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March 29, 2015 Sunday
CHOCOHOLIC KATE: IT'D BE SWEET IF I HAD A GIRL
BYLINE: BY CHARLOTTE GRIFFITHS
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THE Duchess of Cambridge has told friends she is convinced she is having a girl
- because she can't stop scoffing sweet treats.
According to an old wives' tale, if a pregnant woman has cravings for chocolate
and biscuits, it is a sure sign that she is carrying a daughter. Now Kate, 33,
has joked to pals that if there is any truth in the saying, she is sure to give
birth next month to a sister for Prince George.
The Duchess, who again suffered acute morning sickness at the start of the
pregnancy, has developed a particular penchant for chocolate biscuit cakes and
sticky fruit loaves baked near her Norfolk home, Amner Hall.
Prince William has always had a sweet tooth, but Kate has really had sweet
cravings during this pregnancy,' says a source. She could barely keep anything
down in the first months of her pregnancy but recently she just cannot get
enough of naughty treats.'
William, 32, and his wife have both been spotted popping into the Humble Pie
bakery in trendy Burnham Market, a 40-minute drive from Amner Hall, to buy
goodies, according to locals.
The 7.25 Wicked Chocolate Biscuit Cake that Kate adores is baked by a woman
called Diane. Kate also stocked up on the 5.95 sticky fruit loaf during a
recent shopping trip. The cake is also a favourite of William's, who specially
requested a version of it be made for the couple's wedding.
Kate has popped into the store on her own and with William,' reports a local.
She loves the cakes and says they are delicious.' Last week we reported that the
Duchess had bought a stash of posh Easter eggs at the trendy Conran shop in
London, while William was given a chocolate egg on the way back from a memorial
service for jockey Richard Meade.
Kate has also developed a fondness of home baking, I gather. She's has become a
domestic goddess,' adds my source. She loves baking with George.'
No wonder William has been telling chums he's piling on the pounds because there
are always treats at Amner Hall and at their London residence, Kensington
Palace.
SALMA'S SYRIA MERCY MISSION
Hollywood A-lister Salma Hayek is putting her luxurious lifestyle on hold - to
help Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
The actress, who has a daughter Valentina, seven, with her billionaire tycoon
husband Francois Henri-Pinault, 48, says she's been so touched by the plight of
the displaced children that she wants to lend a hand.
We are bringing schools to refugee camps,' said the 48-year-old Grown Ups star,
right, at an Advertising Week Europe conference in Piccadilly.
There are so many desperate children there and I am going out there with Unicef
next month.'
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Mariah Carey wants to try her hand at acting again. I hear the Grammy-winning
singer, left, is wining and dining her famous friends as she seeks a new role.
Mariah went out to dinner with Courtney Love recently to pick her brains,'
reveals a Hollywood source. Courtney's got a part in the US TV drama Empire and
Mariah wants something similar.' Mariah's first film, Glitter, was panned in
2001, but her 2009 movie, Precious, was nominated for an Oscar.
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THE squabbling in Made In Chelsea doesn't just go on in front of the cameras.
The show returns for a ninth series on E4 next week, but I can reveal that an
ugly row is brewing behind the scenes about the future of glamorous Lucy Watson,
right. The world has had enough of Lucy Watson,' says her co-star Mark-Francis
Vandelli, 26. She's not coming back to the show for the next season. No one
knows that yet.' However, that's news to a senior source on the show, who
insists no one has been sacked and no decisions have been made about the tenth
series, due to be filmed in the US. In fact, I gather that a tenth series is so
far off it hasn't yet been decided who will travel to the States.
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SUKI Waterhouse is using her split from Hollywood heart-throb Bradley Cooper as
inspiration for some heartbreaking ballads. Suki performed a duet with Bryan
Adams at a charity gala and it made her want to do some songwriting,' says a
source. Now she has something to write about it.'
The 22-year-old model also posted a photo of herself in a recording studio on
Instagram, above - she looks like a natural!
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ELEPHANTS have long memories and so does Ben Elliot, who has pledged to raise 1
million for his late uncle Mark Shand's Elephant Trust. Having gathered the
great and the good to Clarence House to launch his sponsored rickshaw race
across India, Ben, left, found his vehicle stalled just at the wrong moment:
when his aunt the Duchess of Cornwall (Shand's sister) and Prince Charles were
his passengers. Don't worry, I do know where the brake is,' he told his two
passengers when he finally managed to get in gear. His Quintessentially
Foundation persuaded Lyca to underwrite the rally and tycoons Sir Evelyn de
Rothschild and Cyrus Vandrevala are spending thousands to sponsor vehicles.
Among the drivers will be Stephen Fry and Susan Sarandon - but the chatter at
Clarence House was will Jeremy Clarkson, now that he has time on his hands, take
control of a rickshaw too?
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STAND by for a Keeping Up With The Kardashians-style reality TV series about
selfie queen Karen Danczuk and her husband, Rochdale MP Simon. We've been asked
to do an At Home With The Danczuks,' Karen told me at the How To Juggle Without
Balls book launch. But don't expect shots of the 31-year- old shopping in
boutiques. It will show me in Aldi,' she reveals. I love their smoked meats and
4.50 Cava.'
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CHAT show host Graham Norton isn't content with owning two dogs - he now wants a
chimpanzee for his 52nd birthday next Saturday. It's not a big birthday so I'm
not going to go too crazy,' said Graham when I caught up with him at a Orlebar
Brown + Emilio Pucci collaboration party. What will he ask for when his next big
birthday comes around - a white tiger?
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HOW does Prince Charles do it? In the period that he wrote 27 letters to
Ministers at the centre of a court case, he sent out almost 5,000 personal
letters. He received more than 35,000. Topics included his engagement to
Camilla, the death of the Pope, and God. He wrote to families who lost relatives
in the Boxing Day tsunami, an RAF Hercules crash in Iraq, and terrorist attacks
in Bali. Not forgetting his reading of Byron's All These I Learnt on Radio 4,
and pleading for the release of jailed Briton Mirza Tahir Hussain in Pakistan.
The man is indefatigable and his friends warn we undervalue him at our peril.
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I had a maisonette in Mortlake - now we are moving to a house in East Sheen.
Orgies pay the best.
Business must be booming for the Duchess of Cambridge's pal Emma Sayle, who runs
sex party firm Killing Kittens.
My husband thinks I've sold my soul to a spin class called SoulCycle. It's the
first thing I do when I go to America, before I even unpack. Last time I did
SoulCycle I burst into tears as I had such an endorphin rush.
Saddle up, ladies! If it's good enough for heiress Millie McIntosh, it's good
enough for us.
Before season three I was just signing autographs. Since I've been castrated on
the show, fans ask for a picture of something more intimate!
Alfie Allen, who plays Theon Greyjoy in Game Of Thrones, lets me in on a naughty
secret.
When I go to Tesco's I see people like grandmothers and mothers. They come to me
and say, "You're doing really good on The Voice," and I'm like, "YOU know who I
am?" '
At a gig by The Voice finalists Rita Ora reveals she still finds mixing with
over-25s a shock to the system.
When you're starting out, it's not about the bricks - it's how you lay them. No
pun intended...
Rita's fellow judge Sir Tom Jones shares a little too much information.
The other day I was at Reading station and someone said they were praying for
me. I told them I hoped they would also sacrifice a goat for me. That could be
seen as an attack!
The things you learn when you bump into Richard Dawkins on the platform in the
morning.
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I had a maisonette in Mortlake - now we are moving to a house in East Sheen.
Orgies pay the best.
Business must be booming for the Duchess of Cambridge's pal Emma Sayle, who runs
sex party firm Killing Kittens.
My husband thinks I've sold my soul to a spin class called SoulCycle. It's the
first thing I do when I go to America, before I even unpack. Last time I did
SoulCycle I burst into tears as I had such an endorphin rush.
Saddle up, ladies! If it's good enough for heiress Millie McIntosh, it's good
enough for us.
Before season three I was just signing autographs. Since I've been castrated on
the show, fans ask for a picture of something more intimate!
Alfie Allen, who plays Theon Greyjoy in Game Of Thrones, lets me in on a naughty
secret.
When I go to Tesco's I see people like grandmothers and mothers. They come to me
and say, "You're doing really good on The Voice," and I'm like, "YOU know who I
am?" '
At a gig by The Voice finalists Rita Ora reveals she still finds mixing with
over-25s a shock to the system.
When you're starting out, it's not about the bricks - it's how you lay them. No
pun intended...
Rita's fellow judge Sir Tom Jones shares a little too much information.
The other day I was at Reading station and someone said they were praying for
me. I told them I hoped they would also sacrifice a goat for me. That could be
seen as an attack!
The things you learn when you bump into Richard Dawkins on the platform in the
morning.
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CELEBRATED chef Tom Kerridge has an unlikely ally to thank for his success - the
taxman. Tom, above, tells me his two Michelin-starred restaurant, the Hand and
Flowers in Marlow, was in such dire straits during the credit crunch that he
feared it would have to close - until he struck a deal to defer his VAT payments
and pay interest on the debt. His hard work has since paid off and the TV star
has now opened a second restaurant called The Coach. Tom told me: We spent two
years fighting off suppliers, banks, bailiffs. It was really, really hard. So we
ended up not paying VAT for a year, which I wouldn't recommend!'
IS THIS THE NEXT FRONT COVER OF HORSE & HOUND?
SHE'S been a mainstay of lads' mags for years but Katie Price has revealed a
burning ambition to appear on the cover of a very different kind of publication
- Horse & Hound. Katie, an accomplished rider who once dressed up as a fluffy
pink My Little Pony, told me at an Advertising Week Europe conference: I've
always loved horses and I've always wanted to be on the cover of Horse & Hound.'
But I fear Katie's hopes may be thwarted - because the magazine says it doesn't
feature amateurs'. Content director Sarah Jenkins reveals: Perhaps she dreams of
winning Badminton or the National Dressage Championships as this would be a
route to being on our cover.'
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SHE is currently starring as Queen Helena in the new ten-part E! drama The
Royals, but Liz Hurley is just as regal off-screen, too. According to her
12-year-old son Damian - the pair are pictured above - Liz is finding it
difficult to come out of character. She acts like a queen in every way,' he
joked as he arrived at London's Mandarin Oriental for a preview screening of the
show last week.
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MAYBE IT'S TIME TO PUT YOUR FEET UP, KATE?
BYLINE: BY SARA SMYTH
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SHE is rarely pictured without a beaming smile on her face as she goes about her
royal duties.
But yesterday the Duchess of Cambridge was showing the strain of keeping up with
her busy schedule at almost eight months pregnant.
She looked pale and tired, with fine lines on her forehead, as she left an
exclusive London hotel.
But Kate, 33, still showed off her impeccable style in a floral print dress,
matched with navy Alexander McQueen court shoes and an understated LK Bennett
clutch bag. She looked remarkably svelte, displaying her neat baby bump in the
995 Erdem dress, which is not designed for pregnant women, as she left the
lunchtime reception at the five-star Goring Hotel.
The Duchess attended the event to mark the hotel's 105th birthday after
receiving a personal invitation, rather than as part of her official duties.
Her last public outing was two weeks ago, when she toured the Emma Bridgewater
pottery factory in Stoke-on-Trent. Her visit to the Goring is likely to have
brought back fond memories, as she spent her last night there before marrying
Prince William in 2011.
The Duchess attended the reception without the Prince, 32, who is currently on a
four-day tour of China.
The trip is seen as his most high-profile and diplomatically sensitive to date.
And it seems to be going well, as President Xi Jinping said the visit will
surely go a long way to developing mutual understanding and friendly ties
between China and British people'.
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February 19, 2015 Thursday
KATE GIVES A GLIMPSE OF THE ROYAL SILVER
BYLINE: BY DAVID WILKES
LENGTH: 293 words
IF you've ever felt envious of the Duchess of Cambridge's glossy chestnut mane,
this picture may provide some comfort.
For it shows even beautiful young royals are not immune to the ageing process.
Kate revealed what looked like a large grey patch after tying her hair back
during a visit to a pottery factory yesterday.
The seven-months pregnant duchess, who is still a relatively youthful 33, is
thought to dye her locks using an organic vegetable-based treatment.
During her last pregnancy, with Prince George, silver strands were spotted,
leading to speculation that the stress of carrying a child might have affected
her colouring. Many women also stop dyeing their hair during pregnancy, with
some waiting until at least 12 weeks after the birth to begin again. This is for
fear of chemicals used in many dyes being passed to the baby while breast
feeding.
During yesterday's visit Kate tried enthusiastically to make a plate at the Emma
Bridgewater factory in Stoke-on-Trent. Rolling up her sleeves, she lobbed a disc
of clay at a mould. Despite warning on-lookers to watch out', Kate managed to
hit the mark first time. She did not seem totally satisfied with her effort,
saying: Oh, it's a little lop-sided.'
But expert Wayne Swindail, 53, said her technique was near-perfect, adding:
There's nothing wrong with that.'
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February 13, 2015 Friday
KATE FLAUNTS HER WINTER TAN (AND BUMP)
BYLINE: BY REBECCA ENGLISH ROYAL CORRESPONDENT
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PROUDLY clutching her growing bump, a beaming Duchess of Cambridge looked the
picture of health during a royal engagement yesterday.
The mother-to-be, who has just returned from a two-week family holiday to
Mustique, showed off her Caribbean tan in a 345 ivory Max Mara coat at the
Portsmouth HQ of Olympic sailor Sir Ben Ainslie.
During her tour of a new visitor centre, where she helped pupils make a sailing
mural, seven-months pregnant Kate revealed her 19-month-old son Prince George is
a budding artist. Art teacher James Waterfield of Park Community School in
Havant said: I was so worried about getting paint on her fantastic white coat.
She told me she was painting yesterday with George and she should have brought
him down as he loves doing all of this.'
The duchess's mural featured a painting of sailors including Sir Ben. The
Olympian made Kate, 33, laugh by joking as she painted his bottom: Make it
accurate.'
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January 18, 2015 Sunday
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES, KATE
BYLINE: BY KATIE NICHOLL ROYAL CORRESPONDENT
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When the Duchess of Cambridge returned to Royal duties last week, she exuded her
usual elegance as - six months pregnant - she positively glowed on her first
public engagement for weeks.
But, as these exclusive pictures show, it was a very different-looking Kate who
made an off-duty shopping trip earlier in the week.
With her hair scraped back into a ponytail, some strands of grey streaking her
usually glossy locks, and appearing wan and pale, the Duchess - who has just
celebrated her 33rd birthday - seemed out of sorts as she climbed awkwardly into
her chauffeur-driven car, struggling with three shopping bags.
It is said the reason for her less glamorous look is that the pregnant Duchess
has pared down her beauty regime for health reasons. Her spray tans and glossy,
semi-permanent highlights have been ditched because of the chemicals they
contain.
Ahead of last week's visit to London's Barlby primary school, where the Duchess
and artist Grayson Perry opened a new centre for her charity, The Art Room, she
booked an appointment to have a vegetable dye rinsed through her hair before
having it blow-dried and styled.
As she stepped on to the pavement at the
traces of grey had gone, although Kate's
her usual colour. Flashing her trademark
second baby in April, looked the picture
Friday when she attended a reception for
North London.
Ladbroke Grove school, it was clear all

locks had a stronger chestnut glow than
smile, Kate, who is expecting her
of health. She also looked radiant on
the Fostering Network in Islington,
The Duchess has spent the past few weeks on extended holiday at the new home she
and William share at Anmer Hall in Norfolk. William is studying hard to qualify
in his new job as an air ambulance pilot based at Cambridge Airport.

According to one source, it might not be too long before Kate's next holiday.
Next month she is hoping to join her family on the private Caribbean island of
Mustique for her mother Carole's 60th birthday. The Middletons are understood to
have booked a villa there.
Says a source: Kate is pencilled in for a trip to Mustique with Prince George.
William is not going as he has his head down, revising for exams. It is a big
birthday for Carole and Kate won't want to miss it. She has been saying she
really is missing some winter sun.'
Kate has been given the all-clear to travel - and looks as though she deserves a
break in the sun.
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IS KATE PULLING HER WEIGHT ON ROYAL DUTIES?
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THE Duchess of Cambridge has carried out only about a third as many public
engagements as 93-year-old Prince Philip this year.
Kate, 32, who is expecting her second child in April, undertook 76 visits,
meetings and receptions in 2014 following the birth of her son, Prince George.
But the Queen's husband shouldered more than 200 engagements, despite suffering
regular periods of ill health in recent years, an unofficial survey of annual
royal duties by the Daily Mail shows.
Kate's tally of public duties is also barely a fifth of the number undertaken by
the Queen, 88. She has conducted around 375, sometimes packing in six or more a
day.
In fact, the duchess performed the fewest public duties out of the 15 royals
whose activities are listed daily on the Court Circular.
Aides have always insisted that Kate wants to focus her efforts on being a wife
and mother for the first few years of her royal life. She does undertake a small
number of carefully chosen public duties for charities she is intimately

involved in such as East Anglia's Children's Hospices.
Sources close to Kate insist she has the backing of the Queen, who is happy to
afford her grandson and his wife time to enjoy the early years of their married
life together before a lifetime of public duty. They say she is also fully
supportive of Prince William's decision to have a full-time job outside the
Royal Family.
Earlier this year he gave up his role as an RAF rescue pilot and next spring
will begin a new job with a civilian air ambulance force.
Other courtiers point out that, for the first time in more than 100 years, there
are three living generations of heirs to the throne in addition to the Queen's
other children and their families.
There are more than enough senior members of the Royal Family to undertake the
annual number of public duties required,' said one.
William, who is second in line to the throne, almost doubled his number of
engagements this year from just over 60 to 111. He has also taken on some of his
grandmother's more taxing duties, notably public investitures.
The tally is still significantly less than other royals because of his full-time
military role.
Despite a drop in duties, Charles was still the hardest working royal with more
than 450 public duties listed on the Court Circular. He was closely followed by
his sister, Princess Anne, with around 419.
Prince Andrew saw a drop in duties to 297 over the year with an increasing
number of trips abroad to countries including China. His younger brother, Prince
Edward, has also had a productive year with 348 engagements.
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December 14, 2014 Sunday
MYSTERY AS KATE 'AVOIDS' PRINCE'S PARTY-LOVING PALS
BYLINE: BY CHARLOTTE GRIFFITHS DIARY
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The Duchess of Cambridge's absence from a number of key social occasions leaving her husband William to attend alone - is raising eyebrows among high
society friends, I can reveal.
A few have even suggested she is trying to avoid some of William's friends,
particularly those who are a little too fond of partying.
In total, Kate - who was with William in the US last week - has been absent from
her husband's side at eight major occasions, including four weddings and two
holidays in the past year. She also missed the christening earlier this month of
Zara Phillips's daughter Mia.
When I asked Palace aides why the Duchess missed the baptism, they did not blame
a recurrence of Kate's acute morning sickness, but nor could they provide a
reason. Kate was seen shopping in Norfolk three days beforehand.
She was also pictured shopping on the day William's closest friend Tom van
Straubenzee married Lady Melissa Percy, the Duke of Northumberland's daughter,
last year. William was Tom's best man.
In May, Kate remained in Britain as William's pal Guy Pelly tied the knot with
socialite Lizzy Wilson in Memphis and, recently, the Duchess missed a charity
carol concert in honour of her husband's late friend Henry van Straubenzee. Both
William and Prince Harry gave addresses, while her sister Pippa was among the
800-strong congregation.
A source tells me: People have noticed she's rarely by William's side when he
socialises - it gives the impression she wants to avoid some of his friends.'
Another chum added: It would be nice if Kate was out and about a bit more with
William's friends because some of them don't know her very well at all.
She doesn't like drunken behaviour, but some of them like to party. One drunken
incident recently put her off one of William's close female friends, and Kate
wasn't afraid to let her know she disapproved of her sloppy behaviour.'
Before they married, Kate, 32 - who is five months pregnant - rarely missed a
chance to be by the Prince's side at major events.
She does, of course, have to take care of Prince George these days - though
utterly delightful, I'm told he can, like most toddlers, be something of a
handful. I also gather there are days when Kate is relieved she has a nanny and
her mother Carole on hand.
EDIE STIRS IT UP WITH A LITTLE KISS-AND-TELL
IT seems Edie Campbell well and truly put her well-heeled foot in it when she
wrote a diary for a magazine which included a snippet about her younger sister
Olympia.
The fascinating insight into the world of the horse-loving models included an
anecdote about a night they spent at the South Shropshire Hunt Ball. The evening
ended with Olympia, 18, kissing someone who wasn't her boyfriend - Old Etonian
Mateo Villanueva Brandt.
There's really nothing better than a hunt ball,' said Burberry model Edie, 24,
in the diary.
Olympia had never been to a hunt ball before, but embraced the distinctly
Chaucerian festivities, made out with a whipper-in, and drove a quad bike home
at 4am.'
When I innocently asked Olympia's manager if the events that night meant it was
all over between Olympia and fellow catwalk star Mateo, she flew into a panic
and said the youngster had never even attended the ball - but then I directed
her to Edie's article.
Next, Olympia's lawyers weighed in, sending me a letter to inform me that she
most certainly did not cheat on Mateo at the ball.
It transpires that the pair had quietly split just before the event... not that
I ever suggested otherwise!
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PRINCESS Michael of Kent's daughter Ella has fallen madly in love - with an old
flame of Pippa Middleton's. The 33-year-old Royal is dating dashing high society
banker Tom Kingston, I can reveal. Three years ago, Tom was spotted enjoying an
evening with Pippa at the ATP tennis finals at the O2 Arena.
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CELIA GRAHAM, who shot to fame in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Love Never Dies,
has declared herself bankrupt, I'm sorry to report. Celia, left, was originally
the understudy to American star Sierra Boggess, but stepped up to play the key
role of Christine Daae after Sierra was struck down by a fever just before the
final dress rehearsal in 2010
. Her performances wowed audiences, theatre critics and Lloyd Webber himself.
Celia will spend the next ten months paying off her debts. I wish her well.
***
RETAIL guru Mary Portas and fashion journalist Melanie Rickey look like they're
having a blast after becoming among the first couples in Britain to convert
their civil partnership into a same-sex marriage. Melanie, 41, posted the
celebratory selfie, left, on Instagram last week showing the Queen of Shops'
pointing proudly to her new wedding ring.
Earlier, official pictures showed them in traditional wedding day' pose at
Westminster City Hall, sitting behind a table with a bunch of flowers and
signing their marriage certificate shortly after gay marriage laws came into
effect. Mary, 54, and Melanie had been civil partners since 2010
.
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THEIR jobs have kept them apart for most of the year, but don't expect Pippa
Middleton and boyfriend Nico Jackson to make up for lost time over the festive
period. I gather that Pippa wants to see in the new year with a group of
American friends in New York, where she also plans to meet up with Chiltern
Firehouse boss Andre Balazs. Alas, there doesn't seem to be enough room in first
class for Swiss-based financier Nico to tag along.
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I'm used to it now and I'm quite a fan of it. I think it's easy to overthink the
beard and perhaps his has got a little too much airtime.
Donna Air's verdict on boyfriend James Middleton's facial fuzz.
Anything would be lovely. The last present he gave me was a donation to a

charity that I work for.
I bumped into James Jagger at his mother Jerry Hall's panto where he revealed he
has pretty low expectations when it comes to Christmas with father Mick.
I had to explain [my sex scene] to my 15-year-old daughter because I know people
will talk. I said, "Ava, I've got to tell you something. OK, um, I'm naked in
the movie..." She said "Mum, that's so weird."
Reese Witherspoon, right, reveals her daughter had a classic teenage reaction
when she learned her mother stripped off in her new film, Wild.
Bernie Ecclestone's wife threw me a baby shower and she had this cake with a
little edible racing car, but I ate too much of it, my stomach changed shape. It
looked like something out of The Exorcist. The doctor said he'd never seen
anything like it.
At a carol concert for Prince Harry's Sentebale charity, Natalie Pinkham gives
me the inside story of her oddly shaped pregnant stomach, which made headlines
last week.
My greatest fear is spending sums in excess of four figures at Winter

Wonderland. It's so fricking expensive!
Adrian Chiles made 4.5 million last year but he tells me at the Guide Dog of
the Year awards he's still scared of a trip to the Hyde Park attraction.
When I met Nigella Lawson I curtseyed! It was so embarrassing.
TV chef Lisa Faulkner admits to me at her Hotpoint My Choice cookery lesson that
she was star-struck when she met the original Domestic Goddess.
***
WHEN Ben Fogle's black labrador Inca sadly died in 2012, he wrote movingly about
the loss of his best friend. So I'm delighted that the TV presenter and
adventurer, left, has decided that it's time to fill that void by taking in an
adorable new labrador called Storm - and here's the first snap of her, above.
But don't be deceived by her cute looks - Ben, 41, tells me: She's just chewed
through my polar sled that survived Antarctic but not a labrador puppy!'
***
BENEDICT Cumberbatch is only 38 but he's doing all that he can to ensure his age
doesn't show. The handsome Sherlock star is a devotee of the Frankincense
Intense face cream from Neal's Yard - and it's not cheap either, costing 55 for
a small 50g pot. Benedict buys the cream on a regular basis,' reveals my beauty
insider. It's quite refreshing that someone as famous as he is actually comes
into the shop to buy it himself. He says he uses the cream all the time and I'm
not really surprised because he goes through it quickly.'
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JERRY Hall is hoping ex-husband Mick Jagger will buy her a fridge-freezer for
Christmas - but she might find something far sparklier under the tree from
boyfriend Armand Leroi. During the interval at Jerry's Snow White panto in
Richmond, a friend asked Armand whether his gift might come from a jewellery
store in Paris's Place Vendome, to which he replied: Exactly.'
CHRISTMAS? IT WON'T BE SO MERRY FOR GERI

GERI HALLIWELL'S hopes of spending a romantic Christmas with new fiance
Christian Horner have been dashed because the Formula 1 boss - pictured with
her, left, - needs to be with his one-year-old daughter Olivia and ex partner
Beverley Allen. Geri knows he's not about to run off back to Beverley, but she
wanted to spend Christmas with him, says a source. Meanwhile, Geri's old Spice
Girls bandmate Victoria Beckham is being elusive. I gather that Mel B calls
Victoria Ice Girl' because she's so hard to contact. Mel doesn't even have her
number, so has to call Posh via her press office.
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WILLIAM AND KATE CHARGE 15 COUPLES 32K EACH FOR DINNER IN NEW YORK
BYLINE: BY KATIE NICHOLL IN LONDON AND CAROLINE GRAHAM IN LOS ANGELES
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IT IS the most hotly anticipated Royal visit since the days of Princess Diana.
Huge crowds, heart-warming photo opportunities and a meeting with the President
are all on the schedule.
But when, later today, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge start their whirlwind
New York tour, they will have another, rather more confidential objective in
mind.
For tonight, at a lavish reception at a private residence from which the press
is barred, Kate and William will shake the hands of 15 wealthy couples who are
each paying $50,000 -- or 32,000 - for the privilege. It is the start of an
important US campaign which they hope will pull in millions for their favourite
charities.
A source told The Mail on Sunday: The dinner on the first night is essentially
a fundraiser. The people William and Kate will be meeting are not celebrities
but seriously wealthy hedge fund types and financiers.
The event will be hosted by British advertising mogul Sir Martin Sorrell and his
wife Cristiana at their vast apartment in the Manhattan neighbourhood of
Gramercy Park.
Sir Martin, whose WPP Group is one of the world s biggest marketing companies,
earned 30[0/00]million last year. His stake in the business is worth
260[0/00]million.
The guests have been asked to dress for cocktails, with drinks at 6.30pm
followed by dinner at 7.30pm. They will be served by about eight royal staff.
The money will go to the Royal Foundation, the charity run by the couple and
Prince Harry which gives grants to good causes such as Tusk, the wildlife
protection charity.
William and Kate are principally there to meet and greet and to raise money for
the foundation, the source added. The couples attending are being asked to pay
thousands of dollars to be there, and there is a lot of talk about cash for
access.
The evening, which has been billed as private on the official itinerary, has
been organised by Caroline Oddy, executive director of the American Friends of
the Royal Foundation, the US arm of the charity.
The last time the couple both attended an event in aid of the Royal Foundation
was in Santa Barbara in 2011. Then, more than 650,000 was raised at a polo
match, with individuals paying up to 65,000 to play alongside William. But
since then, donations have declined. The Friends raised less than 260,000 in
2012.
William is also keen to use the American tour to promote wildlife conservation.
On Monday, he will travel alone to Washington where he will meet President
Obama, before a conference on the illegal wildlife trade at the World Bank.
However, last night it emerged that one of the board members of the American
Friends of the Foundation, John Studzinksi, has a major financial interest in

the controversial marine park SeaWorld.
The 58-year-old, known as Studz , is senior managing director of The Blackstone
Group, which owns SeaWorld parks in California, Texas and Florida. The parks
have been mired in controversy after a scathing documentary, Blackfish,
highlighted alleged cruelty towards killer whales and dolphins in captivity although SeaWorld denied mistreating any animals.
Last night a source said: It is ironic that Prince William is going to be
promoting his favourite animal charities while his main host is on the board of
a company which owns amusement parks which exploit animals for entertainment.
The Duke and Duchess, who are travelling without Prince George, will carry out
ten engagements during the two-day tour, including a meeting with the Clintons,
watching an NBA basketball match and a rumoured meeting with Jay Z and Beyonce.
It is the couple s first visit to New York and they are staying at the exclusive
Carlyle Hotel.
The Duchess will carry out two solo engagements in New York on Monday, while
William is in Washington, including visiting underprivileged children in Harlem,
just as Princess Diana did in 1989.
The couple will then attend a conservation reception at the British Consul
General s residence before watching the basketball match.
On Tuesday they will visit the September 11 Memorial Museum, before touring a
youth organisation and attending a reception to boost British tourism. Their
final engagement is the 600th anniversary gala of St Andrews University, which
they both attended, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A spokesman for the Duke and Duchess said of tonight s reception: It s a
private dinner that will comprise of supporters of the American Friends. The
visit to the US is partly on behalf the Royal Foundation so it is entirely
appropriate the Duke and Duchess meet supporters.
Separately, The Mail on Sunday understands that Prince Charles will be making
his own fundraising trip to New York later in the year.
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BAD NUDES, WILLIAM! HE'S CAUGHT OUT WITH VERY SAUCY OUT WITH VERY SAUCY CALENDAR
GIRLS...THE MOMENT KATE'S BACK IS TURNED
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AS an avid rugby fan, Prince William is well acquainted with the sport's often
bawdy humour.
And when he was presented yesterday with a charity calendar, featuring women
players in a variety of nude poses, he declared enthusiastically: Very good
shots... I can recommend this!'
So perhaps it was lucky for him that the Duchess of Cambridge was out of earshot
at the time.
The couple had just finished watching the Wales versus Australia rugby union
game at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.
Kate, who is 16 weeks pregnant with their second child, had left the stadium,
leaving William to attend a tea with former players, organised by the Welsh
Rugby Charitable Trust, of which he is Patron.
The calendar, featuring the ladies of Gwernyfed RFC, was presented to him by
former ladies player Fran Bateman.
William studied the front cover with a dutifully pensive expression. But when he
delved inside he roared with laughter - and held up one image to show another
guest at his table. He thought it was outrageously funny. He was having a really
good laugh,' Fran said later.
It was William and Kate's first visit to Wales since the announcement that they
are expecting their second child.
The Duchess accompanied her husband on two official engagements but took a turn
for the worse after watching the game.
The couple travelled to Wales, where they lived for three years, by car and
helicopter and had had an early start. The Duchess was not travelling with a
Royal doctor, and was accompanied and looked after by her private secretary.
Earlier the Duchess, dressed in a pale blue Matthew Williamson coat, showed off
a very compact baby bump when she and William toured the Pembroke Refinery in
Angle.
Hundreds of well-wishers braved the rain and waved Welsh flags at the couple as
they arrived.
Although the couple left 16-month old Prince George at home they were given a
plastic model of a fuel tanker, complete with the number plate 4 GEORGE' by
workers.
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BACK TO HER RADIANT BEST, KATE AND BUMP
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LOOKING effortlessly elegant in a cocktail dress, the Duchess of Cambridge
sported the first signs of a baby bump last night as she showed she is getting
over her antenatal sickness.
Kate, 32, who is around 13 weeks pregnant with her second child, wore the 595
Temperley London emblem flare dress, featuring slashed nude panels, to a gala
dinner for the Action on Addiction charity at L'Anima restaurant in the City of
London.
With her long hair curled and flowing, Kate appeared to have beaten the chronic
sickness that has plagued the first trimester of her pregnancy.
During a champagne reception, she met charity supporters including
multi-millionaire Hans Rausing, 51. He was convicted in 2012 of preventing the
burial of his wife Eva by keeping her body in the house for two months after she
died from a drug overdose.
Kate also spoke to charity supporter Christopher Holder, but refused to be drawn
on whether she is expecting a boy or a girl. There was talk about the baby and I
think someone asked the question, "What is it going to be?" but she didn't
answer,' Mr Holder said.
It is thought to be too early for Kate and William to know the baby's gender and
they may choose not to do so. With George, they did not know they were expecting
a boy until his birth in July last year.
Kate is a patron of Action on Addiction. The gala was her third engagement in as
many days and she felt sufficiently well to stay for dinner.
On Tuesday, the Duchess joined Prince William as they represented the Queen to
greet the president of Singapore, who is on a state visit.
It was the first time that she had been seen in public since news of her
pregnancy was announced by Kensington Palace at the beginning of September,
earlier than planned.
Details were revealed as the Duchess had begun to suffer from the same chronic
antenatal sickness, hyperemesis gravidarum, that saw her hospitalised when she
was expecting George.
She had to cancel a string of engagements, including her first solo foreign
tour. Palace officials say that while Kate is not entirely recovered, she is
feeling well enough to take on a limited number of engagements on a case-by-case
basis'.
After Tuesday's engagement with her husband, the Duchess also attended the
Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards, held at the Natural History Museum.
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WILLIAM, THE P.A.Y.E. PRINCE
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HE PUTS OFF FULL TIME ROYAL ROLE TO TAKE JOB AS 40K A YEAR AIR AMBULANCE PILOT
BY REBECCA ENGLISH ROYAL CORRESPONDENT
Prince William is to delay becoming a full-time working royal for at least two
more years to take a two-year job as an air ambulance pilot.
The future king will earn an estimated 40,000 a year and will become the first
direct heir to the throne to be an ordinary employee on PAYE.
He will fly helicopters for East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) from next spring,
working a four day on/four day off rota of day and night shifts based at
Cambridge airport.
His duties will include attending serious road accidents and ferrying heart
attack victims to hospital.
A spokesman for William - who quit his previous job as an RAF search and rescue
pilot last September - described his new role as one of the finest forms of
public service'.
But the prince's decision to put off full-time royal duties for more than two
and a half years to fulfill his contract means he will be 35 before he becomes a
frontline royal.
With the Queen and Prince Philip aged 88 and 93 respectively, some
royal-watchers believe there is a pressing need for William and Kate take on
more engagements - they carry out around 50 to 100 royal duties each year.
The Queen undertakes more than 300, while Prince Charles is the hardest working
royal, totting up 537 visits and meetings in 2013.
Only 12 months ago, Kensington Palace announced that William had decided to quit
the military to undertake a transitional year'.
Derided by some as merely yet another gap year', it saw William undertake a tour
to Australia and New Zealand with his family.
He also enrolled on a less well-received land management course at Cambridge
University.
Although it was never overtly stated, the assumption was that this was the start
of a slow, but steady, move towards the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge becoming
senior full-time working royals.
A Kensington Palace spokesman stressed that although William would undertake a
small number of public engagements, the new job will be his primary occupation.
He said: The duke is hugely motivated by the idea of being able to help people
in difficult and challenging situations. His roster will take into account the
duties and responsibilities he will continue to undertake on behalf of The
Queen, both in the UK and overseas.
The duke has also made clear that although he will be signing up for the
mandatory two-year contract, he hopes that the role will continue for longer
than that.'
Royal sources stress that William's decision has the full support of both the
Queen and Prince Charles.
The duke passionately believes this is a way of giving back to the country as
well as continuing to support the Queen in her work - and Her Majesty agrees,'
said one
William will begin training for his Air Transport Pilot's Licence (Helicopter)
next month. It is expected to take at least five months.
After that he will be based, initially as a co-pilot but eventually as a
helicopter commander, at Cambridge airport.
Working alongside a doctor and paramedic, he will fly missions across Norfolk,
Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire .
While the air ambulance service is a charity, its pilots are supplied by Bond
Air Services, a private company with whom the prince will sign his employment
contract. This means he will be liable to pay income tax and national insurance.
William will pay tax of around 6,000 on his salary and national insurance
contributions of 3,845. Kensington Palace say he will donate his net pay, about
30,000 a year, to an undisclosed charity.
EAAA chief executive Patrick Peal said: This is really good news and we're
delighted His Highness has decided to fly with us. We are confident this will
help raise the profile of the charity and other air ambulance charities. We're
looking forward to him being part of the team.'
Alastair Wilson, the charity's medical director, said he felt the duke was
well-suited to the role.
Compared to his role as a search and rescue pilot, he may be dealing with more
injury patients than he is used to, but I'm sure he will adapt very well to
that,' he said.
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AFTER 4.5M REFIT TO MAKE KENSINGTON PALACE FIT FOR A PRINCE, WILLIAM AND KATE
HEAD OFF TO LIVE IN...NORFOLK
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WITH its secluded yet central location, elegant grounds and distinguished
history, it is, you might think, the perfect Royal Family home.
Add to that a Peter Rabbit-themed nursery and a 4.5[0/00]million recent
refurbishment (courtesy of the taxpayer) and Kensington Palace would appear to
be the ideal place for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to bring up baby
George.
Yet The Mail on Sunday has learned that despite all this - and the official
protestations that Kensington does indeed remain their long-term family home the Cambridges have decided that they would rather be in Norfolk.
With William starting his job with the East Anglian Air Ambulance service later
this year, they have decided to base themselves at Anmer Hall, their new Norfolk
home. An announcement about the new post is expected imminently.
Royal aides are insisting that KP , where Kate and William have lived since
moving there from Anglesey in September 2013, will remain the couple s
full-time family home and long-term residence .
But a source close to the couple has told The Mail on Sunday that William and
Kate intend to spend the next two years in Norfolk.
They added: William and Catherine are not pavement people; they prefer the
countryside. They really miss Anglesey. They can t wait to move into Anmer Hall.
All of George s things will be there - it s very much going to be their family
home.
William has told me that while Kensington Palace is their long-term home, and I
think the plan is that it will always be so, they both love the countryside.
They enjoy the quiet life they can have there, and feel somewhat imprisoned in
the Palace. Anmer is going to be perfect for a couple of years - that is the
plan, she explained.
The Cambridges have already attracted controversy over the cost of Kensington
Palace, not least when the Duchess replaced the existing kitchen of their London
residence - Apartment 1A at the Palace - at a cost of 170,000, before opting to
build a second one.
Despite a private drive, courtyard and spacious walled garden, the Palace
overlooks Kensington Park Gardens - a public space - and William and Kate often
find themselves being photographed going about their daily lives. The Duchess no
longer walks Prince George through Kensington after she was snapped in the Royal
park last year. She is routinely caught on camera when she pops into local
stores on Kensington High Street and both she and William have told friends that
they miss the freedom they enjoyed when they lived in Wales.
Anmer Hall, situated on the Queen s Sandringham Estate, is in the last stages of
a two-year, 1.5[0/00]million refurbishment, which has been paid for privately,
and the couple intend to spend most of August there to oversee the final
details. They are expected to stay at Wood Farm, a cottage on the Royal estate,
while works are completed.
Norfolk has always been a special part of the world to William, and Anmer Hall,
a 200-year-old, Grade II listed property, was a 30th birthday present to him
from the Queen.
The ten-bedroom mansion has a swimming pool and tennis court and its
refurbishment includes a new kitchen and garden room, rerouting the driveway to
the property to make it more private, converting a garage block into
accommodation for their team of protection officers and converting an outhouse
into a space for George s nanny.
The Duke and Duchess s decision to base themselves in East Anglia is apparently
supported by Prince Charles. A source confirmed: Charles is very much behind
it. He wants William to have as ordinary a family life as he can before he
becomes a full-time Royal.
William has taken a transitional year out since quitting the RAF last
September. He has said he misses flying and is expected to work a shift pattern
with the Air Ambulance - four days on and three off - which means he will have
plenty of time to spend with his new family.
It is anticipated that Prince George will go to nursery and primary school in
London, when the time comes.
William and Kate know North Norfolk well and have a wide circle of
well-connected friends - dubbed the Turnip Toffs - in East Anglia. They have
been seen shopping at local stores such as the Mews Antiques Emporium and
Shirehall Plain Antiques in nearby Holt.
William is fond of the Dabbling Duck Pub in Great Massingham and the bakery in
Great Bircham, both a short drive from the Hall. And recently the Cambridges
were made honorary members at the prestigious Royal West Norfolk Golf Club.
William and Harry spent much of their childhood at Anmer Hall when it was the
residence of the Van Cutsem family, who are long-established friends of the
Royals. William s cousin Laura Fellowes - daughter of Lord Robert Fellowes and
Lady Jane, Princess Diana s sister - also lives in Norfolk.
A guest at the Royal Wedding, she is an Edinburgh University graduate and known
as Mavis to her family and friends. There are other friends close by. The
Duckworth-Chad family, who live at Pynkney Hall near King s Lynn, have enjoyed a
long friendship with Prince Charles.
Landowner Anthony Duckworth-Chad s daughter Davina is an old friend of William
and has six-year-old twins - India Honor and Siena Beatrice. The couple can also
count Baron Howard of Rising and his family as friends in the area.
William and Harry play in an annual football match close to the famous castle
ruins of Castle Rising and are regular guests at the grand stately pile. Baron
Howard s children Annabel, Charlie and Tom, are close in age to William and
Kate.
Further along the coast at Holkham, where William and Harry played on the beach
as children, is Viscount Thomas Coke and his family, who run Holkham Hall.
William s friend, Etonian Archie Soames, is also a Norfolk boy. His father,
Jerry Soames, brother of Tory MP Nicholas Soames, lives at the family seat, West
Barsham Hall in Fakenham, less than an hour from Anmer Hall.
The Cambridges will also be within easy reach of the Queen s close friend and
Lord Great Chamberlain of England, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, and his young
wife Rose Hanbury, who is close to William and Kate s age and recently had
twins. They live at Houghton Hall near Sandringham.
The North Norfolk scene is incredibly tight and very posh. William and Kate will
fit right in, says a local. They know the area very well already. They will be
very well protected here and they will be able to come and go without being
worried about the paparazzi.
Historically the Royals are very social with their neighbours and that s largely
because most of them are aristocrats and wealthy landowners.
Traditionally Royals split their time between the country and the capital,
favouring their rural retreats. The Prince of Wales spends most of his time at
Highgrove, his Gloucestershire pile, while the Queen retreats to Windsor when
she is not required at Buckingham Palace.
William and Kate s aides and private office will remain at Kensington Palace and
the couple will be based there when they carry out engagements and need to be in
London. Aides say their diaries will remain busy and they will frequently be in
the capital.
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KATE'S AGONY AT MURRAY MELTDOWN
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ANDY Murray crashed out of Wimbledon in the quarter-finals yesterday after
suffering a mini-meltdown on court - as fans including the Duchess of Cambridge
looked on in agony.
The frustrated defending champion was heard swearing towards the players' box,
where his team sat, including his mother Judy, girlfriend Kim Sears and French
coach Amlie Mauresmo.
In the Royal Box, Kate struggled to look at times, grimacing and clasping her
hands over her face. Prince William put his fingers to his temples, then puffed
out his cheeks and exhaled deeply when the Briton lost the match.
Murray, who had cruised through the opening rounds without losing a set, made 37
unforced errors during his shock straight-sets defeat. Even his opponent and
friend Grigor Dimitrov claimed he did not seem himself as they warmed up before
the match.
The 23-year-old Bulgarian said: As soon as we started to warm up I sensed that
his game was not at the highest level.'
In the second set, Murray was heard to bark shut the f**** up', seemingly
towards his own team. As he fell 4-2 down in the third set, he was heard
shouting five minutes before the f****** match', in the direction of the
players' box.
Last night, his agent said he was not aware of anything happening five minutes
before the match which could have thrown him off his game. The loss ended a
17-match winning streak at Wimbledon.
Fans seemed baffled by Murray's poor performance and bad-tempered outbursts. One
observer wrote on Twitter: The Murray meltdown is extraordinary', while another
said: Murray's seriously losing it.'
Others seemed unhappy with his bad language. Dimitrov owned him,' wrote one
observer. Murray kept swearing and mumbling under his breath, bad attitude.'
Dimitrov, who is 13th in the world, was later asked why he felt fifth seed
Murray was out of sorts during the warm-up.
He said: It's just a feeling. I have practised quite a few times with him and I
know how he is striking the ball when he is at his best.
I know how he is playing when he is not at his best. I felt something was a
little different and I just had to go with the flow.'
Murray's girlfriend of nine years, Miss Sears, looked distressed as she watched
him bow out before the semi-finals, and bolted from the players' box shortly
after the match finished.
She later left the All England Club alone with her head bowed. Dimitrov's
girlfriend, Russian player Maria Sharapova, failed to attend despite losing her
own match a day earlier, leaving her free to support him.
He said: I'm sure she'd show up for the final. I don't know if she was on court
today.'
Asked if Sharapova, who won Wimbledon ten years ago when she was 17, had given
him any tips before the tournament, he said: She says, "win it".
What can I say? I think that's a good tip.'
Murray thanked the crowd for their support during the tournament and said he
would take a few days away from the court'.
He denied anything was wrong before the game, saying: I felt fine'.
But he added: I just didn't play well today and he played much better than me
from beginning to end. That's not going to add up to a good day at the office.'
Murray also said he reminded Dimitrov to bow to William and Kate while walking
off the court.
His spokesman Matt Gentry said: He always mutters to himself. He does look at
the box - he likes to see people he knows rather than a face in the crowd. I
think they were utterances of frustration.'
Yesterday, bookmaker Ladbrokes offered odds of 1/5 that Mauresmo would now be
replaced before the Australian Open in January 2015.
PSST!
HIS parents may have enjoyed the very best seats at the tennis yesterday.
But Prince George won't be allowed in the Royal Box until he is at least 17. The
rules are now much stricter than in 1991, when nine-year-old William sat and
cheered the players on with his mother on Centre Court.
FANCY A DOUBLES PARTNER KIM?

