Aug 14
We’ve missed Chelsy. Where has she been?
Relaxing on a beach holiday, Chelsy Davy was spotted looking super hot in a bikini while sunning herself on Monday (August 9). The Royal girlfriend looked to be enjoying herself as she chilled out while nearby paparazzi snuck a few pictures. No sign of Prince Harry… only of another guy and a toddler.
Pictures: Celebrity Gossip
Alexandra Escat
At 25, she is just three years older than Prince Andrew’s eldest daughter, Princess Beatrice. But there was no sign that stunning bikini model Alexandra Escat was tiring of her more mature companion, as they boarded a private jet together on Saturday.
The Duke of York and Alexandra were flying out of Olbia Airport in Sardinia, where last week they were pictured engrossed in each other’s company on board a superyacht. At the time, sources dismissed speculation of a relationship, saying Miss Escat was married Prince Andrew’s friend. But The Mail on Sunday has established that she is single and joined the party as she knew one of the fellow guests.
Still, friends of Andrew insisted that Miss Escat was ‘not a new love item’, but there was no denying the pair enjoyed spending time together. She was seen grinning and rubbing suncream into his back. Prince Andrew was also pictured kissing her hand.
The exotic brunette, whose exotic looks are a legacy of her Spanish father and Filipina mother, is a well-known face on the party scenes of Madrid and Manila, the Philippine capital. Alexandra has a degree in advertising and public relations, has modeled for shampoo, and writes an online
Madrid society column.
A spokesman for Prince Andrew refused to comment on his holiday or his private life.
Article: Daily Mail
Aug 5
The Royal Family were in high spirits yesterday when they took a walk down memory lane at the end of a 10-day holiday cruise. Three generations of royals, with Peter Phillips’s pregnant wife Autumn carrying a fourth, disembarked the five-star cruise ship, the Hebridean Princess, and took a nostalgic trip to the late Queen Mother’s home, the Castle of Mey.
The Queen paid £300,000 out of her own private funds to charter the 49-passenger vessel, although it cost taxpayers an estimated £1 million for police, divers, dog handlers, Ministry of Defence police marine units, and a Royal Navy Type 23 frigate, HMS Kent, to provide security for the trip.
Article: The Express | Daily Mail
Think Zara Phillips and you think jodhpurs, crops and horse riding competitions. But today, the young Royal proved that her sea legs are just as competitive as she swapped the equestrian life for one on the open waves.
Zara was taking part in the Artemis Challenge, which saw a fleet of six yachts sail round the Isle of Wight to win money for charity.
Article: Daily Mail
Cops have arrested a man on suspicion of breaking into the grounds of Prince Andrew’s house. The 43-year-old was nicked at his home in Colnbrook, Berks, over conspiracy to commit theft and is being held in police custody.
While all this was happening, Prince Andrew was spotted in a yacht in Sardinia, apparently with a woman massaging sun cream on his back. According to Richard Palmer, the woman was the wife of another guest, and not Prince Andrew’s new girlfriend
Article: The Sun
Pictures: StarTraks Photo
It’s a slow weekend… and the Royals are on holiday…
Among the highlights of the trip will be two parties to celebrate the 60th birthday of The Princess Royal next month and the 50th birthday of The Duke of York earlier this year.
Bathed in glorious sunshine, an excited Royal Family arrived en masse at Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis to begin their holiday.
The Queen, dressed in a lime green trouser suit and pastel headscarf, boarded the luxury Hebridean Princess, which will be their home for the next ten days. She was joined by the Duke of York and his daughters, Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice.
The Princess Royal, boarded with a backpack and wearing cream trousers and a jacket, followed by her husband, Vice-Admiral Tim Laurence, who was carrying two bags. Viscount Linley, Princess Margaret’s son, was present with his wife Serena Stanhope and their two children, Charles and Margarita. The viscount’s sister, Lady Sarah Chatto, her husband, Daniel, and their sons, Samuel and Arthur, appeared cheerful as they boarded.
Among those due to join the trip later are the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Edward and the Countess of Wessex, with their children, and Peter Philips and his wife, Autumn.
