British Royal Wedding

Prince William and Kate Middleton have been spotted out in public on a rare date together.

Kate, wearing a stunning figure-hugging dress, joked with photographers as she came out of the exclusive Locanda-Ottoemezzo Italian restaurant in Kensington, London, with Wills. As they left the posh eaterie on Friday night – where dinner for two costs £200 – William laughed at Kate’s attempts to shield her eyes from flashbulbs.

‘They both seemed in a really good mood and looked like they were having a great night out” said one observer.

The couple later partied at Kitts nightclub until the early hours.

“They don’t enjoy the long breaks but they make the most of all the time they get together” said one friend. (via Daily Star)

Many thanks to dagsi for supplying links to scans of the articles!

Britain needs a royal wedding to help cheer up the nation but Prince William and Kate Middleton may have to wait to wed.

Nobody who knows the second in line to the throne and his long-term girlfriend seriously doubts they will get married. After eight years together and a much publicised short split and then reunion two years ago, it would look awful if they broke up now.

So when is this wedding likely to happen? Well, they might surprise us with an imminent announcement of a winter wedding but the royals, like most people in Britain, tend to get married in the summer and announce their engagement in the spring.

The Royal Family’s advisers, however, are alive to one factor that may make it difficult for a marriage to go ahead next summer too: a General Election, which must be held in the UK before June 3, 2010. Under the unwritten rules of our constitutional monarchy, the Royal Family must never do anything to detract attention away from an election.

Read the full story at the Daily Express…

Prince William has been spotted on a cinema date watching a film about getting hitched. The prince and Kate Middleton went to see The Hangover, a comedy about a group of friends who lose the groom on a stag night.

Wills and Kate, both 27, snuck into the west London cinema in jeans, T-shirts and baseball caps.

A source at Cineworld in South Kensington said: “No-one expected royalty but they acted like normal people off the street. It was dark so not many people had any idea who they were. I think they liked the anonymity.” (via Daily Express)

The Daily Mail’s Richard Kay has some news about Prince William and Kate Middleton holidaying in Scotland recently…

Prince Harry was also among the crowd that gathered on a sporting estate owned by the Duke of Northumberland. For Kate, who has enthusiastically embraced the Royal Family’s passion for bloodsports, it was an opportunity to show her prowess with a gun, handling her lightweight 20-bore side-by-side gun with considerable expertise.

William and Kate, who flew to Edinburgh a day after arriving back from a week-long stay in Mustique, were guests of the Duke’s son, George Percy, an old flame of Miss Middleton’s sister Pippa.

Guests included Thomas van Straubenzee, James Meade, Harry Aubrey-Fletcher, Tom Inskip and Guy Pelly and their partners.

Thanks to Mapleleaf who has posted some links to enlarged photos here…

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Princess Diana’s legacy lives on, 12 years after her death. Royal insiders say the palace is grooming a 27-year-old, Kate Middleton to become England’s next princess.

Video: Die Königskinder: William und Kate – The entire 43 minute documentary about Prince William and Kate Middleton (in German). Some interesting footage you may not have seen before. Fast DSL connection recommended…

Wise Queen puts Kate in Spare Room – Daily Express
The Queen will not be inviting courting couple Prince William and Kate Middleton to disport themselves beneath a shared royal duvet at Balmoral. It’s not, you may be assured, that Her Majesty doesn’t realise Wills and his Kate have been happily indulging in sexy sleepovers for many a long year. It’s just that she doesn’t consider it seemly to give their pre-nuptial couplings a royal warrant…

Harry at work as rest play – The Sun
The tables have been turned on party-loving Prince Harry – he is the only Royal working this week while the rest of the family has a fun time. The 24-year-old Army officer is on the next leg of his helicopter flying course. And he must attend classes and fly sorties at RAF Shawbury, Shropshire…

Duke of Edinburgh makes yet another gaffe – Telegraph
The Duke is reported to have struck up conversation with a guest at a recent Buckingham Palace garden party by asking what he did for a living. The man, one of 8,000 guests hoping to meet the Queen and other members of the Royal Family, replied: “I’m a designer, sir”. The 88-year-old is said to have replied: “Well, you didn’t design your beard too well, did you?”…

British paper The Mirror is claiming that Prince William and Kate Middleton are currently soaking up the sun on Mustique Island in the Carribean…

They landed there on Wednesday for a week’s break booked at the last minute – just three weeks after Kate returned from a family holiday on the island.

A source said: “They are having a fantastic time. Kate and William have been spending a lot of time on the beach and William has been showing off his skills on the jet ski. They are having the time of their lives and haven’t stopped smiling since they got here.”

Wills and Kate are thought to be staying at an exclusive £2,000-a-night villa.

The Daily Mail reckons Kate Middleton is ready to chuck in her Party Pieces job to persue a career in photography. The paper claims she will head to New York in January to work with Count Nikolai von Bismarck…

A friend of 27-year-old Kate said she had ‘loved’ working at her parents’ firm, Party Pieces, which sells children’s party goods over the internet but is now looking for a different challenge.

‘Kate wants to make her favourite hobby, photography, her full-time career,’ says the friend. ‘She would like to be taken more seriously. …She needs a new challenge – she wants to do more with her photography than take pictures of children in party hats.’

‘Nikolai initially introduced Kate to the idea of working with Testino but there was not time in either diary to accommodate it. With his help, she hopes to get settled in photography in time for an engagement announcement with Prince William around Easter.’

Updated: The video was removed by YouTube but the entire documentary is available for viewing on the German broadcaster’s website here. Skip to the 18 minute mark for Kate on stage!

Fortune Teller: “Soon you will meet a handsome man, a rich gentleman…”

Kate: “It is all I have ever hoped for, will he fall in love with me?”

“Indeed he will,” the fortune teller replies. “And marry me?” asks Kate. “And marry you,” he confirms.

“Will he take me away from here?” she asks, ever more breathless. “Yes,” he tells her, “to London.”