They're known for perfectly-coiffed hair but Kim Sears and the Duchess of
Cambridge also share a taste for lacy white dresses. Kim, 25, chose a 225 Reiss
dress last week. Yesterday Kate, 32, wore a 410 Zimmermann number.
BBC FAILS KYRGIOS FANS

FURIOUS tennis fans branded the BBC coverage appalling' yesterday after it
repeatedly cancelled its highlights show to broadcast ongoing live action.
Many complained that instead of seeing wildcard Nick Kyrgios' win over Rafael
Nadal during Tuesday's Today At Wimbledon at 8pm, they were forced to watch a
far less exciting match between Czech player Petra Kvitova and her little-known
compatriot Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova.
To make matters worse, they said presenter Sue Barker kept rubbing salt into the
wound' by referring to the drama' of the match the BBC had chosen not to
broadcast.
One viewer wrote online: Why is the show not scheduled after 9pm, when most
matches are finished? The BBC has completely failed in its coverage.'
EUGENIE AND HER SISTER ... BEATRICE

ANYONE keeping up with Wimbledon might be more used to seeing her in white.
But yesterday a picture emerged of rising tennis star Eugenie Bouchard posing
with her twin sister Beatrice - swapping her tennis whites for a rather racy
black outfit.
Miss Bouchard, the Wimbledon crowd's favourite, and her sister, a student, were
named after The Duke of York's children thanks to their mother's love of the
Royal Family.
Earlier this year the glamorous player posted this picture of the pair dressed
as police officers at a fancy dress party - as she wished her beautiful sister'
a happy birthday.
Speaking yesterday, ahead of her first semi-finals at a grand slam, the
20-year-old Canadian said: We keep in touch and she's a huge supporter. We're
opposites but very close.'
SERENA'S SICK BED TWEET
FORMER Wimbledon champion Serena Williams was yesterday pictured getting some
much-needed rest after dramatically breaking down on court.
The world number one had been hit
doubles match on Tuesday. She was
more than ten minutes, but had to
faults - then posted the photo of
by a virus, which forced her to abandon a

given emergency court-side medical checks for
withdraw after serving four consecutive double
herself recovering on Twitter.
Miss Williams said afterwards: I really wanted to compete, but this bug just got
the best of me.' And her sister Venus, her doubles partner, said: I'm proud of
her for trying but Serena is unwell and couldn't play to her potential.'
PSST!
WIMBLEDON locals have netted a cool 5million from the tournament's big hitters.
Around 300 nearby homes are being rented out this year - and they don't come
cheap, with stars believed to be shelling out around 9,000 a week to secure the
top spots in SW19.
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WILLS DECIDES BEING A ROYAL WON T BE HIS FULL-TIME JOB
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NINE months after he gave up his wings as an RAF search-and-rescue pilot, Prince
William has been lured back to a flying job.
The Duke of Cambridge will announce he is to become a helicopter pilot with the
East Anglian Air Ambulance service rather than taking a full-time Royal role.
He and Kate are planning to base themselves at Anmer Hall, on the Sandringham
Estate, which lies midway between the air ambulance service bases at Norwich and
Cambridge. The move will enable William to see Prince George on a regular basis.
He is likely to be one of six pilots, mainly from military backgrounds, who fly
the ambulance service s two yellow twin-engine EC 135 T2 helicopters, which can
reach 135 knots (150mph). They can get to anywhere in the counties of
Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk in 25 minutes.
All are employed by Bond Air Services, with salaries ranging from 40,000 to
60,000, but it is not known if William will be paid. Work is on a rota of five
days on, three days off, for 365 days a year.
As the only air ambulance service in the country with night vision technology,
William will expect to fly at night as well as daytime, working ten-hour shifts.
However, when he is on official engagements, the Prince will travel in a more
luxurious manner: the Queen is leasing an 8million Agusta Westland A109S
helicopter to fly members of the Royal Family on official engagements. The money
will be paid for out of the Sovereign Grant.
The aircraft, which bears the Royal crest, has leather seats and a top speed of
180mph. It will be available to all the Royals - but as William and Kate step up
their official engagements, they are likely to spend most time on board.
William has made no secret of the fact that he misses flying since he left his
post at RAF Valley on Anglesey last September, where he flew a Sea King
helicopter.
In a BBC documentary last year he spoke of his pride in the job. I don t think
there s any greater calling in life, he said.
Since then he has been taking what aides describe as a transitional year ,
attending a ten-week land management course at Cambridge University and
launching his United for Wildlife charity.
But he has admitted he was itching to get back in the cockpit.
During a
that the
revealed
military
trip to an aviation museum, on his recent tour of New Zealand, he said

historic military aircraft made him long to be flying again and
he was hoping to get his commercial pilot s licence as well as his
wings and private flying licence.
And, last month, he asked to meet the crew, staff and charity trustees of the
Scottish Air Ambulance, making a beeline for their twin-engine Bolkow 105
helicopter parked on the playing field of Strathearn Community College in

Crieff.
The Duchess may have mixed feelings about her husband returning to the cockpit.
In the foreword to a book about RAF wives published last month, she wrote: I
loved my time in Anglesey when William was serving with RAF search-and-rescue. I
cannot pretend I didn t feel anxious at times when William was on shift in
howling gales, but he loved doing it and I felt incredibly proud.
The East Anglian Air Ambulance service, run as a charity, was launched by jockey
Frankie Dettori in 2000 after he survived a plane crash.
A spokesman for Kensington Palace said the Duke had made it clear he was
considering this option as part of his public service duties.
A spokesman for East Anglian Air Ambulance said: We know that he is considering
his options but that is all we are aware of at this stage.
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While celebrities including Stephen Fry, Sir Richard Branson and Vogue supremo
Anna Wintour call for a boycott of the Dorchester over its owner the Sultan of
Brunei's anti-gay laws, the luxury hotel group has received a timely fillip from
the Duchess of Cambridge and her family.
I hear that Kate was the guest of honour at a wedding held at the Dorchester on
Friday. Acutely aware of the sensitivities over her presence at the
controversial hotel, she avoided the front door and sneaked into its underground
car park in a blacked-out people carrier.
The wedding was a big boost for the hotel,' says my man with the silver salver.
It shows that the royals will not let the Brunei business keep them away.'
The civil marriage of the Duchess's first cousin, Adam Middleton, to interior
designer Rebecca Poynton was held in the hotel's penthouse and pavilion.
Kate was joined by her parents, Carole and Michael, brother James and sister
Pippa.
Adam, who is the son of Michael Middleton's brother, Richard, advises senior
business executives in his role for the Mayfair firm Manchester Square Partners.
While James drove to the hotel with his parents, Pippa and her boyfriend, banker
Nico Jackson, Kate arrived separately, accompanied, so I am told, by an
astonishing nine police protection officers.
The Dorchester has been the focus of a worldwide boycott over its ties to the
Sultanate of Brunei, which recently imposed a series of harsh Islamic laws that
increase the punishment for homosexuality from a ten-year prison sentence to
death by stoning.
The Dorchester Collection hotel group is owned by the Brunei Investment Agency,
an arm of the country's finance ministry.
Kate's attendance was not the only royal endorsement for the luxury hotel chain.
On Saturday, Princes William and Harry played polo at Coworth Park near Windsor,
which is also owned by the Dorchester Collection.
Last week, I reported that Prince Charles had been dragged into the controversy
after the hotel decided to decorate its rooms with his paintings.
Royal sources deny that Prince William also attended the wedding. A Kensington
Palace spokesman declined to comment.
WELCOME TO POPPY'S REHAB WEDDING BASHHow to embarrass the in-laws. Socialite

Poppy Delevingne's nuptials to James Cook in Morocco were attended by 250 guests
including Joan Collins, Sienna Miller and the bride's younger sister Cara who
were seated at tables of ten named after rehab clinics.One was called Clouds'
after Clouds House in Wiltshire, which treated Robbie Williams and Kate Moss's
former boyfriend Pete Doherty. Poppy, 28, has said of her mother Pandora, a
former heroin addict: I watched her struggling with addiction, in and out of
rehab, desperately striving to overcome it.' Yesterday, Poppy's father Charles
denied the tables were named after clinics Pandora had been treated by.Which
other family members might have visited them, I wonder?NOW that Richard Ingrams,
76, has stepped down as editor of The Oldie after 22 years following his refusal
to attend a disciplinary meeting today with publisher James Pembroke there is
mounting dissent among the magazine's contributors. Medical columnist Dr Tom
Stuttaford tells me: I'm flabbergasted. Richard is a genius. I like James, but
it's a bit cheeky summoning Richard for a disciplinary meeting at his own
magazine. It's his baby.' Music journalist Mark Ellen, 60, who played guitar
with Tony Blair in Oxford pop group Ugly Rumours, is tipped to take over.AT
LEAST ANNA DIDN'T WEAR SHORTS!It was a sartorial challenge at the Audi Polo at
Coworth Park, Berkshire, over the weekend. Actress Anna Friel (right) opted for
a 2,600 Peter Pilotto dress, which featured what appeared to be a bib on the
bodice swamping her slender frame.And Wellington-educated Pop Idol winner Will
Young (below) turned up in a mismatched blazer and shorts combo paired with
shoes but no socks. Luckily, Princes William and Harry, who were also in
attendance in dapper matching polo uniforms, rode in on their steeds to save the
event from being a total fashion disaster.FEUD CASTS A PALL OVER ADMAN'S FUNERAL
Funerals are normally occasions when grudges are put aside. Not last week,
however, at the magnificent requiem mass at the Brompton Oratory for David
Abbott, founder of the world's third largest ad agency, Abbott Mead Vickers,
whose bluechip clients include Guinness and Walkers.A conspicuous absentee was
Michael Baulk, who was hired by Abbott and his partner Adrian Vickers in 1986 as
chief executive, becoming chairman of AMV in 1997 much to the fury of the
agency's third partner, Peter Mead, who allegedly never spoke to Baulk, despite
working alongside him for ten years. And last Thursday was payback time. Mead
informed Abbott's widow, Eva, that if Baulk went to the funeral he would not
attend. In the event, Baulk graciously uninvited himself. However, Mead's
victory was short-lived as Vickers did not appear to speak to his former
partner at the wake in the Oyster Bar of the Michelin Building.Today, Baulk is
chairman of estate agents Marsh & Parsons and BBDO Europe and chairman of The
Mill Group, the world's leading film visual effects company. Mead was chairman
of Millwall FC when it was put into administration.IRON DUKE BACK IN SADDLE
DESPITE THAT INJURED WRIST HE TURNS 93 next week and was recently seen with a
heavily bandaged wrist after undergoing surgery, but Prince Philip is
determined to pursue the lifestyle of a man half his age.At the weekend, he was
driving a carriage in the Long Walk at Windsor Great Park, accompanied by two
young women grooms (right). He was out for about an hour,' I'm told. He looked
as focused as ever.'The Duke underwent the surgery at Buckingham Palace last
month, and four years ago had an operation on his left hand for carpal tunnel
syndrome.STONE ME! NOW NIGEL IS PLAYING HIS FATHERfew actors get to play their
parents. But now that old charmer Nigel Havers may be on the verge of morphing
into his distinguished father in a new movie. Havers, 62, is seeking backing for
a script about the infamous Rolling Stones drugs bust at Keith Richards' Sussex
home and subsequent trial at which Keef and Sir Mick Jagger were defended by
Nigel's father former Attorney-General Sir Michael Havers.The two Stones were
sentenced to jail, which led to a leader article in the Times with the famous
headline: Who Breaks A Butterfly On A Wheel? On appeal, Jagger's three-month
stretch was quashed and Richards' 12-month internment reduced.Havers (left) says
that as a 15-year-old schoolboy he became friendly with Jagger and Richards.
When my father defended Mick and Keith, it was the first major celebrity drugs
case,' he recalls. They came to our flat and I got to know them.But I was sworn
to secrecy. I couldn't tell my school friends because it would sound as if I was
showing off.' * Prince Charles is bracing himself for a potentially embarrassing
encounter with President Vladimir Putin whom he famously likened to Adolf Hitler
at the 70th anniversary cerebrations of D-Day in Normandy. So I am intrigued to
hear one of the Royal Family's former protection officers is playing the Fuhrer
on screen.Ex-Royal Marine Jack McKenzie, who guarded the Queen and her family at
the Palace of Holyroodhouse, and later became an actor, has just finished
shooting The Love We Seek, set in Hitler's Berlin bunker in the dying days of
the Third Reich.This movie challenges accepted history,' says McKenzie. It
depicts Hitler as hating all women, including Eva Braun except for his mother. I
am anxious for Prince Charles to see the film, and I would also like to send a
copy of it to President Putin.'THE death of Mary Soames, Sir Winston Churchill's
daughter, is being mourned by writer Celia Lee, who penned a book about the
family. When I interviewed Mary for my Churchill book, we stuffed ourselves with
tea and chocolate cake served on her late mother's treasured Victorian china.
Mary said to me in relation to Lord Randolph's death: "Can we talk about
something other than syphilis!"?'
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HE always said giving up his flying career would be a wrench. But even Prince
William's closest friends are surprised by quite how strong the pull of piloting
his own helicopter has proved to be.
Little more than eight months after quitting the Armed Forces and his role as an
RAF search and rescue pilot, it emerged this week that the Prince is itching to
get airborne again. Plans are being drawn up that could see him joining the East
Anglian Air Ambulance service, based near his country home, Anmer Hall, in
Norfolk.
Some will doubtless see this as perverse, but then William has always been
something of a reluctant royal'. Even with last year's announcement that he
wanted to devote himself to conservation and charitable projects, it was also
made clear that he had no wish to become a full-time working member of the Royal
Family.
From his military career to wanting to be a farmer, to full-time dad to
hankering after a return to the helicopter cockpit, all have crossed the
Prince's mind anything that delays the inevitability of his royal role.
Yet when the Prince has carried out public duties as he and the Duchess of
Cambridge did in Scotland on Thursday he has done them with great aplomb. His
visit with Kate to Australia and New Zealand was such a huge success and PR
coup, thanks partly to the winning presence of their infant son George, that
anti-monarchy support Down Under slumped to its lowest level for 35 years.
To the frustration of royal aides the issues that now cloud the mind of this
young man who is, surely, with his wife and son the House of Windsor's greatest
asset have turned the clock back to another period of uncertainty in William's
life, the time when he dated but seemed reluctant to marry Kate Middleton. They
are asking if Prince William is now wobbling over his career in the same way he
once wobbled over his choice of wife.
It may be hard to picture now but almost exactly seven years ago the
relationship between William and Kate was almost dead and buried. After more
than four years together, they split up after William was photographed in a
nightclub with his arm around a pretty young woman, his hand apparently cupping
her right breast.
Kate, who was already enduring the barbs
looking for a ring. She simply wanted to
committed to her. Faced with what he saw
commitment, William declined to give it.
romance was abruptly ended.
of her Waity Katie' nickname was not

know where she stood and that he was
as her demand for his long-term
And on that sad and uneasy note the
As we know it was not terminal. Kate resolved to show William what he was
missing, partying in thigh-skimming skirts. Three months later, William, in the
words of one of her friends, came crawling back'.
Now it seems similar uncertainties have come crowding in as William struggles to
adjust to a life that demands an increasing commitment to royal duties, and puts
him more firmly in the limelight than he enjoys.
Should he take a role with the air ambulance having first obtained a commercial
pilot's licence the decision would expose the question that lies at the heart of
William's hesitant attitude to his role in the monarchy; just what kind of
prince does he want to be?
Like his mother Princess Diana, he is a man of contradictions. One moment he
exhibits a common touch, insisting people don't stand on ceremony even
permitting his closest aides to call him mate'.
The next he is reminding domestic staff that his wife must be curtsied to as
befits her HRH status. Like his father, he has a short temper,' says a courtier.
People remember when they have been shouted at.'
So what has brought on this problem? According to a friend he has missed the
camaraderie of his air-sea rescue days in North Wales more than he realised.
He genuinely loves flying and he loved being part of a proper working team in
which he could be pretty anonymous and not given any special privileges,' the
friend explains. I think he has now found his royal life rather boring and feels
he is worth more than just shaking hands.'
There is no doubt that being in uniform gave William a structure and routine
that allowed him and Kate to live as normal' a life as possible. Since moving
from their simple whitewashed Anglesey farmhouse to their grand Kensington
Palace apartment so much has changed.
The couple's altered circumstances have coincided with a growing number of
official engagements being passed to Prince William as he and the Prince of
Wales take on more of the ageing Queen's duties. So the idea that he might
return to flying will not thrill courtiers who fear a spanner is being thrown
into the well-oiled royal works.
But then William, 32, next month, has always been a headstrong young man intent
on doing things his way. It was he who chose the moment to announce his
engagement and the date of the wedding, ignoring officials who wanted the
nuptials to be held in the summer.
It was he who from the outset included Kate's parents in all the plans unlike
previous royal in-laws. And it was William who decided to give his fiance his
late mother's iconic sapphire and diamond engagement ring.
He likes to be doing things but not being told what to do as he is for royal
duties,' says a friend. Talking to him the other day he was enthusing about the
farming course he had gone on at Cambridge earlier this year. It gave him a
purpose.
There is no doubt he misses the adrenaline rush of flying his own helicopter.
Saving lives piloting an air ambulance would be the kind of excitement he has
been missing. And he would be making the decisions rather than being told what
to do by someone else.'
There is one other crucial factor privacy. According to a close friend, the
publication this week in Germany of a tasteless picture of Kate's bottom,
snapped in Australia when a gust of wind caught her flimsy dress, has infuriated
William.
He cannot bear that every time they perform public duties they are being
scrutinised for everything they say and do,' says the friend. It is how he
remembers his mother being treated and he is determined neither he, Kate nor
George will suffer the same way.'
After Diana's death William was given considerable privacy at school and
university and he managed to prolong this by choosing a military career.
Since his teenage years, William's single-mindedness to do things his way has
marked him out. It is why he did not join in when he might have been persuaded
to fall in with roistering friends and do foolish things - drugs, for example which characterised the growing-up years of his brother Harry.
This self-control and assurance was something prized within the Royal Family.
The Queen in particular knew how much stronger willed William was than his
father, and appreciated that he was more positive than Charles who so often
seemed to be wringing his hands about this or that.
William was seen as a young man who makes up his mind about something and then
he does it,' says a Palace figure.
But now, just as the royal roadshow needs to shift more towards Charles and his
sons, William's stubbornness suddenly appears not to be such an asset.
The Queen is 88 and quite simply the younger royals, like William and Harry,
will have to do more royal engagements, not fewer. Equally, the popularity of
William and Kate in particular cannot be overstated.'
Quite how these increased Royal demands could be met by the Duke of Cambridge if
he started to fly air ambulances which might involve him working ten-hour shifts
on a rota of five days on and three days off is unclear. There are bound to be
some misgivings,' says the figure.
Charles is sympathetic to his son's wishes because he always regretted leaving
the Royal Navy and losing his action-man life when he was still young. For
William, however noble the intention, the danger remains that such a move will
be seen as an attempt to postpone his royal destiny.
It may be that William, who didn't realise what he had with Kate until he had
almost let her go, needs to apply the same cool head that allowed him to swallow
his pride then, and make up his mind.
Queen and country deserve that.
The pilot Prince: William at the controls of a helicopter
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AS THE DUCHESS IS EMBARRASSED
YET ANOTHER WARDROBE MALFUNCTION AMANDA PLATELL IS RUNNING OUT OF SYMPATHY
BY AMANDA PLATELL
OH NO, Kate. Not again. How my heart sank when I saw the Duchess has had yet
another embarrassing wardrobe malfunction, this time as she prepared to board a
helicopter with her husband, William.
Pictures published yesterday by a German newspaper show Kate during the Royal
couple's recent tour of Australia and New Zealand, when her flimsy Diane von
Furstenberg frock was lifted sky-high by a gust from the chopper's blades,
exposing her bare bottom.
A cheeky passing photographer managed to capture the Duchess's rear in all its
glory. To make matters more humiliating, Kate appears to be wearing a thong that
would make even a cheese cutter wince.
First, let me say that it was wrong of the newspaper to publish the pictures.
The British press had refused to print them, but the shots had gone to the
highest worldwide bidder.
And it's terribly sad for Kate that her pert derriere will now be the image that
forever marks any recollection of her and William's triumphant tour. How
mortifying for any woman to be pictured in such an unedifying way.
But I couldn't help but think that surely Kate could have tried a little harder
to keep her modesty under wraps? As a relatively seasoned member of the Royal
family, isn't it time she made more of an effort to cover-up?
After all, every woman especially a public figure who is constantly photographed
knows that a lightweight fly-away dress and the merest threat of a breeze hardly
marks the right occasion to wear the skimpiest knickers in your drawer.
Indeed, sadly I feel there is barely a part of the Duchess's body that I haven't
seen. It's not so long ago that Kate was snapped topless on a French holiday
with William. And while, despicably, those pictures were taken while the couple
were on private property by a photographer with a long-lens camera and were not
published in the British press, it's fair to say that the Duchess was taking a
risk when she walked on the terrace without her bikini top on. And these
pictures, too, marred an otherwise successful foreign tour.
Kate had to attend a Malaysian mosque on the very day half of Europe, and anyone
with an internet connection, was being treated to the sight of the Duchess's
bare decolletage.
This time, though, Kate's managed to reveal all during a very public event, at a
moment when she knew the cameras and the eyes of the world were on her. And her
tendency to flash the flesh is starting to look worryingly like a habit.
For this wasn't her only immodest mistake on tour. From the moment of her
arrival in New Zealand, Kate managed to show parts of her body that surely
should be for her husband's eyes only. She greeted the press in a red floaty
skirt that whooshed up the moment she stepped off the plane at Wellington
airport, revealing her incredibly toned upper thighs. Kate must know that,
whether it's a first-class flight or Ryanair, the moment you step off a plane
the wind is the worst enemy of any woman in a skirt. And during her 2011 tour of
Canada, the newly-wed Duchess again came very close to showing the waiting
photographers her bottom when her skimpy yellow frock flew skywards on a Calgary
airfield.
Indeed, whether it's a game of netball or the welcoming line at a charity event,
it seems that Kate always manages to show us a part of her body she shouldn't.
So Kate, let me give you a little advice. Yes, it's all very well blaming the
photographers, but you are the future Queen. It's time you took control of this
situation.
After all, even Camilla has followed the Queen's lead, sewing little weights
into her hems. And if you can't bear the faff of putting weights in your skirts
(although one can only presume that you have dressmakers who can do the
stitching for you), perhaps it's time to go for a longer skirt? Or even for a
pair of undies that are, shall we say, a little more substantial? Rather than a
thong, why not go for the sturdy, reliable Rigby & Peller. If they're good
enough for Her Majesty, surely they're good enough for Kate?
Put simply, Kate, we do not expect our future Queen to moon.
The Duchess does have a role model in all this: Diana, Princess of Wales.
William has gone to great lengths to ensure his mother's memory lives on in
Kate. They now live in her old Kensington Palace apartment, where William and
Harry were raised.
Kate wears Diana's engagement ring. But one thing she hasn't done is to learn
from her mistakes. I remember when the newly engaged Diana appeared in a
strapless black velvet evening gown on one of her first public appearances, and
her magnificent figure spilled out of the top of her dress as she got out of her
car.
The images were duly flashed around the world, much to her and the Palace's
embarrassment. This came after the Princess's first photo faux pas just after
her engagement when, as a nursery teacher, she was snapped in a sheer skirt, her
shapely legs clearly visible for the world to see.
Those two humiliating occasions were enough. Never did such unwitting, fulsome
exposure happen again.
Whenever Diana flashed the flesh after this humiliation she did so with intent.
From then on, when she had to, the Princess used her clothes to convey a message
be it a call for attention or a cry for help. But such is the frequency of
Kate's wardrobe malfunctions, one can't help but wonder what message she's
trying to send. Certainly, it's not one that is contributing to the decorum of
the Royal Family.
Yellow peril: A Monroe moment on her first royal tour in Canada

Thigh high: Fashion faux pas at a wedding last year
Cheeky shot: The snap of Kate published uncensored yesterday by a German
newspaper
News flashes: Arriving with baby George in New Zealand last month and at a film
premiere, left
Tight spot: Decorum bites the dust at a City charity event
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Prince William's triumphant tour of Australia and New Zealand with his wife Kate
and son George has led to much chatter that he could leapfrog Prince Charles and
become head of the Commonwealth.
Unlike the throne, the Commonwealth role, which is much treasured by the Queen,
does not pass automatically to the Prince of Wales but is in the gift of the 53
Commonwealth leaders.
Former Commonwealth minister Lord Howell, father-in-law of Chancellor George
Osborne, has made clear: When the time comes the Commonwealth membership will
want the right to choose.'
The feeling is that Charles did himself no favours when he stood in for the
Queen, who no longer undertakes long-haul flights, at the biennial Heads of
Government Meeting in Sri Lanka last November.
Observers point out that the Prince appeared to be out of his depth, relying on
briefs prepared by his Commonwealth secretary, Simon Martin.
Members squabbled freely and the leaders of Canada, Mauritius and India didn't
turn up in protest at Sri Lanka's human rights record.
Prince William did a fantastic job in Australia and New Zealand and I very much
hope he'll have a more active role in the Commonwealth,' says royal biographer
Hugo Vickers. But not quite yet. It is not a good idea to muddle roles.
When Prince Charles becomes King he will be the most experienced of all those
who have ever succeeded to a British throne. He, too, has met the Commonwealth
leaders of the past and this has value.'
India, Zambia and Australia are understood to be pushing a plan to bring future
meetings to London at least temporarily so that the Queen could attend rather
than Charles.
Lord Howell, who writes passionately about the Commonwealth as Britain's network
of the future in his new book Old Links And New Ties, believes that Charles will
be keen to fight for the role.
There is every reason to suppose that the choice will continue to fall on the
occupant of the British throne.'
MAYFAIR'S VERY WICKED WHISPERS...

HEDGE fund millionaire Crispin Odey is well known in the clubs of Mayfair and St
James's. He is as familiar a figure in White's as he is in Robin Birley's
bustling new establishment, 5 Hertford Street, in Shepherd Market.
So it comes as a surprise to learn that Odey has become the victim of a cruel
whispering campaign.
According to clubland rumours he banished himself from Birley's hive of movers
and shakers after an embarrassing episode in an upstairs room.
A member of staff is said to have discovered Odey in a compromising position.
Fearing that this was the kind of thing the club would not tolerate, Odey had
made himself scarce for several months but has since returned.
Birley's only comment was that Old Harrovian Odey might have apologised for
embarrassing his staff. It's thought Birley was reluctant to lose a founder
member who was such a big spender.
Odey and his fund manager wife Nichola Pease are known as the Posh and Becks of
the financial world and are said to be worth 455 million. He recently received
planning permission to build a 150,000 classical-style hen house on his estate
near the Forest of Dean.
Odey was his usual charming self when I asked him about the episode: The whole
thing is just a joke spread by a friend but there is no substance to it. It's
untrue.' Some friend.
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IS SELINA Scott's fame about to be eclipsed by that of her artistic little
sister?
Fiona Scott is to have a painting of her ten-year-old son, Ted, hung in a
prominent position at the Mall Galleries today when former Royal Ballet artistic
director Dame Monica Mason opens the Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual
exhibition.
Ted came home from rugby one day, covered in mud and bruises, looking forlorn
because his team had just lost, and I thought it made a super image so I put it
into paint,' Fiona, a Yorkshire farmer's wife, tells me.
The painter, who is ten years her sister's junior, studied art in Dundee, where,
she confesses, she used to lie in bed watching Selina, now 62, presenting BBC
Breakfast.
I used to get teased mercilessly because of Selina,' she admits. Fiona, in
demand by aristocrats such as Simon Howard, of Castle Howard fame, and Prince
Charles's former girlfriend Davina Sheffield, will soon stage her own exhibition
in Edinburgh.
***
* News that outgoing BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten of Barnes has serious health
problems leaked out over the weekend on an American university website. Students
at Notre Dame University in Indiana, where he was due to receive an honorary
degree in a fortnight, were informed that he was too sick go ahead.
We are disappointed that Lord Patten will be unable to join us and will keep him
in our prayers,' said the university's president, Father John Jenkins.
***
FORMER BBC newsreader Anna Ford, who once hurled a glass of wine at Jonathan
Aitken, has another troubled former politician in her sights.
The 70-year-old is appalled that Chris Huhne, who was jailed for perverting the
course of justice, was paid by the Guardian to whinge about the part played by
disgraced judge Constance Briscoe in his downfall. Lawks-a-mercy!' writes Ford
in a letter to the newspaper. Chris Huhne using his column to blame others for
his prison sentence, whilst admitting his guilt. Whatever next?
Please find him a psychotherapist and Guardian readers a more emotionally mature
ex-con.'
THAT'S ONE WAY TO PUT THE BOOT IN, CRESSIE!
A week has passed since Kensington Palace sources said Cressida Bonas had split
up'with Prince Harry.
You could be forgiven for thinking the 25-year-old dance graduate was in
mourning yesterday when she stepped out in the bright London sunshine clad head
to toe in black.
There was a rumour that Prince Harry's courtiers had told Cressida to smarten up
her scruffy' image which was said to have irked her.
Yesterday she looked elegant in a dress and jacket but refused to abandon her
trademark Dr Martens boots, which were unlaced.
You can't keep a good rebel down.

