After her NY tour to promote her new book William and Harry: Behind the Palace Walls, Katie Nicholl’s latest article gave a dose of reality. Other royal reporters have been saying this all along…

Prince William may miss the Royal Family’s Christmas at Sandringham for the first time after volunteering to work at RAF Valley in Anglesey on Christmas Day.  It is considered the gentlemanly thing for newly qualified and unmarried search-and-rescue pilots to cover for colleagues who have families.

However the Prince  may also have seen it as a chance to deflect attention away from his girlfriend Kate Middleton and rumours of an impending engagement.

“William feels that if he works on Christmas Day it will ease the mounting speculation that he will spend his first Christmas with Kate – which would further fuel rumours that they are engaged,”says a Royal insider.

“Flight tradition dictates that new members who are unmarried should work the Christmas period and the Prince would never dream of making himself an exception just because he is the grandson of the Queen,” says a military source. “So he has volunteered. He could spend a large portion of Christmas on the base, which will make it difficult to travel back for his traditional family Christmas 250 miles away in Sandringham.”

“The arrangements could work out perfectly for William. If he flies over the Christmas period he gets himself out of the intense scrutiny over his engagement and his Christmas plans with Kate,” says the Royal insider. “But if he isn’t required to report for duty, he will be well thought of at the base to have offered in the first place.”

Kate Middleton is said to have encouraged the move to defer attention and is likely to return to her family home in Berkshire.

Article: Daily Mail



William & Kate on the Cover of Hello! Magazine

Yet another cover for the couple.  Title?  William and Kate – the Latest on a Possible Engagement before Christmas. Hello! Magazine, Issue no. 1150, November 22, 2010.

Will report on the story as soon as I get details.

Source: Hello! Magazine

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