Happy Holidays Steve & Anne and all the BRW posters

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Have a good Christmas Steven,Anne at BRW, hope for good 2009/2010.

Best regards and wishes to all.

Ked

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Norfolk, Sandringham The Princes William and Harry join a kick about today.

Merry Christmas to Steven & Anne & everyone at British Royal Wedding. I so enjoy your site and all the work you put into it. God bless. Have a Happy 2009.

Helen…..St. Louis, Missouri USA

Merry Christmas and a happy new year everyone! I’ve enjoyed reading all your comments and thoughts this year – heres to some more great discussions in the new year

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year BRW!!

Happy Christmas to all and to all a good night!

Merry Christmas to all of you!

Did anyone else ready the Richard Kay article about the RF on Christmas day?? In particular the line about Prince Charles
“Charles myopic view that PR girl Sophie Rhys Jones commercial activities….. were far more of a threat to the Royal Family than anything his own wife Camilia was ever accused of”

It’s interesting (although not really surprising because really I think his shennigans with Camilia were far worse) & I wonder if that was another reason why Kate hesitated to work??

Here is an OLD article I found on thefasionspot.com

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The future of Great Britain – a drunk and a manipulative tart?

Just when we thought it was all over, when we were being encouraged by the sight of a maturing William Windsor getting on with his life, charting out his plans with the army and navy and taking on more royal duties, we were faced with the most unpalatable news that he had suffered a monumental relapse and had gone back to his self-destructive ways. Here was the prince once again stumbling blind drunk out of a nightclub, accompanied by his usual drinking partner and errant sex-buddy under such circumstances, the incredibly persistent, “publicity-shy” (yeah right) Kate Middleton. Men can sometimes be their own worst enemies, I tell you.

Now while it is obvious to anyone with two eyes and a functioning brain that the woman in question appears to have cornered the market in the tabloid stakes with the aid of some shrewd PR-tactics (some of which have since backfired), among other things, some routinely sycophantic reporters have been at pains to describe her as discreet (everytime she gets involved in William’s plans the world gets a blow-by-blow account), demure (plunging necklines and bum-skimming skirts with fishnet stockings are the order of the day), and an all-round victim and loather of public attention (even in the face of abundant evidence that she frequently and readily courts the press when it suits her single-minded agenda).

Which begs the question: is William stupid? Or is his brain simply addled by the copious amounts of alcohol he consumes? I repeat, men can sometimes be their own worst enemies. Because judging from the fevered crescendo of the rabid hacks’ predictions of impending marriage in the pro-Middleton tabs, his latest drunken antic may have been the biggest mistake he has made since he grew a pair and finally called time on the increasing fractious relationship in March of this year. How many men have not sealed their fates by stumbling drunk out of bars with women they thought they had successfully offloaded? In the latest escapade, a ring that Middleton has sported for a good year was touted by tabs as “a firm sign of commitment”, followed by the usual mentions of “moving from strength to strength”, “it’s a matter of when, not if” and various regurgitations of the predictions they were making exactly a year ago, before being left with egg on their faces after Easter this year. Although there were more sceptics this time around, the press still seems hell-bent on making this woman William’s bride, whether he wants her to be or not. I wonder, how many of them would be happy to force unwanted girfriends down their own sons’ throats? In the midst of this, they forget that Kate Middleton, far from being a victim of some heartless cad, is very much a willing participant in the soap opera that this has become. She knows the score, and much more.

More astute royal observers have noted that William, when accompanied Middleton, usually appears to be either drunk or irritated. It is believed that it was a combination of these two conditions that led his press secretary to make an ill-advised complaint about “harassment” by papparazzi outside the club, even though his companion’s grinning demeanour showed that she was anything but. There is still no word as to whether he was coerced into making the complaint (or by whom), since footage showed that he was way too drunk to make any assessment of the situation at the time. Nevertheless, things appear to be getting back to normal. For although William has since got over his latest hangover and resumed royal duties, his on-off companion has fallen back into her old routine of frequenting papparazzi-haunted bars in London and smiling encouragingly at waiting photographers. She was last pictured cosying up to a bouncer on her way out of a particularly well-known papparazzi haunt, Mahiki. The hemlines are once again on the way up, possibly indicating that developments are once again winding down, as far as any hopes of “rekindlement” with William is concerned. We should be so lucky.