CAINE RUNS AWAY FROM THE ZULUS
Prince Harry is rumoured to be attending a 50th anniversary charity screening of

Zulu in Leicester Square next month, but he won't be joined by the film's star
Sir Michael Caine, one of the few surviving cast members.
The gala will raise money for Walking With The Wounded, The David Rattray
Memorial Trust, and Harry's children's charity Sentebale.
It's very unfortunate', says Suzannah Endfield Olivier, daughter of Zulu's late
director Cy Endfield.
But people are huge fans of the film so it will be a great event.'
Sir Michael will be out of the country shooting Paolo Sorrentino's next film,
Youth, with Rachel Weisz and Jane Fonda.
At least Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who played his ancestor, King Cetshwayo
kaMpande, and later founded the Inkatha Freedom Party in South Africa, intends
to turn up.
The Zulus may have lost the war, but they've won the etiquette battle.
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BEWARE of Polish intruders. The manager of the Music Schools at Eton, Mrs K. G.
James, emailed boys warning them that an intruder was spotted on the premises
last Friday.
The man was Polish and did not have good English, he had no ID on him,' writes
Mrs James. Fortunately nobody was hurt and nothing was stolen.'
It's probably Eton's worst lapse of security since a paedophile called Andrews
roamed the school in the Sixties.
Andrews was apprehended by a boy called Jonathan Aitken, who ended up serving
time at Her Majesty's pleasure.
No one knows what happened to Andrews.
***
* A SARTORIAL mystery from New York's Met Ball: did highly sensitive Met
director Thomas P. Campbell rent his white tie and tails?
American reporters had assumed Campbell, being an urbane Brit, would possess the
appropriate evening attire only to have their suspicions raised when they noted
his jacket was not a perfect fit.
They duly asked Campbell whether he owned what he was wearing.
Came the sniffy reply: I can't possibly comment on something like that.'
GET A ROOM, EDDIE
Eddie Redmayne is no stranger to scenes of intimacy. In the BBC drama Birdsong,

the 32-year-old Old Etonian enthusiastically kissed the legs of his co-star
Clemence Poesy.
So it comes as no surprise that the Les Miserables actor was caught stealing a
kiss with his girlfriend, publicist Hannah Bagshawe, on a New York subway
platform. His brunette lover opened her eyes mid-smooch. At least someone was
watching for the next train.
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THE Duchess of Cambridge yesterday established her green credentials in more
ways than one - choosing an appropriately coloured outfit to plant an oak tree.
Kate even told a local schoolgirl that she and the Duke of Cambridge are both
fanatic' about recycling.
She said they encourage friends who visit their apartment at Kensington Palace
to put their rubbish in the right bin - and pointedly move it if they end up
using the wrong receptacle.
Lillian Rowland, 15, from Alfred Deakin High School in Canberra revealed: We
discussed what our school was doing towards being more sustainable. They were
very interested.
Kate said they were fanatical about recycling and when they have friends over if
they put things in the wrong bin they will take it out and move it.'
The duchess was dressed in a vivid green Catherine Walker coat for the visit to
Canberra's arboretum on the penultimate day of their hugely successful tour Down
Under.
But she admitted to one wellwisher that the outfit had left her sweltering in
the bright sunshine. Karen Vey, 39, said: I said I'm quite hot. She said we were
very lucky to have this beautiful weather, but that she was very hot and I said,
"You would be in that outfit".'
Later in the evening Kate changed from her thick green coat into an eye-catching
cocktail dress with lattice-work sleeves by US designer Lela Rose.
At the reception - with Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove, the Queen's
representative in the country - her hair was styled into an elaborate chignon to
show off the unusual design.
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WATCH IT, WILLS! PRINCE NEARLY BOWLS KATE OVER . . . AND NOT IN A GOOD WAY
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IN a scarlet skirt suit and with heels high enough to aerate the pitch, she
hadn't chosen the most appropriate outfit for an impromptu knockabout.
Still, the Duchess of Cambridge didn't hold back when asked to try her hand at a
game of cricket with Prince William in New Zealand yesterday.
Unfortunately for her, neither did her husband. As the second-in-line to the
throne took a run-up and bowled, he let fly a wild full toss' that whistled past
Kate's ear.
That prompted an amused glare and a wag of the finger from the duchess, but she
had been in no real danger of a clonk on the head because the ball, like the
bat, was plastic.
The couple were in Christchurch to publicise the Cricket World Cup, which the
city will host next year, when they were roped in to playing a game with
youngsters.
Kate, 32, who was wearing a red 495 skirt suit by Luisa Spagnoli, stepped
gingerly on to the grass at the city's Latimer Square, took up her yellow bat
and ducked away from her husband's first ball.
Undeterred, she stepped up again - only to be bowled on off-stump by her
husband. She managed to hit one ball to mid-off, but missed two further
deliveries before handing the bat over to her husband.
William, a keen player in his youth, struck several balls bowled to him by local
schoolchildren with unfettered aggression - one again sailing close to his
wife's head. Watch out, this will be a blur,' he shouted.
Speaking afterwards Jodie Dean, 11, was unimpressed with Kate's high heels. It
wasn't very realistic,' she said.
She bowled two balls to William. The first ball was too high, a lot too high. My
second ball was much better. He hit it, someone fielded it, no runs. I felt a
bit better after that ball. He was pretty good.'
Jamie Elley, 11, who faced two balls from William, said: He was rusty. He does
too many full tosses. But the second one was good.' When Timothy Cross, 12,
bowled to William he was hit for four with a cover drive. I was a bit gutted but
I will get him next time,' he said.
Lee German, chief executive of the New Zealand cricket association and the
country's former cricket captain, said: Catherine and William were superb. The
way they spoke to the children was fantastic.
I talked to them about the Cricket World Cup and how it was important for us as
a city to have a major world cup and how we're in the process of building an
English-style cricket ground. Catherine told me she played cricket at school
which was pretty interesting, she didn't say when.'
The couple also took time to pay tribute to the 185 people who died when an
earthquake struck Christchurch in February 2011.
The royals began their visit with a formal welcome from the Ngai Tahu Maoris at
the City Council Building and giggled as Henare Rakiihia Tau, a tribal elder,
told them in a speech: Do what princes and princess do, increase your family.'
His comment came after weekend reports that William had supposedly hinted that
another baby might be on the way - a suggestion quickly quashed when Kate
enjoyed a wine tasting event before going on a white water ride that pregnant
women are banned from.
During a walkabout in Christchurch the couple met five sets of twins who had
been taken to the event by their mothers.
Nicola Burton, 38, mother of 21-month-old Lucas and Oliver, said: Prince William
was just a little overwhelmed with how many babies there were. He said he hoped
we weren't going to ask him to baby-sit.'
Jen Howell, 32, mother of Lexie and Jaelan, 22 months, said: They could not
believe how chilled out the twins all were. Kate said she might have to get some
tips about how to chill George out. Apparently he is a busy boy.'
At a function before they left at a former military base William, who quit his
job as an RAF search and rescue pilot last autumn, told Peter Townsend, chief
executive of the Chamber of Commerce, that the sight of military aircraft made
him wistful.
He told me that being in a hall full of aircraft made him long to be flying
again,' said Mr Townsend.
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WE LL NEED A JET JUST TO TAKE THE PRESENTS HOME!
PRINCE George has received so many gifts on the Royal Tour that his parents have
joked he may need his own plane to take them all home.
The presents have ranged from a possum fur-lined baby flying helmet from The
Hobbit director Sir Peter Jackson to a grey onesie embroidered with George s
name, and a 9ft-long amphibious motorboat. The boat, designed by Auckland-based
Sealegs, took four weeks to build. Sealegs boss David Glen said the Duke and
Duchess were astonished by it.
Yesterday, George was given a customised bike - and even the family dog Lupo
hasn t been left out. Expats Becky Hadfield and Jo Harris have made the cocker
spaniel a bespoke tartan coat.
-THE GREEN GODDESS WOWS KIWIS - BUT DID WILLS APPROVE?
MOST husbands would not dare utter a word, but Kate let slip yesterday that her
spouse thought her jade green dress coat by London-based designer Erdem was a
bit bright . The Duchess s choice of colour during a visit to the town of
Cambridge ensured she stood out from the crowd. One local, Bev Hayes, 68, said:
I complimented her on her outfit. She said she liked it but William thought it
was a bit bright.
-ANYONE FOR A JELLIED EYEBALL?
SHE S used to the finest culinary fare at Royal banquets, but the Duchess of
Cambridge was presented with jellied eyeballs, huhu grubs and crispy chicken
lollypops yesterday during her visit to the Rainbow Place Children s Hospice in
Hamilton. The quirky dishes were served up by characters in Alice In Wonderland
costumes as part of a Mad Hatter s Tea Party.
-BBC S WILLIAM IN IRA BLUNDER
A BBC News presenter made an embarrassing on-air gaffe yesterday when he said
William had revealed his passion for flying during a visit to an aircraft
factory despite having left the IRA . Breakfast host Charlie Stayt quickly
corrected himself but viewers took to Twitter to poke fun at him. One said:
Charlie just mixed up IRA and RAF when talking about Prince William! Bang goes
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ANOTHER BABY? ONE IS ENOUGH FOR NOW SAYS WILLS
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BABY George may be the apple of his eye, but Prince William yesterday said he
was in no rush to be a father again.
Asked if he and the Duchess of Cambridge would try for child number two soon,
the future king remarked: One is enough at the moment.'
His comments came as he and Kate visited the 1st Battalion Irish Guards for
their annual St Patrick's Day Parade in Aldershot - their first joint engagement
this year.
Regimental Sergeant Major Ray Collister asked if there were any more baby Micks'
on the way - Mick being the nickname for the Irish Guards. But William, who is
Colonel of the regiment, replied: Maybe one day. One's enough at the moment.'
Sgt Mjr Collister, 56, said afterwards: He said maybe when there's time.'
William and Kate, sporting glowing tans from their recent five-star Maldives
holiday, appeared to have brought the sunshine with them as 300 soldiers marched
onto the parade square.
And the Duchess seemed to find the ceremony a hoot, laughing uproariously as she
chatted with officers and presented traditional sprigs of shamrock.

Appropriately, she sported a gold Cartier shamrock brooch, a Royal Family
heirloom once favoured by the Queen Mother. It was pinned to a suitably green
169 coat by high street store Hobbs and accompanied by a matching Gina Foster
hat and five-inch heels. Chatting happily about their seven-month-old son with
soldiers and their families after the parade, William said the little prince was
very busy crawling and eating'. Indeed, sources say George is coming on leaps
and bounds' with his weaning and even has a bottom tooth coming through.
The pair later toasted Ireland's national day with sherry in the officers' mess.
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THE cost to taxpayers of renovating the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's London
residence is set to double to around 2million.
Bills for building work on Apartment 1A at Kensington Palace have spiralled and
will eventually dwarf the 1.1million already spent, sources have revealed.
Royal aides are braced for criticism over the use of public money to turn the
20-room, four-storey building into a new home for William, Kate and baby George.
Questions have already been raised over the pair's luxurious lifestyle after
they returned last week from a seven-day break in a five-star resort in the
Maldives.
And it comes shortly after the Queen cast protocol aside during an engagement to
say that the world's poor needed more help.
Although the Duke and Duchess are paying for fixtures and items such as curtains
and soft furnishings out of their own pockets, the cost of building work
including new heating, electrics and plastering is being met by money given to
the Queen by the Government.
So far the internal refurbishments have cost 600,000 and the renewal of the
apartment's roof a further 400,000. Another 100,000 has been spent on
professional fees'.
But aides say work to renovate the apartment, which was once occupied by
Princess Margaret, has far exceeded expectation.
The initial budget was, according to one source, blown out of the water' by the
discovery of asbestos - and the final bill is not likely to go down well' when
the full details are revealed in June's annual royal finance report.
A Kensington Palace spokesman said a close eye was being kept on costs but said
roofwork was long overdue and blamed the asbestos for sending the bill skywards.
Earlier this month it emerged that Kate was having Apartment 1A redecorated at
her own expense because she was unhappy with the colour scheme she had chosen
while pregnant - apparently blaming her hormones.
The spacious four-storey property takes up half the Clock Tower wing designed by
Sir Christopher Wren for King William. Living space once included five reception
rooms, three main bedrooms, dressing rooms and bathrooms, a night and day
nursery, nine staff bedrooms and ancillary' rooms. Princess Margaret herself
spent 1.5million on refurbishment before moving in in 1963. In recent years the
property has been used and managed by Historic Royal Palaces.
As the charity has already spent its own money on remedial work, the Queen has
compensated it for handing the building over to William and Kate. The cost, met
by taxpayers but described by palace sources as fair', it is understood to be
more than 100,000. A source said the apartment was being kept in trust for the
nation'. Looking after these buildings is the very thing the Royal Household is
charged with doing,' said the aide.
But Graham Smith, of anti-monarchy group Republic, said: There is never a good
time to be throwing our money at people who can afford to pay it themselves.'
Sources say the Duchess is already busy on her next project - the decoration of
ten-bedroom Anmer Hall in Norfolk, given to them as a country residence' by the
Queen last year.
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WITH breathtaking views across crystal clear waters, this is the 6,500-a-night
bolthole laid on for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on their forthcoming New
Zealand tour.
Spectacularly situated, the lodge will offer the couple a luxurious - and no
doubt rather romantic - interlude during their three-week tour of the Southern
Hemisphere, which begins next month.
For just as on their recent trip to the Maldives, their son Prince George will
be left behind with his new nanny, this time at the couple's base in Wellington
some 500 miles away.
William and Kate have designed their high-profile visit on behalf of the Queen
on what is known as a hub and spoke' model.
Instead of hawking themselves from city to city, as is customary on overseas
royal visits, they will base their young son in three cities: Wellington, Sydney
and Canberra.
The arrangement means they will be able to travel back to him at the end of each
working day, bar two unavoidable stop-overs.
Fortunately the view at their holiday spot is likely to take their mind off the
distance. Priding itself as being the perfect, private hideaway', it has ten
suites and villas, offering the royal couple complete seclusion. The entire
resort has been booked out for their one-night stay.
William and Kate are expected to reside in the owner's cottage, which boasts a
private balcony for guests to admire the views of a lake and mountain range from
the depths of its own Jacuzzi.
Styled by a leading local interior designer, it has a spacious main lounge,
study, kitchen and dining room, as well as four expansive bedrooms with walk-in
closets and in-room bars. Even the bathrooms offer uninterrupted views of the
scenery.
The main lodge itself boasts a luxury spa, infinity swimming pool and sauna and
fitness centre.
The rate for the cottage, which includes pre-dinner drinks with hors d'oeuvres,
a seasonal gourmet dinner and full breakfast, is normally NZ$12,750 - almost
6,500.
Fortunately for New Zealand taxpayers, who are footing much of the bill for the
tour, the lodge has been secured for a massively discounted rate of only a few
hundred pounds for the night.
The couple will arrive at the lodge after a day of engagements - including a
wine-tasting at the Amsfield vineyard and white water rafting on the Shotover
river - before flying to Christchurch the next day.
That evening they will be reunited with George, who will stay at Government
House in Wellington, where William stayed in 1984 during his own parents' tour
of the country.
A source close to the duke and duchess said: William and Katherine are hugely
excited about the trip but made it clear from the start that they couldn't bear
to leave George behind.
They decided to model the tour on the way the Queen conducts hers. She tends to
use one or two places as a base instead of moving from city to city, which also
works for them with a young child.
They have managed to arrange it so that they spend only two nights away from
their son and are keeping their fingers crossed that it will all work out OK.
The only thing they are slightly concerned about is how George will cope with a
25-hour flight. They have warned people that although he is, generally, a really
happy little boy, he might be a little bit grumpy the other end!'
Kensington Palace declined to comment on the location of the couple's hotel for
security reasons.
But a spokesman told the Daily Mail: The New Zealand government has secured
accommodation at very substantially reduced rates, which are actually equivalent
to the cost of a room in a local hotel.'
An aide said the New Zealand government and local tourist board recognise the
extraordinary and positive public spotlight the visit will put on New Zealand
and we have taken their recommendation in relation to this accommodation'.
On Thursday the couple returned from their first holiday without seven-month-old
George, having spent a week at the five-star Cheval Blanc Randheli Resort in the
Maldives.
The Mail revealed that George, accompanied by a heavy security detail, was being
cared for by his grandparents, Michael and Carole Middleton, at their home.
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SHE'S not long back from Mustique, but the Duchess of Cambridge will be able to
top up her tan nicely thanks to another break - this time in the Maldives
without her baby.

She and William have jetted out on what has been billed as a second honeymoon
after they left George at home with her parents. The couple arrived in the
Maldivian capital, Male, on a British Airways flight yesterday, accompanied by
several taxpayer funded Scotland Yard detectives.
They were immediately whisked from the First Class cabin into a VIP lounge
before transferring on to a private hydroplane which whisked them off to a
paradise isle.
The Duke and Duchess are staying at one of the most exclusive resorts in the
Indian Ocean - the five star Cheval Blanc Randheli Hotel on Noonu Atoll.
Sources confirmed yesterday the entire 45 villa resort had been closed for the
week to accommodate the royals and their party.
The holiday comes just a month before the couple embark on a three-week tour of
New Zealand and Australia - this time accompanied by George. However, its timing
is something of a surprise because William was due to be studying at Cambridge
University.
The prince enrolled on the ten-week course in agricultural management on January
7, which should have seen him there until the end of this month. At the time
Kensington Palace said he would have around 20 hours a week of timetabled
lectures, seminars and meetings. He was also expected to study in his own time
and undertake the occasional field trip.
Kensington Palace declined to comment on the holiday last night. Sources,
however, suggested the prince was taking advantage of a break' in the syllabus.
Last month William attracted public criticism when he went on a four-day boar
shooting holiday in Spain with his brother.The Duchess has only recently
returned from a week-long family holiday with Prince George in Mustique, again
with a full group of police bodyguards.
Although the couple have recently employed a new nanny, they made the decision
to leave eight-month-old George with Carole and Michael Middleton at their
Berkshire mansion - accompanied by his own Scotland Yard security detail.
Cheval Blanc Randheli, where the couple are staying, is part of the elite Louis
Vuitton Moet Hennessy group and is described as an intimate and contemporary
haven'.
It boasts just 45 loft-style tropical villas which have a large living room,
adjoining powder room, double dressing rooms and bedrooms and light-flooded
bathrooms.
Each has its own 41ft infinity pool and outside dining pergola plus a private
beach and spacious over-water sunbathing decks.
Unsurprisingly none of this luxury comes cheap. The hotel is too exclusive to
list its prices on its website - but one tour operator offers a four-night stay
at more than 6,000.
A five-course dinner in the best restaurant, without drinks, costs 350 per
couple.
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THE FATHER WHO SPURNS HER
BY ALISON BOSHOFF
ARRIVING at this week's Brit Awards in a full-skirted, pale-pink Vivienne
Westwood frock, Ellie Goulding was very much the queen of the red carpet.
And, named best British female solo artist on Wednesday night, she reigned
inside London's O2 Arena, too, celebrating long into the night with her record
label stablemate Katy Perry.
Ellie, now 27, was named Critics' Choice at the 2010 Brits an accolade given to
rising stars.
Since then she has performed at Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding, had
smash hits in the UK and U.S., seen her debut album sell over two million
copies, and reached No. 1 with her second album, Halcyon. With her distinctive
voice, all hoarse emotion and vibrato, there is no one quite like her.
The fact that she has got so far in life is testament to her strong character
and work ethic: not for her a gilded showbiz upbringing like Lily Allen, or a
performing arts school education like Adele.
Instead, Ellie had such a fractured and traumatic upbringing it left her needing
therapy. Deserted by her father Arthur Goulding, who walked out when she was
just five, she ended up loathing the tattooed lorry driver her mother went on to
marry.
She admits that her upbringing left her damaged and this week her mother told
how Ellie has never quite come to terms with her father's desertion.
Ellie has suffered from feeling insecure for years,' Tracey Summers said from
her terraced home in Birmingham.
The separation with her father was very difficult. We've all been through some
tough times. Some people carry that with them for years and other people manage
to let it go and she's finally starting to let it go.'
Not, it seems, that she'll ever get any help overcoming her shattered feelings
from the father who left her.
Arthur Goulding lives some miles away in a neat home in Hereford with his second
wife Sharlene, an attractive brunette. When approached this week by the Mail,
Sharlene showed little interest in her stepdaughter's extraordinary
achievements.
It's not a story,' she said. It's nothing to do with us. I don't know why people
keep on asking us about her.'
Neighbours of the Gouldings, who are well liked locally, confirmed that the
couple never speak about their connection to Ellie.
Not that they wish her ill. Indeed, Sharlene said: We are sure she is very happy
about winning a Brit.'
However, these words will bring a pang of sadness to Ellie, who has longed for
years for her estranged father to get in touch, and to say how sorry he is for
letting her go.
After her parents separated, she initially saw him every other weekend, then
once a month, and then never'. She last got in touch with him when she was 19.
It's a subject that's informed much of her writing. In the song I Know You Care,
she sings about her father: I don't warm my hands in your coat / But I still
hope.'
In fact, she says, the title of the track is denial really, because I don't
think he does care.'
In 2012, she told one interviewer that her father's absence was a constant area
of confusion and fascination for me. It's in everything I do. It's probably the
reason why I do it.'
She was born Elena Jane Goulding on December 30, 1986. Her mother, Tracey, was a
talented artist and music fan who used to hang out with punk group Siouxsie and
the Banshees and worked for various record companies. But by the time Ellie, the
second of Tracey's four children, came along, her mother was working in a
supermarket to make ends meet and the family were living in a council house in
Lyonshall, Hereford.
The singer herself has said: I didn't have the best childhood. We grew up in the
smallest house. Moth-eaten, flea-ridden furniture with holes in it was handed
down from my nana.' She recalled visits from bailiffs, who took away the family
television one afternoon over unpaid bills.
As a youngster, she took up the clarinet and guitar, joined the local operatic
society and performed in school plays, but recalls that she never felt special
or encouraged. I could only sing when my mum wasn't there. I think she had a
weird way of supporting and encouraging me, more like an old-fashioned way of
"work hard" rather than "that's brilliant".'
Tracey, who cheered her daughter on the Brits this week, remembers Ellie as a
theatrical' youngster who used to put on Spice Girls shows with her brother Alex
and sisters Isabel and Jordan.
She says: As soon as Ellie picked up a guitar, that was it. She taught herself
to play: despite the fact that her father played very, very well, he didn't
teach her anything.
At the Brits there were an awful lot of people who were ex-Brit-School or
ex-Italia-Conti [the celebrated stage school]. We come from a humble background.
There were a lot of tough times.'
Ellie said in one interview that her biggest problems growing up were practical
there simply wasn't space for her to make a noise at home.
I shared a bedroom with my sisters: me and my younger sister, Jordan, had a bunk
bed, and then Isabel was on the other side of the room.' She didn't have her own
room until she went to university.
Ellie seems to have only two childhood memories of her father. One is of the day
he left, and her instinctive knowledge that he was never, ever coming back.
The other memory is just as dark. As she tells it, Arthur came from a family of
undertakers and was obsessed' with murder.
On one visit, he gave her a book crammed with vivid pictures of various famous
murders. I brought it home and my mum was so freaked out she burnt it,' she
said.
Next came her lorry driver stepfather. He wasn't strict and he wasn't a drunk;
he just wasn't very intelligent,' she once told a newspaper. He wasn't the type
to suggest a book to read or a film to watch; he was just a difficult person to
live with. Even as a youngster, I knew I'd be a different adult to him.
He was a lorry driver with a tattoo of a bulldog smoking a spliff. The other
tattoo he had was a snake with a dagger through it.
If I ever saw him again I think I'd punch him in the face. I don't know why my
mum was with him, to be honest. I think it was because he was willing to take on
four kids. But they never got on. She was with him for about 15 years. It was
horrible.
I was desperate to get out so I got really stuck in at school and tried my best
to get a great education.'
She added: He just wasn't very nice to us. It was a time when family happiness
wasn't a priority. The priority was staying afloat financially, keeping our
house and having electricity.' By the time she was 16, Ellie had dyed her
naturally light brown hair black and started to commit herself to music.
At 18 she met and moved in with a sound engineer called Matt, then 32. Their
romance lasted until she became famous. He encouraged her to apply to the
University of Kent, which she did, studying English and Drama.
Her big break came at an open mic talent show where she met her manager, Jamie
Lillywhite, the son of producer Steve Lillywhite and the late singer Kirsty
MacColl. She signed a record deal with Polydor and quit university in her final
year.
The combination of her unique voice with an electro-pop backing proved
successful on both sides of the Atlantic.
Her Brits' Critics' Choice win four years was followed by mainstream success,
when her delicate cover version of Elton John's Your Song was used for that
year's John Lewis Christmas advert. Prince William and Kate then asked her to
perform the track for the first dance at their wedding reception.
Her first album, Lights, was dedicated to her first love, Matthew, who found and
saved me'.
Ellie remembers him with great affection, but he'd become too much of a father
figure'. She admitted: I began to find it weird to even sleep in the same bed as
him.'
Now she has a flat in Marylebone, central London, and has dated a number of
high-profile men.
She had a long and significant relationship with Radio 1 DJ Greg James, followed
by a six-month fling with DJ and producer Skrillex, real name Sonny Moore, when
they were working together in Los Angeles.
Since then, there has been a romance with actor Jeremy Irvine and flings with
singer Ed Sheeran and One Direction's Niall Horan. Her date at the Brits was
McFly's bassist Dougie Poynter.
The relationship with her father remains sadly unresolved. She told another
interviewer recently: He'll read this and probably build up more anger, but I
don't see him at all, and I've spoken to him just once since my record deal.
I've no idea whether he mentions me. I'm definitely past the point where I'm
bitter or angry, because I have such a good life, but there'll always be
questions.
I wonder if he's proud and happy for me. I wonder if he's thinking about me. I
wonder a lot of things.'
Ellie runs up to six miles a day to clear her head and stave off the panic
attacks that have plagued her since becoming famous: some are so serious that
she's had to be admitted to hospital.
She started exercising while at university to help control her anxieties
including a persistent dread that the world faced some unidentified apocalypse
and wears a heart monitor to help keep track of her stress levels.
Ellie has been in therapy, and was told that the problem was a split between her
glossy, confident stage persona and the intense and shy young girl she was
growing up.
Her mother Tracey described her this week rather more simply as a stress-head'.
She said: I think showbusiness has made her more confident and it has made her
believe in herself more as a person.
She has met a lot of people who have taught her a lot of things. She has been in
a few bad relationships and that has taught her a lot. She is slowly getting
there.'
Tracey added: Now that she's been recognised for the talent that she has, that's
certainly a good thing. She has worked bloody hard to get where she is and it's
just great.'
Let's hope one day Arthur Goulding finds it in his heart to express a similar
pride to his daughter. One suspects it would mean a lot more than a Brit Award
to Ellie.
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KATE AND GEORGE, THE HEIR IN THE SUN
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LAUGHING as she carries her baby son in her arms, the Duchess of Cambridge
clearly enjoyed taking Prince George on his first foreign holiday.
Kate jetted out to Mustique just over a week ago with the six-month-old, leaving
husband Prince William at home to continue his studies at Cambridge.
The delightful image was captured by a freelance photographer as she was
disembarking a British Airways flight in St Vincent before catching a private
jet to the exclusive Caribbean island.
Appearing unperturbed by his 8,500 mile flight, George was wearing a
white-and-blue babygro and a patterned sun hat against the fierce heat.
William has hinted his son has a healthy appetite and these new pictures,
published in Hello! magazine this week, show him to be a bouncing little boy.
His mother, looking chic and casual in a Ralph Lauren top, jeggings and pumps by
Mint Velvet, seemed to be relishing the prospect of some winter sun.
She was accompanied in her First Class cabin by two bodyguards and her brother,
James Middleton.
It is believed her parents, Michael and Carole Middleton, and sister, Pippa,
were waiting at their 19,000-a-week villa.
The holiday was in part organised to celebrate Mrs Middleton's 59th birthday
last week. The family returned to England yesterday. The February 10 issue of
Hello! magazine is on sale now.
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KATE AND WILLS INC.
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Duke and Duchess secretly set up companies to protect their brand - just like
the Beckhams
BY REBECCA ENGLISH Royal Correspondent
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have secretly set up firms to protect their
brand' and intellectual property rights.In a move more often associated with
celebrities such as David and Victoria Beckham, they have told lawyers to
establish companies in each of their names.It will enable William and Kate to
sell officially-endorsed products and take action against anyone selling items
that could harm their image.Kate's firm is called CE Strathearn - from her names
Catherine and Elizabeth and the Countess of Strathearn title awarded by the
Queen.William's is APL Anglesey - after his middle names Arthur Philip Louis and
the Welsh island where he and Kate lived after they married.Prince Harry has
taken the step too, calling his company Tsessebe - the name of an African
antelope.Kensington Palace stressed last night the firms would not be regular
trading arms' and were likely to remain dormant for the foreseeable future.But
aides admitted they could not rule out them being used for commercial purposes
at some stage.They also confirmed the companies could be used for protection'
when it came to the issue of trademarks or the couple's brand.William and Kate's
solicitors, Harbottle and Lewis, have a team of experts in the field of image
rights, including the couple's legal adviser, Gerard Tyrell. He has also acted
for David and Victoria Beckham, the diver Tom Daley and supermodel Kate Moss.
On its website, the law firm boasts: If your brand has value, image rights will
form an essential part of your earning potential.
We can advise you on how to make the most out of your personal brand, securing
intellectual property rights for names, artwork and logos as well as arranging
endorsements and sponsorships.'
It helps advise on the exploitation of your image/brand on traditional
advertising platforms and various forms of new media'.
In an interview published some years ago, Mr Tyrell gave his views of how image
rights may be ruthlessly enforced in sport: If you can control the copyright on
a significant amount of stuff - images and the like - the idea is that you
strangle everyone else at birth and make sure than anyone who wants a bit of the
player comes to you.'
The Cambridges are among the most marketable couples in the world and the use of
their name to official endorse a product would be worth millions.
John Noble, of the British Brands Group, a trade body that represents brand
owners in the UK, said last night: Forming companies to register and hold your
intellectual property rights can be both defensive but also create huge
opportunities for raising significant sums in the future for charity.
It will also benefit consumers in knowing that they are getting the genuine
article.'
According to Paul Walsh, of law firm Bristows, intellectual property concerns
the protection of creative ideas, image rights and reputation.
Creating their own companies will allow William and Kate to bring out, should
they ever chose to, myriad items of officially-endorsed merchandise from tea
towels to coffee cups.
Mr Walsh said: It also means that if something is produced that they feel is
very detrimental to their image that they could take action against the maker if
they wished.'
It is unlikely, however, to put a stop to royal tat' - flags, ornaments and the
like - traders hawk for royal births or marriages.
When products are clearly memorabilia - tea towels, mugs, ornaments and the like
- there is little that can be done to prevent this and the Royal Family have
never tried to prevent this sort of patriotic thing in the past,' said Mr Walsh.
Nobody will think the product is official or endorsed by the Royal Family. It is
clear that the relevant royals are not endorsing the product nor, unlike other
celebrities, are they in the endorsement business.'
The memorial fund set up in the memory of William's mother caused a scandal when
it authorised the use of Diana's signature on tubs of margarine. Trustees also
went to court to stop the manufacture of Diana dolls, a battle they lost at a
cost of almost 15million.
The three royal firms were set up in October 2012, around the time the
Cambridges found out they were expecting their first child.
There were registered at Companies House under the holding name of Tyrolese with
their registered address as Clarence House, Prince Charles's official London
residence. But according to sources, the names were changed in May to mean
something to them'.
The directors of Kate's company are her private secretary, Rebecca Deacon, and a
member of Clarence House staff, Polly McGivern, who is also a director for
William and Harry.
William has appointed his private secretary, Miguel Head, as a director of APL
Anglesey while Harry has chosen his principal private secretary Jamie
Lowther-Pinkerton.
Kensington Palace officials said they were doing the sensible thing' in
protecting the couple's rights. They insisted CE Strathearn and APL Anglesey
will be used on special occasions only and any money raised would go to charity.
It is not intended to alter
operation. Raising funds by
normal,' said a source. But
and is a pre-emptive move -
the normal modus operandi of the Duke and Duchess's

working closely with charities etc will continue as
setting up these companies is a sensible precaution
not a change of working.
They are not a trading arm - more about creating a vehicle that could be used in
future for specific situations. It is not necessarily about making money - it

could be about protection such as the issue of trademarks for example.'
Both William and Kate approved the setting up of the companies, they said.
A spokesman added: APL Anglesey and CE Strathearn have been set up to house the
intellectual property rights of the Duke and Duchess. They were formed a year
ago, but remain dormant. They are not intended to be used as a regular trading
arm.'
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IBIZA VILLA BANG BANG' WHERE KATE AND WILLIAM PARTIED ...AT ONLY 20K A WEEK!
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IT'S the luxury Ibizan villa where William and Kate once enjoyed a romantic
getaway - now holidaymakers can enjoy the same experience .??.??. provided they
can stump up the 20,000-a-week rent.
Kate's black sheep' uncle Gary Goldsmith has started marketing the La Maison de
Bang Bang - supposedly named after the island's banging' dance music scene - as
a high-class getaway.
In 2006 the Royal couple stayed at the house, where IT recruitment millionaire
Mr Goldsmith, 48, was once caught apparently chopping up lines of cocaine in a
tabloid sting.
Last year he put it on the market for 6?million, but with no buyers, he's
renting it out through a website full of glossy pictures - and spelling
mistakes. For example, it boasts that staff can organise activities such as
raikhi [and] body ballencing' and can help with vegitarian cuiseen, as well as
help drive you around a bit and sort tables at clubs and resturants'. There's
also a Jacquzzi'.
Quirky decor includes two gold thrones, a curious statue of a moustachioed
butler and a 12ft Buddha overlooking a pool terrace where William tried his hand
as a DJ.
But there is one drawback: the villa is near the flightpath for Ibiza airport,
just two miles away.

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KATE AND WILLS' 250K BULLETPROOF BENTLEY (TOP SPEED 200MPH!)
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THE arrival of a baby usually means dad has to get rid of his beloved,
impractical car.
So news that Prince William has recently added a 250,000 Bentley to his garages
is likely to make him the envy of many fathers-to-be up and down the country.
The Flying Spur, which the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will use for
high-profile official engagements, is one of the world's fastest saloon cars
with a top speed of 200mph.
But it's hardly economical, costing 118 to fill up and managing just 19 miles
to the gallon.
As for special features, the hand-crafted walnut interior, the champagne cooler
and the wi-fi internet capabilities are more luxuries than purely practical.
William and Kate are also understood to have opted for quilted leather seats
which heat up and have a massage function.
Safety features include bullet-proof windows and super-hardened steel armour,
contributing to its hefty three-ton weight.
The couple were pictured in the Bentley last week as they arrived for a
reception at the Natural History Museum in London.
It is being leased privately from Bentley, a common arrangement for official
cars used by members of the Royal Family.
Neither the car maker nor Kensington Palace were willing to discuss how much the
Cambridges' deal is worth or whether they have been given preferential rates.
The cost is being met by the Duchy of Cornwall, which funds the official work of
Prince Charles and his family.

The couple were given one of the first Flying Spurs off the production line, six
months before it was made available to the public.
Before it was delivered, engineers at the firm's headquarters in Crewe fitted
the car with ballistic steel plating, triple-glazed 1.5in bullet-proof windows,
tyres that stay inflated even after being punctured, and a loudspeaker system to
ward off attackers.
Vulnerable areas, such as the engine bay, radiator and fuel tank were also given
extra cladding. According to sources, another leased car, a Jaguar, will be used
for more low-key events. The couple also have a fleet of leased Range Rovers.
All of the cars are shared with Prince Harry.
A Kensington Palace spokesman said: The Royal Households lease a number of
different vehicles from Bentley and Jaguar-Land Rover for use on official
duties.'
A Bentley spokesman added: We supply current Bentleys for use by a number of
members of the Royal Family when the need arises.'
INSIDE CAR FIT FOR ROYALTY

Flying Spur prices start from 140,900 for a basic model
Choice of 100 exterior colours and 17 leather hides for interior
Wi-fi internet capabilities
Nine-litre bottle-cooler behind the central rear armrest
Heated massage seats with 14 different positions
Security features installed especially for the Cambridges include full metal and
composite armour and triple-glazed 1.5in bullet-proof glass
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NOW WILLS HAS A GO AT VOLLEYBALD
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WHEN the Duchess of Cambridge tried her hand at volleyball she was hailed as a
natural.
But Prince William was no match for his wife, crashing into a post as he fluffed
a shot.
And while new mother Kate showed off her toned midriff, it was her husband's
bald patch that drew attention as he leapt for the ball.
He took to the court with teenagers helped by sports charity Coach Core - set up
by the couple and Prince Harry.
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WHAT WILLS TOLD KATE AND GEORGE AFTER VILLA PARK
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ASTON VILLA 0 SUNDERLAND 0
BY NEIL MOXLEY
WRAPPED up in his Aston Villa scarf and coat, Prince William was given a glimpse
of the directions in which both Paul Lambert and Gus Poyet are heading.
What did the future king make of the stalemate?
NEIL MOXLEY imagines what His Royal Highness might have told his wife and son
when he got home.
1. Christian Benteke? I thought he was a goal machine. But apparently he has now
gone seven games without a goal. He was taken off five minutes from the end the
first time he has been substituted for his performance by Lambert since he
arrived early last season my sources tell me. Some supporters even seemed happy
he was taken off.
2. Those Manchester United old boys looked all right at the back for Sunderland.
Wes Brown and John O'Shea are surely key if the Black Cats are going to survive.
Benteke may have been ineffective but that was just as much to do with the
manner in which they shackled him.
3. Villa really need to start picking up at home. They've won only twice at
Villa Park this season. One shares the frustration of the fans.
4. That Gus Poyet seems like a nice chap. He conveys a joie de vivre and the
Wearsiders clearly came to have a go. But for inadequate finishing from Emanuele
Giaccherini, a Fabio Borini header which clipped the bar via Brad Guzan's
fingertip save and referee Neil Swarbrick's failure to award a penalty for
Ciaran Clark's handball, they would have stood a good chance of winning.
5. But it's not all bad for my Villa.
Five clean sheets demonstrates a doggedness they lacked last season as they
shipped goals at an alarming rate. They are staying in games for longer and they
are slowly taking shape.
Now all they need is me up front in those boots Wayne Rooney gave me...
Superstat: This was the first time in a year that Villa had kept clean sheets in
back-to-back Premier League home fixtures.
Aston Villa (4-3-3): Guzan 7; Bacuna 5, Vlaar 6, Clark 6, Luna 6; Westwood 6,
Delph 6, El Ahmadi 5, (Tonev 71min, 5); Weimann 5, (Abrighton 71, 5) Benteke 5
(Kozak 86), Agbonlahor 7. Subs not used: Steer, Baker, Sylla, Lowton.
Booked: Vlaar, Agbonlahor.
Sunderland (4-1-3-2): Mannone 7; Bardsley 6, Brown 8, O'Shea 7, Dossena 6;
(Celustka 84) Ki 7; Giaccherini 6, Gardner 6, (Colback 76) Larsson 6; Borini 6
(Johnson 76), Fletcher 6. Subs not used: Pickford, Altidore, Roberge,
Cattermole. Booked: Bardsley.
Referee: Neil Swarbrick 7.
Man of the match: Wes Brown.
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WHEN IS IT SAFE TO SWADDLE LIKE WILLS AND KATE?
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From birth, Albie had a very strong startle reflex where a baby suddenly and
frequently flings his limbs in the air. If my husband Jon or I sneeze or cough,
or if theres a loud noise like a door banging, Albie instantly flails his
little legs and arms around even at night. These sudden movements look quirky
and cute but mean he often wakes himself up and doesnt get into deep sleep. And
babies who arent well rested get overtired and fractious.
Several friends have suggested swaddling Albie will mean hes more settled and
will keep him warm, as when we tuck him into his Moses basket with a blanket, he
kicks it off and I worry hell get cold. Swaddling something weve all heard
mentioned in school nativity plays involves tightly wrapping a newborn in a
thin cotton sheet or blanket, their arms pinned down by their sides and the
fabric secured underneath their body. Many mothers swear this encourages deeper
and longer sleep, and it appears the Duchess of Cambridge is a fan as, in his
first family photos, Prince George was snuggly swaddled in a shawl.
But Im unsure as there are arguments against swaddling. A number of baby
charities warn against it due to evidence it can cause overheating considered
a major risk factor in cot death. And one doctor has claimed tight swaddling can
lead to hip abnormalities as it reduces a babys natural position of lying with
the hips flexed. Its also not advised once babies can roll over usually
around four months as the cloth can end up over their face, increasing
suffocation risk.
Yet friends have given me special swaddle sheets which have Velcro to keep
them in place and Im desperate for Albie to have more restful sleep. So do I
try it?
THE ADVICE
The baby guru

Baby sleep expert Jo Tantum fronted a safe swaddling campaign and is author of
Baby Secrets: How To Know Your Babys Needs. She says: Theres lots of
conflicting advice and scaremongering about swaddling, but in my experience,
done properly and safely, swaddling is very beneficial for babies.
No study has shown that you can overheat a baby by swaddling unless the babys
head is covered or the room is too hot the ideal room temperature is 18 to
22C. I recommend ensuring babys arms are tightly swaddled to suppress the
startle reflex, while leaving the sheet loose around babys legs so that he can
move them around if he wants to, thus preventing hip problems.
I would never use a thick blanket or anything fleecy to swaddle as they are too
warm. You need something natural, stretchy, light and breathable ideally a
cloth made specifically for swaddling. Little girls tend to grow out of the
startle reflex by three months old and little boys generally more physical
at four months, after which you shouldnt swaddle at all.
The midwife
Janet Fyle is a midwife and spokesman for the Royal College of Midwives. She
says: I inform mums of the pros and cons of swaddling rather than telling them
they should or shouldnt do it. The first question I always ask a woman is why
she wants to swaddle her baby. If she tells me he wont settle without it, then
we look at how to try to ensure its safe the main issue is the risk of
overheating as true swaddling means tightly wrapping the baby. So the room needs
to be the right temperature and a light, breathable fabric used.
But there are lots of other ways to settle a baby he can feel calm if hes
cuddled, warm and tucked in with a blanket.
The best advice is to observe what makes your baby comfy, less fretful and
above all safe, and do that, rather than what others tell you. Youre babys mum
and will intuitively know what is right for him.
The older generation

My dad, Peter, 69, says: When you were a tiny baby your mum always swaddled
you. I used to joke that it looked as if you were in a straitjacket, but you
loved the security of being snuggly wrapped and were a very calm and settled
baby, sleeping well from birth.
If she were still alive, your wonderful mum would tell you every baby is
different and that you and Jon must trust your instincts with Albie. If youre
concerned about him overheating, then swaddling will make you a nervous wreck.
Whenever possible we took you out in your pram when you were due a daytime nap
as the motion and fresh air helped you settle even more. Albies a happy, loved
and healthy baby but if at any point hes not warm or comfortable, hell have a
good yell to let you know.
WHAT SADIE DID NEXT
We now try to take Albie out for a long walk in the pram when he gets sleepy
during the day. And as Jo, the baby guru, suggested, I now semi-swaddle him
with a blanket tucked firmly around him to keep him warm and his arms still,
while allowing him plenty of room to move his legs. He drops to sleep in an
instant and, unable to fling his arms around, is settled and calm. Yet when we
try to tuck him up like this for naps in the house, he protests and genuinely
doesnt seem to like being restricted.
We definitely wont swaddle him at night as wed both be far too anxious about
him overheating. I was struck by what Janet, the midwife, said about ensuring
Albie didnt overheat. So were tucking him into his Moses basket more firmly
with a cellular blanket, from the waist down, to encourage him to lie still.
Even though his arms are free, perhaps because hes more rested during the day
now, he seems to fling them around much less at night.
Becoming a mother is stressful enough without a constant stream of conflicting
advice. Baby gurus compete with the internet and well-meaning friends, while
health guidelines quickly change. In our occasional series Baby Steps we
challenge mothers to gather the advice available about a specific problem . . .
then put it to the test.