One tycoon’s given her a £160,000 Bentley. Another’s lent her his jet. Now she’s partying with Branson on his private island…
What does a person do when they have debts of around £2million and have just laid off their loyal staff? For Sarah Ferguson, the answer was to take off to the Caribbean to party with billionaires. On Thursday, she boarded on the Gulfstream private jet owned by her longtime friend Peter Brant, the U.S. newsprint tycoon. She was then flown in habitual luxury from his Connecticut home, where she has been staying for several days, to the 60th birthday party of Sir Richard Branson on his private Necker Island in the Caribbean.
Article: Daily Mail
And more about Kate Waddington, Fergie’s public relations consultant for 20 years, who last week was reportedly sacked with the rest of her staff…
Interestingly, the Daily Mail says humiliated Kate called Fergie to quit a while back – while she was in the US trying to salvage her image from the Cash for Access scandal.
“Kate plays with a straight bat and was horrified that Sarah had kept such an important thing from her,” said a source. “She felt her loyalty to Fergie had been rewarded with an almighty slap in the face.”
Article: Daily Mail
As Sarah Ferguson is forced to make her staff redundant, those who know her most intimately admit that the Duchess faces an uncertain future.
Sarah Ferguson has enjoyed her share of ups and downs during her royal and post-royal careers. Well – downs, mostly. Duchess of York is one of the great loose cannons of the Hanoverian-Windsor era. Cut away from the Royal Family, which once greeted her, like the young Lady Diana Spencer, as a breath of democratic fresh air, she has spent the last two decades seemingly rolling around the deck, smashing into this and that, leaving a trail of wreckage, usually financial, strewn in her flame-haired wake.
Article: The Telegraph
Fergie lets go of Kate Waddington, her PR relations adviser for 10 years
Fergie Sacks Staff to Prevent Bankrupcy
The cash-strapped Duchess of York has been forced to sack her entire team of seven full-time staff to save money. In another blow, the Duchess has also parted company with Kate Waddington, her long-suffering public relations adviser who worked hard to improve the Duchess’s battered public image.
The cutbacks will also affect three more staff who were on temporary contracts and worked for the Duchess on an ad-hoc basis. In total she should save an estimated £700,000 a year. Fergie made personal phone calls to each of her 12 tearful flunkies to explain why their jobs had gone.
But despite being £2million in the red, next week she flies to Necker Island, Sir Richard Branson’s luxury home in the British Virgin Islands.
Articles: Daily Mail | The Sun
Svelte and far from shy, Princess Beatrice shows how marathon training has transformed her figure from the curvy one that in the past drew unflattering comments. The 21-year-old, said to have shed a stone and a half, displayed her new slimline look as she showered on the back of a luxury yacht in St Tropez. With her on holiday is boyfriend Dave Clark.
The fifth in line to the throne had been mortified by pictures of herself in a blue bikini during a beach holiday on St Barts in 2008 and admitted being ‘terribly upset’ by unkind remarks.
Follow the link below for pictures of Bea looking great in a bikini, including a comparative shot of unflattering pictures in the past.
Article: Daily Mail
The Queen’s visit to Canada visit was a roaring success, drawing record-breaking crowds eager to see the monarch in the flesh in what may well prove her valedictory tour.
Article: The Telegraph
Chelsy Davy
Chelsy heading for Johannesburg?
According to Katie Nicholl, Chelsy Davy is giving up previous plans to train as a solicitor in London, will be traveling through December, and moving to Johannesburg in January.
‘She doesn’t want to live in Cape Town because all her friends have moved to Jo’burg,’ says a friend.
Meanwhile, Prince Harry did not relish being the butt of the joke himself. The Prince apparently had a ’sense-of-humour failure’ at his friend Mark Dyer’s wedding in Wales when chums continually ribbed him about his on-off relationship with Chelsy.
‘Quite a few people kept saying “you’ll be next” to Harry, and making remarks about “walking the plank” with Chelsy,’ says a spy. He laughed along at first but it wore thin pretty quickly.’
Article: Daily Mail (scroll down)