal to run the London marathon

Way to go, Bea!  After months of training (and looking a lot more fit), Princess Beatrice conquers the London Marathon.

Cheered on by her proud parents, Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew, Princess Beatrice became the first ever royal to complete the London Marathon on Sunday – all the while part of a human caterpillar.

Bea and her American boyfriend Dave Clarke made it across the finish line having run the 26.2 miles tied to 33 other friends as members of ‘Team Caterpillar’, headed up by Richard Branson’s children Holly and Sam. That in itself was a record breaking feat as the gang became the largest number of runners to finish the race tied together. The team came in after 5 hours, 13 minutes and 4 seconds.

Beatrice – wearing the team’s lime-green skirt – said: “The hardest thing was trying to keep a steady pace that 34 people could do. The crowd were fantastic and they kept me going.”

Speaking to the BBC, mum Sarah said: “For so long I’ve been trying to get her fit and now she’s showing me up today. I’ve just decided that if she such a good role model to me then next year I’m going to do it.”

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Prince William's portrait raises big money

A unique art work combining photographs which Prince William and an ex-homeless man took of each other sold for £24,000 at auction on April 15. The double portrait, known as a diptych, of William with hair controversially darkened by studio lighting and editing, and former rough sleeper-turned photographer Jeff Hubbard, was sold at Christie’s in London to raise money for homeless charity Crisis.

The sale attracted wealthy bidders, including Sir Elton John, represented by his partner David Furnish, and Hong Kong billionaire Sir David Tang but the auction house refused to say who had bought the Prince’s picture.

William, who spent an hour at a reception inside the auction house before going on to host a Clarence House dinner for wealthy donors to the Royal Marsden Hospital, added to the value of the diptych by signing his photograph of Hubbard, 54. In a speech, he contrasted the opulence of his surroundings at Christie’s with the plight of the 400,000 homeless people in Britain.

“The problem is all around us; just a few yards from this magnificent auction house, there will be people preparing for a night on the streets. People not so dissimilar from you and me tonight, just with their dreams and aspirations, for reasons often beyond their control, now eclipsed by fear and anxiety, robbing them of hope. It is organisations like Crisis that pick up the pieces of broken lives, giving homeless people the confidence to start over by restoring hope.”

The auction helped raise a total of £305,600 for Crisis. William’s portrait was the highest selling bid.

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Prince Harry’s girlfriend had been expected as the star turn at the Pearl Ball at the Westbury hotel in London on Thursday (April 1) to raise money for under-privileged children in the African country, but she pulled out at the last minute.

Mandrake hears whispers that the prince had an unexpected “window” and offered to whisk her away for a few days. Ronald Ndoro, the charity’s operations manager, later said: “She dropped me a note saying she was sorry, but she had to go away – it was a surprise.”

Perhaps Mandrake doesn’t know that Chelsy has been pictured in a beach in Mauritius on March 30, which is probably why she missed the ball.

Prince Harry’s spokesperson said he spent Easter in the UK.

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Chelsy: I won’t be Harry-ed

Chelsy Davy is vowing she won’t marry into the Royal Family – because she wants a “proper” career. The party-loving heiress, 24, told pals she loves Prince Harry, but the thought of being a princess fills her with dread. Instead Chelsy – who has bagged a training post with a top law firm – is determined to carve out a career as a lawyer.

A chum said: “She does not see herself cutting ribbons for a job. She worked hard at uni and won’t throw it all away. Settling down to a life working for the Royals is just not what she is about.”

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Chelsy Davy gives up burgers — and drops a dress size

Chelsy Davy has cut out junk food and lost 5lb, dropping a dress size. She shares boyfriend Prince Harry’s penchant for McDonalds, but has quit burgers in a bid to lose weight.

A friend says: ‘Chelsy is happy with her body but she hated the area around her chin and wanted to look less jowly. She went on a healthy eating regime and is surprised how much weight she has lost. She’s also working out and cutting down on her partying.’

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Practice! Prince Harry tries dragging a 240-lb sled while visiting wounded ex-servicemen

Prince Harry plans to join a charity expedition with injured servicemen to the North Pole next year. He said that he hopes to complete part of the 300-mile Arctic trek alongside amputees who lost limbs in the line of duty. The 25-year-old prince had already been named as a patron of the event, which aims to raise £1million for the charity Walking With The Wounded.

But at a launch in London he announced that he wants to go further with his support. ‘You will be glad to know that if my military commitments allow me I would love to join the team,’ he said.

Although Harry is training to become an Army Air Corps helicopter pilot and plans to return to Afghanistan in the next two years, he is hopeful of being given permission to join the month-long expedition for five days next April.

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