Following pictures of Prince George being swaddled and suggestions it could
impair hip development, SADIE NICHOLAS, 40, mother to seven-week-old Albie,
tackles the question of whether to swaddle her newborn.
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IF you've ever suffered the embarrassment of having your skirt whipped up by a
gust of wind in public, take heart - it happens to the best of us.
Just look at what befell the Duchess of Cambridge yesterday.
As Kate arrived to represent a children's charity at a discussion forum, her
pleated navy skirt was ruffled, then lifted up by the wintry wind, revealing
rather more leg than she might have liked.
The duchess, who is still officially on maternity leave four months after giving
birth to Prince George, teamed the unruly Orla Kiely kilt with a zipped-up
MaxMara jacket, gloves by the Queen's glove-maker Cornelia James, and Alexander
McQueen heels.
It's not the first time the duchess has had a Marilyn Monroe moment. During her
first official tour of Canada in 2011, the duchess's lightweight summer dress
was whipped up on an airport runway, almost exposing her underwear.
Yesterday Kate, 31, attended the forum in London, which tackled subjects such as
cyber-bullying and sexting, as patron of Place2Be. The charity provides mental
health and emotional support services to 75,000 children in 200 schools in
deprived areas.
It is believed she chose to become patron because of her own experience of being
bullied as a school girl.
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BY RICHARD KAY
No sooner do I reveal that Prince William is pining for a quiet refuge for his
family on Anglesey than I discover he is in danger of being dragged into a row
there over mineral and mining rights and possibly fracking.
It follows letters sent to 4,000 residents over manorial rights to the island,
which were bought by a former policeman more than 20 years ago.
Stephen Hayes, 67, bought rights covering 10,350 acres of Anglesey where William
enjoyed his first two years of married life with Kate while working as a search
and rescue helicopter pilot.
But now the Land Registry has written to homeowners there, alerting them to the
registration of the manorial title which, apparently, gives its owner interest
in mineral and mining concerns.
Since this has never happened before, locals are worried, not least because they
fear these might involve fracking.
One says: It may be that William can help us in this.'
Only last week there was a peasants' revolt' after the Marquess of Salisbury,
the former Tory leader in the House of Lords, sent a letter to homeowners in
Welwyn Garden City claiming his rights in respect of mines and minerals' beneath
their homes.
In Wales, politicians have asked First Minister Carwyn Jones to end these
ancient rights, which are often bought by wealthy eccentrics to give themselves
a decorative lord of the manor title.
The title for the Manor of Treffos in Anglesey was bought in 1992.
I was at a property auction in Manchester and by chance the title came up,' says
Hayes, who theoretically could call himself Lord Treffos. I bought it with no
research purely for a commercial reason, which fell through.
I regarded it as worthless until the Government, in recognising mineral values

as a result of fracking, appear to have decided to put all the manorial titles
in order and insisted they be registered.'
He says he is 40,000 out of pocket for something I bought on chance'.
Hayes adds: I have spoken to some locals and told them I am happy to sell back
the title to residents, some of whom are elderly and very distressed.
I would do this at a nominal figure if they joined together.'
LAURA'S A REAL RUGBY KNOCKOUTEngland's rugby players weren't the only ones
feeling battered and bruised at Twickenham following their defeat at the hands
of the mighty All Blacks on Saturday.Mezzo-soprano Laura Wright, who sang the
National Anthem prior to kick-off, was also nursing sporting injuries of her
own.While playing outside centre for Rosslyn Park Ladies in a match against
Henley the previous weekend, sultry Laura, 23, was knocked unconscious. She had
already broken her finger in the first half and was taken off 15 minutes before
the end of the match when the team's physio forced her to withdraw. I had a bit
of a rough game last week, but wanted to play on. I got a bang to the head when
someone booted me in a tackle and I was knocked out,' says Laura.They did all
the concussion tests and when they said stand on your left leg I stood on my
right. It was OK, but I had to come off in the second half. Head injuries are
serious and I have been careful.'Former Lib Dem politician Lembit Opik says no
sitting MP will go on I'm A Celebrity?.?.?.?Get Me Out Of Here! because of the
flak Nadine Dorries got for it last year. Lembit, a contestant on the 2010
series after he lost his seat, says: Nadine's experience will have frightened
people. Also contestants have to sign a confidentiality agreement about their
payments most are paid different amounts yet MPs are obliged to declare any
income they receive. The only ones who might go into the jungle are those who
aren't planning to stand again, so they won't care if they get hassle as they
don't need votes.' So who would he like to see do it? Nick Clegg, as he might
get bitten by a snake. He'd have a lot of trouble in the jungle. I'd like him to
use that time to reflect, then on coming out call me and say: "I now realise how
tough a character you are. Please accept this ministry position."?'
Multi-millionaire property man Sir David Garrard, whose nomination for a peerage
by Tony Blair ended in disaster after he was caught up in the cash for peerages'
scandal, has given a Labour MP 60,000. Garrard, who was promised a seat in the
Lords having loaned Labour 2.3 million before the 2005 General Election, has
gifted the sum to Shadow Business Secretary Rachel Reeves to run her office.
Elsewhere in the updated register of MPs' interests, Old Etonian nightclub
entrepreneur and Lib Dem peer Lord Palumbo has given Bermondsey MP Simon Hughes
55,000.COWELL'S GIRL PUTS HER FAMILY FIRSTIt's separate turkeys this Christmas
for Simon Cowell and the woman he is expected to make his wife, beautiful
brunette Lauren Silverman.Lauren, 36, almost seven months pregnant with Simon's
baby, has decided her priority has to be her son, Adam, seven, from her
defunct marriage to U.S. property tycoon Andrew Silverman. Thus she won't be
joining Simon, 54, and his coterie of lady friends, including the singer
Sinitta, aboard his sybaritic yacht, The Slipstream, cruising around Barbados
for the festive season. Nevertheless, she will be in the Caribbean. For Lauren,
I can reveal, is staying with her family, including Adam, elsewhere in the
sunshine. There was never any chance that she was going to spend Christmas with
Simon,' says a pal.She will be in a rented villa with her son and then she is
going to join Simon in Barbados for New Year on his boat or at one of the X
Factor mogul's properties when Adam will be with his father in New York, I am
told.Cowell's romance with Lauren is said to have developed during past
Caribbean jaunts. Their flirtations became obvious to friends during Simon's
Christmas break to Barbados in 2011, when Lauren and her husband were invited.
They split last year. ps Her father Prince Andrew's predilection for first-class
air travel has earned him the nickname Airmiles Andy. But Princess Beatrice has
developed a more fastidious attitude to flying. Bea, 25, was spotted arriving at
Heathrow on Saturday on a BA flight from Antigua. A fellow passenger tells me
she travelled in economy. The Princess had been in the Caribbean visiting Necker
Island, the private island of Sir Richard Branson, who is boss of her boyfriend
Dave Clark. She had been taking part in the Necker Cup tennis tournament, where
guests included Rafael Nadal and Boris Becker.
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WILLIAM AND A VERY PERSONAL TRIBUTE TO HIS FALLEN FRIENDS
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THE Duke of Cambridge marked Remembrance Sunday with a deeply personal note
dedicated to two of his friends killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
His touching message was attached to a large poppy wreath he placed at the
Cenotaph as he joined the Queen and Prince Harry at the memorial service.
It read: For Jo, Lex and all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our
country.'
The Duke was referring to Joanna Dyer, a 2nd lieutenant who trained alongside
him, and Major Alexis Roberts, who was his platoon commander and mentor at
Sandhurst.
Major Roberts was killed in October 2007 when his armoured vehicle hit an
improvised explosive device in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The married
father-of-two, 32, who was serving with the 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha
Rifles, had been in charge of a 30-vehicle convoy negotiating a road nicknamed
IED alley' when his Vector armed vehicle exploded.
At the time, the Duke issued a tribute saying he was deeply saddened' by the
death of his good friend'.
Lieutenant Dyer, 24, of the Intelligence Corps, was also killed when her convoy
was hit by an explosion. Her Warrior vehicle was destroyed by a colossal' bomb
in Basra, Iraq, in April 2007.

Three other soldiers, Corporal Kris O'Neill, 27, Private Eleanor Dlugosz, 19,
and Kingsman Adam Smith, 19, were also killed, as well as a civilian
interpreter.
The Duke said he was absolutely devastated' at the news of Lieutenant Dyer's
death, describing her as a close friend'. They had passed out in the same
company at Sandhurst the previous December.
William invited Holly Dyer, Lieutenant Dyer's sister, and Susie Roberts, Major
Roberts's widow, to his wedding to Kate Middleton in April 2011 in honour of his
two friends.
The Duke wore the uniform of an RAF Flight Lieutenant yesterday. He served as a
search and rescue helicopter pilot in the RAF for three years. In September, he
announced he was leaving the Armed Forces to focus on Royal duties and charity
work.
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WILLS AND KATE WANT TO RETURN TO ANGLESEY
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THEY only said their farewells barely a month ago but already the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge are hankering after their beloved hideaway on Anglesey.
According to local figures, the couple have been making discreet inquiries about
returning to the secluded white-walled farmhouse they rented for 750 a month
during William's three-year posting as a search-and-rescue helicopter pilot at
nearby RAF Valley.
The future King and Queen are in the process of moving into Princess Margaret's
21-room former home at Kensington Palace, renovated at a cost of 1.1 million to
the taxpayer. But they have made no secret of their love for the windswept
island off the North Wales mainland where they first set up home together before
they wed.
In a recent letter written by Prince William's private secretary, Miguel Head,

he referred to the island as their beloved Anglesey', and both Kate and William
are said by friends to hanker after a permanent base on the island.
After the relative freedom of living pretty undisturbed as a couple in Wales,
William dislikes the proximity of so many neighbours at Kensington Palace,' I am
told. A bolthole in a place they know so well has definite appeal.'
The five-bedroom farmhouse, with its own private beach, commands stunning views
of the Irish Sea and romantic Llanddwyn Island, named after St Dwynwen, the
Welsh patron saint of lovers. Guarded during the Cambridges' occupancy by a
seven-strong royal protection team housed in converted outbuildings, the
farmhouse is part of Grade II-listed, Bodorgan Hall belonging to the Old Etonian
7th Baronet, Sir George Meyrick, 72, and his 70-year-old wife, Lady Jean.
William loved to ride his Ducati motorbike around the family's private race
track.
Royal biographer Michael Thornton, who lives on Anglesey and often shopped
alongside Kate at the local Waitrose, says: Rumours are flying about the
possibility of the Cambridges acquiring a home on the island.
I have heard they are interested in buying the farmhouse.'
Says a friend: Royals rarely buy properties but they could rent again.'
OLYMPIC STAR SHATTERED

SPLITOlympic horsewoman Lucinda Fredericks has split from her Australian husband
Clayton after 15 years of marriage. He's gone back to Australia and we are
getting divorced,' Lucinda tells me sadly. I'm still in shock.' A golden girl of
British equestrian sport, Lucinda, 46, won silver at Beijing.Everything seemed
to be going brilliantly for herand her husband, with whom she set up a thriving
equestrian business.But last year Clayton flew back to his homeland. I've no
idea why he left me,' she says. Now Lucinda admits she is finding it a struggle
being a single parent to their ten-year-old daughter and the rigours of managing
her business.She has already run into difficulties, upsetting locals in her
Wiltshire village who are annoyed about the continuing presence of a temporary'
mobile home and stables for which she had no planning consent.Lucinda says: All
I'm trying to do is my best to survive. Life has been difficult since Clayton.'
BUSY LAURA'S BRIEF HONEYMOON Fresh from starring as a masked sorceress in the TV
cult show Game Of Thrones, Laura Pradelska tells me she has a new role as a
wife!Millionaire's daughter Laura, 30, married Eurosports bigwig Dennis Smith,
five years her senior, at her father's Frankfurt estate. She excitedly tells
me: We've been together for five years. I'm no Bridezilla, but I wanted to get
married while my parents are still alive.I wore a traditional white dress and my
grandmother's diamond engagement ring, which she somehow managed to retain
through Auschwitz so it was a moving moment.We had a few days in France, but we
couldn't take a honeymoon because we are too busy working.' Laura left home for
Hollywood as a teenager and now lives inLondon.I met Dennis at a dingy little
club in Kings Cross and it was love at first sight!' she says. We had a few
vodka shots for a little courage and since then we've been inseparable.'Laura
is rehearsing new play Dogstar, which premieres next week at Chiswick's Tabard
Theatre before the comedy transfers to the West End.Her mother, Minka, is an
esteemed academic and documentary film maker.Despite her serious work, she is
supportive of what I'm doing,' saysLaura. CROONER Billy Joel, on tour in the
UK, popped in for lunch at one of Princess Diana's favourite restaurants, La

Famiglia in Chelsea, booking a quiet table in the window. But it didn't stay
quiet for long.For as he waited for his seared tuna and rocket salad, Billy, 64,
delighted fellow diners by suddenly breaking into song. It was all very jolly,'
says one. He was with a group of 12 all wearing leather jackets. Among them was
the singer Graham Parker and his group The Rumour.'Joel, who wrote Uptown Girl
for his then wife supermodel Christie Brinkley, was later heard praising rocker
Jerry Lee Lewis. He was the one for me, great guy,' he told the group.JUST four
days after the death of PR genius Lesley Lake, who helped Barbara Hulanicki
create the iconic Biba store, her grieving widower, writer Charles Mosley, has
died, too. The couple died in the same hospital, Stoke Mandeville. She would
have been glad to go first,' says Lesley's daughter Miranda, whose father was
wine merchant Michael Druitt. Lesley, 81, had been divorced many years when she
met Old Etonian genealogist Mosley, 65, editor of Burke's Peerage, at a New
Year's Eve party in the Nineties.Last week, they attended the London launch of
Charles's first thriller, The Daffodil Library.YOU would have thought having Abu
Hamza as a neighbour would hardly have been good for property values. But some
five months after the hook-handed preacher was deported to the U.S., former
business minister Lord Hutton has been leading by enterprising example.Eight
years after moving in next door to the Hamza household, he has put his West
London home on the market for 1.4?million. As plain John Hutton, the ex-Labour
Cabinet member bought the Shepherd's Bush property for 565,000. Two years later
and at the height of Hamza's extradition battle he put it on the market for
1?million but it did not sell. The five-bedroom, end-of-terrace property is
being advertised with a local estate agency. Although the agent mentions its
proximity to many local amenities', no reference is made to the Hamza clan, who
still live in their council-owned house.ps It's early days yet, but the next
time Prince Philip wants alterations to his many well-worn suits, he may need to
congratulate his Savile Row tailor Patrick Grant. Oxford-educated Grant, who
steps out with Victoria Beckham's handbag designer, Kate Hillier, is itching to
start a family.I'm 41 and we've been together for six years, so I'm more than
ready for parenthood,' he tells me at a Hardlyever wornit.com fashion charity
party at the Dorchester. I am hoping I don't have to wait too much longer.'
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THE Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are to shun royal tradition and choose close
school and university friends to be Prince George s godparents, it has been
reported.
The couple are said to be planning to ask friends out of the public eye to give
their son a sense of normality as he grows up.
Financier Fergus Boyd, who went to Eton with Prince William and shared a house
with the couple at St Andrew s University, will be one of George s six
godparents, it was claimed.
Kate s school friend from Marlborough College, interior designer Emilia d
Erlanger, is also a contender, as is one of William s oldest friends Hugh van
Cutsem.
William is godfather to Mr van Custem s daughter Grace, who was a flower girl at
the royal wedding.
A royal source said: They are rather unexpected off-the-wall choices for
godparents - not the usual suspects of William s closest friends who we
anticipated.
The contenders are a world away from the godparents chosen for William, most of
whom had royal connections.
They included Constantine II, the former King of Greece and Princess Alexandra,
a cousin of the Queen.
Bookmakers last night slashed the odds for Mr Boyd to become a godparent from
8/1 to 1/2, making him the favourite.
Ladbrokes said Mrs d Erlanger was now second favourite at 4/6, while Mr van
Cutsem was third favourite at 1/1.
Prince George s uncle and aunt, Prince Harry and Pippa Middleton, are also in
the running at 4/1.
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WHAT'S THE POINT OF A CHRISTENING KATE, WITHOUT BATTY GREAT AUNTS LIKE ME!
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What's that you say? The great-aunts are not invited to the
christening? Maude, pass me the smelling salts. Get Agatha on the blower. And
please tell me it is not true. According to royal insiders, a number of senior
members of the Royal Family have not been invited to Prince George's
christening, to be held in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, later this
month.
Apparently, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge want the event to be an intimate,
family affair' only without key members of that family present. You can't blame
them. Can there be a bigger bore on the planet than a middle-ranking,
awfully-pleased-with-oneself, Windsor bore? Say what you like, Andy and Eddie
are no one's idea of a party.I like to imagine Kate wailing and throwing her LK
Bennett nude courts across the Kensington Palace drawing room, saying to
William: Do we have to invite Andrew and Edward? They are so awfully dull. And
if they come, do we have to invite Beatrice and Eugenie, too?' After all,
neither of them can be trusted on the important issue of choosing appropriate
christening hats. Not to mention twerking with any passing stuffed bears. It
could get embarrassing.While the names of those who will actually be attending
have yet to be released, at least two important figures have definitely been
left off the list Prince William's aunts, Princess Anne and Sophie, Countess of
Wessex. And that really is a shame. For what is the point of a christening
without a lovely pair of great-aunts to bookend the deal? It's like Christmas
without crackers, Easter sans eggs. I speak as a newly hatched great-aunt
myself, one who coincidentally went to a family christening last weekend. And I
like to think that my great-aunty role on the day baby-admiring,
dimple-drilling, cheek-pinching, hymn-singing and heroic consumption of egg
sandwiches and cups of tea was absolutely vital to proceedings.No doubt Princess
Anne and Countess Soph would agree that being invited to a family christening is
the entire point of being a great-aunt. Something to tide us all over the shock
of actually becoming one in the first place. Why, it seems like just yesterday
when I was a dozy teen; dreaming of solving crimes with Starsky and Hutch and
saving pocket money to buy my first bottle of Charlie perfume. It must be just
the same for Anne (Shetland pony riding) and Sophie (posing topless). Now here
we all are; fully fledged, gently wrinkled, copper-bottomed great-aunts. As
stock comedy figures, great-aunts are always batty crones, wafting around in
faded lace, smelling of lavender and mothballs. Boasting a liverish, spinsterish
countenance and mottled hands. With a packet of Imperial Mints stashed in a
capacious handbag that has a clasp which snaps shuts louder than a ricocheting
bullet. A great-aunt is a woman making quavery-voiced calls on a candlestick
telephone. Who is starting a campaign to Bring Back The Bustle. And whose entire
existence makes sense only at the kind of family gatherings that feature a
finger buffet, cream sherry and bawling infant. Although Buckingham Palace has
yet to comment, it seems clear that there will be more Middletons than royals at
the much-anticipated christening on October 23. This gives rise to the spectre
of an event where half the Royal Family won't be there but that Donna Air, the
TV presenter who is dating James Middleton, will be. Maybe Uncle Gary will fly
in from La Maison de Bang Bang, too, and show everyone his leg tattoos. An
intimate, family affair? We are talking about the future king, after all.
Observers might have hoped for a bit of Tudor-style grandeur, with red velvet
robes lined with ermine, a squadron of trumpeters and the entire cast of greater
and lesser spotted Windsors on hand. Yet Prince William is determined to do
things his way and his way increasingly seems to be the Middleton way. For is
such a scaled-down christening another example of the middle class-isation of
the Royal Family? A ceremony with no pomp, a nice little Home Counties gathering
with granny Carole in pole position and Pippa passing around the pheasant
goujons? Or perhaps the reverse true? William seems increasingly keen to put an
ocean of clear blue water between himself and the rest of the clan, particularly
the more junior members of The Firm. Having a small christening for Prince
George may be intimate but it also makes it much more exclusive. And underlines
the Cambridges' special status into the bargain. Sometimes I get rather fed up
of William and Kate always saying: We're ordinary, we're not really royal, we're
just like you. What us? Special? Aw shucks.' Then behaving like the Emperor and
Empress of Snootyboots on the fly. So I repeat no great-aunts? That's a pretty
poor show.***Amanda Holden has written her biography, No Holding Back. It
appears to be more of a damage-limitation exercise than a life story. For a
start, the Britain's Got Talent star dismisses her eight-year marriage to
comedian Les Dennis and her very public affair with actor Neil Morrissey as mere
trifles. I felt that it was a shallow, awful part of my life,' she says, axing
them right out of her existence. Chop, chop! Poor old Les. Felled like a
diseased oak.She feels her life only really began when she met second husband
Chris Hughes and had daughters Lexi, seven, and Hollie (nearly two) and they
certainly seem to be a very happy family unit. Holden hasn't published this book
for profit or to enhance her showbiz profile oh dear me, no. She has done it,
she says, for her children. She wants them to hear her story in her own words.
So why doesn't she just tell them? Well, the girls are probably too young to
absorb some of the more difficult aspects of Amanda's life. Particularly the
abuse she received on Mumsnet after going back to work so quickly following the
birth of Hollie, in January 2012. It was a very difficult labour, in which
Amanda nearly died. The previous year she had suffered the loss of a son when
she was seven months pregnant. None of this stopped the online venom.Spending
time with your newborn is way more important than some sh***y talent show,' she
was told. That's nice and supportive! Well done, you lovely mums.In her book,
Amanda claims she went back to work because she wanted to stop thinking about
dying. Maybe so. But she also has steely ambition flowing through her veins and
I mean that as a compliment. Amanda Holden might risk some things but losing her
plum job sitting next to Simon Cowell on the BGT panel isn't one of
them.***Forget the sugar and spice, there is a very murky side to the world of
baked goods. London-based baker Bea Vo invented and named the duffin a cross
between a doughnut and a muffin two years ago. She sells them in her four Bea's
Of Bloomsbury shops and included the recipe in her 2011 cookbook. So imagine her
surprise when she discovered that Starbucks has trademarked a new addition to
its baked goods range lo and behold, the duffin! A cross between a doughnut and
a muffin that is uncannily like hers.Starbucks have said that they won't stop Ms
Vo from making hers, but that they now own the name.Very generous of them, I'm
sure. However, the fact remains one of their big suppliers came along to Bea's,
noticed the duffin, discovered the name wasn't trademarked and appropriated it
for themselves. Isn't it just loathsome when big companies muscle in with their
cash and arrogance, and nick the bright ideas, creativity, ingenuity and honest
sweat of the little guy?Starbucks should be ashamed of themselves. They should
just duff off. And pay their tax while they're at it.***Exciting news. Former
Spice Girl Geri Halliwell is making a documentary. Is it about:a) The IMF
forecast that Britain's deficit will fall at the fastest pace in the developed
word?b) The proposed third runway at Heathrow airport?c) Herself?Answers on a
postcard, please. ***Liverpool Fashion Week (stop tittering at the back) has
banned models who have been on sunbeds. Yes, yes, yes. They know there will be
jokes about it being difficult to find non-orange models in that fair city.
However, LFW are backing Liverpool City Council's The Look To Die For? campaign.
And good for them.The council wants sunbed salons to be regulated, to help halt
the worrying rise of skin cancer the fastest-growing cancer among 18 to
35-year-olds in the UK. Findings from a Cancer Research UK study revealed that
half (HALF!) of girls aged 15 to 17 in Liverpool have used a sunbed. This is
far, far above the national average of 11 per cent. Even using a bed just once a
month can increase the risk of cancer by 50 per cent. Legislation was introduced
three years ago to restrict the use of beds to over-18s only but clearly, this
hasn't been a success. Really, I don't know why these disease-creating
hellholes are not all shut down overnight. Sunbeds are downright dangerous. Too
many youngsters use them and then live or die to regret it.***What about the
naked, drunk easyJet passenger who challenged the captain to a fight, urinated
against the Manchester airport terminal wall, got slapped across the face by his
girlfriend and tasered by police? Well, it's always a bit sad to return home
after a holiday but sometimes you've just got to be grown up about it.***It was
revealed this week that top male models earn far less than female models. Oh boo
hoo! Excuse me while I wipe a fake tear from my glass eye. Maybe it is unfair,
but the boys are getting a taste of the discrimination women have faced for
centuries. Equal pay for all? It is still a long way away. Especially for
man-nequins who don't have to worry about their hair, make-up, diets and leg
hair quite as much as the women. Though, yes, they do have to wear sillier
clothes. Pom-pom balaclava anyone?***Some OAPs in Stroud have taken over their
retirement home. Instead of dozing off over an afternoon cuppa, they'll be doing
accounts, organising events, deciding who comes to live there, taking control of
their existence. One of them said: It is the future.' If only! But it is an
absolutely brilliant idea one that will probably put years on their lives.****
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KATE AND WILLS UNVEIL COAT OF ARMS, COMPLETE WITH MIDDLETON ACORNS!
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THEIR families are now joined forever through marriage.
So it is appropriate that the coats of arms of the Houses of Middleton and
Windsor are firmly entwined as well.
Although Kate's ancestors include carpenters and coal miners, they had their own
heraldic design drawn up in 2011, shortly before the royal wedding.
And yesterday the Duchess of Cambridge's personal emblem was linked, for the
first time, with that of her husband to create a new Conjugal Coat of Arms'.
Designed by the College of Arms in London, it represents William and Kate, in
heraldic terms, as a married couple.
The Middleton coat of arms - which was applied for by Kate's father Michael features three leafy acorns to represent his children.
Acorns were chosen for the analogy that they grow into great oaks. Oak is also a
symbol of England and strength, and West Berkshire, where the children were
brought up, has many oak trees.
In the centre of Kate's emblem is a gold chevron representing the Duchess's
mother, Carole, at the heart of the family. Her family name was Goldsmith.
The two thin white chevrons on either side indicate, remarkably, the family's
love of skiing and mountains, while the background colours of red and blue were
chosen as they are the principal colours of the flag of the UK and match
William's own shield.
William's design is a version of the Royal Coat of Arms which was granted to him
by the Queen on his 18th birthday.
It shows the various royal emblems of the United Kingdom: the three lions of
England, the lion of Scotland and the harp of Ireland.
It is surrounded by a blue garter bearing the motto Honi soit qui mal y pense Shame to those who think evil of it - which symbolises the Order of the Garter
of which he is a Knight Companion.
Both shields are supported by the Duke of Cambridge's supporters' - a royal lion
and unicorn, each wearing a three pointed collar, known as a label. The label
has a red scallop shell derived from the Spencer coat of arms, which has been
used by the ancestors of Princess Diana for centuries.
Flowing out from the top of the Conjugal Coat of Arms is mantling', which
represents the slashed cloth hung around the necks of knights fighting in the
heat of the Middle East during the Crusades. Timothy Duke, of the College of
Arms, said: Any married couple who are both entitled to arms are entitled to
combine them in a Conjugal Coat of Arms.
There are different rules and conventions as to how this works, depending on who
the individual is, but as the Duke of Cambridge is a Knight of the Order of the
Garter his is encircled by the blue garter bearing its motto.
As his wife is not, a wreath was made to balance hers out decoratively.
Obviously that will change if she, in the future, is made a member herself.'
A spokesman for Kensington Palace added: The Conjugal Arms will be the couple's
coat of arms forever, but parts of it could change as their own circumstances
and roles change.
It was approved by the Queen earlier this year and can now be shown publicly for
the first time.
* A man has appeared in court accused of stalking the Queen.Derek Milne, 37, is
alleged to have made threats that they would both die together on judgment day'.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard he had made repeated phone calls from his home in
Dundee to both Buckingham Palace and Balmoral, demanding to speak to the Queen.
He is also accused of writing letters in which he asked for details of the
Queen's movements. He was committed for trial and remanded in custody.
GEORGE'S BAPTISM AT ST JAMES'S PALACE
WILLIAM and Kate are to break with recent royal tradition and have Prince George
christened at St James's Palace.
The couple have chosen to hold an intimate' family ceremony at the Chapel Royal
on October 23 conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Princes William, Charles and Andrew and Princess Anne were all baptised in the
Music Room at Buckingham Palace. The Queen was christened in the royal
residence's private chapel.
But it is understood that William and Kate favoured the Holbein-decorated Chapel
Royal because it is, in the words of one royal aide, an historic, quite intimate
chapel'. It is not the first time the couple have deviated from royal
convention. William ripped up the suggested 700-strong guest list for his
wedding because he hardly knew anyone on it' and the first official picture of
Prince George was a snapshot taken by Kate's father, Michael Middleton.
The couple also have intensely personal links to St James's Palace. In 1997, the
body of Princess Diana lay before the altar in the Chapel Royal before her
funeral. And in April 2011, Kate chose the chapel for her confirmation into the
Church of England in a secret ceremony before her marriage.
Prince George with his parents
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THEIR LOVE NEST
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Giggling as they adjusted their Day-Glo comedy afro wigs, the young couple
slipped into their seats at the Empire picture house in Holyhead without a hint
of fanfare.
It was just weeks before Prince William and Kate Middleton announced their
engagement becoming perhaps the most talked about couple on the planet.
But in those last carefree days of the summer of 2010
, the future King and Queen were simply two revellers among a group of friends
from RAF Valley dressed in Seventies-style get-ups on a team jolly' to watch Toy
Story 3.
Jean Owen, manager of the cinema, simply couldn't believe her eyes.
They turned up in fancy dress and wore big afro wigs. Prince William's was
purple if I remember rightly,' she said.
No one knew they were coming until they turned up, and they said they were
wearing the wigs for charity.'
Another staff member added: Although they were trying to be incognito, people
recognised them instantly but no one would have dreamed of taking a photograph.
That's just not the way things are done on Anglesey.'
Little wonder, then, that William spoke passionately of his time on the island
off the North-West coast of Wales when he made an official speech announcing his
departure last month.
I know that I speak for Catherine when I say that I have never in my life known
somewhere as beautiful and as welcoming as Anglesey,' he said. Both of us will
miss it terribly when my Search & Rescue tour of duty comes to an end.'
In less than two weeks, the Prince and his wife plus their baby son, Prince
George will move into their first official' residence: a four-storey, 20-room
apartment in Kensington Palace.
The second in line to the throne will then embark on the first stage of his new
role as a fully-fledged royal.
According to well-placed sources, the couple are ready to embrace this new
chapter in their increasingly public lives, but the formality could not contrast
more with the relaxed existence they left behind on Anglesey.
Until now, locals have been reluctant to speak about the newlyweds who lived in
their midst, determined to afford them the privacy they so clearly craved.
Following their departure, however, several have spoken to the Mail about their
time on the island and some of the revelations cast this normally staid, rather
unadventurous, couple in a surprising new light.
Arriving on Anglesey in 2010
, William decided to rent a 750-a-month, four-bedroom whitewashed farmhouse
from local landowner and long-time royal confidant Sir George Meyrick and his
wife Jean in the largely Welsh-speaking hamlet of Bodorgan, on the South-West
corner of the island.
The Royal couple used to regularly enjoy Wednesday night suppers of shepherd's
pie and claret up at the big house' (as the stately pile, Bodorgan Hall, is
known) with the admirably discreet Meyrick family.
THE farmhouse is in an isolated but breathtakingly scenic position above the
Irish Sea, surrounded by private land and overlooking a small beach, accessible
only by an hour-long cross-country hike. In the garden, there is a gas-fired
barbecue, which was put to good use by the couple in summer.
Until now, the media has been barred for security reasons from disclosing its
location, but it wasn't so much an open secret on the island as a fully-fledged
tourist attraction, particularly for the hordes of summer rubberneckers hoping
for a glimpse of the royal couple.
William openly shared the house with Kate even before their marriage, although
she retained her London pied-a-terre for the sake of appearances.
Surprisingly, their decision to live there had little impact on locals, who saw
them only occasionally out and about on the estate. There were always a few
friendly words of greeting for their neighbours but not always for visitors.
One local, Lesley Matthews, 65, recalled last week: A while ago, we had a Sky TV
man come out to attend to some repair, but his SatNav took him to their
farmhouse.
He got halfway down the drive and then a load of security men with guns jumped
out at him. He came round here in a bit of a state saying: "I can't believe
what's just happened I went to Prince William's address instead of yours."
He had a hot reception.'
Mrs Matthews added: I saw William jogging on his own several times near our
farm. He would wave and say hello, even though he must have run for several
miles.
He and Kate would go pheasant shooting once a month, when he had a day off. My
grandson would regularly see them there. They were always very friendly, asking
how we were.'
Their homely farmhouse had two spare bedrooms for regular guests (most commonly
the Middletons) and a third crammed full of fitness equipment, including a
rowing machine, for slender Kate to hone her physique.
And in stark contrast to Apartment 1A at Kensington Palace, which has been
filled with some of the choicest antiques from the Royal Collection (the Queen
gave her granddaughter-in-law carte blanche to borrow whatever took her fancy),
in Anglesey Kate was a regular at that temple of style Homebase on the Penrhos
Industrial Estate in Holyhead.
Among her most recent purchases were a 9.99 red felt cushion with the word
Love' embroidered across the front, a 22.99 faux leather letter tray and a
10.99 magazine file.
One member of staff said: She loved it in here. She spent a lot of time here,
especially in the lighting and bathroom departments.'
Day to day, the couple followed a very ordinary routine although often William's
commute to work was rather more grand than most.
Neighbour Jane Nay, 50, said: I could set my watch by the time he left for work
every day at 6.45am, usually in a black Range Rover followed by security.
But a few times his work Search & Rescue helicopter [a Sea King] came to collect
him. There must be room to land a helicopter in the grounds of the farm. It made
a huge racket.'
While William was on the base, Kate would pop out to the shops, browsing the
bargains at her local butcher and fishmonger.
She liked a bit of salmon fillet or cod loin,' observed one shopkeeper. She
always asked what was fresh that day, and always about the price. I got the
impression that she was quite careful with her money.'
Royal biographer Michael Thornton, another local resident, would see her pushing
a trolley around her favourite supermarket, Waitrose at Menai Bridge, with her
protection officer lagging behind.
The Duchess dressed casually and never wore make-up,' he said. She was always
very friendly to the staff, who were very proud of the fact that she shopped
there.
The people here are not terribly royalist-minded and were ambivalent, at best,
about their arrival, but she and William won Anglesey over with their warmth and
low-key lifestyle and trust me, the people of Anglesey are not easily swayed.'
Aside from visits to the cinema, there was surfing at nearby Rhosneigr, where
Kate was seen buying a wetsuit.
If William was working a series of particularly unsociable shifts, Kate would
return to London to see what was new on the King's Road in Chelsea, or to stay
with her family.
Apart from that, the couple liked to invite family and friends from London to
stay, or sometimes to socialise with William's RAF colleagues.
Though friendly and approachable, they very much continued to mix with their own
sort', according to neighbours. The couple also enjoyed long walks with their
dog Lupo on Llanddwyn Beach, a picturesque five-mile stretch with views across
to Snowdonia National Park.
Appropriately, Llanddwyn means the Church of St Dwynwen', the Welsh patron saint
of lovers, and Kate and William were often seen walking huddled together,
fingers entwined.
One resident recalled: I saw them there one morning. They looked very much in
love.'
Another local, 53-year-old artist Julie Franklyn, describes how the pair would
drive around in a battered white Ford Transit van, wearing baseball caps and
sunglasses when they wanted to venture out incognito.
Everyone thought it was hilarious when they twigged it was them. It was very
funny William as a white van man,' she laughed.
The Prince would also seek anonymity by donning leathers and helmet and putting
his red and white 180?mph Ducati motorbike through its paces along the winding
lanes of the island Kate occasionally riding pillion and the pair sometimes
stopping off at the White Eagle at Rhoscolyn gastro-pub for a 12.50 Snowdon'
burger.
While those carefree days are now behind them, it has been made clear to William
and Kate that Anglesey would welcome them back any time they care to visit.
Indeed, according to sources close to the Meyrick family, reports that they are
to put the Cambridges' farmhouse back on the rental market are wide of the mark:
It is very unlikely they will do that now. They abhor the thought of people
booking it just so they could claim they'd slept in the same bed as William and
Kate.
Actually, the house has always been largely used by family and friends to stay
in and this, I understand, is what it will revert to.'
Meanwhile, it's having a lick of paint to freshen it up but it doesn't need much
work,' one estate worker told the Mail. The recent tenants looked after the
place impeccably.'
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WILLS HIRES HIS OLD NANNY FOR GEORGE
BYLINE: BY REBECCA ENGLISH AND RICHARD KAY
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THEY had hoped to do it all themselves. But, as many new parents have realised
before them, sometimes you need an extra pair of hands.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have bowed to the inevitable and hired a nanny
for their seven-week-old son, Prince George.
They have decided to keep it in the family, however - asking William's former
nanny, Jessie Webb, to come out of retirement and lend a hand part-time.
Palace sources had let it be known as recently as June that the pair had no
plans to pay for extra care.
But, sources admit, William and Kate have quickly realised they are not a
super-couple' and need some help, particularly as the duchess is slowly
returning to limited royal duties.
Miss Webb, 71, cared for the prince and his brother, Harry, in the early 1990s.
She was eventually let go by Princess Diana, who often became jealous of those
her sons grew close to.
But William, now 31, enjoyed a warm, loving relationship with his nannies, and
has always regarded Miss Webb fondly. He ensured she was a guest of honour at
both his 21st birthday party and his wedding two years ago.
Now, some 25 years on, she is looking after William's own son - and the
Cambridges believe George couldn't be in better hands.
Nanny Webb was on duty last night when the couple took to the red carpet for
only their second official engagement since their son's birth on July 22.
A senior royal source told the Mail that she was working for the Cambridges on
an ad hoc' basis. Jessie Webb is helping the couple out,' they said. It was a
very recent decision.' Miss Webb was first employed by Prince Charles and his
wife to look after William and Harry when the future king was seven and about to
start at prep school.
It was the spring of 1990. While to the outside world all seemed well, Miss Webb
soon found herself walking a tightrope as Charles and Diana's relationship
disintegrated.
Diana was often in tears and there were frequent rows,' a former Kensington
Palace figure recalled. Jessie did not see it as her job to console the
princess, so she did her bit to keep the children occupied and out of the way.'
In their private lives the royal couple had already made their choices. The
prince had returned to the warm embrace of his former love, Camilla Parker
Bowles, and Diana was being consoled by Life Guards officer James Hewitt.
Indeed, while on the surface it still seemed so normal, the reality was that by
now the prince and princess were not just living separate lives but also
maintaining separate homes. Increasingly, Charles remained at Highgrove during
the week, while Diana and the boys were in London.
It was against this background that Miss Webb began her duties. For generations,
royal nannies had been picked from a relatively limited social circle. But with
her warm Cockney informality and no-nonsense approach, Miss Webb seemed just the
person to bring a bit of much-needed cheer into the household.
Miss Webb enjoyed a healthy appetite herself and she thought the boys,
especially Harry, needed feeding up. The nursery fridge groaned with sausages,
bacon, buns, cakes of every description, and biscuits.
But the food all went. Indeed chef Mervyn Wycherley was once overheard saying of
Miss Webb: If I [didn't] lock the kitchen door we would have no food left.'
Little boys, she would tell anyone who was listening, needed meat and potatoes.
At first her large, reassuring presence helped diffuse the often fraught
atmosphere between Charles and Diana, who by now were scarcely talking to each
other.
She took charge on weekend trips to Cirencester Park, where the boys played with
their own cut-down polo sticks. Miss Webb, often described as a like a ship in
full sail', seemed untroubled by the gathering marital storm.
She knew how to swoop up the boys when their parents' arguments became too
loud,' a police bodyguard said.
When William went away to Ludgrove school in the autumn of 1990, Jessie had only
Harry to look after.
If anything William's absence - Diana missed him terribly - made the atmosphere
even worse. By the summer of 1991, the fairytale marriage was over in all but
name.
It was inevitable perhaps that as Charles and Diana lashed out, others got hurt,
too. One casualty was Jessie. In fact both Charles and Diana had decided it was
time she should move on,' said a former Palace figure.
He found her too big, too brash and generally too loud. Diana just stopped
talking to her, Jessie never really knew why.'

