On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: Princes William and Harry at 007 premiere – Daily Mail
In their slick dinner jackets Princes William and Harry gave Bond a run for his money at the world premiere of Quantum of Solace last night. Walking side-by-side William and Harry greeted the celebrities and actors of the film. But they also took time to welcome 200 real-life action heroes – soldiers who lined the red carpet…
Video: Daniel Craig stirs Royal Quantum of Solace premiere – ET Online
The Royal family traditionally attends the world premiere of every Bond movie, and this year was no exception: The two princes walked the red carpet at the Odeon West End in Leicester Square to screams of delight…
Video: Bond Quantum of Solace premiere – ITN
Bond Quantum of Solace premieres with Craig, Dench, Arterton all attending. We were there to check it out… (skip to the end for the princes…)
Video: New James Bond film gets royal premiere in London – 3 News NZ
So just hours before his royal world premiere, was Bond feeling a little shaken, even a little stirred? “We’ve got Harry and William coming, it’s a big event. A few drinks mite not go astray!”… (skip to 1minute in)
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Hello,
I have seen the reports of last evening and I have spoken with a colleague who is close to the industry and I’ll pass on her comments.
The evening was good, and everything passed off well. PW and PH arrived, and as soon as they were inside the foyer they were absolutely super to everyone with PH making a huge impression. Both however were very chatty with the members of the cast and production people who made the film and showed tremendous interest.
They went on to meet the injured troops and their families and both PW and PH were so kind , considerate and down to earth with people they were able to relate too and showed great compassion.
Apparently eveyone appreciated what was happening but during the afters there was one big topic of conversation .
It needed a Diana.
It lacked that sparkle and many asked why KM and CD weren’t there supporting their boyfriends because if they had been present there would have been sparkle and atmosphere.
If ‘commom’ people as well as film stars congregating there were expressing those thoughts why couldn’t the RF handlers and arrangers see that KM and CD could have helped so much much to turn a successful event into a spectacular and therefore more successful night.
Perhaps it wasn’t required to be a spectacular and perhaps those same people didn’t want that as it may in future just go against what is wanted from PW and PH. KM and CD are so obviously an asset so if there is a serious relationship between both and their partners then use that asset to the benifit of their projects.
If there is no serious relationship then come out and satisfy peoples expectations and get on with the next phase.
Well
It would have been spectacular alright. The buzz would have been something like an Oscar ceremony had the press been alerted that CD and KM would attend. Wow imagine how amazing that would have been! But it was after all and “official engagement” and PW and PH aren’t movie stars so we make do with just them. …. Funny how the girlfriends do add that extra something
That is true, if the girlfriends had been there, it would have been a shazam razzler-dazzler of an evening, even more so than it already was.
I just think it is strange that we aren’t even hearing rumours about Kate going to Highgrove, or that she and William had dinner at a pub near her house, or that we haven’t even gotten the generic stories about the Queen approving of K&C so much that they were invited and will attend the BP party.
It’s been eerily silent, and I don’t like it one bit.
I agree Alsgal
That the silence is an omen. If you look back on RA when the last break up occurred in the comments section I remember John saying that it just all went very quiet & it looks like history is repeating it’s self. Maybe MH and Paddy H are trying to raise the profiles in a positive light so that when the breakup stories are announced there won’t be as big of a back lash as last time?
The sequence of events from the last month is cause for concern.
The announcement for SAR. Wills is a no show for her roller disco night, Kate is a no show for drinks before he leaves. No sightings no press no nothing & if you think about it the last time they split she went home also although I guess technically she has been living at home since January??
Wasn’t it around January when William put in his SAR application? Was there perhaps a bit of a falling out over that, which might have been why we didn’t hear much about W&K at that time? That may have been around the same time that Kate said, well, then, I’m moving back home and I’ll work for my parents ’til this sorts itself out?