[IMG]file:///C:/Notes/drunkentart1.jpg[/IMG]Has it really come to this?

Do the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth really want a king who appears to have a serious drinking problem and issues of judgement? Do they want a future queen who seems to revel in revealing nearly every inch of her body to the photographers she claims to loathe, while chatting them up when she thinks no-one is watching? Do they want to have a queen consort who has not held down a job in the nearly three years since she graduated from university with a dubious degree in Art History and has shown no interest in anything other than waiting around, putting out intermittently and scheming her way into a royal engagement?

It is said that the Queen is deeply unsettled by the prospect of William even considering bringing Middleton into her family, and feels that he “could do better”. This must be the understatement of the year. Queen Elizabeth is not blind. Nor are her family and friends and the people upon which the survival of the monarchy and their sense of privilege ultimately depends. Middleton would be the first woman to be allowed into the royal family after having so blatantly exploited her position as mistress to a member of the family to gain various goods and favours, the most obvious of them being a “cut-price” Audi A3 car. Add to that the rumoured freebies in the form of designer clothes and handbags and a rather unsavoury image emerges. And with that goes any remaining shred of respect for the woman in question. God help the British monarchy if she gets a foot in the door, given her insatiable desire for publicity and her dubious track record. And God help the monarchy if William ends up on the throne on current form.

Biased press

William’s behaviour is no different from that of his younger brother Harry, yet he is the one who is constantly praised while his less than flattering exploits are ignored. This despite the fact that in many respects, it is Harry who comes across as the more genuine and mature of the two, especially when one looks at his serious commitment to, and obvious delight in participating in charitable activities, particularly those involving disadvantaged children. Similarly, William’s “professional PR” on-off mistress plays a lazy media and is held up as one who can do no wrong, despite ample evidence to the contrary, while Harry’s obviously more responsible, and clearly highly intelligent girlfriend Chelsy Davy is constantly ripped to shreds by the same papers for the slightest of (often fabricated) infractions. It begs the simple question: what does Kate Middleton and/or her family and/or William have on the British media?

And one could go on.

On the basis of the evidence and an analysis of personalities involved, it would appear that Harry, being the more mature and engaging of the two, would be more aptly suited to shouldering the vast responsibilities that the position of future king of England would entail. The last thing people would need is another dithering, self-absorbed individual in the position. After Charles vacates the post (if he ever gets there), they will need a well-deserved break. William may have his mother’s looks, but any similarities end there. He is very much his father’s son, and not in a positive way. Harry, on the other hand, has inherited his mother’s natural sense of heart and her common touch, as well as her sense of purpose.

Let Harry take over, for the good of the country and the Commonwealth. And put William out to pasture once and for all, together with the highly fragrant Kate Middleton.

(taken from swedishnewsblog.blogspot.com and reposted on thefasionspot.com)

everyone!! i just wanna say “Merry Christmas 2008 pal” hope in next year our destiny more beautiful than this year especially for your family and your pair too

Hang in there jj, you never know what the next few weeks may bring. No senior members of the Royal family have anything scheduled well into Jan. An engagement announcement during Christmas would likely disrupt the family’s festivities and require staff to work. The window is still opened do keep the faith for a bit longer. If jan comes and goes with nothing and William begins his training,then we can assume we have a long wait ahead.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!

It will come in it’s due time.

Ked

We’ve seen pictures of KM & PW at Sandringham and in London in the last couple of weeks. Their situation very much reminds me of Prince Carl Philip and his girlfriend Emma Pernald who I have started to also follow a little more closely. As you know they will have been together for 10 years in january. They recently had to run the split rumors gauntlet because Emma didn’t go on holiday with Prince Carl and the press went into over drive.

On December 20th they were pictured at a friends wedding and so they too continue also. It may happen between PW & KM as well as it may not. This years events have been very confusing it was as if at one point they poised and placed KM at all of the important events as if giving a signal only to wrap her right back up in cotton wool and bolt the stable door shut again.

The next two years for her will be tough but if it is meant to be it will happen. If not then KM will marry some rich guy and PW will marry some aristo. Right now I think they are perfectly fine. Again only time will tell..

jj and Rman,

As much as I have hated thinking it, it is over. That is, the young lovers, young students in love living together, studying together the ups and the downs of young relationship and it survived their University days and continued into their young adulthood.