So it was agreed that she would leave KP' when Harry started at Ludgrove in the
autumn of 1992.
But Jessie was not brusquely discarded. Instead she found work courtesy of
Diana's Kensington Palace neighbour Princess Margaret. She went to work for
Viscount Linley and his wife Serena, where she remained for several happy years.
She then moved to a royal apartment in Kennington, South London, to enjoy her
retirement.
Initially, as revealed by the Mail, William and Kate had hoped to do without any
outside help for their baby son.
Indeed, the duchess broke with royal tradition and eschewed the services of a
maternity nurse after his birth, preferring to go and live with her parents in
Berkshire for almost a month.
Neither were keen to advertise for a carer and as far as William was concerned,
there was only one person he trusted for the job: Nanny Webb.
Although not entirely keen to go back to work in view of her age, she was
apparently delighted and flattered' to have been asked. She has been in Wales
with the couple for the last week before returning with them to London on
Tuesday.
The truth is she loves William very much and was happy to do anything she could
to help out,' a source said.
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WHY KATE'S LOCKS HAVE LOST THEIR LUSTRE
BYLINE: BY ALICE HART-DAVIS
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During her pregnancy, the Duchess of Cambridge's lovely locks looked their
lustrous best.
But since she gave birth to Prince George in July, it seems that, like many new
mums, Kate's hair has looked rather worse for wear. So, what is it about
pregnancy and giving birth that wreaks such havoc on hair?
Why is hair less shiny after having a baby?
Often, women find their hair looks thicker and shinier during pregnancy but
hormonal changes kick in after having a baby, as dermatologist Justine Hextall
explains.
'Hair has three phases; growth, resting and shedding,' she says.
'Normally, hair grows at the same rate that it falls out. But under the
influence of pregnancy hormones, more hairs remain in the growing phase,
particularly during the second and third trimester, which is why women often
notice hair becoming thicker as their pregnancy goes on. Usually, losing your
hair after birth is just your hair going back to normal.'
Will the frizz last for ever?
'Pregnancy is thought to be a terrific time for hair,' says trichologist Philip
Kingsley. 'But that's not true for everyone. Hair is likely to become
progressively drier during pregnancy as hormones reduce the amount of oil your
sebaceous glands produce.'
As your hormones return to normal, this dry frizz should subside. In the
meantime, use anti-frizz products which boost levels of oil and moisture, such
as DGI Organics' Argan Oil shampoo and conditioner (5.99 each, Waitrose). Even
fine hair can benefit from a light oil.
Try Alterna's Kendi Dry Oil Micromist (21.95, alternahaircare.com), which can
be sprayed onto dry or damp hair.
Can a special diet help hair recover?
'Just choose healthy foods,' says Kingsley. 'And make sure that you include
protein, which hair needs in order to grow, in every meal.
'Your body considers your hair to be non-essential tissue, so it's the last to
benefit from good nutrition.'
Fertility expert Zita West's range has supplements for different stages of
pregnancy and breastfeeding (25 a month, zitawest.com) or try Pregnacare
Breastfeeding supplements (15.25 for a month's supply, boots.com).
Spatone iron sachets (8.25 for 28, at Boots) are a good way to top up low iron
levels, which can result from blood loss during birth and can lead to hair loss.
How can I give thin hair more oomph?
A CLIP-IN hairpiece or ponytail (Hersheson's Invisible Ponytail, 60,
hershesons.com) gives instant volume, or rub Trevor Sorbie's new Volume Big Hair
Powder (6.29, trevorsorbie.com) which contains particles that puff up as they
emerge from their container into your roots.
There are many volume-boosting shampoos on the market, such as Burt's Bees Very
Volumizing Pomegranate Shampoo, (9.99, burtsbees.co.uk), but Nanogen gets rave
reviews from new mums. Its thickening shampoo, conditioner and Growth Factor
Treatment Serum (29.95 at Boots or nanogen.co.uk) contain patented ingredients
that copy your body's natural hair-growth signals, providing extra support for
post-pregnancy hair.
Should new mums dye their hair?

It looks as if Kate has given up colouring her hair for the time being
possibly because there's still some controversy over whether women should dye
hair while pregnant or breastfeeding.
NHS guidelines say it's 'very unlikely that a significant amount of the
chemicals used in hair dyes will be passed on through your breast milk . . .
because very little enters your bloodstream'.
If you'd rather wait, try Color Wow (28.50 at victoriahealth.com) a brush-on,
temporary powder for your roots, which comes in a slick compact in shades from
platinum blonde to black.
* Additional research: Karen Heath.
Hair today
The average healthy head has 100,000 hairs, shedding between 40 and 150 strands
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WILLIAM: I RELAX TO THE SOUND OF AFRICAN BUFFALO AND CRICKETS ON MY IPHONE
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AFTER a particularly trying day, some of us might unwind with a cup of tea or a
hot bath. But Prince William, it seems, has a slightly wilder solution.
The Duke of Cambridge has revealed he listens to animal noises on his iPhone to
relax - inspired by the love of Africa he inherited from his mother.
While his father Prince Charles has admitted he talks to plants while indulging
in a little gardening, William confessed to having several hundred sound effects
- such as crickets and buffalos - on his mobile phone which remind him of the
country where he proposed to wife Kate.
In an interview about his love for Africa and his charity work there, Prince
William said: I regularly daydream. Africa is definitely one of the places I go

to ... I have hundreds of animals on my iPhone. So if I am ever having quite a
stressful day ... you can put a buffalo on in the background or a cricket.
It takes you back instantly to the bush. And it does completely settle me down.'
Prince William revealed how his mother Princess Diana inspired his passion,
saying her infectious enthusiasm and energy' for Africa and its people could not
fail to rub off on him.
He said: She would come back with all these stories and full of excitement and
just passion for what she had been doing and I sort of used to sit there, quite
a sort of surprised little boy at the time, taking it all in.'
And his connection to the continent is so strong that he chose to propose while
on holiday in Kenya in 2010
.
He said: I didn't really plan it that far in advance. I just knew I wanted it to
feel comfortable where I did it and I wanted it to mean something, other than
just the act of getting engaged.
[Kate] understands what it means to me being in Africa.'
William was speaking in a documentary, Prince William's Passion: New Father, New
Hope, which looks at his commitment to conservation in Africa.
The prince, who is royal patron of conservation organisation Tusk Trust, said
his protective' instinct has kicked in since the birth of Prince George in July.
He said he has been spurred on to do more to protect vulnerable' wildlife, such
as cheetahs, one of his favourite animals.
He said: Suddenly you start thinking of like, wow, there is stuff you want to
safeguard for the future. I've always believed it, but to actually really feel
it as well, it's coming through powerfully now as well.'
He also revealed how he has become more emotional since the birth of his son.
The last few weeks have been a very different emotional experience - something I
never thought I would feel for myself,' he said. I find, even though it's only
been a short period, that a lot of things affect me now.'
In the interview, William admitted that his visits to Africa help him to indulge
the side of his character that craves a sense of normality, away from the
maelstrom of royal life.
It's escaping to a kind of different world where I am just who I normally am
anyway, and I can let that side, that sort of slightly immature, silly person
come out a bit more than I normally do,' he said. There's not sycophants or
anything like that. You're very much treated as one of the team, and if you're
not pulling your weight, you're told to man up and get on with it.'
But he might have to wait a while for his next trip to Africa. I think as soon
as George grows up a little bit more [I'll go],' he said, before joking: I will
be hung [sic] if I go now ... [but] it's definitely a plan of mine to go back.'
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will make their first red carpet appearance
together since the birth of their son on Thursday at the Tusk Trust's
Conservation Awards in London, where the duke will present the Prince William
Award for Conservation in Africa.

Prince William's Passion: New Father, New Hope will be shown by CNN
International and ITV in the UK on Sunday, September 15.
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HOW KATE FOLLOWED WILLIAM TO UNIVERSITY
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THE Duchess of Cambridge switched university and took a gap year to ensure she
attended at the same time as Prince William, a new book claims.
It had previously been thought a coincidence that the pair met at St Andrews.
Kate had a place at Edinburgh University in 2000 but gave it up and took a gap
year in Italy, reapplying to St Andrews for 2001 after William's place became
public.
Kate: The Future Queen, by Mail on Sunday Royal Editor Katie Nicholl, also
claims Carole Middleton held a secret summit with William to ask whether he
planned to propose to her daughter.
The book also tells how William and Kate took a make-or-break holiday to the
Seychelles following their split in 2007 and made a pact to marry and have
children
Kate achieved two As and a B in her A Levels - the grades she needed for
Edinburgh - and the university was her first choice. William achieved an A in
geography, a B in history of art and a C in biology and won a place to study
history of art after a year out.
Applications to St Andrews rose by 44 per cent after the news emerged, meaning
Kate's decision was risky as there was no guarantee she would get a place.
Jasper Selwyn, a careers adviser at Kate's former school, Marlborough College,
and house tutor Joan Gall both confirmed her first choice was Edinburgh.
Mr Selwyn said: Kate's firm choice was Edinburgh and that was confirmed.'
According to her house mistress, Ann Patching, the change of heart came as a
surprise. She said: After she left school, Catherine made some different
decisions, but why she made those decisions I don't know.'
In 2007 William and Kate split amid rumours she disapproved of his party
lifestyle and his reluctance to propose.
A make-or-break holiday followed and Kate reportedly gave William an ultimatum.
According to the book, the pair then made a pact to marry and have children.
However at Christmas 2009 Kate's mother, Carole Middleton, reportedly took
William aside to discuss a possible engagement.
A friend said: She put some pressure on William to let the family know where it
was all leading. William reassured her the relationship was very much on track
and that there would be an engagement soon. Carole trusted William and put her
faith in him.'
The book also claims that Kate and William met for the first time through mutual
friends from Marlborough in the summer of 1999 at Highgrove.
Reunited: William and Kate pictured in 2007
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SO ELLIE, WHAT WILL YOU BUY YOUR PALS WILLS AND KATE FOR THE BABY?
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Singer Ellie Goulding was touring the States when Prince George was born last
month and, since then, she's been in a bit of a quandary.
I fully intend to send William and Kate a gift for him, but I have no idea what
to get,' she says, looking fretful. What do you give someone who has everything?
Still, they're truly lovely people so I imagine they'd be grateful for
anything.'
It's not a dilemma with which many 26-year-olds would be familiar, particularly
one who grew up on a council estate, as Ellie did.
But as she admits, events in recent years have been so surreal, it's easier to
pretend my life's a comedy show. That's how I deal with things sometimes,
because some of it just doesn't seem real.'
First, there was the small matter of performing at Buckingam Palace at the
wedding reception of William and Kate two years ago, followed, that Christmas,
by a performance for President Obama at the White House.
It has been a crazy few years,' she admits, but really, I haven't done anything
that mental recently.'
With her new single Burn giving Ellie her first ever UK Number One,
boyfriend in the shape of War Horse star Jeremy Irvine (more on him
her name linked to One Direction's Niall Horan after they were seen
locking lips at last weekend's V Festival in Essex, plus those fans
places, Ellie could be forgiven for being a little complacent.
an actor
later) and
reportedly
in high
But she comes across as an intriguing mix: both thoughtful and old beyond her
years, while at times endearingly childlike and open about her insecurities.
If I get offered something,' she says, or I find out I'm supporting Bruno Mars
[as she has been in the States], I think to myself: "That's awesome ... now,
what's the bad thing that's going to happen?"'
There was, however, nothing bad about the William and Kate gig, save perhaps the
image of father-of-the-groom Prince Charles dancing along to Ellie's hit Starry
Eyed with his wife Camilla.
Well, they were certainly present, but anything else I can't really say,' says
Ellie, being frustratingly discreet. I didn't tell anyone I was doing the
reception and I'm actually really good at keeping secrets.
It was such a highlight for me and they were all so lovely. I've always been a
fan of the Royal Family and I love that we have that huge history. It's really
special.
I haven't seen William and Kate since, but they've sent letters and their best
wishes. I saw Harry, though, three months ago when I performed for a charity
event of his. I played quite late in the evening so everyone was a bit drunk!'
Ellie's ascent may seem rapid a Number One debut album, Lights, a Critics'
Choice Brit Award and a Number Two follow-up album, Halcyon, all within the
space of three years but the seeds of her success were actually sown when she
first started to write as a young child, growing up in a council house in
Lyonshall, Herefordshire.
Unusually sensitive to things going on around her, Ellie kept a diary and wrote
songs.
I was very aware of things in the news,' she says, and when Princess Diana died
[Ellie was ten then], I remember thinking about it so much. I don't know why.
Maybe I was just very affected by things I felt were injustices.
I used to read Bel Mooney's It's Not Fair! books, and they'd explain the c**p
things in life really well, so because I read a lot, it really switched me on to
things.'
Her parents, Tracey and Arthur, separated when Ellie was just five, and though
her mother remarried, Ellie found it hard to relate to her stepfather, a lorry
driver.
He wasn't the type to suggest a book to read or a film to watch; he was just a
difficult person to live with. Even as a youngster, I knew I'd be a different
adult to him.
But he's the father of my little sister Jordan, and she's definitely the silver
lining.'
Ellie's relationship with her own father remains difficult, too.
He'll read this and probably build up more anger,' she says, but I don't see him
at all, and I've spoken to him just once since my record deal, which was five
years ago.
I've no idea what my father says to people, or whether he mentions me. I'm
definitely past the point where I'm bitter or angry, because I have such a good
life, but there'll always be questions.
I wonder if he's proud and happy for me. I wonder if he's thinking about me. I
wonder a lot of things.'
Though supremely assured on stage, Ellie is candid about her insecurities. In
the past, she has admitted to suffering panic attacks. They struck four years
ago, just as her music career was taking off.
They'd clearly been building up for years,' she said back then.
Today, she is able to handle her anxieties, and as she says: Because me and my
siblings [Jordan, 21, Alexander, 24, and Isabel, 28] all had the same upbringing
and grew up on a council estate, we're all tough and can deal with stuff.
None of my siblings are weaklings, but they're really nice people and appreciate
what they have.
But I did have a lot of anxiety as a child, and worried about different things.
I used to lie awake thinking a meteor was going to hit. I definitely had this
feeling of doom! But then I also think that if I didn't have that anxiety or
worry or panic about people, then I might not have become a writer. So I can't
regret anything at all.'
Ellie escaped through walking, reading, listening to music and writing, and her
first songs were inevitably about boys though I wasn't popular with them,' she
says.
I looked very different then. I had long, dyed black hair, a lip piercing and I
was quite chubby. But I think I've got better with age and better at doing my
make-up.
I had a lot of insecurity for a while that I wasn't being a cover girl. I'd see
my friends who are singers on the covers of magazines and I'd think the reason
I'm not isn't because I'm not successful musically but because I'm not cover
girl material.'
Actually, she does herself a great disservice. In the flesh, Ellie is
exceptionally pretty, with huge, expressive eyes and a beautiful smile. And
however modest she is about her popularity with boys in the past, that certainly
isn't the case now.
Her exes include Radio 1 DJ Greg James and Grammy Award-winning DJ and producer
Skrillex. Then there was last week's partying with Niall Horan just weeks after
he declared her absolutely amazing looking' in a GQ magazine interview.
None of which can have made pleasant reading for Jeremy Irvine, the star of
Steven Spielberg's 2011 film War Horse and Ellie's current squeeze. A
spokeswoman for Ellie insists: Ellie and Jeremy are still together, and Ellie
and Niall are not a couple.'
Indeed, when I spoke to Ellie she seemed pretty happy with Jeremy. I hadn't seen
War Horse when I met him,' she explained, and he didn't really know my music
either, so we were both in the same boat. But I think we really appreciate what
the other one does.
The first time I saw him was in Now Is Good. My song I Know You Care which is
about my dad actually features in the film and that's kind of how he and I got
together, because he said: "Thanks for doing the song."
He's a lovely person. He's always very complimentary about me and says lovely
things. I'm so lucky. He's a bit younger than me, 23, but he's very mature, very
clever and funny.'
Ellie, though, doesn't seem
parents divorced when I was
I love kids, but I wouldn't
because I'm just constantly
too concerned about settling down just yet. My

five years old, so I'm not in a rush to get married.
want to have them right now. In any case, I couldn't
on tour.'
For now though, she has more than enough to be getting on with. Along with her
new Number One single comes the release of her album Halcyon Days (a repackaging
of her platinum-selling 2012 album), with one of the songs, How Long Will I Love
You, featuring on the soundtrack of Richard Curtis's new rom-com, About Time.
She is also gearing up for a ten-date tour of the UK in October.
I'm really happy at the moment because all these good things are happening,' she
says. But I also feel a bit like "What's the catch? What's going to happen to
ruin it?"
She laughs. That's just my doom and gloom thing again. But it helps me keep my
feet on the ground.'
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HOW CAROLE THE LIVE-IN GRANNY FOLLOWED KATE AND BABY TO WALES
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SHE was the first to visit her daughter in hospital when Prince George was born
nearly four weeks ago.
And since then, Carole Middleton appears to have taken on the role of
granny-in-residence.
For after having the Duchess of Cambridge and her baby to stay for three weeks,
she followed them up the North Wales.
Kate's closeness to her mother is well-known. So it was no surprise that she
chose to go to her parents' Berkshire mansion shortly after leaving St Mary's
Hospital in Paddington following George's birth.
And when Kate and the baby moved back to Anglesey at the start of this week to
be with Prince William, who returned to duty as a rescue helicopter pilot ten
days ago, Mrs Middleton was persuaded to go with them to help the duchess and
the baby settle in.
Friends say she has taken to being a grandmother with gusto', and it is
understood that she accompanied the couple as they travelled up by car.
William was seen by locals out and about with Mrs Middleton while Kate remained
at the isolated, whitewashed farmhouse.
Yesterday morning the prince dropped Mrs Middleton at the nearest railway
station, Bangor, for her to take the train back to Berkshire after spending the
best part of a month in the company of the new parents.
While some would find living in such close proximity to their own
mother/mother-in-law claustrophobic - barely a day has gone past since George's
birth that Carole hasn't been present - the couple are said to be immensely
grateful' for her help.
Sources said Kate just feels safest and most secure' with her family,
particularly when her husband returned to work after paternity leave.
She believes that no one could be better placed - or more trusted - to teach her
about bringing up a baby than her mother, who has three children of her own.
Although Kate has eschewed the services of a maternity nurse, it is believed
that her new housekeeper, Antonella Fresolone, who used to work for the Queen at
Buckingham Palace, has travelled to Anglesey with her. As well as light
household duties, Miss Fresolone has been cooking for the royal couple.
It is not known how long they plan to spend at their rented farmhouse but
William is due to complete his posting at RAF Valley in mid-September, after
which the couple are due to move into a newly-refurbished home in Kensington
Palace.
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EDINBURGH'S festival fringe is a mixture of amateurish larks, gallant solo
efforts, pseudish duds and the occasional artistic gem. Some commercial
producers use the fringe as a testing ground for potential hits in which
category we can probably place the farce The Three Lions.
What happened when David Beckham, David Cameron and Prince William lobbied Fifa
to award the 2018 football World Cup to England?
Playwright Willy Gaminara cleverly spots the comic potential of those three
holed up in a Swiss hotel room, plotting their hopeless campaign to bring
football home'.
You may recall that a couple of days before they flew out, BBC TV's Panorama ran
an expos of alleged corruption at Fifa. Bang went any slim chance England had!
This slightly over-strenuous comedy has jokes about Becks's vanity and his wife
Posh Spice's determination to sing at Wills and Kate's wedding. William is here
a Hooray with a shaking-shoulder laugh and a weakness (inherited from Prince
Charles) for practical jokes. Cameron wants to control, charm and win, all at
once.
Sean Browne has the stretchy Beckham eyebrows to a tee, though his voice could
be more wheedly. Tom Davey has the Prince's toothy grin but has he not noticed
that William has a tendency to Mockney his accent? Dugald Bruce-Lockhart's hand
gestures are precisely Cameroon but his delivery needs more smokiness to
persuade us he is really the current Prime Minister. Director Philip Wilson
should invest in a voice coach for his cast before any transfer to London.
Trousers are dropped, lost and shredded. Cameron keeps trying to avoid telephone
calls from Nick Clegg. Posh Spice rings to make sure no girls are in the room
with her husband.
William, meanwhile, is having pre-marriage tension with Kate over the Royal
Wedding guestlist.
Boris Johnson is teased Mr Gaminara seems to think that the Mayor of London is a
raging drunk and I am pretty sure I heard the Foreign Secretary being
outrageously libelled. Poor William Hague. This was not the only time on the
Fringe I heard his bedroom-sharing antics being mocked.
Action shifts between various bedrooms, nattily designed by Colin Falconer. A
Downing Street bimbo (Alice Bailey-Johnson) provides some va-va-voom and is the
source of some of the organisational muddle. The stereotyping felt a little
dated, but I suppose farce has its formulae.
One thing that could be fixed is the pace of the show. At present, the hilarity
is too forced from the start. It would be funnier if they opened with a greater
semblance of serene efficiency before the onset of chaos.
Sort that out, sharpen the voices, make the jokes less clunky, and The Three
Lions could turn a few quid.
* LEFT-WING writer Kevin Toolis is creating a stir with his hour-long portrait
of Gordon Brown. In this monologue, the former PM (played brilliantly by Ian
Grieve) frets and foams in his Downing Street office at 5.40am one day.
The material is better than mere impersonation or satire. It drills into the
soul of the man, and here is my one cause for hesitation. Mr Brown is, after
all, still very much with us, and some of the psycho-analysis is pretty raw.
We see a leader tortured by envy of the English. Remembering Napoleon Bonaparte,
he sticks a hand inside his jacket, just like Bony.
Brown is exhausted by work, tortured by Cabinet treachery, feels he must save
the world, thinks of himself as Father of the Nation', yet is internally twisted
by failure. The vivid writing explosions against the dwarfish thief' Blair and a
superb passage in which he tries to understand southern England brings to life
the remorseless unhappiness of so much political endeavour.
Here is a foul-mouthed Gordon who thinks Alistair Darling must dye his eyebrows,
who erupts when he thinks how Blair clung to office (every hour of him was one
hour less of me!') yet a Brown, too, who overcame visual impairment to become
this vat of boiling dominance. If politics becomes everything to a man, what
does electoral defeat mean?
It is merciless and funny, but you will not laugh all the time. Nor should you.
* After Edinburgh, The Confessions Of Gordon Brown will move to the Trafalgar
Studios in London (Sept 3-28) before heading to the Old Courthouse in Brighton
for the Labour Party Conference (Sept 22-25).
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The Three Lions (Pleasance Courtyard)

Verdict: Sharper claws, please ?????
The Confessions Of Gordon Brown (Pleasance Courtyard)
Verdict: Gordon Bonaparte?????
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WILLIAM DOES IT ON HIS OWN TERMS
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One of the big decisions is already looming fast: who do they spend Christmas
with? The Royal Family at Sandringham, or the Middletons at Bucklebury?
Prince William, and only Prince William, will decide soon enough. Thus far, he
has been calling all the shots and that is how he intends to continue.
As the couple gave the world its first glimpse of the future king yesterday
evening, it was he who dictated proceedings. William had waited until Kate was
ready before allowing her and their new son to face the glare of the news
cameras. Protectively, he fielded the questions and did most of the talking.
Afterwards, he chose to drive Kate and the baby to their home in Kensington
Palace, rather than use a chauffeur a small statement, perhaps, that he intended
to treat this most intimate moment as any ordinary family would.
Earlier this week, it was he who arranged for Kate and himself to arrive at the
hospital by the back door, avoiding the hundreds of photographers who had been
waiting at the front for up to two weeks.
The importance of the manoeuvre is not to be underestimated afterwards, a
security official was seen pumping his fist in the air in apparent triumph.
It was also William's decision to delay the official announcement of the birth
for four hours and ten minutes after delivery.
And then, disappointingly, it must be said, he even failed to make what has
become a traditional appearance on the hospital steps to tell the world about
his new son and how happy he was.
When William was born, in 1982, he was barely two hours old when Prince Charles,
often so awkward in public, emerged happily from the hospital and informed
ecstatic crowds outside that the infant had fair hair and blue eyes.
Smilingly, he asked them to make less noise so that mother and child could rest.
From William, there was not a single word, and no appearance at all on the great
day his son a future king was born. For this the world had to wait until day
two.
Why so? No one would doubt his rapture at becoming a father. The answer is that
William laid down a marker to state that things are going to be different from
now on.
One veteran royal courtier, who served both the Prince and Princess of Wales,
puts it like this: I am certain William and Kate just wanted to keep the baby to
themselves as long as possible, knowing that the child's destiny is to become
public property.
It gave them a few precious hours in which the news was shared only with their
immediate family. William knew that, for Kate especially, it was crucial to hold
onto this intimacy for as long as they dared.'
R oyal tradition has its place, but William believes that there has to be a new
way of doing things which means the open involvement of his wife's family, with
their unique blend of middle-class informality.
Things were very different when William himself was born, and it was clear in
everything Charles did that his overriding aim was to please the Queen.
For William, the aim is equally clear: to please Kate.
This explains why her first visitors (other than William, of course) were her
parents, with whom she stayed for weeks before the birth.
This effective demoting of the Royal Family to second spot could never have
happened without William's say-so.
Of course, so much is different now from when William was born. Charles, it must
be remembered, had felt bullied and harried into marriage by his father. And
whether this was a factor in the early breakdown of his marriage to Diana is
still a topic of endless speculation almost 16 years after her death.
William, on the other hand, is very much his own man.
He's been like that from the moment he left school,' says a royal aide. Charles
has never put pressure on him, probably because there was so much pressure on
the boy already after his mother died'.
Certainly, the loss of his mother when he was 15, and his determination
afterwards to care for his younger brother, is seen in royal circles as having
given William a steely independence.
Friends have always said that the circumstances of his mother's death have made
William resolve never to allow his official duties to overwhelm his family life,
nor to allow the outside world to pry too intimately into it.
In keeping news of the birth quiet for just a few hours on Monday, William was
in some ways making the point that he intends to keep an over-curious world
somewhat at bay.
These were his first shots in ensuring that his son, although born to be king,
has a private life.
For the truth is that what was initially considered a touch of teenage defiance
by William, in the absence of a mother's guiding hand has turned into a

permanent character trait.
An example was when he was shown the official list of 777 guests who were being
invited to his wedding and complained there was not one person I knew, or
Katherine knew'.
The way he handled the problem startled other members of the Royal Family. He
went straight to the Queen to discuss his concerns. No one else in the Royal
Family would have dared go to the Queen like that,' says a royal aide. He is
incredibly determined and single-minded; stubborn even.'
T HE Prince's single mindedness, and the way it has shown itself in the last 24
hours, is the reason Kate's parents have avoided the traditional fate of royal
in-laws down the ages.
Until now, in-laws in royal marriages have always been solidly side-lined, and
rarely invited to Royal Family occasions.
Mark Phillips' parents, after their son married Princess Anne, declared
forlornly that Buckingham Palace don't know we exist'.
How different things are for Mike and Carole, as William calls them. He will see
to it that the former flight dispatcher and his wife play a meaningful role as
grandparents in the upbringing of the third in line to the throne.Indeed, it is
likely to be to the Middletons' Berkshire home that their new grandson will make
his first social excursion outside London.
Until then, the new prince of Cambridge is likely to remain at Nottingham
Cottage, Kate and William's small temporary home in Kensington Palace while
their 21-room Apartment 1a is still being prepared for them.
Significantly, the Middletons are likely to be asked for their views on a whole
range of issues involving their grandson in particular where he should be
educated. William values their opinions because he admires the way they have
made something of themselves,' says one of his circle.
Which brings us back to Christmas, and where to spend it.
William has yet to make up his mind, but his fondness and respect for the Queen
means it is likely he and Kate and their son will enjoy Christmas Day at
Sandringham with the rest of the Royals and Boxing Day in Bucklebury with the
Middletons.
Perhaps, one day, the Middleton family will join the Royals at Sandringham.
For the moment, however, despite her closeness to William, the Queen is unlikely
to invite them. But you can be sure that William is working on it.
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EYELINER
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BY JAN MOIR
She might be new to the job, but the Duchess of Cambridge seemed to know just
what was expected of her debut as a royal mother.
Only radiant would do, of course. Radiant, but with a charming edge of
post-labour exhaustion and a terrific blow dry.
On the steps of the hospital, clutching her newborn son, she looked as pretty as
Snow White in her short, bump-exposing polka dot blue dress. Was this frock
choice a nod to history? To the similar green polka dot frock sported by
Princess Diana when she held her son on these very same steps 31 years ago?
If so, it was a sweetest of royal tributes.
We now understand that the day before, Kate had a natural birth did that mean no
eyeliner? For when it came to that terrifying first post-birth appearance in
front of the world's media, the Duchess stuck to her own tried and tested family
traditions.
This meant Middleton Woman eyeliner, tan tights and that tinkling, polite voice
answering all questions with the usual winning modesty.
She speaks, she talks, but she gives nothing important away. By her side,
casually dressed William seemed understandably tense, but joshed with reporters.
He clearly wanted to get the ordeal over with and go home to start family life
away from the cameras.
There was one unexpected moment of royal charisma from The Firm's newest member.
In Kate's arms, the baby gurgled, then a hand and pudgy fingers suddenly
appeared above the swaddling; the first tiny royal wave from the Prince of
Cambridge.
The Duchess seemed confident and happy, even if some mums may have thought it
would have sent a better message to women if she had staggered out for her
photo-call with sweat-streaked hair in disarray, shouting: I'm never doing that
again! That kid was nearly nine pounds!'
That was never going to happen, of course. Her frosted petal charm remained
undented by the rigours of birth, while as she flicked her glossy chocolate hair
around, it was clear that it had been coiffed to perfection. We had expected
nothing less.
Earlier in the day, news crews spotted a VIP Kate's hairdresser sneaking in
through a hospital side door.

Carrying bags of brushes and combs and who knows what else,' said Sky's Paul
Harrison. Buoyed by this correct identification of the tools of the coiffeuse's
trade, he took a stab at something much deeper; the reasons behind having a
hairdo. It was, he surmised, to make the Duchess feel good and ready to face the
world's Press'.
Excellent.
Yes, day two of Royal Baby coverage continued in the same vein as day one.
Nobody knew nothing. Yet with a full day's programming stretching ahead like a
desert of wordless terror, the nation's broadcasters did their best.
Duracell bunny screen hogger chatathon champ Kay Burley was back at her post
outside the hospital with all the big questions.
Who would visit? When would we see the baby? Were the couple staying overnight?
She put them to her colleague Paul Harrison. Tragically, he didn't have any of
the answers. You're putting me on the spot again,' he complained.
After a winningly understated Carole and Michael Middleton had been and gone in
their taxi, Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall were expected. Sort of.
Nobody is quite sure what is going on,' said Simon McCoy for the BBC. Here they
are, in this car.'
The car shot past with no one royal in it. Charles and Camilla got out of the
next car. Simon, they looked pretty cheerful?' said Huw Edwards from the BBC
studio.
Yes, I was relieved that someone turned up,' he cried.
Anything else happening down there? Cars are just parking in their right
places.'
Huw then announced that: We're going to talk a little bit about security,
because that is a prime concern for the Royal Family.'
Everyone groaned and switched over to Sky, where yet more interviews were taking
place with members of the public. Or, to put it another way, the usual
collection of folks who scream and waggle their tongues whenever Kay Burley
tells them: You are live on Sky News.'
And what about the baby's name? No one had a clue. Joanna Gosling, at the Palace
for the BBC, said: It is not clear if they have not decided if they are
revealing it to the wider world. We might find out today, we might have to wait
a bit longer.' Thanks for that.
In the meantime, everyone had to call the new prince something. Sadly, it was
usually something glutinous. Australian president Kevin Rudd opted for the royal
bub'. Jeremy Thompson on Sky News tried the avuncular this little lad'. Jane
Hill for the BBC: That little baby going home.' Someone else on the BBC the
little scrap that they are bringing with them'.
While we waited for the first glimpse of the new prince, the BBC wanted to know
if anyone around here knew what a royal baby even looked like. Royal
photographer Ian Pelham Turner knew what we could expect.
Normally it is a peek-a-boo glance. It will be wrapped up well,' he said. Babies
have to grow into their looks,' he added. Baby Cambridge, take note.
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THE new Prince of Cambridge was introduced to a delighted nation last night by
his besotted parents.
Just over a day after their as yet unnamed son made his way into the world, the
duke and duchess left hospital to begin their new lives as parents, proudly
cradling the third in line to the throne and future king.
With radiant mother Kate leading the way, the family posed for pictures on the
steps of the private Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in London, clearly
delighted to share their happiness with the rest of the world.
Both took a turn in holding the baby - William slightly more gingerly than his
wife - as a show of the very modern royal parents they intend to be.
During a short press conference, William joked that his son thankfully' had his
wife's looks and way more hair than me'.
Kate also spoke of the intensely emotional' experience of giving birth to her
first child and revealed that her clearly hands-on husband had already changed
his first nappy.
The day also saw:
* Kate's parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, become the first members of
either family to be introduced to the new baby.
* Charles and Camilla make a dash across country by helicopter in order to meet
their baby grandson later in the day.
* William affectionately call Kate Poppet' as he ushered her back into the Lindo
Wing after showing their baby to the world.
* Palace officials confirm for the first time that the duchess intends to manage
without a nanny and rely on the help of both their families instead, saying:
They have both got families that will care hugely for this baby.'
* William bravely fit his son's new car seat - with a little help from his wife
- in front of the world's media.
The day began with officials confirming that William had broken with protocol
and remained with his wife in hospital overnight, sleeping on a camp bed in
their suite.
Then it was another day of waiting for an expectant nation as doctors assessed
mother and baby. Nursing staff are believed to have helped Kate begin to
breast-feed her son.
The couple made a point of publicly thanking the hospital and its staff, who
have had to deal with unprecedented global public interest, for the care the
three of us have received'.
Finally, at 7.13pm, they appeared in public for the first time, a beaming Kate
cradling her new baby, swaddled in a white blanket, as she carefully negotiated
the hospital steps.
The duchess looked radiant despite her labour and there were echoes of her
husband's late mother Princess Diana in her choice of polka-dot dress and the
familiar sapphire and diamond engagement ring on her finger.
After posing for photos, Kate carefully handed the precious bundle - a wisp of
dark hair peeping from the shawl - to her husband.
It's very emotional, it's such a special time. I think any parent will know what
this feeling feels like,' she said. William agreed: It's very special.'
He then joked: He's got a good pair of lungs on him, that's for sure. He's a big
boy, he's quite heavy. We are still working on a name so we will have that as
soon as we can.'
The couple's obvious good humour continued as William said: He's got her looks,
thankfully', although Kate protested: No, no, I'm not sure about that.'
After placing their new son in his baby seat away from the glare of the cameras,
William confidently loaded him into their waiting Range Rover and drove to
Kensington Palace. There, Kate's sister Pippa and her stockbroker boyfriend Nico
Jackson were waiting to welcome the new family home.
The couple plan to stay at the palace for a fortnight while William is on
paternity leave from his job as an RAF Search and Rescue pilot, then Kate will
go to her parents in Berkshire.
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WHY THE MIDDLETONS (AND NOT THE WINDSORS) WILL MAKE WILLS A GREAT FATHER
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For weeks, the bookies have been taking bets on everything from the colour of
the Royal baby's hair to its birth date, weight, name and sex. But there has
only ever been one aspect of the new birth that I would lay money on: what sort
of father William will be.
I bet he will be more hands-on than any previous royal dad, and will want for
this child to grow up in a happy, safe and informal environment, in which his
privacy is sacrosanct.
William has tasted real normality (albeit privileged) with Kate and the
Middleton family, and with the friends and their families he has met over the
years. He has no doubt compared the way they live with his gilded but sometimes
traumatic childhood and knows which he would choose for his own son.
Diana adored her boys, and there was no shortage of hugs and outings and treats
when she was around. Charles, too, was besotted by them and, in private,
delighted in playing with them and putting on silly voices or pulling faces to
make them laugh.
But for all the fun and games, home was neither safe nor happy: in fact, for
some years it was a war zone, with stories about the marriage and the affairs
seeping into the Press day after day.
It was also an unmistakably royal household with butlers, footmen and valets,
housekeepers and chefs, chauffeurs and policemen. Round-the-clock childcare was
the responsibility of nannies, not parents, just as it was for Charles and
previous generations of royal children.
Diana had also been brought up by nannies. She was an aristocrat with more blue
blood in her veins than the Royal Family, and it would never have crossed her
mind to do anything but employ a nanny herself.
So while the Waleses' home was more relaxed and more child-friendly than any
other Royal household that had gone before, William and Harry still lived in the
nursery on the top floor at both Kensington Palace and Highgrove. They ate there
with the nannies and police protection officers, played there and slept there.
Sometimes, when the children were very small, visitors would find them answering
the front door alongside the butler, and William might be found hiding in his
father's study at bedtime.
B ut generally, they were out of sight in the care of well-drilled