Maybe Kate was taking a wait-and-see approach, waiting to see if he would be accepted (maybe they all were, since Paddy Harverson implied in July that PW would be taking on more duties next year) before saying, well, that’s it, then?
This SAR training and potential career just seems to have put a real physical distance between them, which seems difficult to endure particularly for a couple who have already co-habited together. At least a lot of the LTR couples I know of aren’t willing to spend so much time apart, unless it somehow involves mandatory time in prison.
Alsgal is a funny lady!!
I was looking at http://www.brunopress.nl (under entertainment) and the picture of PW w/blonde girl from that wedding PW attended a couple of years ago is up as if it is a new photo. Odd. It’s obiviously not new, so is a mag recycling it?
It is certainly a possibility that the SAR training and career track has caused a spanner in the works. I guess we will hear no news at all expect for Kate not being present at the B-day parties and may eventually see William out with another girl at some point in the future?
Something is not right..
Where is Rman by the way?
alsgal,
I know no one here believes that the S and R was an afterthought and was not planned. When PW said he wanted to try S and R in April May time it was as part of his RAF appointment.
He in fact was at Valley RAF station and flew as observer in a Yellow westland S and R helicopter but also said that he would like to fly in Naval helicopters as part of his RN appointment. He did this also in Caribbean.
I was reading posts that I’d missed whilst away and Tamara Rosenberg was mentioned as someone who had irritated KM as PW had discussed his mother with her and Jecca. PW met TR via the Bransons when he was about 18 and still at Eton.
She was one of a few older ladies he met at that time who helped him through when he was missing his mum. I don’t think she was a girl friend, more a confidant but did introduce him to many people before his gap year. She must be close to 40 these days but is still friendly with the Bransons and obviously PW and I sort of remember hearing that she had chaperoned Holly Branson at some stage, but am not sure about that.
There does seem to have been some sort of “happening” after they returned from holiday but I have not heard if it was the photographs or the S and R but I am fairly confident that KM didn’t know about the RAF until very late
Whoops,
Just heard, Come Dancing tickets have arrived again for saturday.
Super
Will give you a wave
Ked
Why on earth would he have kept that from her though? It doesn’t make any sense? They have to have at this stage talked about the future?? I would have assumed they would have talked about the future numerous times since they have gotten back together. If he didn’t tell her then did Harry tell Chelsy??
I agree with all that things are v.v quiet with Wills and KM. I think it was best that the girls didn’t turn up last night as it was a Royal engagment and it would have taken attention away from the main cause of the night, which was William and Harry raising awareness for injured military people. I though all looked great at the Bond premiere. It is looking more and more likely that KM and PW have split. I could be wrong but that is my feeling. If that is the case then I wish both well for the future and hope whereever their paths may take them they will be happy.
I wish one way ,or another it would just come to some resolution,but above all i would like him to be happy
jj,
It’s called planning , long term planning, something royal stewards have been doing for a thousand plus years.
They’re good at it and we still have a Queen and a couple of Kings to follow. dv
Exactly Ked
If he knew about it well in advanced because he had planned and applied for this position then I would have assumed that he would have told Kate. Why keep it a secret from her. It would be a very odd relationship if he did keep secrets like that??
There is no reason for him not too. I mean Harry in an interview said that they had planned the bike ride over a year in advance I am pretty sure the girls would have known about that too??
I have read that Diana was many times (and married) in the dark
jj,
Who was most popular in April 2207 KM or PW?
Who’s been criticised most since that time ?
Where did most of the criticism start?
Who’s now getting the whiter than white build up now?
PW is a royal, a Windsor and a King in waiting and a King does anything for a throne.
Yes anything.
Ked
They were both popular last year until the break up which every one knows William’s reputation suffered. Fast forward to 2008 and they both have received a lot of criticism this year. Kate with the waitey Katey nonsense and William for landing helicopters in her back yard, taking a helicopter to a stag night. Drinking and falling out of nightclubs. They both have taken a hit this year it hasn’t solely been all on Kate.
