British Royal Wedding

In praise of… Prince Harry – GQ Daily
When it came to long-term girlfriends for the princes, William chose the steady, university-friend classic English rose in the not-uncomely form of Kate Middleton. And Harry? Well Harry plumped for a busty blonde schoolgirl who he met when he scabbed a cigarette off her while he was on a “double gap year”…

Don’t be fooled, this isn’t Chelsy Davy – Daily Mail
The show also features a glamour girl character musing about an imagined dalliance with Harry in Boujis nightclub (where else) and a song featuring the comedienne’s take on Kate Middleton. ‘I wanted to give Kate a voice because although she is everywhere, no one actually knows what she sounds like’…

Eugenie bound for Kenya – Daily Mail
Princess Eugenie plans to continue her gap-year travels  -  but this time, I hear, the emphasis is on charity, not pleasure.Prince Andrew’s 19-year-old daughter is set to visit Kenya to take part in work experience with the charity ACE Africa, which helps orphans and vulnerable children in remote rural regions of East Africa, where Aids is rife…

Prince Harry ready to ‘confront’ Paul ‘Blabber’ Burrell – Daily Express
While former Royal butler Paul Burrell continues to cash in on the late Princess Diana’s name, we’re told Prince Harry is ready to intervene personally in a bid to stop his antics…

Harry and Hero off to the States – The Sun
Big-hearted Prince Harry has asked a disabled Afghan war comrade to join him on a dream trip to New York, The Sun can reveal. Marine Joe Townsend, who lost both legs in a blast, will fly out with the prince when he makes his first official foreign visit this weekend…

William gives heli help to bruv – The Sun
Prince Harry is being coached through the hardest stage of his flying course – by Prince William. The royal brothers-in-arms are cramming in extra hours as Wills passes on all he knows about Squirrel helicopters…

What would granny say? Princess Eugenie shows off a lot of leg – Daily Mail
Her grandmother has small weights neatly sewn inside her skirts to prevent a breach of dignity. But Princess Eugenie is one of a breed of royal women whose hemlines are hitting new heights…

Seems Princess Eugenie’s gap-year hi-jinx have prompted a review of around-the-clock protection for junior members of the royal family. The Sun reports…

Experts believe the bill for ensuring the security of the entire family may have topped the £50million mark. The review will look at where the money is spent and whether some younger family members actually need the current level of protection.

A senior Royal source said: “Few people would begrudge working members of the Royal family adequate security arrangements. However, their is growing unease at the sheer costs involved in offering round-the-clock protection to non-working members of the family.

“The only thing the public see is bodyguards being used as glorified taxi drivers to ferry young members of the family to and from nightclubs.

Whew! That ‘Prince Harry’ item (Harry spotted in the Philippines) – The News Today
I hope that by now that “Prince Harry” media-hyped prank is now put to rest. I remember that a few weeks ago in Tagaytay, I was introduced to this 18-year-old. Those with him called him “Prince Harry,” and I immediately got the joke. The fellow has a striking resemblance with the real McCoy, though perhaps a bit more refined, regal and definitely better behaved…

Brave Eugenie travels on – The Sun
Brave Princess Eugenie was yesterday carrying on her gap year travels despite being involved in a mugging. A thief grabbed a purse belonging to a friend of the Duke of York’s younger daughter in Phnom Penh, Cambodia…

World champion Zara Phillips has a great chance at Badminton – W & G Standard
Royal rider and world champion Zara Phillips is naturally one of the favourites to lift the trophy after the showjumping on Sunday, riding her World and European championship-winning horse Toytown…

Century old royal wedding cake under the hammer – Herald Sun
A 138-YEAR-old piece of cake from one of the British royal family’s most controversial weddings will go on sale this week. Wrapped in parchment and tied with string, the cake is thought to be the only surviving piece from the wedding celebrations of Princess Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria, and the Marquis of Lorne…

Princess Eugenie and her friends have been mugged while on their travels in Cambodia. The Sun newspaper has the story…

The Queen’s horrified granddaughter, 19, was rescued by two bodyguards who tackled a gang of bandits in Cambodia. The royal protection officers then whisked her to safety.

The scare unfolded as Prince Andrew and Fergie’s daughter and two gap-year girl pals walked at night in Phnom Penh. When one of her pals got a purse out, the mugger grabbed it thinking the girls were backpackers. The cops were just feet away.

A Buckingham Palace source praised the SO14 Special Branch officers. The source said: “They feared the incident was escalating out of control and took the decision to focus on the safety of their principal.”