professionals, which was just as well because as his parents' marriage lurched
from bad to worse and the public chewed over details of the lovers, the
Squidgy-gate' and Camillagate' tapes, and the Dimbleby and Panorama interviews
William came to rely on the household staff more and more.
He could turn to them when his parents were distracted by their own problems,
and by their busy work schedules.
Many children in similar circumstances might have gone disastrously off the
rails, but William formed close and sustaining relationships not only with his
nannies, but also with police protection officers and schoolmasters.
The first nanny, Barbara Barnes, was asked to leave because Diana was afraid the
four-year-old William was too close to her. It was the first of a series of
painful losses pre-figuring, in some ways, the death of his mother and he has
never forgotten those attachments.
(Last year, he cancelled an engagement so he could be at the funeral of Olga
Powell, a nanny who had been with him for 15 years, through all the most
tumultuous times. He remained in touch throughout her retirement.)
This, after all, was a child who slept in the nursery with his nannies and when
he woke it was his nanny's bed he clambered into for a cuddle. Often he went
into his mother's bed for a second cuddle, but his nannies were the only ones he
could always rely on to be there.
But not even the best nanny is a substitute for the full, loving attention of
one if not two parents. And all the indications are that this new royal baby
will get the real thing.
William and Kate have no plans to employ a full-time nanny yet, and there will
be no servant in smart livery to answer the front door.
In fact, the only person they have employed is a housekeeper to work at
Kensington Palace when they move into their newly refurbished apartment in the
autumn. She has a very flexible job description which will no doubt include
walking the dog and minding the baby, as well as laundering the sheets and
stocking the fridge.
They have done most of this for themselves for the past three years while living
in a rented cottage in Anglesey near William's RAF rescue helicopter base.
They've employed only a woman to help with cleaning.
Prince Charles, at the same age as William although he was unmarried already had
a full complement of staff. His son clearly wants a less formal life for his
family.
Trust has always been a major issue for William; and after the betrayal of
people like Paul Burrell who worked as a butler at Kensington Palace before his
mother's death and then wrote a book about his life there he could be forgiven
for his reluctance to employ anyone else.
But it is not just the memories of his formative years which have shaped
William's thoughts about fatherhood. For he has seen another way of life with
the Middletons, and has embraced it with enthusiasm.
As a friend of his once said to me: If you want to understand William, his
relationship with the Middletons is the beginning and end of it. He likes them,
they're happy and they're nice, straightforward people.'
And the Middletons will be very much in evidence as grandparents should. This
baby will have a string of names and royal titles, and will be the monarch who
may take the House of Windsor through to the next century but I bet the new
arrival will be a Middleton through and through.
Kate is very close to her family, and William folds seamlessly into their
secure, loving and solidly middle-class lifestyle. It is so very different from
everything he experienced as a boy.
He and Kate spend weekends at the Middletons' house in Bucklebury she was there
when she was knocked sideways by morning sickness in the early stages of her
pregnancy and was rushed to hospital.
They go on holiday together the last trip was to Mustique in the spring and
William and Kate even spent last Christmas with them. This was a real break with
tradition, and William had to seek the Queen's permission to miss the Royal
Family gathering at Sandringham, where he spent every Christmas as a child.
A marker of the Middletons' influence is that when William goes back to work
after the birth, there is every chance Kate will go and stay with her parents.
Carole Middleton is the baby's only full grandmother, and William will want to
encourage that relationship. He is very close to his own grandmother (as Charles
was to his grandmother, the Queen Mother), and knows what a special, valuable
and loving relationship it can be.
Having watched his parents' marriage unravel, William was wary of committing
himself to a permanent union. But he learned from the mistakes they made.
He knew that Charles and Diana had scarcely known one another when they married.
What they discovered, too late, was that they had different interests, different
needs and expectations, and didn't much care for the other one's friends.
So much of the unhappiness that William witnessed as a child stemmed from those
fundamental differences. He was determined that he would not make the same
error.
It was eight years before he asked Kate to marry him, and for some of those
years, at university, they had lived together. By the time they walked down the
aisle, they knew each other completely. Now, they are friends as well as lovers,
and the chances are their marriage will be as solid as the Middletons'.
But what stands out and what attracts William, I suspect is the contentment of
the Middleton family. Kate with her level-headedness, calmness and confidence is
a product of Carole and Michael's calm and confident parenting, and William sees
it for what it is.
His life has been unreal in many ways. He knows better than most that privilege,
titles and money don't bring happiness. The French would say that the most
important thing is to be heureux dans sa peau' happy in your own skin.
I'd lay money on that being what he will want for his own child. The burden of
the title can come in its own sweet time.
Stiff: Charles with William, whose home life was unhappy
Informal: William, with another baby, wants a more normal life
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MUM-TO-BE ZARA RIDES ON AS WILLS LEAVES KATE TO PLAY POLO
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THE day after competing in a bruising polo match, mother-to-be Zara Phillips
took part in a showjumping contest yesterday.
The Queen's granddaughter, who is three months pregnant, is understood to have
fallen from a horse 11 days ago but has vowed to keep on riding until closer to
her due date in January.
Official medical advice is to avoid horse riding entirely while pregnant because
of the high risk of miscarriage in the case of a fall.
But the 32-year-old Olympic silver medallist is determined to emulate her
mother, Princess Anne, who reportedly rode until just six weeks before giving
birth. Despite the risk of injury and the searing 86F heat, Zara was in action
at Robertsbridge, East Sussex.
With the country on tenterhooks awaiting the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge's baby, William coped with the tension yesterday by playing polo.
He and brother Harry joined forces in a charity match in Cirencester,
Gloucestershire. It is understood that if he had received a call from Kate to
say the baby was on its way, he would have received a police escort back to
London, meaning he could make the 94-mile trip in just over an hour.
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HITCHING A LIFT HOME, KATE AND WILLS STYLE
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MOST hitch-hikers are happy if the car they flag down looks as though it'll last
the journey.
When the would-be passengers are royalty, however, things are a little
more?...?high-flying. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - plus dog Lupo and, of
course, the royal bump - caught a ride back to London from their home in North
Wales in their friend's helicopter.
Their arrival was photographed by a delighted couple who were watching light
aircraft taking off at Denham aerodrome in south Buckinghamshire last month.
The orange McDonnell Douglas helicopter belongs to Eastern Atlantic Helicopters.
Its managing director, Simon Oliphant-Hope, is a friend of the duke and duchess.
He said: Occasionally, when I am routing past North Wales, I give them a lift if
it is convenient to all parties.'
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IBIZA FUN WITH KATE AND WILLS - AND WHY I'M NOT THE BAD BOY OF THE FAMILY
BYLINE: BY CLAUDIA JOSEPH
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In the popular imagination, Gary Goldsmith is the bte noire of the Middleton
clan - tattooed, shaven-headed, an embarrassment to his sister Carole with his

louche antics. When undercover reporters filmed the Duchess of Cambridge's uncle
apparently cutting up lines of cocaine at the colourfully named La Maison de
Bang Bang - his eight-acre hideaway on the party island of Ibiza - it seemed
that the string of lurid headlines that followed would see him banished by his
image-conscious family.
But predictions of Goldsmith's downfall have proved to be wide of the mark.
For as he reveals today in an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, the
reaction of the Middletons was not to cast him off - but, extraordinarily, to
apologise for all the trouble they had caused to him.
He says: People like to think that I'm this black sheep, a bad boy. I'm not
really. I've had my moments - I'm not totally innocent - but am I disliked by my
family? No, that is simply not true. I've got a good heart and I care about
people. We have never fallen out.
The minute that story broke, Carole was on the phone apologising to me on behalf
of the family, specifically Kate, about me being suddenly thrust into the
limelight.'
Later, there was speculation - incorrect, again - that he would be banned from
Kate's wedding to Prince William in Westminster Abbey in 2011.
On the day he was accompanied by his ex-wife Luan and their 11-year-old
daughter, Talullah.
At the reception, Goldsmith found another, even more surprising source of
sympathy - the Duchess of Cornwall.
Camilla went out of her way to welcome him, saying she knew all too well what it
was like to be vilified for supposed past misdemeanours. Camilla made a beeline
for me,' he recalls. She was absolutely adorable. She stretched out her hand and
said, "It's Gary, isn't it?"
I couldn't believe she knew who I was. We made small talk - about how fabulous
the room was, that sort of thing.
Then I plucked up the courage to say, "I'm sorry for the bad press". She just
smiled and said, "Don't think twice about it. I get the same myself." She was
beyond amazing.'
So far as Gary is concerned, the wild days are well behind him and, rather than
being an embarrassment to his family, he has in fact impressed them by winning
acceptance from the Royals.
On the day of the wedding, he earned the approval of the Duchess of Cornwall by
exchanging seats with her daughter Laura so that she could get a better view of
her own daughter, Eliza, three, who was a bridesmaid. So we ended up sitting
with Tara Palmer-Tomkinson in front and the Beckhams at 11 o'clock,' Gary says.
His past, he readily admits, has had moments of excess, but he insists they have
been blown out of any reasonable proportion.
I was manipulated and set up,' is how he prefers to put it, even if, for an
obviously canny businessman, a multi-millionaire in fact, you might have thought
he would know better.
But on the key allegations, he is clear: I didn't take drugs or pimp for anyone.
I was asked if I knew where to find a hooker. All I said was I'd heard of a taxi
driver who could help with anything they wanted on the island.' He adds: I did
say I had a wing in Buckingham Palace, but that was a joke.'
Despite the experience, and an understandable degree of caution about discussing
his relatives, he says he now feels ready to talk about his bond with nieces
Kate and Pippa, nephew James and his new nephew-in-law, Prince William - who
all, affectionately, call him Uncle G.
Gary says he never doubted for a moment he would be on the invitation list for
the wedding. After all, when he met Prince William - who spent a holiday with
Kate at Maison de Bang Bang in 2006 - their introduction was no different from
that of any large and loving family.
William was unfailingly polite,' Gary says. The first thing he said to me was,
"I'm so pleased to meet you. I've heard so much about you.
Thank you very much for letting us stay in Ibiza".
So I just sat down on the sofa and chatted to him and Pippa while Kate cooked.
Pippa and James treated William as if he was their sibling. At one point one of
them said to him: Go and make the tea.' So off he went to make it. He was just
like one of the family. He was so relaxed in his own skin, but he does try very
hard to be a gentleman.
It was a very funny supper and everyone was just cracking jokes. He was very
attentive to Kate. He was very much at home in the whole family setting.'
By the end of the evening Gary was so relaxed with his Royal guest that he
indulged in some banter. Some ornaments - large glass pyramids - had been broken
when a ball was thrown around,' he says. I jokingly accused William and he
immediately jokingly dumped the blame on James. It was all good-natured fun.'
As for the wedding itself, Gary recalls a carefree day, punctuated with lots of
family laughter.
He says: I didn't meet Prince Charles but he gave a wonderful speech at the
reception.
It was just like that of any other father of the groom. He told a lovely story
about buying William an electric car when he was a child and having to chase him
around the grounds of Buckingham Palace. Apparently William managed to hit the
only tree by mistake.
As for Kate and William, I have never seen smiles like it. They were laughing
and giggling throughout the day.
I bought them a Backgammon set from Asprey, which was on their list at Clarence
House, and Kate sent a beautiful hand-written thank you card with some cake.'
Gary makes no secret of the fact that he is thrilled Kate will be a future
Queen, and believes she is ideally equipped for the role.
He says: When Kate and William first began dating, Carole telephoned the
immediate family to warn them that the relationship would likely become public.
I was so delighted that, at a business meeting, I pushed a piece of paper across
to a colleague which read: "I think I am going to be the uncle of the future
Queen of England."
I'm amazed at how Kate has flourished in the spotlight.
For a girl who is pregnant, who is having her first baby, and who hasn't had the
easiest pregnancy, she has worked incredibly hard. It could be quite daunting
but she has taken to it like a duck to water.
I think it is marvellous news that Kate will be living with Carole when the baby
is born. Carole is a wonderful mum and she is going to make a fantastic
grandmother.
Family is very important to Kate. She is incredibly close to her mother and
sister. They are a very strong unit and look after each other. I think that
gives them strength and gives Kate the confidence both to fulfil her role as a
future Queen and to become a great mum.'
As for Pippa, Gary says the Royal connection could limit her ambitions for the
future. Poor Pippa,' he says. Realistically, what job can Pip do now? She can't
go and work in an office or be a PR person. If this hadn't happened I'm sure she
would have been earning 200,000 a year in her own right. She has probably taken
a significant pay cut.'
Gary is keen to talk about the close relationship he has always shared with big
sister Carole, who is ten years older than him and has always been something of
a second mother.
He believes that, despite external appearances, they are cut from the same
cloth.
Carole and I are both headstrong and can bicker, as all siblings do. But we are
very close,' he explains. We tease each other relentlessly.
In many ways we are very similar: we're both ambitious with lots of drive, we
made our money young, are very loyal to our families and want the best for them.
But I'm the City yuppie and she's the country girl. While I was driving a Lotus
Esprit in my Gucci shoes, she had an Alfasud and wore Hunter wellies. I used to
call her the original Sloane Ranger while she called me a tearaway or scamp.
I'm a Thatcher child. I'm Captain Ambitious. I belong to a generation in which
class does not exist.'
Dapper in a grey Savile Row suit and brown Prada shoes, a raffish yellow
handkerchief tucked into his pocket, Gary, a recruitment consultant, looks
younger than his 47 years as he sits in the Union Club, a town house in the
heart of Soho, where he is a member. He has a hint of a London accent and is not
as plummy as Carole. He is very jokey and chatty and speaks in an open manner.
And he is a rich man.
He lent nephew James 11,000 to help him set up his company selling cake-making
kits. On his wrist he sports a 7,000 titanium Panerai diving watch and on the
fourth finger of his left hand a wedding band, a symbol of his fourth marriage
last year to former clerk Julie Ann Brown.
He has come a long way from his suburban upbringing as the son of a painter and
decorator from West London and grandson of a miner from the pit villages of
Durham.
He recalls: My parents were incredibly happy together. My dad doted on my mum
and she really respected him.
It was very sweet. Carole and her husband Mike have an amazing relationship too.
They have nurtured three amazing kids.
I should have taken more lessons from them on how to make a marriage work.'
When Gary was eight, Carole left high school and joined British Airways as a
stewardess. He laughs: I remember her training. She used to practice doing her
announcements and record them on a tape recorder, much to my amusement.'
He adds: Carole was a huge influence on me musically. The first record I ever
bought was the Best of James Bond, but she was mortified so she began
introducing me to soul music, which is still very important to me. She was
massively into Stevie Wonder and I remember her owning his record Innovations.
She also loved Barry White and Earth, Wind & Fire. When she moved out, she
offered me a couple of albums and, when she wasn't looking, I stole a few more.'
Their attitudes to hard work did differ, however.
Carole has always been more serious than me,' he accepts. I think life is for
living and having fun, but Carole was more studious, worked harder than me and
did better than me at exams.'
Gary was 15 when Carole and Michael asked him to be an usher for their wedding
ceremony at the Parish Chapel of St James the Less in the village of Dorney in
Buckinghamshire. The reception on June 21, 1980, was at nearby Dorney Court, a
sumptuous Tudor mansion.
Mike and Carole's wedding opened my eyes,' Gary says. It was a real departure
for our family, everything my mother could have wished for.
It was natural, informal and classy but wasn't pretentious or ostentatious very unlike the weddings I was used to, which were big booze-ups in a Heathrow
hotel with round tables and dodgy speeches. The house had a minstrel's gallery
and people wandered around with champagne flowing and canaps. Afterwards we
went back to Mike's brother Simon's for a big chilli and a party.'
Within a year Carole was pregnant - news met with joyful excitement, says Gary:
I remember when she phoned to say she was expecting a baby. The whole house just
erupted.'
With a family to think about, Carole took a 5,000 redundancy package from
British Airways and set up her party-planning business, Party Pieces.
She was pregnant and she was going to leave, so she took redundancy and the
business flew instantly,' Gary says. It was a business ahead of its time, which
meant they could work hard and invest their money in the family, a new house and
the nicest schools.'
Kate was born on January 9, 1982, when Gary was 17. Twenty months later Pippa
arrived, followed by James in 1987.
After the children were born we always went to Carole and Mike's for Christmas.
But Carole had different ideas from me on how to spend the day. There would be
no telly, we would walk for miles and would not be allowed to open our presents
until after supper.
I used to go to Hamleys and get a personal shopper to buy the kids everything
they could want, and we used to play with them in front of the fire.'
Kate was a tomboy, he says, but that didn't stop him buying her first designer
handbag - from Gucci - as she grew into a teenager. And family life did not
prevent Carole from taking an important interest in her younger brother's
career.
I effectively had two mums because of the age gap,' he says. Carole talked to me
specifically about taking higher education after I had done my A-levels - I got
maths and physics by the skin of my teeth, after a year of retakes.
She was desperate for me to go to university and be a helicopter pilot in the
Services. But I didn't want to go to university. I wanted to work in technology
because I thought it looked more fun at the time.'
In the summer of 1983 Gary left school and got a job working as an IT operator.
I earned 19,000 in my first year,' he brags.
Every three months I would go to my boss and say, "What do I need to do to get a
pay rise?"
I was incredibly pushy, did every bit of overtime that you could possibly
imagine and ended up being the youngest shift leader they ever had.'
By the time he got married, in 1991, to his first wife, sales executive Miranda
Foote, he was a 26-year-old recruitment manager, living in a 70,000 one-bedroom
flat in a mansion house in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, and driving a Lotus. But the
marriage broke up within two years.
Shortly afterwards he joined Computer Futures, the IT recruitment company that
would make his fortune. Within six months he was a director and owned shares.
He bought a five-bedroom house in Maidenhead, Berkshire, with a swimming pool
and snooker room, invested in a boat, and drove a series of flash cars,
including a Ferrari, Porsche 911 and Rolls-Royce Phantom.
Barclays bought-in to help us grow the business and it became hugely successful
with 11 companies and 2,000 staff.' He married his second wife Luan in 1997 and
moved to Knutsford, Cheshire.
But that marriage broke up after he put his career above his family.
I hold my hands up,' he says. I'm not the easiest person in the world to be
around. I became a workaholic. It is one of the few regrets in my life that I
don't live with Lulah [daughter Talullah] every day.'
He says it was the death of his parents - his father in 2003 and his mother
three years later - that provoked his wild behaviour.
In 2005, he sold his shares in Computer Futures for 17 million, bought his
villa in Ibiza and swapped work for pleasure. He married - and divorced - his
third wife Julia Leake, a 32-year-old accountant, then dated a former lapdancer.
Before long he spiralled into depression, which culminated in what he describes
as his annus horribilis' (a phrase that has Royal heritage, of course).
I felt very alone and down so I ended up at a party and got introduced to drugs
in a moment of weakness. It was the worst thing anyone could do, but I did do
it,' he says.
I'm not making excuses. I went off the rails for a bit and didn't put any effort
into anything.'
Eventually work proved to be his salvation and he is now married to his fourth
wife Julie-Ann.
I'm really happy now,' he says. I've grown up, got rid of all the flash cars and
drive a Land Rover.
I'm incredibly proud that my family is going to be part of history. Yes, my
sister is mother of a future Queen. Kate will be that Queen, with William by her
side. I am blessed to be part of a loving family.'
Gary aged 12 with Carole aged 22 having fun together with a family pet
A beaming smile from baby Gary in the arms of big sister Carole, who is ten
years older than him
Shy teenagers Kate and Pippa, circled, at Gary's wedding to Luan in 1997
Carole with 11-year-old Kate, right, and sister Pippa, nine, at Gary's wedding
to Miranda Foote in 1991
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A COUNTRY PALACE FOR WILLS, KATE AND BABY
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WITH a baby on the way, it is the perfect royal retreat - large, leafy and
discreet.
This is the Norfolk bolthole reportedly earmarked for the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, a stone's throw from the Queen's private residence at Sandringham.
As revealed in the Daily Mail last month, royal aides have been given planning
permission for extensive improvements at Anmer Hall. These include a new garden
room and a pergola made from stone columns with oak beams for plants to trail
through.
King's Lynn and West Norfolk borough council has also given the Queen, who is
the Georgian mansion's landlord, approval to re-route its driveway and plant
dozens of new trees and shrubs to shield it from prying eyes.
The ten-bedroom property is one of 150 on the monarch's 20,000-acre Sandringham

Estate and is two miles east of Sandringham House, one of her favourite private
residences.
The hall, which largely dates from 1802, was used by Prince Charles and Camilla
Parker Bowles during their long-running affair when it was rented by the
prince's friend Hugh van Cutsem.
Prince William, who is close to the van Cutsems' children, is said to have
enjoyed many happy visits to the hall as a child. It was leased to the Duke and
Duchess of Kent from 1972 until 1990.
Current tenant James Everett runs a kitchen worktop business from the grounds
and has leased the property until 2017. It is likely he will be asked to move
out early, meaning the Queen may have to compensate him.
According to the planning application a wood store will be converted into extra
accommodation - mostly likely for police officers - while a garage block will be
transformed into an equipment room. Other plans involve moving the main gates
further down a lane so members of the public will not be able to get so close to
the house.
The longer private driveway will sweep across a field to the front of the house,
which has a swimming pool and tennis court.
A gate will be built across what is currently a public road and a lawn taken out
to create extra parking space. The public entrance to St Mary's Church will
become accessible only to William and Kate, with the approach road re-routed to
create a new entrance for worshippers. To compensate them the Queen will pay for
a new car park.
The pergola and garden room will be designed by architect Charles Morris, who
was behind a controversial extension for Prince Charles at Highgrove. Mr Morris,
whose ancestors were responsible for building the Royal Albert Hall, built
Highgrove's Orchard Room which is used by Charles for entertaining but has been
described by some critics as a Wimpey house'.
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DON'T BE A WHINGER LIKE YOUR DAD, WILLS
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PLATELL'S PEOPLE
BY AMANDA PLATELL
PRINCE William is said to be very bruised' over pictures published in a foreign
magazine of Kate in a bikini strolling along a beach during the couple's recent
holiday in Mustique.
The same publication ran the infamous topless pictures of Kate, taken during
their French break last summer. Those were utterly offensive and an unequivocal
invasion of herprivacy.
But it's one thing for William to be mortified by topless pictures snatched as
the couple lay by the poolside of a private villa. It's quite another to take
such umbrage over perfectly innocent photos of his beautiful wife joyfully
showing the early signs of her longed-for first child, taken while the couple
were walking in full gaze of passers-by.
Why is he deeply disappointed' that they were pictured arm in arm, strolling
along like any other young couple in love? The photos are hardly controversial
or unflattering they're the sort of snaps that most couples their age would
gladly post on Facebook to share with the wider world.
I wonder sometimes if William, understandably haunted by his mother's death,
would be wiser to recognise that he'll never be able to control the worldwide
media. More to the point, he needs to understand that publicity is not something
that can be switched on and off according to a courtier's whim.
The British Press, at the request of the Palace, behaved impeccably by not
publishing the latest images.
But it
photos
log on
widely
seems a rum do that the rest of the world can look at perfectly harmless
of our royal couple on holiday while British readers can't unless they
to any of the numerous foreign websites where the pictures have been
circulated.
The fact is that William can't go on railing against the media when, as his
brother Harry discovered when playing strip billiards in Las Vegas, everyone has
a mobile with a camera, and Twitter and internet sites can beam pictures around
the world in an instant.
Of course it's admirable how protective William is of his wife. But the last
thing she needs is a grumpy husband sulking about the unfairness of their lot.
He WOULD do well to remember they have wealth and privilege most of us can only
dream of. He has no need to worry about job security or how to pay for the roof
over his head (even one that costs 19,000 a week, as their holiday villa did).
If the worst thing that happens to William is that he is photographed with his
wife on a Caribbean beach then, measured against the hardship most people in
this country endure without complaint, he is a lucky man, indeed.
His father's most unattractive trait is his self-pity and propensity to whinge.
Don't copy him, Wills, just count your blessings.
WHY OSCAR WAS NEVER AN ORDINARY ATHLETEOSCAR PISTORIUS was not just a champion
of the Paralympics, but a beacon of hope. He fought tirelessly to compete in the

able-bodied Olympics and was an inspiration to us all. It is only now, after the
shooting of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (pictured together, right), that we
learn he had a history of recklessness, an obsession with guns and fastcars and
a careless relationship with women: in short, a darker side. If Usain Bolt had
such a chequered past, we surely would have known every detail.I can't help
feeling no one dared challenge the Pistorius myth because of his disability
precisely the sort of inequality that he fought against. How sad that it has
taken this tragedy for him to stand in court and be judged like any other.FOR 41
years, the families of the 26 civilians shot or wounded on Bloody Sunday
campaigned for an apology. A full apology was duly provided by David Cameron in
2010
, after a 195 million publicinquiry. Then, as now, their families insist it
was never about compensation, but justice. No price can be put on our loss,'
said Linda Nash, whose teenage brother died.So why then, when the victims'
families have been offered 50,000 each, have they rejected it as a derisory'
sum and a repulsive insult' to those who died.SPARE THE WHISTLEBLOWER AND CALL
TIME ON THE REAL CULPRIT
HOW appalling that more than 600 people died needlessly in the United
Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust thanks to negligence and an obsession with NHS
targets. We know this only because of the courage of whistleblower Gary Walker,
its sacked chief executive. And who is being hounded as aresult? Not the man
who must claim ultimate responsibility NHS chief Sir David Nicholson but Mr
Walker, who drew the crisis to his attention. Now Walker has spoken out and the
unaccountables running our health system want to crush and destroy him ever
further. How can it be right that decent men and women are vilified when they
dare to speak the truth, but the new breed of ruthless, unfeeling, careerist NHS
apparatchiks who presided over a catastrophic failure of care not only survive,
but thrive?Our Prime Minister was quick to sack his own Health Secretary Andrew
Lansley when he failed to deliver. Isn't it time he was as ruthless with the man
in charge during one of the most shameful chapters in NHS history?WHEN Jeremy
Paxman was rude to contestant Tom Tyszczuk Smith on University Challenge, the
Twitter brigade attacked him as an obnoxious bully. One might have expected
Tom's mother to join in, too, but she said: It was all in good spirit. We think
Tom did very well.' No complaining, no cries ofvictimhood. With a sensible,
supportive mum likethat, Tom can meet any challenge.IT'S been one of British
TV's greatest success stories, yet Dame Maggie Smith says she has never seen an
episode of Downton Abbey. The woman who plays the Dowager Countess of Grantham
says it would be too frustrating seeing how she could have done things better,
thinking: Why in the name of God did I do that?' I love her hauteur on screen,
but, as the Dowager Countess might say, I wonder if Maggie is getting a little
above her station?BIAS AS USUAL AT THE BEEB
it beggars belief that the first major decision of new BBC Director General Tony
Hall is to appoint former Labour minister James Purnell as his strategy chief.
Those defending the arch-Blairite say it's a fair balance as former Tory
minister Chris Patten is BBC chairman. Hardly a legitimate comparison. Even in
office, Patten who sneers at middle-class values was as Leftie asyou could get
while still claiming to be a Conservative. Appoint Lord Tebbit to the Beeb and
you'd have balance. But Purnell? Business as usual at the Biased Broadcasting
Corporation.AGEING football star Frank Lampard has landed a deal to write a
series of children's books, featuring soccer-mad schoolboy Frankie and his pet
dog Max. They are aimed at children with a reading age of five. That rules out
most of his team-mates, then.HOLLYWOOD OR BUST
HER weight yo-yoed as much as her career, now Martine McCutcheon has declared
herself bankrupt. She was determined to conquer Hollywood after her performance
in Love Actually and said she would be Britain's answer to Jennifer Lopez.
Sadly for Martine, the only thing she had in common with J-Lo was a rather large
posterior and an even bigger ego. And Hollywood was unimpressed by
both.DETERMINED to boost the disappointing sales of her latest book, Nigella
Lawson has been out in the U.S. defending her meatzza', a curious combination of
meatballs and pizza. One critic described it as being conceived by a
catastrophically spliffed-up stoner in a bedsit'. That's not half as addled as
her brain must have been before she put on a dress this week (left) that was so
garishly unflattering it appeared to have been rolled in a meatzza before she
put it on.WESTMINSTER NOTICEBOARD* ED MILIBAND and Ed Balls' announcement about
reinstating the 10p tax band said much about the character of the two men. It
was thrown into a speech when they heard the Tories were planning it. The Two
Eds then had the gall to claim they had never agreed with abolishing the rate,
despite vociferously supporting their former boss Gordon Brown at the time.
Disloyal, opportunistic and desperate for an eye-catching headline, they are the
most cynical men in politics.THE portly Keith Vaz has upset the women of
Westminster by Tweeting that Home Secretary Theresa May is too thin. A new diet
or the pressure of work?' he quipped. Given Vaz's gargantuan gut, he is clearly
unencumbered by either.
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WILL KATE AND WILLS BE HANDED MANSION WHERE CHARLES AND CAMILLA ENJOYED SECRET
TRYSTS?
BYLINE: BY SAM GREENHILL
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IT is where Prince Charles conducted his illicit affair with Camilla Parker
Bowles.
Now Anmer Hall in Norfolk is reportedly being lined up as a country home for the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Despite the obvious poignancy that Prince William will know it was a place where
his father betrayed his mother, the Queen is said to be ready to gift the
property to him and Catherine as they prepare to welcome their first child.
The late-Georgian country house is just two miles east of the Queen's
Sandringham House, where the Royals celebrate Christmas.
The Duke spent many of his childhood holidays exploring the ten-bedroom Grade
II-listed property and its grounds, which have been part of the Sandringham
estate since 1898, and is said to have fond memories of it.
However, it was also one of the country houses where Charles and Camilla used to
enjoy secret trysts, when the Prince of Wales's friend Hugh van Cutsem rented
the property.
It was claimed yesterday that Anmer Hall has been earmarked for William and
Kate', and was described as a perfect country bolt-hole in the picturesque
village of Anmer.
However, it is unlikely the couple would be able to enjoy it for another four
years, when their son or daughter would be three years old.
Anmer Hall, which was lived in by the Duke and Duchess of Kent between 1972 and
1990, is leased until March 2017 to James Everett, who owns a kitchen and timber
company.
He moved into the property in 2000, but would not comment on whether he planned
to stay.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, currently living in a rented farmhouse on
Anglesey, are also waiting for renovation work on their London home in
Kensington Palace to be completed.
When they are not on Anglesey, they live at Nottingham Cottage, in the grounds
of Kensington Palace in West London, which has just one bedroom and has been
described as cosy'.
However, later this year they will move into the newly renovated Apartment 1A
inside the palace itself, which was Princess Margaret's home, while Prince Harry
will have the cottage.
The new apartment will suit the couple's growing family, as it boasts five
bedrooms and three reception rooms.
Renovation work is being paid for out of the public purse, although the Royals
are covering the cost of the interior design.
Last year it emerged that the Queen was planning to give her grandson one of the
cottages on the Sandringham estate to mark his 30th birthday.
She owns around 150 properties on the estate but it is not known which cottage
was chosen.
The Duke is thought to be particularly pleased about the Norfolk cottage because
he and Kate spent their first Christmas as husband and wife at Sandringham in
2011.
This year they spent Christmas at Kate's family home in Bucklebury, Berkshire.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh stay in the main house, an Edwardian
mansion, every Christmas with the rest of the Royal Family.
The 20,000-acre Sandringham Estate, near King's Lynn in Norfolk, has been owned
by the Queen since her accession in 1952 and by the Royal Family since 1862.
Although much of the land is open to the public, the paparazzi are no longer
allowed to photograph the Royal family relaxing there.
Buckingham Palace declined to comment.

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SURPRISE! KATE AND WILLIAM TURN UP AT THE OFFICE PARTY'
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THE Duke and Duchess of Cambridge made a surprise appearance at a Christmas
party for their staff yesterday afternoon.
The couple's choice of venue for their annual Household bash was not a glitzy
venue such as The Ritz - but a London restaurant chain.
William and Kate turned up with minimal fuss to Bumpkin in Notting Hill where
they had hired, rather appropriately, The Queen's Room - so-called because of a
giant portrait of the monarch which hangs on the wall.
The Duchess - who was wearing a stylish floral blue and white dress with a smart
matching jacket - tucked into the traditional Christmas Menu, which costs 30
for three courses and features free-range turkey with the all the trimmings and
Christmas pudding.
Although the mulled wine was said to be flowing, the pregnant Duchess,
unsurprisingly, stuck to soft drinks.
Both she and her husband appeared to be enjoying themselves immensely, sources
said.
A restaurant source added: The Duchess of Cambridge was looking the picture of
health.
William and Kate enjoyed a leisurely lunch with 27 members of their Household.
It seems even the Royals attend office Christmas parties - although it was a
much more sophisticated affair, without all the usual drunken antics and
revelry.'
A St James's Palace spokesman yesterday confirmed the couple's attendance,
saying: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attended a private luncheon today.'
The event was the Duchess's second outing since being released from hospital on
December 6, after she made a surprise appearance at the Sports Personality of
the Year Awards on Sunday night.
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FINALLY, WILLIAM'S GETTING WHAT HE'S ALWAYS CRAVED - NORMAL FAMILY LIFE
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By any standards of love and marriage, the progression has been leisurely. The
fact is, by the time the former Catherine Middleton becomes the mother of our
future king or queen in the summer of 2013, she will have been with Prince
William for 12 years.
It's been very slow progress from first date to first child (who will be third
in line to the throne) not exactly the rush of blue blood normally associated
with royal marriages.
Kate, the girl from Bucklebury in Berkshire, will have her first baby at 31.
That's only a year off the age at which William's mother, Diana, was separated
from Prince Charles and making a new life for herself.
William and Kate even broke with the unofficial Royal Family convention of
having a baby or at least announcing that one is on the way within the first
year of their marriage.
That, of course, would have stolen some of the limelight from the Queen during
her dazzling Diamond Jubilee, and it was something they would never have done.
We must assume that even now, such an announcement would still have been a few
weeks away but for the fact that it had emerged that Kate was in hospital
suffering from acute morning sickness.
Still, they've reached this crucial milestone at last, and how intriguing it
will be in the coming years to see just how this very modern couple this future
monarch and his queen will combine the heavy demands of duty with those of
family life.
No royal couple has ever had such a challenging future maintaining historical
tradition while being very much of a fast-moving, modern world.
And it's pretty clear now, even to those doubters who were uneasy at William's
middle-class choice of bride some of whom mocked her former air hostess mother
Carole with childish taunts of doors to manual' that Kate has risen brilliantly
to the challenge.
If anyone silenced them it was the Queen, whose fondness for Kate was already
reaching an unprecedented high in the run-up to her Jubilee this summer, and
Prince Philip, who has never tired of informing people what a lucky escape his
grandson had not to lose Kate after giving her up for three months in 2007.
Indeed, Kate's incredible patience can be measured by all the years she has
waited for her first child timing everything (as royal wives usually have to) in
order to fit in with national events.
Also, Kate has had to make other compromises. Few things can be worse for an
expectant mother than to move house while heavily pregnant, and that will be her
fate in April, when she and William move into the huge, 21-room apartment in
Kensington Palace that used to be home to Princess Margaret.
Some felt William might have liked to have taken his wife to live in his mother
Princess Diana's old apartment, where he and Harry grew up, but the suite of
rooms has long since been converted into offices for Prince Charles's charities,
as well as accommodation for military figures.
Kate was never keen on that idea too many ghosts, she thought,' says a family
friend. And William knew she was right.'
It is not hard to imagine what must be going through Kate's mind now. William's
mother was the most glamorous, and most photographed woman in the Royal Family,
and on the planet, and that is also the destiny of his wife.
From April she will even be making her permanent home in the palace where Diana
experienced some of her happiest, and most wretched, moments, though until the
baby is born Kate will be largely out of sight.
William's admirable efforts for Kate and himself to maintain an ordinary
lifestyle are almost over.
Eventually, in the final stages of her pregnancy, the girl from Bucklebury will
be helping William made decisions about the size of their staff, and choosing
them. When the Queen, as Princess Elizabeth, gave birth to Prince Charles in
1948, she was able largely to duck out of the official round of duties for two
years by moving to Malta with Naval officer Prince Philip who was stationed
there.
The opposite is happening to Kate. For two childless years, she
rescue helicopter pilot William have enjoyed relative peace and
Anglesey, Wales, where he has been based. They have been living
whitewashed farmhouse, doing their own cooking and washing, and
a familiar figure in the local supermarket.
and RAF air-sea

quiet in
in a remote,
Kate has become
This was the life they were determined to enjoy for as long as possible. William
fought against having a retinue of servants and Kate declined the offer of a
dresser. The pity is that they didn't have a child during this early period,'
says one of their circle.
It won't be that easy at Kensington Palace. The apartment's so big they will
have to have staff, whether they like it or not. A housekeeper-cum-cook,

certainly, but they won't welcome the pomposity of having to have a butler.'
Kate's new life means she will have to give up her little shopping trips, at
least for now. And we have surely seen the last of Kate on the back of William's
high-powered Ducati motorcycle.
So what kind of father will Prince William be?
One of the factors that drew him to Kate was the strength of her family
togetherness and the warmth of her family life.
To him, Kate's happily married parents, Michael and Carole Middleton,
represented everything that was missing from his own childhood, and in Kate he
saw the strength and stability that he has always yearned for. You can be sure
that William will be a hands-on father, changing nappies and taking his turn
with the baby at night. The teachings and advice of his late mother, who set out
as a royal bride anxious for a normal, happy marriage, have blended perfectly
with the life he found at the Middletons.
His suppers on a tray in front of the television at their Anglesey home are
likely to play a big part in his own royal style as he leaves the RAF possibly
soon and concentrates fully on being a father as well as a royal prince.
There was a brief period when his own father put duty to one side to spend time
in the nursery with baby William at bath time. But it didn't last long. I can
see William wanting to take time off in the modern paternity-leave style, so
that he bonds with his child,' says a family friend.
Those terrible times when he was very small and things were bad between his
mother and father have left an indelible mark on him. He would want to make sure
that his child is never able to hear him and Kate having cross words.'
As for Prince Charles, his joy at being told he is to be a grandfather at the
age of 64 is bound to be tempered by the knowledge that there will now be three
people waiting for the throne.
With the help of Camilla a grandmother already four times over, through son Tom
and daughter Laura the role will not be entirely new to him. But friends have
found that he is not entirely comfortable with small children scampering about
the place.
Indeed, it is well known in palace circles that the reason Camilla spends so
much time at Raymill House her own Wiltshire home, 17 miles from Highgrove,
which she kept on after marrying Charles in 2005 is so that she can see lots of
her grandchildren there.
According to courtiers, Charles does not welcome the interruption of little
people' at Highgrove because he finds it hard to relax when they are charging
noisily about. But this, inevitably, will change now.
Indeed, life at Highgrove will have to change marginally, at least so that he
can accommodate his expanding family, including his new grandchild, there.
After all, Michael and Carole Middleton now own a 4.5 million manor house in
Berkshire, with plenty of room for family and grandchildren to stay and acres
for them to roam and ride, and Prince Charles is known to be anxious for it not
to be thought that William and his family are spending most of their time with
the in-laws, rather than with him.
In the past, such rivalries within the Royal Family have ended the same way with
the in-laws virtually excluded. But William has pointedly changed all that.
There is a deep poignancy in William's clear need, and indeed determination, to
be a conventional father and family man.
For he looks like becoming the very kind of man that his mother longed to marry,
one who married for love and who, as she dreamed, lived happily ever after.
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KATE, WILLS AND TWO VERY DIFFERENT BABY ALBUMS
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SWADDLED in a baby blanket just 15 days old, Kate Middleton peeps out at the
world cradled in her mother Carole's arms.
Like any proud parent, Mrs Middleton, then 26, is smiling as she sits in her
comfortable middle-class home and must have been full of dreams for her
first-born child.
But as she gazed at her precious bundle with a mop of dark hair, could she ever
have imagined on that winter's day in January 1982 that her daughter's destiny
lay with an heir to the throne, the still unborn Prince William?
Indeed, Kate's future husband arrived five months later, to the joy of Princess
Diana, his father Prince Charles and millions of well-wishers.
In one of the baby prince's early photographs, his clearly delighted mother
laughs as she lifts him giggling in a powder blue smock amid the beautifully
appointed surroundings of Kensington Palace. It was just nine days before
Diana's 21st birthday and the two babies could scarcely have enjoyed more
contrasting starts to life.
Catherine Elizabeth Middleton was born at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading,
on January 9, 1982, the eldest of three children to British Airways stewardess
Carole and her trainee pilot husband Michael Middleton, who had been married for
two years.
The future Queen's ancestors had been working-class labourers and miners in the
North-East, many of them lucky to survive a cholera epidemic and numerous mining
disasters.
The christening of Catherine took place on June 20, 1982 the day before her
future husband was born at her local church, St Andrew's, in Bradfield on the
banks of the River Pang, Berkshire. Her father Michael sported a traditional
dark suit with striped tie for the occasion and posed proudly with Kate and
Carole, who wore a Laura Ashley floral dress for the down-to-earth family event.
Another family snap from the day shows Kate with her doting grandparents Ronald
and Dorothy Goldsmith, Carole's parents.
The very next day, June 21, William was born, and thousands of people gathered
outside Buckingham Palace to wait for the birth to be formally announced.
He was the first future British king to be born in a hospital rather than at
home delivered at the private Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington,
West London.
The newborn Prince William Arthur Philip Louis arrived just under a year after
his parents' marriage. His birth was celebrated with a fanfare Royal Salute of
41 guns.
He was baptised in the Music Room of Buckingham Palace on August 4 (the 82nd
birthday of the Queen Mother) by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert
Runcie.
Among William's godparents were the former King Constantine II of Greece.
Kate, her sister Pippa and brother James grew up in a spacious but far from
grand house in the village of Bucklebury, Berkshire.
The Middletons' business acumen, rather than inherited wealth, saw them build a
comfortable life for their family, enabling them to send Kate to exclusive
Marlborough College in Wiltshire. William went to Eton.
Their lives dovetailed at St Andrew's University in Fife in 2001, where they
later shared a student house and began a romance that culminated in the Royal
Wedding in April 2011.
Now the couple will be looking forward to adding a third photograph starring
Kate and her own tiny bundle to the family album next year.
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WILLIAM, THE PUBLIC'S ROYAL FAVOURITE
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PRINCE William has become the most popular royal in recent history, according to
a poll.
The 30-year-old is streets ahead of the Queen, rated second most popular, his
wife Kate and even his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.
Prince Harry is rated third most popular, demonstrating how important younger
members of the family have become in the monarchy. It also suggests a desire,
particularly among younger people, for the House of Windsor to skip a
generation, with the Queen being followed by her grandson rather than her son
and heir, Prince Charles.
Asked which members of the Royal Family they liked best, just 21 per cent in the
poll by King's College London/Ipsos Mori chose the 64-year-old future king,
making him fifth in the rankings.
William was rated the most popular royal by 62 per cent, the Queen by 48 and
Prince Harry by 36. Kate was fourth with 23 per cent. Princess Diana's highest
score in such polls was 47 per cent. Least popular was Prince Edward, rated by
just 1 per cent.
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KATE ENJOYS A NIGHT OUT WITH THE GIRLS (OH, AND WILLIAM CAME TOO)
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AFTER spending the day apart, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge couldn't wait to
catch up.
And when they met up for dinner it turned into quite a family reunion, with
Kate's sister Pippa and William's cousin Princess Eugenie also at private
members' club 5 Hertford Street in Mayfair.
Kate, 30, and Pippa, 29, had not been pictured together since sharing front-row
seats in June in the royal box at Wimbledon. Earlier on Wednesday the Duke and
Duchess had been carrying out separate engagements.
Kate was enthralling the crowds on a visit to the North-East which turned into a
solo trip after her husband, who had been due to join her, had to cancel.
Instead, he attended the funeral of his and his brother Harry's much-loved
former nanny, Olga Powell, who died last month aged 82.
For her dinner date that evening Kate wore a black coat to keep out the cold,
while Pippa was more exposed to the chill in a red dress and short jacket.
The 25million club was opened in June by Robin Birley.
Also present were his family, half-sister Jemima Khan and half-brothers Zac and
Ben Goldsmith.
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CHILDREN? I'D LIKE TWO, SAYS WILLIAM
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HE'S made no secret of the fact he wants to start a family. And yesterday Prince
William let slip that he would like to have two children.
Taking part in a walkabout in Singapore with wife Kate, he was asked by a little
boy how big a family he would like. He answered without hesitation: Two.'
William recently made clear that he and the duchess, who are both 30, are keen
to start a family soon. Many predict that may come after this current royal tour
is over.
Corine Ackermann, 17, who was with schoolfriends from the Tanglin Trust British
School, said: Someone asked him how many children he would like to have, and he
said he was thinking about having two.'