A lot of that comes from the press because they are fed up of waiting.
William lately has had a press blitz with charity events probably because in 09 he will disappear with SAR duties.
There is no logical reason for him to lie about his SAR assignment to Kate or omit to tell her the truth about it. It’s got nothing to do with the throne since the Queen and Charles are still alive and kicking & presumably will be here for a good many years. Your not making any sense but I know sometimes a lot of people struggle to understand what you are trying to convey so I’m just going to move on to something else
Me
what do you mean ?(Married) in the dark ?what are you talking about?
I for one hope the Kate does not turn into an enigma like Greta Garbo.
I think at this point I am ready to put this “are they or aren’t they” issue to bed until we hear for see something factual. All these rumors and guessing games are giving us nothing but a headache. Eventually the facts will reveal themselves. If William and Kate are still a couple,they will be seen publicly eventually so I am off to wait for something concrete to discuss. Take care all!
At this point royal internet traffic has slowed down so badly since cash cow Middleton vanished.
Until
Happy Halloween!
Hahah Me you make a good point. The boys have the power to draw a crowd but it is really the combination of themselves and the girls that (or the girls by themselves in my opinion) that creates star power!!! It is eerily quiet with no Kate news. B you may disagree with me but I think Kate will be a great assett to the RF if she makes it into the fold!
I agree, JJ — and that’s true with a lot of couples, because a man on his own is nice to look at, but how long can someone really debate his hairstyle or his shoes? Having a woman as part of the couple allows means there are more things to discuss and debate, plus people can also speculate about the state of the relationship. “Did you see how he looked at her? Did you see how she glared back at him?”
I agree Kate would be an extraordinary asset to the Royal Family, espcially now that she is answering the work ethic question so well and with so much dignity, but I would think whichever attractive, reasonably pleasant young woman W (&H) will eventually marry will add a lot of interest to the BRF just by virtue of
being in that position.
With Kate, we have clearly got the “WOW!” factor, though.
I agree Alsgal. Whoever is in that position will add a lot of interest although whether Cammy adds interest with Charles is debatable.
I wonder if Dan’s speculation could be true that some sort of engagement is brewing and the papers have come to a mutual gentleman’s agreement with the promise of access once the news hits?
Dan’s the man in terms of remaining optimistic, and I admire that, but if there was a gentleman’s agreement, why did the papers spash the cell phone story across their pages?
While I hardly think that was the crime of the century, it is illegal and was not exactly good press for Kate, so with a gentleman’s agreement like this, who needs gentlemen?
That does indeed throw the spanner in the works.But with the link I listed above two separate people broke the agreement for Harry which was much more serious and one of them claimed ignorance of knowledge. & remember the Christmas time report (harry and William both with their regiments when in fact Harry was already in Afghanistan) was tweaked to fit their purpose. That is they deemed that reporting that would not directly affect the agreement in place and indeed Kate on the phone wouldn’t affect an agreement. Who knows all speculation.. Just trying to spin it anyway that lets me sleep at night
What’s is interesting is that w/o the leaks of Kate’s day-to-day life, there are no more stories about her. So either the notorious leaker has been caught and silenced or the RF has some sort of agreement w/press, or litigation is going on in behalf of the Midds. JMO.
Maybe the leakers were the middleton’s themselves, but since the negative stories about Kate were getting to be too much , they don’t leak anymore because the press will simply turn it into a negative story.
I think someone in the Midds family were leaking stories about her and William for years, when the press was good for her, we were getting way too many personal details about vacations, etc.
Joanne P. I doubt it was from the immediate Middleton family. There are a few members of the middleton family who are out of favor with Carole and they may well have been the individuals who have been leaking details.
Remember pictures and stories about Chelsy Davy appeared all over the internet as well and they were probably from her friends without being authorized to do so. It happens. sooner or later these people get found out & will probably be cut out.
Shaun leaks Chelsy
Kate has a family of leakers and they were quite skilled at it, until the press turned on her, but that’s just my opinion. I think they have leaked and leaked for years and years.