The Courier Mail reports that British taxpayers will foot a £100,000 bill  for Princess Eugenie’s security during her gap-year adventures…

The globetrotting gap-year jaunt of 19-year-old Princess Eugenie, which has so far taken in India, America, South Africa, Australia and now the infamous Thai holiday island, has focused attention on the heavy financial cost of the unrestrained lifestyle she shares with elder sister Beatrice, 20.

“If they’re in a nightclub, there’ll be an officer close by. Another will be outside with a car waiting to take her home,” said someone who worked closely with the princesses. It’s the same on a foreign trip. One will shadow the princess, another will be waiting back at the hotel.”

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Princess Eugenie has certainly captured the attention of the press after she was spotted wearing a star-spangled bikini while on holiday in Thailand. The Daily Mail reports;

There’s a state of emergency in Thailand at the moment. But Princess Eugenie only seems concerned about the dangers of tan lines.

After spending the day cavorting in a very unpatriotic bikini – which featured the Stars and Stripes – her pale English shoulders were beginning to colour.

Meanwhile over at The Sun…

Princess Eugenie danced on tables and downed beer laced with ketchup during a wild night in Thailand.

An onlooker on the holiday isle of Phuket, where the sixth in line to the throne is on a gap-year jaunt, said: “The Princess was with a couple of girls and a guy. One of her friends squirted some ketchup into a glass of beer and challenged her to drink it. They all fell about laughing as Eugenie swigged it.”

The night I met Prince Harry – Hertfordshire Mercury
Next stop was celebrity haunt Whiskey Mists at Zeta in the Park Lane Hilton. As I glanced at the table next to us I noticed Prince Harry sitting there with a harem of eight pretty blondes (and two very bored minders). Fuelled by a few more drinks I decided to gatecrash the table! Contrary to what is reported in the papers, Prince Harry was well behaved and actually quite shy and retiring!…

Paparazzi won’t leave Princess Eugenie alone – Courier Mail
She’s on the Aussie leg of a round the world trip during her gap year – is it too much to ask for our notorious paparazzi to leave Princess Eugenie alone? The Royal teen and Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson’s daughter was said to be distressed last night…

James Hewitt: the comeback cad – Telegraph
The fabled “Love Rat” who, four years after an affair with Diana, Princess of Wales ended, co-operated on a book with Anna Pasternak and later tried to sell the 60 letters he received from the Princess for £10 million… Does he find it odd that the Prince Harry rumours have endured so? “I can answer most things,” he says enigmatically, “but when it’s so close to you and it’s also so far from you… so I don’t know how much there is in that.”…

Princess Eugenie attended Sydney’s V-Festival along with friend Holly Branson reports the Daily Telegraph…

Princess Eugenie, sixth in line of succession to the British throne, was a surprise guest, dancing the night away under the guard of several members of the UK Metropolitan Police. The princess secretly flew into Sydney last week, and made a surprise appearance at the music festival with Holly Branson, daughter of Virgin founder Sir Richard.

“I love it here – it’s amazing. I love Sydney. I’m here with my friends.”

Meanwhile her sister, Princess Beatrice, met the Stereophonics at the Royal Albert Hall – popsugar.co.uk has the story and pics…

Princess Beatrice met the Stereophonics at the Royal Albert Hall in London last night, at the band’s gig in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust. Beatrice had a big grin on her face as she met all the acts backstage…

Like mother, like daughter: Princess Bea is the spitting image of Fergie – Daily Mail
With the same red hair, blue eyes and freckled skin, there is no mistaking the family ties in this photograph. But with a decidedly mumsy and unflattering outfit, Princess Beatrice looks more like her mother than she would perhaps like. The Princess has always showed her mother’s influence, but they are becoming more alike as Bea grows older…

Eugenie’s gap year plans scuppered by worried Dad – Daily Mail
Princess Eugenie has been forced to cancel a gap-year trip to South America because of her father’s fears over her safety. Eugenie, 18, was this week due to join a group of girlfriends on a trip to Mexico, Bolivia and Peru – until the Duke of York insisted she scrap the plan. Prince Andrew’s concerns follow Eugenie’s recent trip to India where she narrowly missed the Mumbai terrorist attacks..

Royal girls in grief at ski death – The Sun
Princess Beatrice and Eugenie were devastated last night after the husband of a favourite protection officer died in a skiing accident. Inspector Michael Probert and wife Emma — a sergeant who looks after the Royals — had been on a break in the French resort of Alpe d’Huez. But Michael, 43, lost control of his skis and fell into a 10ft ditch at speed, banging his head on pack ice…