William was also asked what powers he would like if he could be a superhero by
Jaz Heber Percy, 13. He replied: Invisibility.'
When she met the duchess moments later, Jaz asked her the same question. She had
to think about it but said she had to be invisible if William was, otherwise he
would be able to sneak up on her,' Jaz said.
Kate's reception in Singapore has shown how big a draw she has become despite
being a member of the Royal Family for less than 18 months.
She provoked scenes of near hysteria on the walkabout, causing fans to knock
over a crash barrier and send one of her protection officers sprawling in the
melee.
There were also three changes of outfit, something that is bound to cheer the
British fashion industry which has seen record sales thanks to the so called
Kate Effect'.
The second day of the couple's Diamond Jubilee tour of south-east Asia and the
South Pacific saw crowds come out in their droves.
On their first engagement of the day, at the picturesque Gardens By The Bay, the
duchess looked cool despite the 97F (36C) degree heat in a pretty white
Alexander McQueen bespoke broderie anglaise suit.
More than 3,000 cheering, flag-waving (and sometimes fainting) members of the
public had gathered to see the royal couple, some queueing for more than three
hours.
Kate could easily be seen thanks to her towering 245 navy suede Coco Russell &
Bromley wedges, which saw her walk well over six feet tall.
Next it was on to a new Rolls-Royce factory, one of the biggest British industry
success stories abroad. Asked to fit the last titanium fan blade to an engine
for an Airbus A380 double-decker plane, she pushed a lever and then, giggling,
turned to the crowd and did a jokey Popeye-style movement, showing off her
biceps.
Then it was back to their suite at the Raffles Hotel for a quick change - this
time into a 485 silk skirt and top by Asian designer Raoul - for a visit to a
housing project. At their fourth engagement of the day, a visit to a school and
community centre for children with learning disabilities, a barrier collapsed
when the crowd outside rushed forward to see the royal couple.
No one was hurt, but their chief Scotland Yard personal protection officer was
knocked to the ground and several onlookers fell over the barrier.
Kate's third change came at her final gig' of the day, a reception thrown by the
British High Commission. This time she wore a dress by one of her favourite
designers, Erdem, in white and blue oriental-style chiffon with four-inch beige
heels.
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THE in-form team of trainer John Gosden and jockey William Buick landed their
fifth Group One win of a golden season when Elusive Kate made all in the Prix
Rothschild at Deauville yesterday.
The three-year-old filly was given a finely-judged ride by Buick as she held off
Andre Fabre's Golden Lilac by a length and three-quarters.
It was a second Group One in France for Elusive Kate, who won the Marcel Boussac
at last year's Arc fixture at Longchamp, and she is now unbeaten in four starts
across The Channel, having won on her two previous visits to Deauville.
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WILLS AND KATE UPSET
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HONEYMOON PHOTOS
BY KATHERINE FAULKNER
THE Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were said to be surprised and upset' last
night after beach photographs of their honeymoon appeared in an Australian
magazine.
The pictures - printed on the front cover of Woman's Day magazine - show them
strolling hand-in-hand wearing only swimwear on a beach in the Seychelles.
The images have since appeared on news websites and blogs, although most British
publications are still refusing to show them.
The move has dismayed the couple. They feel it is a significant invasion of a
very private, special time,' a source said. Until now, no pictures of their
honeymoon have been published because the media made a collective agreement not
to print them.
But more than a year later, the unauthorised photographs have been splashed
across the front of Australia's top selling weekly magazine.
The cover photograph shows the Duchess of Cambridge in a black halter-neck
bikini with gold detail, while Prince William is seen in a bright pair of board
shorts. Inside there are another 15 pictures - some of which show the couple in
the water. The headline, Our Island Paradise, wrongly appears to suggest the
couple approved the publication.
A St James's Palace spokesman said: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge considered
their honeymoon to be a very private event after their hugely public wedding.
For this reason they asked the media to respect their privacy. That is something
they continue to do.'
Last night, the editors of Woman's Day magazine did not respond to requests for
comment.
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SHOULD KATE BEND A KNEE TO BEATRICE?
BYLINE: BY PETER McKAY COLUMN
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Only a week to save the euro, says Italy's prime minister, Mario Monti. So,
there's time to consider another pressing matter the Duchess of Cambridge and
curtseying.The arrival of the Duchess, formerly Kate Middleton, as wife of
Prince William, has made the Royal Family more interesting. And the Royals now
have a better chance of getting their pictures in the papers if the beauteous,
future Queen Kate is with them.But Order of Precedence is more important than
mere novelty, popularity and glamour. For this reason, it is reported, Kate must
curtsey to blood princesses' such as Beatrice and Eugenie, daughters of the
Duke of York and his ex-wife, Sarah. Also to the Princess Royal and Princess
Alexandra.
And to the Duchess of Cornwall, Camilla, because of her marriage to Charles.
Except if Kate happens to be with William. At which point she assumes his rank,
meaning other royals ladies excluding the Queen and Camilla curtsey to her.A
royal expert comments: I think this story is a mare's nest. I have watched the
Duchess of Cambridge at many State occasions since her marriage, and the only
people she has curtseyed to are the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, and to
foreign royal sovereigns and their wives. Never, certainly, to the Duke of
York's daughters.'Another Buckingham Palace source adds: When William is not
present, Kate should curtsey to Beatrice and Eugenie. In theory. In practice,
she doesn't.'Why retain this fussy-sounding practice, with its great potential
for embarrassment? Because it's thought our modern, constitutional monarchy
might wither away, or collapse into anarchy, if there was no bowing, curtseying
and Order of Precedence. So, all members of the Royal Family' are ranked as
follows by the Palace: The Queen; Prince Philip; Prince of Wales; Duchess of
Cornwall; Prince William; Prince Harry; the Duke of York; the Duchess of
Cambridge; the Earl of Wessex; the Countess of Wessex; the Princess Royal; the
Duke of Gloucester; the Duchess of Gloucester; the Duke of Kent; the Duchess of
Kent; Princess Alexandra.Note that Kate is ranked after Prince Harry and the
Queen's second son, Prince Andrew. While Camilla is right behind her husband in
the pecking order, even though she can't share his title and become Princess of
Wales because of royal sensitivity about the loss of our last one, Diana. Why
so? Charles insisted on it, perhaps. The Queen decides which members of her
family are accorded the status of members of the Royal Family and also, from
time to time, approves their precedence,' says the official Palace guidance.Heir
apparent Charles, when he becomes king, will enjoy exercising control over
precedence. It's said he'd prefer to head a slimmed-down Royal Family in line
with government wishes but the vast household he has established suggests
otherwise.Given that he was born in 1948, he could be quite elderly when he does
succeed. He might be seen by his subjects as a stop-gap monarch, merely keeping
the throne warm for William. Certainly his reign becomes a less interesting
prospect than William's which, God willing, is likely to last far longer.
William has now reached the grand old age of 30 without giving us much inkling
about his character. He seems serious, dutiful and respectful to his father and
grandparents, but we know nothing of his private feelings about monarchy, or how
he envisages his own reign. One thing which has become apparent is his liking
for Kate's parents, Mike and Carole Middleton. It's assumed their decision to
buy a bigger, more expensive house in Berkshire at a time in life when couples
downsize has to do with accommodating William and Kate, together with their
royal children, in the future.Carole Middleton won't be the Queen Mother, but
she will become the Queen's mother. Perhaps William will decide to accord the
Middletons the status of members of the Royal Family and approve their
precedence within it. Why not?If Kate's first child is a daughter, we are told
she will become the heir apparent. So the blood royal' rule that only the
children of male royals can become royal themselves, which presently precludes
the sons and daughters of Princess Margaret and the Princess Royal may be
passing into history.There's a brave new royal world a-coming.WHAT WOULD HER
LADYSHIP SAY . . ?AS LADY GRANTHAM in Downton Abbey, who has three
romance-seeking daughters in their 20s, there isn't much opportunity for actress
Elizabeth McGovern, 50, pictured, to strut her stuff. But the university
professor's daughter rocked up at the Isle of Wight Festival, appearing with her
own group, Sadie and the Hotheads, before making a guest appearance on the main
stage with Eighties rock veterans Big Country. What would the Dowager Lady
Grantham, played by Dame Maggie, say? Do we know the Hotheads,
dear?'BREATHALYSER SCAM IS BREATHTAKING CHEEKNOW the French want us to carry
breathalyser kits costing 3 in our cars when driving there. The distributor of
the device, AlcoDigital, admits it isn't very accurate, but the French don't
feel ready yet to insist on one that is which would cost hundreds of pounds.
This follows hazard triangles, high- visibility jackets and spare light bulbs
that, in some modern cars, can be fitted only by garages, not by car owners at
roadsides. Total cost of such equipment is about 40. Multiply that by 10 if
they decide on accurate breathalysers. Who thinks up these scams? My suspicion
is that they're a result of lobbying by motor accessory manufacturers.
Persuading a government to make this junk obligatory is great business. Why
bother marketing it to motorists when you can get politicians to force them to
buy it?THE Archbishop of Canterbury's forthcoming, valedictory book is
portrayed chiefly as an attack on David Cameron's Big Society scheme, which Dr
Rowan Williams calls aspirational waffle designed to conceal a deeply damaging
withdrawal of the state from its responsibilities to the most vulnerable'. There
can't be much doubt the fatuous Big Society wheeze was conceived as a means of
camouflaging welfare cuts. But surely the Archbishop's wrong to pretend they
aren't necessary. Perhaps he's on firmer ground when he argues that Muslims must
make clear their loyalty is to the nation state, not the international Muslim
community'.DAVID Cameron puts on his Tory hat and, in an interview, suggests
cracking down on welfare scroungers by axing 2?billion of housing benefits for
under-25s.He also denies feeling threatened by the rising popularity in the
party of his determined, unambiguously-Conservative Education Secretary Michael
Gove, saying: I not only appointed Michael Gove as Education Secretary, I
persuaded him to go into politics in the first place.'No doubt this is true, but
claiming ownership of Gove the politician sounds like an expression of
containment as well as support. Comic Jimmy Carr looked foolish calling his
legal, one per cent income tax scheme an error of judgment' but two others
involved, PM David Cameron, and Carr's estranged father, Jim, were guilty of
worse lapses.It was a particularly egregious example of the tax-avoidance
industry,' said Cameron yesterday, seeking to justify his earlier criticism of
Carr, for which he was censured even by some on his own side. Prime Ministers
should be above dishing dirt on individuals who have acted lawfully if not
admirably. Jim Carr told the Mail on Saturday he had once helped financially
when his son was struggling to start his comedy career, but this money was never
paid back.Now he isn't welcome at Jimmy's concerts, or his home. He says he
doesn't know why Jimmy excludes him from his life, but thinks it may be
something to do with his mother's death from cancer after Jim left home.It isn't
unusual for fathers to help children financially. Nor for children to forget
about this when they're on their feet. But it is unusual and sad when a father
feels he has to go public about it. Saying he can't think of any reason why
Jimmy shuns him doesn't mean one doesn't exist.For ex-IRA chieftain Martin
McGuinness to shake hands with the Queen will understandably cause difficulties
for some republicans and nationalists,' says his Sinn Fein colleague, Gerry
Adams. But it's good for this process we're trying to develop.' And what process
would that be? I think he means helping Sinn Fein obtain control of a united
Ireland. Since they murdered her cousin, Lord Mountbatten, it might have been
tactful to add that the meeting could also cause some difficulties for the
Queen.Tony BLAIR says on TV that he thinks we'll join the euro one day. It's
all a question of the currency's problems being sorted out. In the next breath
he says he'd happily become president of Europe. And that he's just made his
86th visit to the Middle East, where he is a peace envoy. Do you get the
impression Tony's looking for a career change? TIME TO STOP BANKING ON THE BIG
FOURROYAL Bank of Scotland chief executive Stephen Hester apologises for letting
down its NatWest customers after a so-called technical hitch delayed a mountain
of transactions, including salaries.Some experts now urge the public to switch
to ethical or mutual lenders. But we're pounded all day, every day by the
advertising lures of the tiny cartel of giant High Street banks the Big Four
that are both too big to fail and too bloated to do anything other than
warehouse our cash for their own benefit.We need a far more diverse banking
system.
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THAT'S SOME 30TH BIRTHDAY GIFT! QUEEN GIVES WILLIAM A COTTAGE AT SANDRINGHAM
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The QUEEN is to give Prince William and his wife one of the cottages on her
beloved Sandringham estate to mark her grandson's 30th birthday.
The property will be made available to the couple later this year.
William, who reached the milestone last Thursday, is said to be celebrating
privately with family and friends this weekend.
It is understood that he is particularly delighted about the house because he
and Kate spent their first Christmas as husband and wife at Sandringham last
year.
A source told The Mail on Sunday: 'A property is definitely being made available
to William and Kate this year and a plan is in place for William to have his own
place on the estate.
'He's a country boy and loves Norfolk, just like his father and his
grandparents. It's a lovely, peaceful place and William adores it.'
The 20,000-acre Sandringham estate near King's Lynn in Norfolk has been owned by
the Queen since her accession in 1952 and by the Royal Family since 1862.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh stay in the main house, an Edwardian
mansion, every Christmas with the rest of the Royal Family.
Although much of the land is open to the public, the paparazzi are no longer
allowed to photograph the Royal Family relaxing there.
New laws were introduced after pictures of Prince Philip were published overseas
and Prince Edward was photographed apparently striking his two gun dogs with a
wooden stick during a pheasant shoot.
It is not known which of the 150 residential, commercial and agricultural
properties on the estate that the Queen intends to give to the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge.
Among the options are York Cottage, which is currently used as an estate office.
Built by Edward VII soon after he moved to Sandringham, it was the first home of
King George V and Queen Mary after their marriage in 1893.
Sandringham was a favourite of George V, who declared it 'the place I love
better than anywhere in the world' and William's great-grandfather, King George
VI, was born there in 1895.
Kate and William have also previously stayed at Wood Farm Cottage in Wolferton,
a modest cottage set in a secluded part of the estate that is often used as an
informal weekend retreat by the Royals.
William and Prince Harry regularly host shooting parties at the cottage, while
Kate and William have treated friends to a weekend there. Prince Harry also
stayed at the cottage with his former girlfriend, Chelsy Davy.
The cottage is often used by the Royals when there is not enough accommodation
in the main house.
Previously, Wood Farm was used by the Duke of Edinburgh to host private parties
during shooting weekends, and the Duchess of York stayed there following her
divorce from Prince Andrew.
William already has several properties across the country. When he was a student
at St Andrews University, the Queen handed him a cottage called Tam-na-Ghar on
the Balmoral estate in Scotland, where he used to take Kate for romantic
weekends.
The Duke and Duchess currently live on Anglesey in Wales, where William works as
an RAF search-and-rescue pilot. The Prince has previously spoken of how he and
the Duchess, 30, can live 'normal lives' on Anglesey. However, he has been told
that he must decide by the end of the year whether he wants to continue with his
flying career.
While in London, the couple's official residence is in Kensington Palace in West
London Princess Diana's former home.
Although they currently stay in Nottingham Cottage, which is situated in the
north of the Palace grounds, they have recently been given the keys to apartment
1a Princess Margaret's former home.
The Queen made the property available after their wedding last year and an
extensive refurbishment will begin in September.
William has always enjoyed close ties with the Sandringham estate. His close
friends the Van Cutsem family used to live at Anmer Hall where the Prince
regularly stayed as a young boy.
A spokesman for the Queen was last night unable to comment, saying only:
'Sandringham is a private estate.'
A spokesman for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge also said it was a private
matter.
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THRIFTY KATE, DEFIANT IN HER FAVOURITE HEELS
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SHE has come in for some rare sartorial criticism over her fondness for her
favourite nude heels.
But it seems the fashion police will have to try a little harder if they hope to
part the Duchess of Cambridge from those trusty LK Bennett court shoes.
Kate was once again sporting the 185 heels on Saturday, when she attended the
wedding of Prince William's cousin, Emily McCorquodale - Princess Diana's niece.
The duchess was joined by her husband and her brother-in-law, Prince Harry, for
the ceremony in Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire.
While some observers have criticised Kate's safe choices, the 30-year-old seems
happy to be building up a reputation for thrift.
She wore her faithful court shoes to two events over the Diamond Jubilee
weekend, and was seen in them six times during her tour of Canada and the US
last summer.
Indeed, her entire outfit for the wedding had been recycled.
She wore the floral Jenny Packham dress at a polo match in the US last year, the
dove grey coat at the Order of the Garter service and the hat at last June's
Epsom Derby.
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WILLIAM SAYS HE WISHES HIS MOTHE HAD MET KATE. BUT WOULD THE ORIGINAL ROYAL
FASHION ICON HAVE SEEN HER AS AN ALLY - OR RIVAL?
BY RICHARD KAY AND GEOFFREY LEVY
JUST imagine, for a moment, that Diana had lived and that this weekend she was
joining the Royal Family at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee jamboree, her place
assured as the mother of a future king.
Just what thoughts would be flooding through her mind as she gazed at the
slender figure of her daughter-in-law, the Duchess of Cambridge, knowing that
cameras everywhere were locked on Kate?
Prince William, in an interview this week with America's ABC network, spoke of
his regrets that his mother would never know his wife. I'm just sad she's never
going to get a chance to meet Kate,' hesaid.
But what if she had? No doubt, Diana would have adored her. But on a dazzling
occasion such as this weekend's Jubilee, might Diana's mind not have wondered
how many cameras were focused on her, and how many on Kate?
Once they would have been trained only on Diana. But now there is a new People's
Princess', one who probably has even greater claim to that emotive title because
she is a true commoner, unlike Diana an earl's daughter.
Kate is 30 and Diana would by now be almost 51. A glamorous 51, however, no
doubt about that. But doesn't the modern monarchy survive on a regular injection
of youth and new faces?
Diana would, of course, also have been incredibly proud, and taken great
pleasure in the popularity that surrounds her son, especially since his marriage
13 months ago to the middle-class girl from the Berkshire village of Bucklebury.
In particular, as her eyes this weekend would have fallen upon the Duchess of
Cornwall, she would have been delighted and highly amused that William and
Kate's popularity far exceeds that of her ex-husband the Prince of Wales and the
former Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles.
And yet, at the same time, Diana is bound to have been somewhat envious of her
daughter-in-law.
For the magnitude of the Diamond Jubilee and the prominence of Kate alongside
the Queen would be signalling the end of her own authority, not just as a
fashion icon but as the focus of world attention for being the woman all the
world wants to meet.

It would not have been easy for her. But the key reason for her envy would not
have been over the younger woman's glamour and style, but for something much
closer to home: that Kate has the kind of love Diana always wanted.
Consider Diana's sweet-and-sour contemplation on that point. She was a wife who
felt unloved and discarded for another woman, and had to live with a husband who
set the tone of his own tragic marriage by waving away talk of love' and
muttering those infamous four words, whatever "in love" means'.
Kate, meanwhile, is a wife adored' by Diana's own son he having told the world:
We are looking forward to spending the rest of our lives together' and who talks
enthusiastically of having a family.
None of Diana's friends are at all surprised that William is so romantic. It is,
they say, how she taught him to be.
He may have been only 15 when Diana died, but he's her son through and through,'
says one. Yes, she would feel envious of Kate having such a caring and loving
husband but she would also be thrilled for her.'
On the surface, at least, there is no comparison between Diana and the former
Catherine Middleton.
Kate is dark and calm, while Diana was blonde and hot-headed. Kate exudes a
quiet assurance even as a brand-new royal that has drawn widespread praise,
while Diana was a mass of uncertainties. Kate is a university graduate with a
degree in history of art, while Diana famously left school without so much as an
O-level.
As for their home lives, it is the stark difference between Kate's and William's
that is most intriguing.
Kate grew up in a loving family with parents who did everything together, even
going into business together; William spent the first half of his life in a
household that frequently echoed with tears and arguments.
It is said, of course, that children who suffer the trauma of growing up in a
home with a warring atmosphere often repeat the circumstances in their own
lives.
This is precisely what happened to Diana, whose own parents went through an
acrimonious divorce and a tug-of-war over custody of the children, which her
mother lost.
And so history repeated itself when an eight-year-old William, arrived home from
his prep school, begged his mother: Please don't cry,' and shoved Kleenex under
the bathroom door.
And yet William grew up to be the kind of man who enjoys sharing the washing-up
and the cooking with his wife.
Diana, a romantic, would have viewed this domestic contentment as the natural
outcome for a girl prepared to wait eight years for a man she fell in love with
at university.
How ruefully she would have compared this with her own marriage to a man she
barely knew and was addressing as Sir' in the first weeks of their courtship.
Some people an age ago, it seems now mocked Waity Katy'. Diana would not have
done so. Friends say she would have admired Kate for the way she went about
getting her man, because she, Diana, knew about being in love, even if her
husband didn't.
So much so that she was prepared to abandon her glittering life to marry Dr
Hasnat Khan, the Pakistani heart surgeon with whom she had an affair after the
end of her marriage.
Khan put a stop to such thoughts by explaining to her that he had to return to
Pakistan to help his own people, and she would never be separated from William
and Harry.
It is suggested that Kate's cover-girl beauty might have led Diana to feeling
upstaged. Really?
One of Diana's friends said yesterday that the Princess would have been really
happy' that William had married a girl whose looks attracted admiring glances.
With a grimace, the friend added: But every day Diana would have been looking
closely in the mirror for crows' feet.'
She might also have had mixed feelings at the praise Kate has received for her
informal style on official engagements a style that was totally foreign to the
Royal Family until Diana herself introduced it.
Certainly, one area where Diana might have been jealous of Kate is the way
Prince Charles has taken her under his wing, accompanying her to concerts and
the opera and sharing private suppers.
As a woman, Diana would have seen this as Charles usurping her maternal role in
having common ground with her daughter-in-law.
But the fact is, she frequently found her relationships with female friends
difficult to sustain. The slightest slip or word out of place which she felt was
hurtful would mean that the friend men, too, incidentally was expelled from her
circle.
For example, she fell out with her mother for talking about her in a magazine
interview (and never had time to make up before her death in the Paris
underpass), and she fell out with her best friend the Duchess of York who wrote
about her in her memoirs, having promised not to.
She also fell out with Tiggy Legge-Bourke, her sons' nanny employed by Charles,
believing (wrongly) that they were having an affair, but also reacting with a
mother's fury to what she saw as Tiggy's over-zealous cuddling of the children.
Everyone knows it is not uncommon for mothers-in-law to feel somewhat irrelevant
when a son gets married. For Diana, the role would have likely been hugely more
painful simply because of William's unusual closeness to his in-laws, the
Middletons, with whom he and Kate spend many weekends and holidays.
Here, dismay and frustration might have lain in wait for Diana. William's words
about wanting to have children which most people now accept has been put on hold
so as not to upstage the Queen's Diamond Jubilee are likely to be timely.
Courtiers expect Kate to be pregnant soon.
And as every husband's mother knows, their son's wife traditionally turns to
their own mother for help with the baby. Diana would have been upset by this.
After all, look how wisely she brought up her own sons, telling them they had to
become men before they could be princes', and showing them life in the real
world outside their walls of privilege. She would feel she had much to offer.
So there could have been an awkward rivalry between Princess Diana and Carole
Middleton, another elegant woman in her 50s. And not just over babies.
Since her elder daughter married into the Royal Family, 56-year-old Mrs
Middleton's wardrobe has expanded startlingly and expensively.
Diana always loved clothes. Designers clamoured to dress her. Bad enough they
were now pirouetting around Kate, who is straying away from the High Street and
wearing some costly couture numbers these days. But would they now cluster
around her well-preserved mother as well?
Of course, all this is conjecture. But as William said in his TV interview this
week, it would have been fantastic' if Diana had been here now.
And such fun.
Striking a pose: Princess Diana and The Duchess of Cambridge
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WILLIAM: I M SO SAD THAT KATE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO MEET MY MOTHER
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PRINCE William has spoken of his profound sadness that his beloved mother would
never have the chance to meet his wife.
Interviewed for US television William, who is normally a closed book on anything
to do with the late Princess Diana, revealed that his wedding last year was the
first time since she died in 1997 that he had wished that she could be at such a
major event in his life.
I m just very sad that she s never going to get a chance to meet Kate, he
added.
Reflecting on his wedding day William, 29, admitted that he had to prepare
himself mentally beforehand to get through it without his mother because he knew
she would have loved it so much. It was very difficult. I sort of prepared
myself beforehand so that I wasn t... I was sort of mentally prepared... I didn
t want any wobbly lips or anything going on, he said.
It s the one time since she s died, where I ve thought to myself, oeIt would be
fantastic if she was here.
And just how sad really for her, more than anything, not being able to see it
because I think she would have loved the day and I think, hopefully, she d be
very proud of us both for the day.
In the past William has tended to shy away from speaking about his mother - who
was killed in a Paris car crash along with her boyfriend Dodi Fayed in 1997 because he feels his memories of her are one of the few aspects of her life not
open to public scrutiny.
He agreed to the interview with US channel ABC, however, to mark his grandmother
s Diamond Jubilee because it has paid for the rights to broadcast a concert to
celebrate the event at Buckingham Palace on Monday night.
Prince Harry also took part in the television special and reflected on the
wedding, musing that he hoped his mother had the best seat in the house .
I was massively nervous. Everybody was nervous, said Harry. And the whole
thing was a bit of a blur to be honest, because there were God knows how many
millions or billions of eyes focused on us luckily, mainly those two [William
and Kate].
I think she [Diana] had the best seat in the house probably. She would have
loved to have been there.
Asked what it was like growing up with the Queen as his grandmother, Harry said:
When we were young it was very easy to take our grandmother for granted... she
was just a grandmother to us.
And it s only really been over the past five, eight to ten years that I ve
actually learned to understand and accept the huge deal that she is around the
world, especially within the UK.
Asked if he thought she had managed to keep the monarchy relevant, Harry said:
Yes, without a doubt. She s managed to get the family to move with the times. I
think that s incredibly important.
You can t get stuck in a sort of old age situation when everything else around
you is changing. So you have to go with it.
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INTRODUCING THEIR NROYAL LIKENESSES, KATE AND WILLIAM
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THANKFULLY for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the days are gone when a
waxwork bore only a passing resemblance to its subject.
Madame Tussauds in London yesterday unveiled its figures of Kate and William as
the new star attraction in its royal section.
And visitors were captivated by their accuracy made even more remarkable by
the fact that artists worked purely from photographs and videos of the couple,
who were too busy to attend a personal sitting.
Sculptor Stephen Mansfield, 46, who spent four months with a team of 30 making
the 'new' William, said: 'Since we last sculpted him, he has broadened out and
we have given him a more defined jawline.
'The hairline has had to come back a bit. It's definitely a little thinner.
'We don't go out of our way to flatter people, we just want to make them as
accurate as possible.'
Three other sets of Wills and Kate figures, based on their 2010 engagement
photocall at St James's Palace, have been produced for Tussauds branches in
Blackpool, Amsterdam and New York.
Disappointingly for some, there are no plans for a Pippa Middleton waxwork.
Staff said that despite being 'very beautiful', Kate's sister is neither royal
nor an 'iconic celebrity' and requests for her likeness have waned in recent
months.
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WHY CHILDREN LOVE KATE She likes rabbits, is good with glitter . . . and smells
of raspberries!'
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SHE was welcomed into the Royal Family less than a year ago, but already, the
Duchess of Cambridge's rapport with youngsters has earned her the nickname The
Children's Princess. Here, some of those who have been lucky enough to spend
time with Kate tell HELEN CARROLL and SARAH CHALMERS about their encounters.
Jaydn Proffitt, seven, lives in Littlemore, Oxford, with mum Simone, 33, dad
Mark, 43, a steamboat pilot, and siblings Amelia, 14, Amber, 11, and twin
Taylor, seven. He met the Duchess in February when she visited his school, Rose
Hill Primary in Oxford. Jaydn says:
We had a letter at school telling us Kate was coming and we were all very
excited when she walked into our art class.
I thought she might have been wearing a crown. She wasn't, but she still looked
pretty. She was really tall and had very high heels on.
My mum couldn't have walked in them and she was taller than my dad. She was very
nice and posh with a good voice and she smelled of raspberries.
I was painting when she arrived and she helped me put glitter on my picture. She
was very good at it. Everyone is talking about it at school and they are all
jealous because they wanted to talk to her and I did.
We talked a bit about her wedding and other stuff. She said she liked cats and
dogs and rabbits. Then she said: 'I'll tell you a secret. My dog's name is
Lupo.' Then she giggled.
I think she'd make a really cool teacher, but I wouldn't want her job. There's a
lot of driving around and I get sick when I go in cars.
Tilly Jennings, six, lives in Felixstowe, Suffolk, with mum Jeanette, 37, dad
Richard, 41, a tug driver, and sisters Brooke, 12, and Marni, three. Tilly, who
has a serious heart condition, met the Duchess at The Treehouse, part of East
Anglia's Children's Hospice Charity, of which Kate is patron, earlier this
month. Tilly says:
I'm lucky because I got to give Kate a posy of flowers and say: 'Welcome to our
hospice.'
I think Kate's very thin and very beautiful. She painted with us, she did a
butterfly, and my little sister kept saying: 'Princess Kate! Princess Kate! I
will paint for you.' Then she painted on her butterfly.
Kate laughed, but I didn't want Marni to do that.
She told me she wished William was there. I would like to meet Prince William.
Maybe she will bring him next time.
She asked if I was doing anything nice afterwards and I said I was going to the
doctor's because I've got a poorly toe.
She said: 'I hope you're feeling better soon.' That was kind.
Bethany Woods, ten, lives in Ipswich, Suffolk, with dad Kevin, 41, her full-time
carer, and brother Ryan, 15. Bethany has muscular dystrophy and uses a
wheelchair. She met the Duchess at The Treehouse earlier this month. Bethany
says:
Kate was even prettier than I thought, just like a princess.
I felt shy when I found out I was going to meet her, but I wasn't shy when I saw
her. She has a lovely smile. She said I have a pretty name, and I think she
does, too. I sang her a song, Rainbow Connections. She said: 'That was lovely. I
will always remember it.'
That made me happy. I gave Kate a bouquet of pink and white roses and she asked
if pink was my favourite colour. She was right -- it is!
My nails were painted blue to match my dress and Kate asked me who painted them.
I told her it was my daddy. I bet she didn't expect that.
Kate will be the Queen of England one day and I wonder if she will remember my
song when she is.
Elliot Casey, 12, lives in Birkenhead with his mother Lisa, 46, and father,
Greg, 46, a catering supplier, and sisters India, 17, and Hermione, six. He is
being treated for a brain tumour at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool
and met the Duchess in February. Elliot says:
Kate asked all about me, my treatment, how I was coping and if I liked the
staff. She also asked what football team I support and when I said Liverpool she
seemed pretty pleased, so maybe she's a Liverpool supporter. Then I said: 'I
hear you've got a dog, what's its name?' She told me he was a cocker spaniel and
whispered that his name was Lupo. Then she giggled because it was a secret.
I didn't tell anyone until it came out a week or two later when she told another
child at another school. Even my mum didn't know, because she wasn't sitting
close enough to hear. And I didn't tell my headmaster when he come to visit me
either!
All the doctors were trying to get it out of me. I said it was a royal secret!
Jaqson Johnston-Lynch, eight, lives in Liverpool with mum Jacquie, 49, and dad
Chase, 46, a teacher. Jaqson met the Duchess, who is patron of Action On
Addiction, in February when she visited Brink, an alcohol-free bar in Liverpool.
Jaqson says:
I'd seen a picture of Kate, but I prefer girls with blonde hair. But it was
Valentine's Day when I met her, so I made her a card and gave her a cupcake and
red roses. The card said: 'Dear Kate, I love you, from Jaqson.' I do love her.
She's friendly. She has a big smile.
I said I was sorry Prince William wasn't there and she asked if I knew where he
was. I said: 'I've got no idea.' Kate burst out laughing, then she told me he
was in the Falklands, which is a long way away. I hope he's not jealous of me
for giving her a Valentine's card.
Fabian BatE, ten, lives in Surrey with mum Lydia, 50, dad Darrell, 49, a manager
at Kingston College, sisters Ollie, 17, and Cassia, 12, and brother Ben, 15.
Fabian, who has leukaemia and recently had a transplant with bone marrow donated
by Cassia, met the Duchess last September at the Royal Marsden Hospital in
Surrey. Fabian says:
My sisters came to hospital that day because they were excited to see Kate and
William. It was funny when William put his arm around Ollie: it made her blush.
I asked Kate about the wedding -- girls like talking about those things -- and
told her it made everyone very happy.
She promised to look at my blog Faith4Fabian and one day when we were getting
ready to go to Legoland the postman knocked with a letter from her. She wrote
that it was nice to meet me and she was keeping her fingers crossed. It was
kind, but it made Mum cry a bit.
Ellie Tang, six, lives in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, with mum Kathy, 33, a
flight attendant, dad Raymond, 38, a restaurant owner and brother Caiden, four.
Caiden is in remission from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Ellie met the Duchess last
year when she visited the Northern Ireland Cancer Fund for Children at Belfast
City Hall. Ellie says:
The charity asked Mummy and me to represent them at a special event, but we
didn't know who we were going to meet. I couldn't believe it was a real-life
princess! She's very pretty.
We flipped pancakes together and I ate three. Syrup is my favourite thing to
have on top, but we just had them plain.
Later, I was on telly and even my cousins in Australia saw me. I have a
scrapbook of pictures that Mummy keeps in her bedroom. For my birthday I got a
princess dress and it is pink.
Paige Hearn, four, lives in Warrington, Cheshire, with mum Claire, 25. Paige met
the Duchess last month at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, where
she's been having chemotherapy for leukaemia. Paige says:
I gave Kate a photo of me watching her and William get married on TV. She said:
'Are you sure I can keep it?' But I wanted her to take it home to her castle. I
made her lots of things, a card and a crown, and I drew a picture of Kate and
Prince William. She said she would show it to him. I hope she remembers.
She asked me if I'd had my treatment, but I didn't want to talk about that, so I
let Mummy tell her. I liked her hair -- it's very long and a bit curly.
When the princess was going, I said 'I have to do a curtsy,' because I'd been
practicing. But then I was shy, so I made Mummy do a curtsy, too.
Big hugs:Kate arriving at Alder Hey last month
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TARA PT: I TOLD LOVE-SPLIT KATE THAT WILLIAM WOULD COME RUNNING BACK
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CHRIS HASINGS
WHEN Prince William and Kate Middleton suddenly separated in 2007, the split was
the subject of fevered speculation.
But socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson has revealed that she comforted Kate at the
time and reassured her that William would be back 'once he realised what he was
missing'.
Ms Palmer-Tomkinson, 40, a close friend of the now Duchess of Cambridge and
Princes William and Harry, said she offered Kate support when people were 'being
horrible' to her.
In an interview this week in The Mail on Sunday's You magazine she has praised
Kate for adapting to public life, saying the Duchess is 'uber-fabulous' and
'doing such a good job'.
She said: 'I first met her ages ago in Klosters and I always thought she and
William were so good together. We have had lots of fun nights in relaxed
situations and when they briefly split up I said to her, "He'll be back, don't
worry."
'She and her sister Pippa came to my brother's book launch during the split and
people were being horrible to her Z but I knew William would be back as soon as
he realised what he was missing out on. I think she has done something amazing.
I am really proud of her.'
Ms Palmer-Tomkinson added that Kate was 'beautiful and capable, sort of
super-grounded, but really fun too', and compared her to the late Diana,
Princess of Wales.
She said: 'Whenever I see her on the cover of another magazine I smile. She
reminds me of his mother Z something about her eyes.'
Ms Palmer-Tomkinson, who is single, was a guest at last year's Royal Wedding and
regularly skis with William, Harry and Kate.
But she believes her friendship with the Princes has endured precisely because
she knows how to keep a confidence. She said: 'They are lovely, naughty boys.
There is a complete code of trust there, a code that says, "Zip it and treasure
it." I have a thing about trust. It is priceless.'
The former party girl once had a 6400-a-day cocaine habit that destroyed her
septum Z the wall of cartilage between the nostrils.
In 1999 she was admitted to the Meadows clinic in Arizona for treatment for the
addiction and later had cosmetic surgery on her nose.
But she has given up her hell-raising lifestyle. Instead, describing herself as
'secretly clever', she has been throwing herself into writing a new novel and
composing music.
THE romance of the Royal Wedding caused a mini baby boom Z with a spike in the
number of births exactly nine months later.