There was the Neil Sean/Fox article maybe about a month ago that said Kate “was having problems of her own with someone close to her leaking information” or something to that effect.
Who that could have been is hard to say. It could have been a Party Pieces employee, or Carole’s best friend, or a naive sibling even.
We do know at least one “leak” must have been authorised to speak to Hello on Kate’s behalf in regards to her working for her parents. I hardly consider that a major transgression, particularly as she could not depend on CH to defend her.
I don’t know if this “leak” and the lost photo card led to a problem with William, or perhaps they simply agreed they would both have to be more careful, and Kate is simply hiding out for now. We can only guess at this point, but I’ll bet we will find them reunited and dancing with barely enough space for a postage stamp between them at Highgrove on Nov. 15th.
I am wondering if they will go out tonight. Kate went out that one year for Halloween, so maybe we will get lucky. I can’t take it!! Kate has to go out sometime.
I think they(the Middleton’s) have been leaking since University days but the press was always great to her so it continued, it’s not until the press got negative that suddenly no news of Kate, I don’t think it’s a coincidence. I think the Middleton’s have simply stopped leaking.
We just found out recently after all these years it was Kanga herself who was leaking info about herself and Charles. Leaks are not new, it just takes years sometimes for someone to tell who it was. James Whitaker admitted he had Diana’s sister telling him things about her eating problems or bulimia, but he kept his source quiet during the time things were being written. He said he was barraged by people in the press who said he had no real facts, but he said he could not tell them he was getting info directly from one of Diana’s sisters(who did it to help Diana come clean with her bulimia issues.) I have never liked James Whitaker much, but I do believe him when he years later came clean on his source(of Di’s sis)
I think the Middleton’s have talked for years, quietly to their press sources,(I remember readingt the express once where Adam Heilker said he had spoken to Pippa about something, can’t remember what it was now…( but I think they leak, still that is just my opinion)
One recent author of a book on Kate did say she spoke to Family members for info, she did not say which, but she did not say who it wasn’t either, she said “family members”.
A Party Pieces employee could easily have been a leak as there are often leaks from the BP and CH from palace insiders & courtiers alike so it is a possibility.
It could have caused a problem with William but he should be well use to that sort of thing coming from his end so it would be childish of him to blame her for something outside of her control.
Regardless whoever it was seems to have been if only temporarily silenced. For the longest time I know I’ve said that Kate needs help from William or BP or CH much to some peoples annoyance as they weren’t sure what he could really do. But maybe this is the help she is getting people being silenced?
What surprises me is that no one in the press is talking about it. Why? No theories, no marriage talk, nothing. Maybe the RF does not want a scandel if something is published, but what could be so bad?
Ok since we are throwing out different theories look at the attached article which is strictly an opinion piece. If what the article implies which were that the photographs which were stolen were a little more riske than we were lead to believe than we may have a real reason for the news blackout. It’s only an opinion piece but it’s something else to think about. Alsgal you may have been right after all.
http://www.hecklerspray.com/the-inevitable-saucy-prince-william-kate-middleton-photos-mercifully-not-released/200815920.php
Well what was on the photo card, did they ever say.
Or maybe they(the Palace) just don’t want William raked over the coals again if he and Kate have been going through a rough time.
The last breakup he was raked over the coals, maybe now this is a new way of handling a breakup, if just if it has happened, but lets face it,Kate could indeed show up on William’s arm tommorrow somewhere. She may be somewhere having a dress designed for Charles Party. One thing for sure these two are so unpredictable.
Okay, following that, some then are theorizing that Pippa left the card (s) purposely or apparently made it look stolen. Nevertheless, the distress call of being “robbed” was carried out when noticed “absent” and 2 guys where reported as taken in.
Hello,
If KM’s immediate family are “leakers” as per the stupid comments made as an IMO above, why did they not take the Millions on offer in April 2007.