Then some doubts set in, his doubts , her doubts and after many small tiffs they broke up and announced it.

PW pushed her very hard and despite her misgivings she went back believing the promises made. We don’t know what those promised were but they must have been comprehensive because she and her family had suffered more than even we know and they suffered a lot more than was published or allowed to be published.

How many of the promised PW broke because of , shall we say, constitutional matters or family interference we don’t yet know but what we do know is that in late summer he made a decision which devastated KM and her family and certainly surprised his close friends and even his advisors.

There is only one reason he made that decision and that was to further delay any decision on his marriage to KM. Drastic yes, but during his training I am sure we shall see many instances of his insecurity and already his advisors are promising his appearances as Patron of the Welsh Rugby Union at a Heroes rugby match, are promising his appearances with David Beckham to promote the Football Associations bid for the Soccer World Cup on a World wide basis.

That he will take time out for his S and R training to fulfil these and other commitments is a certainty and those commitments will then show exactly how committed he really is to his RAF service. IF he doesnt carry them out then we will know he made a deision on those grounds alone and not to delay any committment to KM.

S and R is not a sinecure and is very demanding. The RTU percentage is higher than 60% and the off duty study requirements are hectic and demanding especially over the initial eighteen months. Leave, family time, free time and social time is minimal and is said to be hardeer Sandhurst or Cranwell training. He can’t cut any part of this training, its life or death for himself, colleagues ans especially those in peril. To do it properly PW will have to disapear for almost two years. That is the committment required so lets wait and see.

I do however believe that PW and KM have an attachment which is strong and even ethereal but the loneliness and hassle he is committing her to is wrong and is in fact not fair. Yes she has he opportunity to move on but at the risk of his seeking her out again and again. How can anyone be expected to live a life with such a millstone. He is being very unfair and certainly not gentlemanly about it and on a second thought isn’t that what the paps are trying to do, to provoke him through KM.

How fair is that.

Enough. Snow calls. See you in 2009 and a Happy New Year to all (my friends ?) an (my not so friends?). Best wishes all.

I had come to expect more of you, Ked, than recycling the same old nonsense. PW’s application to the SAR was reported in early spring, as it has been shown on this site by others again and again, so if it was a surprise to KM and her family it was only because they weren’t reading the paper.

I’m hoping we get some novel insights in the new year.

I hope you all have been having a lovely Christmas, eating lots of goodies, and yes, these Pucci pregnancy pants I’m wearing have indeed witnessed man’s first landing on the moon. But comfy they are, and must say at least they leave little in the way of a carbon footprint, although perhaps quite a visual one.

So many interesting theories on board here and perhaps not even William and Kate know exactly what is going on between them, much less family, friends, the press and the general public? The future comes at us minute by minute, day by day and the same probably holds true for our favorite two young lovers.

Only time will tell whether this lawnchair needs to be repainted once again. All I can hope for is that W&K continue to go from strength to strength, and that we catch a glimpse of Carole in her itsy-bitsy teeny weeny bikini at least once more in my lifetime.

ML, once again I must thank you and welcome your voice of reason. ITA with your comments regarding the silliness in the DM about Carole Middleton\’s alleged \”friends\”. KN has no source so she makes up these so called friends so she can fill her article. It is utter nonsense. Obviously Kate was fully aware of William\’s plans long before it was released to the public and is dealing with the situation because they are obviously still together as you pointed out. Whatever else may or may not be going on behind the scenes is anybody\’s guess. I personally think we will hear soon that Kate is living either with William offsite or without him but nearby in a private residence.

Zara was ALL THAT on Christmas! Love her!

rman,I am at the point where I almost can’t read some of the posts on these sites because they have landed on the third ring of Saturn. If it is not people acting like they are a permanent fly on the wall of the lives of Kate and William, it’s people planning out which 16 year old will end up being William’s bride in 7 years when he gets out of the RAF. It makes you want to scream.

I prefer to stick to what my eyes see in front of me and stop trying to debate with posters who read too much into facial expressions and silly tabloid stories.

If I were dating a Prince- especially the heir to the British throne- I’d also be sporting a huge grin!