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Are Chelsy Davy & Kate Middleton Ready to Team Up?

May 16

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They have not always been the best of friends – but Chelsy Davy and Kate Middleton could be teaming up for the World Cup in South Africa this summer. Chelsy has invited Kate to Cape Town for the football festival that starts next month.

Prince Harry’s Zimbabwean-born girlfriend has told friends she will be hosting parties after all the big games and she is hoping Harry and Prince William will join her. Harry will already be in the country as part of a week-long official tour with William. They will go to Botswana to the Tusk Conservation Charity and Lesotho to see the work of Harry’s charity, Sentebale. Chelsy is planning to stay at the beachside apartment she shares with her brother Shaun – and believes Kate would have a great time if she could make it too.

‘Chelsy is planning lots of parties and has invited William and Harry to join her although she knows they will be very busy,’ says Katie Nicholl’s source. ‘She has also asked Kate if she wants to come to Cape Town and she hopes Kate can make it. She is hoping to turn it into one big party. Kate has yet to make her mind up but was grateful to receive the invite.’

If Kate is in South Africa at the same time as William it will fuel speculation they are about to announce an engagement.

Article: Daily Mail

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Has Chelsy Davy Finally Been Accepted into Royal Circles?

May 16

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Chelsy Davy’s appearance at Prince Harry’s Wings Ceremony last week has once again cast the spotlight on the girl said to have captured the Prince’s heart.

She was always an unlikely candidate to be a royal bride but was Chelsy Davy’s appearance with Prince Harry a sign that she has finally been accepted by “The Firm”? While seasoned royal watchers had expected to see the 24-year-old at her boyfriend’s side for the proud occasion, onlookers were surprised by how close Chelsy has become to Harry’s family.

Appearing completely at ease with Harry’s relations, she warmly kissed Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, while chatting as convivially with the Spencer side of the family, Princess Diana’s sisters Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Lady Jane Fellowes. Chelsy also appeared to be on very familiar terms with Harry’s former nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke (now Pettifer), who has remained close to both Princes since their mother’s death in 1997.

Despite the “on-off” nature of their sometimes volatile relationship, chummy Chelsy’s confident demeanour, effortlessly elegant in a cream chiffon mini-dress and matching blazer, at the ceremony at the Museum of Army Flying in Middle Wallop, Hampshire, proved she has been taken into the heart of “The Firm”.

Article: The Express





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Princes William & Harry’s Joint Trip to World Cup

May 16

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Prince William and Prince Harry are to undertake their first joint overseas tour next month, St James’s Palace announced, with a week-long tour of southern Africa in separate aircraft.

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?

Article: Times Online

Marathon not a sprint for Prince William and Jecca Craig

Prince Williams former fiancee 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.

Article: The Telegraph

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Prince Harry’s Favourite Pony Drizzle Dies at Polo

May 9

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Prince Harry and Drizzle

Prince Harry and Drizzle

What a disheartening way to start polo season — bad weather and a favourite pony’s death…

Princes William and Harry were ‘very upset’ after their favourite polo pony collapsed and died of a heart attack during a match.

Harry had just played a chukka in the second half of the charity match at Coworth Park in Berkshire when he realised that his ten-year old pony, Drizzle, was struggling.

He noticed that the brown mare was not running comfortably and decided to take her out of the match.

‘Harry instinctively realised that something was wrong with Drizzle,’ a senior Palace aide told The Mail on Sunday. ‘He decided to ride her to the side of the pitch and she was then walked off. Sadly within minutes she suffered a heart attack and died.

‘William and Harry are very, very upset – Harry was in tears.’

‘Harry and William were shaken. Harry had a cigarette at the end of the game and said he did not want to stay for the lunch because he was so upset. He kept saying he couldn’t believe what had happened. Everyone was telling him not to blame himself. Unfortunately these things happen.’

Prince William also did not bother to stay for lunch, as Kate Middleton had not attended the match due to bad weather.

Despite the death, the Princes – who were playing for The Prince William Team against The Audi Team – won 5-4.

Article: Daily Mail


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Tara Palmer-Tomkinson: William-Kate Wedding Not in the Cards

May 9

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Tara Palmer-Tomkinson has rubbished rumours of a pending royal wedding – insisting the world has a “long wait” before Prince William marries Kate Middleton. The socialite, who is a close friend of the royal family and god daughter of Prince Charles, insists there is no way the lovebirds are getting set to tie the knot.

A video is attached on the News of the World website.

“No comment on that,” she first says when asked. Then ads: “I think you’re all barking up the wrong tree, though.  I think you’ve got a long wait.”

Article + Video: News of the World





Kate Middleton Turns Down James Blunt’s Ibiza Holiday Offer

Kate Middleton has turned down an invitation to join singer James Blunt and his pals at his £1.7million home on Ibiza this summer.

Prince William’s girlfriend received the invite after meeting the You’re Beautiful singer on a night out.

But sources say Kate, 28, is staying away from the island, where her uncle Gary Goldsmith has his home ‘Le Maison de Bang Bang’, after last year’s Press reports of him as a cocaine user who arranges call-girls.

Since then the Middleton family have all agreed not to holiday on Ibiza.

‘James invited her to visit,’ says a source. ‘But she’s said she won’t be going back to Ibiza for a while’.

Article: Daily Mail

Pippa Runs Rings Around Jealous Friends

Kate Middelton’s sister, Pippa, has raised eyebrows among her chums by allegedly wearing a signet ring.

Guests at a recent wedding report that Pippa, 26, was wearing a signet ring. Her father, Michael, a former airline pilot, was reported to have inquired about a coat of arms from the College of Arms in 2007. It is unclear whether Pippa’s ring contained a seal or her initials, but it raised eyebrows among some friends, who have, rather snobbily, nicknamed the Middletons “the wisteria sisters” because of their perceived social climbing.

Anyone willing to pay at least £3,500 can apply for a coat of arms. Protocol suggests that someone marrying into the Royal family should have one.

Article: The Telegraph

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Prince Harry to Wed Chelsy Davy Before Heading to War Zone

May 9

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Prince Harry marrying Chelsy Davy next year?

Prince Harry marrying Chelsy Davy next year?

Let the Harry-Chelsy engagement rumours begin!  In light of their recent very public show of togetherness at Harry’s Wings Ceremony, this story isn’t surprising…

Apache warrior Prince Harry has blitzed royal aides by telling them he wants to wed Chelsy Davy before he goes back to Afghanistan. The prince’s bombshell came as he was awarded his helicopter pilot wings by dad Prince Charles, with proud Chelsy as his guest. Her presence at the family-only ceremony at the Army Air Corps’ Middle Wallop HQ is an important sign of how serious their romance has become.

His announcement has astounded palace aides who are already planning diary dates for Prince William’s wedding to girlfriend Kate Middleton.

One family friend said: “Harry is completely committed to Chelsy and wants everyone to know it. He doesn’t have time to sit around and wait for his brother to make up his mind. Harry has been to Afghanistan before and he knows only too well that where he’s going life really can be too short to worry about protocol.”

The Queen is understood to be unaware of the situation at present.

One palace aide explained: “We have to establish if Prince Harry is really serious about this, and if it’s possible first.”

Article: Daily Star

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