I must admit to being a KM supporter but comments like that show so little intelligence and stupidity without any logical thought.
“Leakers” are always traced by fair means or foul and there was no way KM’s immediate family would risk her relationship with PW however tenuous that has proved to be.
In addition there is no evidence, reliable or speculative ,that link KM’s family with any leaks apart from comments like those made above on this blog and other scurrilous blogs.
Or have we all missed something over the years.
Now ifyou look back to the original story in the sun it describes the pictures as the most intimate and personal photographs of the prince and Kate. Which could pretty much mean anything. Why on earth would Pippa have pictures like that? It is only mentioned in the article that the camera was throught to have been Pippa’s not that it absolutely was.The article also states that they were looking for another individual in connection with the theft. I wonder if copies of the photographs surfaced somewhere else. All specutation.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/royals/article1631531.ece
Ked, do you have any news?
Thank you for calling IMO stupid, It is taken as a compliment, that such a nerve has struck you.
Feel free to call my post stupid as much as you can, it will insure they are read and dispelled as the silliest of theories but the post will stay imbeded in the minds of the readers and that is a making a impression either way.
Why take money April 2007 or ever if the Crown is the goal in the end for their daughter in the end. Leaks are not about money, but gainng power and position for some.
Leaks have been going on for centuries, Kanga’s recent articles reveal that. We would not have inside stories on the Duchess of Devonshire, Anne Boleyn, if it were not for leaks. But I will digress to you and let your opinion stand as the only true one “the Middleton’s don’t leak”,I agree, if that makes you feel better about imo.
Ked I have the same feeling, without disrespecting with the use of stupid. but I did say “following that”…
I agree. Please forgive such outrageous thoughts for crossing my silliest of minds. I will pardon myself from the site until possible news of a breakup or otherwise, my silly thoughts will only disrupt the flow here.
It’s realy not worth, giving a opinion, forget it was ever said.
MIDDLETON’S DO NOT LEAK and NEVER HAVE. I agree 100%.
Joanne
I think since Kate appears to come from a stable loving family it is highly unlikely that her immediate family were the individuals who were providing the leaks (please note the wording of immediate family i.e. mum dad sister brother.
They can as Ked mentioned always be traced back to the source eventually. Just as an additional point if the leaks as you say were about gaining position and power then it wouldn’t make sense to leak in the first place because they would be jeopardizing all of that if they get caught.
I agree. Please forgive such outrageous thoughts for crossing my silliest of minds. I will pardon myself from the site until possible news of a breakup or otherwise, my silly thoughts will only disrupt the flow here.
It’s realy not worth, giving a opinion, forget it was ever said.
MIDDLETON’S DO NOT LEAK and NEVER HAVE. I agree 100%.
Well I guess we are all still waiting to see if they are still together.As for the leaks I have no proof ,just an assumption
.All the other girlfriends personal details never hit the press ,so much so we are not even sure weither ,or not pw has ever dated anyone but km.I think that says alot.then again maybe I will be proven wrong.
But I do not think so.I am looking for answers just as much as anyoneelse.I guess the main question is is it really fated true love with so many breakups.who knows
well, well, well…. it seems someone is talking to Katie Nichol, look at her latest column and I’m sure it’s not William.
I think it’s coming out any day now.
I think Katie tried to talk to one of their friends to see what’s going on with this love couple and I had a feeling that things are okay with them.
Rman, welcome back, we have missed your calm hopefulness and all I can say, is I hope you are also feeling a HUGEsense of relief knowing that someone has told Katie Nicholl that our Kate will be at Highgrove, which is just how I thought it would be.
I don’t even need to see a photo of her driving through the gates, just a nice story on Sun, Nov. 16th and all will be right in the world and my W&C lawnchair will not have been designed in vain. (Although I have gotten some interestring comments on eBay!)
I’m glad to be back alsgal and yes I was hoping that she will be going to the party. Although I would love to see her going to the party. I do miss seeing her out and about.