The number of babies born in the last week of January was up by a third on the
average from 126 to 168, at Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals in South London.
Marie McDonald, joint clinical director of women's health, said: 'We looked at
the figures and thought, "What on earth happened nine months ago?" Then we
realised it was the Royal Wedding.'
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have welcomed a new addition to their family Z
a three-month-old puppy.
The couple acquired the male cocker spaniel in early December and have been
settling him in at their rented farmhouse in North Wales.
Remarkably, however, William and Kate have given palace aides strict
instructions not to reveal the name of their pet, arguing that it is a 'private'
matter.
'He is a private pet and they do not want his name to be made public although
the couple are happy to confirm that they do, indeed, have a new dog,' said a
spokesman at St James's Palace. The pup has not yet been formally revealed in
public but has been seen with the couple on beaches near their Anglesey home.
His arrival is particularly timely as he will help keep the 30-year-old duchess
company while her husband is posted to the Falkland Islands for six weeks.
Search-and-rescue pilot William, 29, flew out yesterday with his Sea King crew
on a routine deployment to the region.
Kate is expected to spend more time in London while he is away, living with the
pup at Kensington Palace.
Yesterday Ladbrokes was offering odds of 10/1 against the dog being named
Charlie, 33/1 Bouncer and 66/1 Fenton Z after the now world-famous hound seen
chasing deer in Richmond Park, which became a YouTube sensation.
Royal sources say the black pup comes from a litter bred by Kate's mother,
Carole Middleton, who adores the breed. She has a bitch named Ella, although it
is unclear whether Ella is the mother of Kate and William's pet.
The dog is the royal couple's first together and replaces the prince's black
labrador, Widgeon, who died about two years ago.
The Royal Family have long been dog lovers. Formal portraits from the 17th
century onwards show kings, queens and their children happily posing with their
beloved animals, from pugs to greyhounds, King Charles spaniels to corgis Z
favourite choice of the Queen.
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A 63,000 CANVAS PALACE FOR WILLIAM AND KATE PARTY IT UP IN A TEEPEE
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PRINCE William and Kate marked their first New Year as man and wife with the
Middletons Z in a tent traditionally used by reindeer herders in Lapland.
Their teepee-style 'kata' was hired from an upmarket events firm by Kate's
sister Pippa for a party she hosted in her parents' back garden in Berkshire.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had been expected to celebrate New Year with
Prince Charles and Camilla in Scotland, but were spotted earlier in the day
playing with Kate's parents' dogs in their garden.
According to a villager, Kate and William, who was wearing a flat cap and green
Barbour jacket, were laughing and joking, and 'looked full of the joys of the
season'.
The kata, made of animal hides with an opening at the top to let out smoke, is
used in Lapland by the semi-nomadic Sami people for cooking, smoking fish and as
a shelter from heavy snow.
Modern man-made versions are becoming increasingly popular in Britain and are
often used for weddings.
Party planner Pippa's chosen kata, which cost about 63,000 to hire and was
pitched in the grounds of Michael and Carole Middleton's home in the village of
Bucklebury, was described as a 'canvas palace' and included a dance floor,

lighting and seating for more than 100 people.
The setting was a far cry from Birkhall in Aberdeenshire, the private residence
of Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, where Kate's parents had also
been expected to see in the New Year with a formal dinner and ceilidh.
The party provided Kate, 29, with an opportunity to let her hair down after her
first Christmas with the Royals at Sandringham, the Queen's country retreat.
She had admitted to being nervous about the occasion and revealed she would have
to change outfits five times on Christmas Day alone.
Pippa, 28, who works for London-based events company Table Talk, recently signed
a deal to write a guide to being the perfect party hostess following a fierce
bidding war.
Although they split in November, her boyfriend of three years, Alex Loudon, 31,
was expected at the party as the couple remain good friends.
One notable absentee was Prince Harry, who was celebrating in the Swiss ski
resort of Verbier at his close friend Guy Pelly's new nightclub, Public, which
opened on December 1.
A source said: 'Prince Harry went to the club on Thursday night as well and was
drinking champagne and vodka.
'There's a photo booth in the club and you can pay five francs to have your
picture taken.
'Someone lent him five francs because he wanted his picture taken and then other
people were asking too apparently.'
It has been a significant year for the Royal Family, with two weddings, a
historic visit to Ireland by the Queen and Prince Philip being taken to hospital
for heart surgery.
The Duke of Edinburgh was due to see in the New Year with the Queen at
Sandringham.
Meanwhile, the most expensive New Year party in the world was thrown by Chelsea
owner Roman Abramovich on his estate on the island of St Barts in the Caribbean.
It was said to have cost 65 million, with music reportedly provided by the Red
Hot Chili Peppers.
Guests, who were told to wear 'island chic' for the party, were due to retire to
a fleet of super-yachts at the end of the evening.
royal coup: Party planner Pippa
quirky: A traditional kata like the one where Kate and William saw in 2012
lap of luxury: The kata hired by Pippa included a dancefloor and seating for
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WILLIAM'S 6 WEEKS IN FALKLANDS, BUT KATE'S LEFT AT HOME
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SHE could have been Aphrodite herself.
The Duchess of Cambridge dazzled in a silver Grecian-style gown as she hosted a
charity dinner with her husband last night.
William had just announced that he is to undertake a six-week tour of duty in
the Falklands early next year. But if Kate was feeling down at the news, she
didn't show it as she stepped out in the shimmering dress draped over one
shoulder and gently gathered in at the waist.
It also featured a bright red poppy.
The Duke, an RAF search and rescue pilot, will fly to the South Atlantic in
February, shortly before the 30th anniversary of the conflict there. The timing
is certain to antagonise the Argentine government, which continues to assert a
claim to the islands despite defeat at the hands of British forces in 1982.
Two years ago Argentine foreign minister Jorge Taina condemned suggestions the
prince could be posted to the Falklands, saying: 'This only serves to once again
highlight Britain's ongoing military presence in land and sea areas that are
part of the Argentine Republic's national territories.'
But yesterday an RAF source said: 'William just wants to get on with his job.'
The Duke is said not to want to be singled out for any special treatment and the
posting will count toward his bid for promotion to captain. He is currently a
Sea King co-pilot.
He has discussed the issue with Kate because it will be the longest they have
been apart. The Duchess considers herself a military wife, however, and is said
to have been overwhelmingly supportive.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman insisted the decision was taken solely by the
Duke's RAF chain of command.
And the Foreign Office said it was simply coincidence that he was being deployed
close to the 30th anniversary of the war. He will be home well before the
anniversary of the invasion on April 2.
Two RAF search and rescue crews are based in the Falklands at any one time.
Last night the royal couple Z with Kate compared to the Greek goddess of love Z
held a dinner at St James's Palace for the National Memorial Arboretum Appeal,
of which William is patron. The appeal aims to raise 612million to turn the
Arboretum, which honours those who have sacrificed their lives for their
country, into a world-renowned centre for Remembrance. It is located near
Lichfield, Staffordshire.
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CORRECTION:An article on Friday said that Prince William was hoping to be

promoted to captain in the RAF next year. In fact the prince, who is currently
flying as a co-pilot, is hoping to become pilot of his own Sea King
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MAYBE she was just feeling a bit peckish Z but the Duchess of Cambridge has
fuelled rumours that she may be pregnant by repeatedly touching her stomach
during a Royal visit.
The 29-year-old was seen patting or holding her stomach at least a dozen times
during a two-hour visit to an aid centre in Copenhagen.
Kate has already sparked pregnancy rumours by declining to eat peanut paste on
her trip Z as expectant mothers are advised not to eat peanuts in case it
triggers an allergy in their child.
Kate was seen shooting Prince William a knowing look and grinning as she turned
down the paste, intended for children hit by the East African famine. An aide
confirmed: 'There was no reason for her not tasting it, she does not have an
allergy.'
The Duchess's choice of outfit also contributed to talk that she might be hiding
a baby bump. Her claret coat from High Street store LK Bennett seemed a size too
large for her and bunched at the back.
'It was very odd,' remarked one onlooker. 'Kate would not stop touching her
tummy Z it was very noticeable. She continually patted it and held her hands
against it. She must have been doing it without realising, and at one point she
had both her hands cradling her stomach. Her coat was also rather large. It
looked loose below her waist, so she might well have been trying to hide
something.'
Sources close to Kate say that she is 'keen' to start a family, but a spokesman
said: 'We would not confirm or deny any pregnancy rumours.'
Last month, Commonwealth leaders agreed to reform the succession laws so William
and Kate's first born will be monarch, even if the child is a girl.
TELLTALE SIGN? Kate cradles her stomach beneath the claret coat that seemed too
big for her
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DAVID Cameron will strike a deal today to reform the monarchy, which will let
the eldest child of Prince William and his wife Kate inherit the throne Z even
if it's a girl.
The Prime Minister will put an end to more than 300 years of history by
thrashing out an agreement with Commonwealth leaders to end the rule that the
first-born male inherits the throne ahead of any elder sisters.
The deal will also end the ban on members of the Royal Family who marry a Roman
Catholic being able to succeed to the throne.
If the new rules had been in force in 1509 Margaret Tudor would have taken the
throne instead of Henry VIII. That could have meant the Reformation would never
have taken place and Elizabeth I would never have been Queen.
If the practice had been changed as recently as the last century, Britain could
have had two Queen Victorias back to back. Princess Victoria, the Princess Royal
would have acceded to the throne in 1901 instead of King Edward VII. When she
died just a few months later, her son Kaiser Wilhelm II would have ascended the
throne Z something which could have prevented the First World War.
The Queen of England now would have been the completely unknown Princess Marie
Cecile of Prussia.
Mr Cameron stepped in amid fears that there could be a constitutional crisis if
William and Kate had a firstborn daughter and then a boy.
The deal will be agreed today at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in
Perth when the PM hosts a meeting of the Queen's Realms Z the 16 countries
including the UK which share the Queen as their head of state.
Mr Cameron said: 'These rules are outdated and need to change. The idea that a
younger son should become monarch instead of an elder daughter, simply because
he is a man just isn't acceptable any more. Nor does it make any sense that a
potential monarch can marry someone of any faith other than Catholic. The
thinking behind these rules is wrong. That's why people have been talking about
changing them for some time. We need to get on and do it.'
The removal of the barrier to Roman Catholics marrying the heir to the throne
does not affect the position of the Anglican Church as the established Church.
The Queen and future monarchs will be Anglicans and Supreme Governor of the
Church of England.
The change will also do away with an ancient and unused rule that means all
descendants of George II are supposed to require the consent of the monarch to
marry.
The deal will take the form of a short communiqu signed by the Realms
committing to 'amending the rules on succession to their respective Crowns' and
making clear that they 'wish unanimously to advise the Queen of their views to
seek her agreement'.
In order to change the rules the Government will introduce legislation to change
the 1701 Act of Settlement, the Bill of Rights 1688, the Coronation Oath Act
1688 and the Royal Marriages Act 1772.
Downing Street said changes would be drafted in such a way that any children of
Prince William and his wife were included.
'The rules are outdated'
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HE hadn't slept after a frantic night of emergency rescues in his RAF
helicopter.
But no amount of drama in the air was going to stop Prince William making one
important stop on solid ground yesterday.
Almost 30 years after Princess Diana toured the Royal Marsden Hospital in Surrey
on her first solo engagement in 1982, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited
to meet young cancer sufferers.
And they chatted animatedly to the patients in the hospital's new 618million Oak
Centre for Children and Young People, sharing a joke with leukaemia sufferer
Digby Davidson after making themselves comfortable on his bed.
The 14-year-old, who thought he had beaten his cancer but has spent much of the
last three months in hospital after a relapse, said: 'They were really
laid-back.'
The Duke also rolled up his sleeves as he met seven-year-old Ellis Andrews, who
is waiting for a bone marrow transplant, while the Duchess chatted to Fabian
Bate, nine, who was in the middle of four hours of chemotherapy to treat acute
lymphoblastic leukaemia for the second time.
His mother Lydia, 50, said: 'Kate asked loads of questions and said she was
sorry the treatment hadn't worked first time round.'
While William looked slightly weary after 24 hours without sleep, his wife
appeared immaculate in a sculpted 6450 Amanda Wakeley oatmeal felt dress with
three-quarter length sleeves.
She completed her outfit with her favourite 6195 Sledge 2 LK Bennett nude heels
and a clutch bag.
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MEMORIES OF DIANA IN KATE'S SECRET CHARITY VISITS
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THE Duchess of Cambridge has been secretly visiting the homeless and sick,
following in the footsteps of the late Princess of Wales.
Kate has made a series of 'under the radar' trips in recent days to learn about
several charities, according to St James's Palace.
Her visits come before she makes a decision as to which she will formally
support as a royal patron.
Aides have requested the charities visited do not disclose that Kate has been to
see them until an announcement is made.
It is thought her focus will be on the homeless, vulnerable young people,
veterans' issues and conservation. However, she is using the next few months to
learn more about a variety of good causes before she decides in the new year.
Her husband's mother regularly made secret visits to homeless shelters, even
taking the young Prince William with her.
The experience is said to have encouraged him to become a patron of the charity
Centrepoint as an adult.
William later spent a night sleeping rough in sub-zero temperatures on the
streets of London to raise the charity's profile. Princess Diana was renowned
for her charity work and spent time helping children's and cancer charities, as
well as supporting the homeless, HIV and Aids sufferers and victims of
landmines.
She even helped to save a tramp from drowning after her car was flagged down in
Regent's Park.
A palace source said that Kate had the Duke of Cambridge's 'full support' but
was researching the charities independently.
They said the couple had been enjoying their time together at home in north
Wales while William continues his work as a search and rescue pilot.
William, a Royal Air Force flight lieutenant based on the island of Anglesey,
needs to put in plenty of hours over the coming months in order to become a
captain.
A St James's Palace spokesman said: 'The Duchess is using the next few months to
get to know a number of charitable and other causes better, so she can make
well-informed decisions about her future role.
'The Duchess plans to meet a wide range of people and make private visits.
'We are not giving a running commentary of the causes the Duchess is looking at.
Her interests remain broad at the moment.'
The couple, both 29, want to avoid overshadowing Queen Elizabeth II in the
run-up to 2012, the 85-year-old monarch's diamond jubilee year.
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WHY DOES THE FASHION WORLD HATE KATE?
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AT A fashion show at the New York Library on Wednesday afternoon, the talk was
all about one subject: Kate Mi ddl eton. Or rather, Princess Catherine, as we
are now obliged to call her.
Such had been the buzz around her and William s trip to Canada and Los Angeles
earlier this summer, that s hardly surprising. Except that at New York fashion
week, they were queuing up not to praise her but to slate her.
The debate was sparked when one American fashion commentator declared of our
future Queen: If you take Kate out of the royal family, put her on a street in
New York, you wouldn t look at her twice .
It didn t take long for others to join in the assault, berating her sense of
style and doubting that the Kate Effect would stand the test of time. She s a
very ordinary girl one fashion editor told me dismissively; she needs better
make-up , added another.
Wherever I turned, the sentiment was the same. Why such enmity?
Admittedly I, too, have criticised Kate s fashion sense in the past (she wears
navy court shoes and American tan tights, after all.) Yet I have increasingly
come to believe that Kate is the one who s got it right, and that it s the
fashion pack who are in the wrong.
For a start, there can be no denying that Kate has been good for British
fashion: every time she wears a Reiss dress (one of the few truly British labels
left), it sells out. She s good for women s morale, too. I applaud the fact that
unlike most high-profile women, she doesn t feel the need, yet, for a stylist
surely the most overrated job title in Christendom.
I also believe Kate has successfully honed and refined her look, leaving her
early disasters behind her, developing a style that is both elegant and
accessible.
She is growing up, finding confidence. Her simple mixes of designer with High
Street have become a signature style that is more in keeping with these troubled
times than being an out-and-out clothes horse. She s begun to show us what she
can do on the red carpet, too.
My personal favourite was the Jenny Packham column dress she wore to the
financier Arpad Busson s ARK charity gala in June this year in Kensington. Sheer
at the neck and shoulders and nipped in at the waste, she wore it with loose,
tumbling bed hair and looked absolutely sensational.
Then there was the stunning flowing lilac gown cinched in with silver belt that
she wore to a BAFTA event in Los Angeles. There she outshone a plethora of
Hollywood stars in one fell swoop.
WHY, then, have the tsarinas of style taken against her? I suspect it s partly
because Kate will never wear clothes like we fashionistas do: with reverence,
and a grim expression. Her huge smile is the best accessory she could ever have.
She also manages to look elegant yet effortless. What a contrast to the style
icons who have to know the key, covetable pieces each season, and order them in
advance.
Take the late fashion stylist Isabella Blow, who was most certainly an icon. She
had an assistant to accompany her on the Tube to her office at Tatler in case
animal rights protesters splattered her fur coat with paint. And let s be
honest, more often than not she looked look downright ridiculous. The truth is,
being a fashion icon isn t about being beautiful. It is about wearing expensive
and often uncomfortable and ridiculous clothes, to ensure you re ahead of the
pack. Hardly the domain of a future Queen.
What s more, for all their sneering at Kate, style-setters tend to have gaping
holes in their personalities. They think dressing edgily (ie, wearing the new
snakeskin knee boots by Prada with knitted shorts, a tan, an orange tote by
Michael Kors and a blouse by Celine) makes them interesting. Take it from me, it
doesn t. It largely makes them broke. And difficult to be around.
Ever wondered why us fashion folk look so miserable? Our feet hurt from being
crammed into shoes built for style, not comfort. All this autumn/winter clothing
we ve been wearing in a boiling Indian summer in Manhattan makes us hot and
itchy.
Kate doesn t need to fret about any of this. Lucky her. Yes, she needs to be
well groomed, but she also needs to be able to stand, for hours, and look
cheerful and animated. She will be spending her life kneeling by the side of old
people and bending down to talk to children.
But, I hear you murmuring, didn t the likes of Grace Kelly manage all this and
attain style icon status? Yes, but being considered a style innovator these days
is no longer about elegance, which Kate has in abundance. The luxury goods
business, unlike in Grace Kelly s day, is a huge, hungry, ever-changing monster.
TOdAY, being fashionable is about wearing the most expensive, newest thing on
the planet, regardless of whether it suits you, or you can afford it. There is
no subtlety: labels have to be screamed so the proles get the trickle down and
purchase the perfume.
That s why I hope Kate doesn t feel she has to change her style. She should
stick to designer labels she feels comfortable in, such as fashion designers
Erdem, Christopher Kane and Jonathan Saunders. She should also ignore the PC
brigade who tuttut at anyone who spends more than 650 on a dress. Kate needs
good fabrics that won t crease, or show lumps and bumps. This isn t about money,
it s about taste.
She has to be careful, too, as whatever she wears will be snapped up or copied,
so she must avoid the unethical and the cruel, which in one fell swoop rules out
most of the major labels anyway.
Niggling points? A makeup artist would be a wise investment, to wean her off
those too-smoky eyes. And in time, perhaps a dresser, to make sure not a stray
thread is out of place.
As for the bleatings of the fashion crowd, she should consider it a compliment.
Fashion icons are two a penny. What we don t have enough of is women who are
inspiring because of their hard work, loyalty, kindness, sense of humour,
intelligence and elegance. Anyone can don a daft hat. It s what lies beneath
that s important.
FOUR F HER FASHION TRIUMPHS
1. THE CANADIAN DEBUT DRESS
Not too short, no floral sprigs or Peter Pan collars, no deathly navy jackets.
this lace Cecile dress by Erdem, who will show at London Fashion Week on Monday,
showed off Kate s fantastic figure and legs, without being too edgy, on the
first day of her Canadian tour. the three-quarter sleeves and boat neckline were
formal enough not to offend stuffy Canadian dignitaries.
2. TROOPING THE COLOUR
For the most formal royal engagements, Kate shows us here that she is not going
to look old before her time. this ivory coat with exaggerated hips by Alexander
McQueen, worn for the trooping of the Colour in June, was jaunty and modern,
teamed with a Lock & Co hat for a spot of tradition.
3. KaTe vs MiChelle
So, the Americans are bashing Kate? Let s turn the tables, shall we? While Kate
in this nude bandage dress by reiss looked understated during the obamas trip to
the UK, Michelle looked like a Christmas tree, and far too pouffy.
4. The ball gown
I CAN t think of any Hollywood star who can top this look. this column with
sheer at the neck and shoulders and nipped in waist by Jenny Packham with loose,
tumbling bed-head hair was a triumph.
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KATE JOINS BEST-DRESSED TOP TEN
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THE Duchess of Cambridge has been named one of the best dressed people in the
world by Vanity Fair.
The magazine praised Kate for her 'ladylike youthfulness' and her 'whirlwind of
fashion successes' in the past year.
She joins French first lady Carla Bruni as one of ten 'International Best
Dressed Women' for 2011.
Also on the list, which is not ranked in any order, are actresses Carey Mulligan
and Tilda Swinton, and Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary
Fund.
Kate has been praised for her ability to combine high street and high end
fashions. Dresses she is seen in sell out within minutes, a phenomenon known as
the 'Kate effect'.
Vanity Fair contributing editor Amy Fine Collins said: 'We like the fact that
she can be both thrifty or extravagant, that she shops in her own closet, and
that she is having a global influence on fashion, with her hats and ladylike
youthfulness.
'She also has the ideal figure for clothes Z broad shoulders, tiny waist, long
legs.' Kate previously featured on the list in 2008, but this is the first time
since she became a member of the Royal Family.
Prince William Z whose mother Diana was on the best-dressed women list five
times Z was not among the 'International Best Dressed Men', which includes
singer Justin Timberlake, Formula 1 driver Jenson Button and actor Colin Firth.
Barack and Michelle Obama made their first appearance together on the
best-dressed couples list, while Lady Gaga was among the 'Fashion Originals'.
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KATE HAS DIANA'S SPARKLE
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SHE already wears Princess Diana's sapphire and diamond engagement ring. Now the
Duchess of Cambridge has another heirloom from her husband's late mother. Prince
William has given her a pair of Diana's favourite earrings, also in matching
sapphire and diamonds. Kate has given them her own style twist, having the studs
remodelled into drop earrings. A courtier is quoted as saying: 'Now they're
married, William wanted her to have some of his mother's favourite pieces.'
William said he proposed to Kate with Diana's 19-carat engagement ring so his
mother could be part of the occasion.
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WILLIAM AND KATE MOVE INTO A 'MODEST' KENSINGTON PALACE FLAT
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THE Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have finally moved into Kensington Palace,
their first official royal residence as a married couple.
They have chosen to embark on married life in a 'modest' apartment in the palace
where William once lived with his late mother.
Although their home boasts one of the most exclusive postcodes in the country,
it is a fraction of the size of the five-bedroom, five-reception-room suite
occupied by new neighbours, Prince and Princess Michael of Kent.
And when the couple got the builders in to add a few basic mod-cons, they
discovered the place was riddled with asbestos and had wiring so archaic that it
was considered too dangerous to inhabit. Until now, William and Kate have used
the Clarence House apartment that the prince shared with his brother, Prince
Harry, when in London.
But senior royal sources confirmed the Cambridges had moved all their furniture
into the renovated Palace apartment and stayed there for a couple of nights last
week. Aides stress the move is only a temporary measure because the apartment is
considered too small for long-term use Z including bringing up a family.
The couple, both 29, consider their rented farmhouse on the island of Anglesey
as their main home.
Like all senior royals, William and Kate will not be charged rent for their
flat.

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THEY mingled with some of the biggest A-list names on the planet, including
Nicole Kidman, Tom Hanks and Jennifer Lopez.
But on Saturday night Hollywood's icons were reduced to mere extras as the Duke
and Duchess of Cambridge arrived in style.
Kate's regal glamour stole the show at the lavish black tie event in Los
Angeles. She looked slender in a lavender ball gown with a jewelled waistline by
Alexander McQueen, even out-dazzling the willowy Miss Kidman.
Her outfit, which made headline news across the U.S., was completed with a pair
of silver platform Jimmy Choo stilettoes, a silver beaded clutch bag, a diamond
bracelet and a stunning pair of chandelier-style diamond earrings leant to her
by the Queen.
Fashion stylist Rachel Zoe was fulsome in her praise, saying: 'She was beyond
fabulous. I can't criticise the way she looks in any way. She is a true
princess.'
The couple's brief visit to Los Angeles, following their eight-day tour of
Canada, had begun earlier at the Santa Barbara Polo and Racquet Club, where
William played in a polo match to raise funds for his charity organisation, The
Foundation of Prince William and Prince Harry.
Kate wore a hand-painted chinoiserie silk dress by Jenny Packham and kissed her
husband on the cheek as she presented him with the winners' trophy at the event,
which was said to have raised more than $1million.
The couple then moved on to the highlight of their trip, a party thrown by the
Los Angeles branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, of which
William is president, to celebrate UK talent.
The red carpet event was held at the art deco Belasco Theatre in downtown Los
Angeles, where 1,500 fans had gathered outside.
Bafta LA chairman Nigel Lythgoe, who organised the evening, described the couple
as Hollywood's big draw.

He said: 'The duchess is a very charismatic young woman and I am beyond proud of
what she and the prince are doing for us.'
Even Miss Kidman seemed starstruck, saying: 'They make me smile, I love them. I
have just got off the phone from my mum who said, "It's so good that you are
going".'
Other guests included singer Miss Lopez, comic actor Jack Black and chef Gordon
Ramsay, but it was the royal couple who drew the biggest cheers and gasps from
spectators.
The Cambridges stopped to chat to Hanks as well as Stephen Fry and Sopranos star
James Gandolfini.
Guests said that despite being seated opposite Miss Kidman and singer Barbra
Streisand, the young royals seemed to be absorbed in each other's company, and
waited for the stars introduce themselves.William's speech to the guests drew
laughter with a reference to the film The King's Speech, about his
great-grandfather George VI's battle with a stammer.
He said: 'I should just like to thank Colin Firth for my perfect opening line Z
"I have a voice".'
He then went on to praise the success of British talent in 'the fiercely
competitive world' of film and television.
Yesterday morning William and Kate attended a private brunch at the Hollywood
Hills mansion of film studio executive Steve Tish, the multi-millionaire owner
of the New York Giants football team.
The brunch was arranged by Mr Tish for 20 major supporters of The Tusk Trust,
the African wildlife charity of which William is patron. Also present were
actresses Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Garner and supermodel Linda
Evangelista.
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WHAT WILLS MUST LEARN FROM HIS GRANDMA
BYLINE: BY AMANDA PLATELL
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A YEAR before her father, the King, died, the newly-married Elizabeth and Philip
toured Canada and the U.S.. The 25-year-old Princess carried out that duty with
what we would come to recognise as her trademark dignity and restraint, a model
that has served her and us well for nearly 60 years.
Now, the newlywed William and Kate are treading the same path with their first
official overseas tour, which begins in Canada on Thursday,
Their aides boast it will be a royal tour like no other, reflecting the young
couple's interests and youthfulness.
This will include them wearing aprons and taking part in a cooking demonstration
in Quebec, and competing with each other in a Dragon Boat race in which Kate and
Wills will be at the helm of separate boats.
It is understandable that the young couple want to put their own personal mark
on their tour and I have no doubt their motives are sincere. But I do wonder
if they are a little misguided.
The last generation of young royals made so many mistakes trying to 'revitalise
the monarchy' that it imperilled the very institution.
Whether it was Charles, pontificating about the environment while travelling
around the world in luxury jets and yachts, or Edward and his dubious TV
ventures, or Andrew posing as a trade ambassador while living the life of a
playboy Prince, the Queen's children don't seem to understand the concepts of
grace or majesty.
As for those former royal brides Diana and Fergie their attempts to put some
fun and glamour into the Firm came back to haunt them in very different ways and
left lasting damage.
William and Kate have had a wonderful start with a perfect wedding. If they are
to build a lifelong place in the heart of the nation, they need to understand
that sometimes less is more.
Already, there are causes for concern. Their first official engagement as a
married couple was at an obscenely extravagant charity bash for hedge fund
managers. The Los Angeles leg of the tour has a similarly plutocratic feel to
it, as Hollywood's powerbrokers and showbusiness stars scramble for invitations.
As Princess Diana discovered, mixing with such people is a dangerous game,
enticing though it may be.
This young couple have so much going for them, so much to give this nation, and
one day they will be King and Queen.
Decorum, dignity, restraint. That's the formula that has worked for the Queen.
They would do
well to learn from her example.
I am Sam Cam's biggest fan. She has been the perfect PM's wife in word and deed.
In the early days, she was also a fashion inspiration. Her M&S frocks and Zara
combinations were as stylish as they were sensitive to the economic downturn.
But at a few of her recent appearances, her outfits have been distinctly off-key
even when they've come from top designers such as Christopher Kane.
The A-line dress (left) that she wore to welcome the Queen to Downing Street
this week made her look more Alice In Wonderland than hostess to Her Majesty.
And sorry, but I still can't forgive her for not wearing a hat to the Royal
Wedding. I do hope Sam hasn't lost her style mojo.
+ In an act of abject tokenism, Harriet Harman is demanding the Labour Party
rules are changed so that either the leader or deputy must be a woman. This from
the firebrand feminist who didn't have the guts to stand for the leadership of
her party, even though God help us she might have won. Until women have the
courage of their convictions, they have no place at the top table.
+ Education Secretary Michael Gove will allow grammar schools to expand, giving
more children access to the 'world-class education' and social mobility they
offer. Old Etonian Dave is not keen and the privately educated Clegg
pathologically opposed, despite sending his own children to selective schools.
Perhaps it takes a boy from a state school, such as Gove, to understand how
crucial grammar schools have been to giving kids like him a chance.
I've long been a fan of BBC's Question Time, but this week's must have hit an
all-time low. The panellists were chat-show flop Fern Britton, comedian David
Mitchell, Tory backbencher John Redwood, Labour pensions spokeswoman Rachel
Reeves (who she?) and Transport Minister Norman Baker.
When the nation is crippled by recession, wars, strikes and an NHS crisis, you'd
have thought the Government would want to defend itself. I don't blame the show
it has simply been starved of senior politicians who don't want to be held to
account. So we're left with the excruciating 'personal feelings' of comedians
and failed chat-show hosts . . .
The mother of the Hermit Hacker, 19-year-old Ryan Cleary, says her son had not
set foot outside their bungalow since Christmas and left food untouched outside
his bedroom door.
She was allowed in twice a week to clean, but otherwise had no contact with her
child. He has now been charged with a cyber attack on the UK's Serious Organised
Crime Agency.
'I might have been able to do more to protect my baby,' she said.
Yes, she could have started by not providing her jobless son with the means to
buy sophisticated computers, a flat-screen TV and high-tech paraphernalia.
It's hard to know what's more shocking, the fact that one of the men convicted
of the murder of Baby P is demanding a 250,000 new identity and plastic surgery
so he can start a new life, or the fact this monster is being released from
prison less than four years after one of the most terrible child murders of
recent times.
Jason Owen, a member of the National Front, boasts he will get a nice big
council house at the seaside for his girlfriend and five children and that he
deserves a fresh start.
The only consolation may be that he and his 'missus' are so proud of his
notoriety, friends say he will be unable to stop himself boasting about his past
which I, for one, hope he never escapes.
Having spoken out about David Cameron's handling of the crises in Libya and
Afghanistan, Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope, the First Sea Lord, has been thrown off
a key Ministry of Defence decision-making body.

This in the week the PM delivered another dressing-down for the Armed Forces. In
words he will live to deeply regret, Cameron told them: 'You do the fighting,
I'll do the talking.' In other words: 'You do the dying, I'll do the posturing.'
How contemptible, coming from a PM whose idea of uniformed service is white tie
and tails.
Sacked Dior designer John Galliano has defended himself in court, having
launched a torrent of vile racist abuse at two women in a caf.
His lawyer says he's addicted to alcohol and Valium, and as a result: 'Some
things may have come out of his mouth that didn't come out of his brain.'
Given he also insulted both women for being fat and ugly the greatest sin in
his superficial world I still suspect that at least part of his delusional
rant came straight out of his shallow fashionista heart.
He's been hailed as a courageous maverick and a political inspiration, but I
can't quite get my head around the adulation of 'peace campaigner' Brian Haw
(right), who died this week from lung cancer. Haw claimed he was protesting to
protect the lives of children, yet abandoned his own seven to live in a tent
while they lived in a council home, no doubt supported by benefits as he hadn't
worked for a decade. Some hero.
Insisting he is innocent of claims that he indecently assaulted a 24-year-old
father in a lavatory, The X Factor's Louis Walsh says: 'I am 100 per cent
confident that after a full investigation I will be completely exonerated.'
I do hope so. And it's worth remembering that the more secretive high-profile
celebrities are about their lives, the more vulnerable they areto lies and
blackmail.
Having lost a staggering 4st, Dawn French, 53, is now 'dating' again.
She puts it all down to not eating chips, and says when it comes to diet and
exercise she has not done anything 'drastic'.
But something gastric, perhaps, Dawn?
Headline of the week: 'Disgusting truth behind hidden dangers lurking on your
pillow.'
At first glance, I assumed it must be about Cheryl getting back with Ashley.
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WILL KATE FEEL TRAPPED IN DIANA'S PRISON?
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They will, of course, be waiting , just as they were always waiting relentlessly
for Princess Diana when she lived there. For the paparazzi, it will be like old
times when Prince William takes Kate to live in Kensington Palace later this
month.
This palace, so
sides, is still
lake of flowers
almost 14 years
perfect for the paps because of its high accessibility on all

resonant of Diana's unhappy years inside its walls and of that
which magically appeared at its front gates after her death
ago.
One has to wonder just how deeply Prince William considered the implications of
moving into the one royal address that is so personally associated with his
mother , and which royal staff really do consider to be 'unlucky'.
Clearly, the Duke of Cambridge is not quite the cautious young man that he
seems. First, there was his emotional decision to give Kate his mother's famous
sapphire and diamond engagement ring , for many, a permanent symbol of Diana's
unhappiness.
Now, he moves his bride into Kensington Palace, where every time she tries to
slip away to the shops on Kensington High Street , just as Diana loved doing ,
there will be inevitable comparisons with the mother-in-law she never knew.
To Diana, 'KP', as she called it, came to be 'more prison than palace'.
To Kate, moving there will be the moment she really begins to understand what
her royal life is going to be.
So why make their lives there?
Let's look at the
where William has
it was considered
manner, declared:
options. Clarence House was briefly considered because that is

been sharing an apartment with his brother, Harry. At least,
until the Duchess of Cornwall, in her light but decisive
'There's no room here.'
Then there was St James's Palace next door, where William has his office. But he
did not want to live there because, as a friend of his says, it is 'rather
gloomy'.
The only other choice was Buckingham Palace, where Princess Anne, Prince Andrew
and the Earl of Wessex still keep apartments.
But just imagine the upheaval , and angst for Charles , if the popular William
were to make his marital home in the monarch's official residence.
'That would have been a very loaded message, even though entirely unintended,'
chuckles one senior aide. 'Some people would be bound to see it as the Queen
apparently endorsing her grandson as her successor , quite absurd, of course.'
But all the time, Kensington Palace was where William really wanted to live with
Kate, if only temporarily, possibly because of his fond memories of his own
happy childhood there before things began to go badly wrong with his parents'
marriage.
'They are memories that are very precious to Will, though he doesn't really talk
much about his childhood,' says one of his closest friends.
Even so, the later unhappiness of his mother, whom her ten-year-old son often
found himself having to comfort when she was in despair, probably makes it a
blessing that Diana's old flat, Apartments 8 & 9, is no longer available.
Situated over three floors with staff quarters and a nursery, it would have been
far too big for the newlyweds anyway.
After Diana's death, it was stripped of everything and left a shell for almost
ten years. Now it has been split up into various offices for charities, as well
as providing an official home for the Army's Chief of the General Staff: General
Sir Richard Dannatt was its first resident.
Two rather more modest apartments are immediately available.
One, Apartment 4a, is in a section of the palace known as Clock Court, close to
the late Princess Margaret's old home. Its previous occupant was Sir John
Tiltman, the Queen's director of property services until his retirement in 2004.
The other is Apartment 11, vacated last December by Prince Philip's former
private secretary, Brigadier Sir Miles Hunt-Davis, who had been living there
with his wife, Gay, for the previous year.
Until then the couple had resided in Nottingham Cottage, a self-contained house
next door to the Duke of Kent's residence, Wren House. Nottingham Cottage is
also empty, and we understand it will be one of these two addresses that William
and Kate will move into.
The cottage is favourite , cosy and private , and it will give them the use of a
small walled garden, perfect for parking a pram. It is also the ideal spot for
the newlyweds to put up the hammock bought for them as a wedding gift by members
of the royal household sports club.
It is close to
Princess Diana
refuge. It was
first official
another walled garden, reached through a locked door, to which

had exclusive use and which she came to regard as her private
there that William was photographed by the world's Press for his
photocall at the age of one.
And it was in this secluded spot, shielded from the noise of the grinding
Kensington traffic, that one of the most extraordinary and deeply moving
episodes of his mother's time at Kensington Palace took place.
When her great friend Rosa Monckton's baby was stillborn in 1994, Diana offered
to have the child buried in the garden she referred to as 'my little oasis'.
Diana's two butlers, Paul Burrell and Harold Brown, dug the tiny grave, and
prayers were said for little Natalia by Roman Catholic priest and old Etonian
Alexander Sherbrooke (whom Diana had met in Calcutta where he was working with
Mother Teresa), who consecrated the ground.
She gave Catholic Rosa and her husband, journalist Dominic Lawson, a key to the
garden door so that they could visit. Sadly, after Diana's death they had to
give it up.
And then the garden passed to Prince and Princess Michael, who have had an
apartment at Kensington Palace for many years.
The couple knew nothing of the burial because even an urn which Diana placed on
the spot had been removed after her death. When they were told what had taken
place there, they cancelled plans for a complete relandscaping of the garden in
order to preserve the consecrated spot.
Princess Michael and the Duchess of Cambridge are bound to bump into each other
from time to time, but Kate will find that she will not quickly get to know the
other royal women who live in the palace.
There is little or no community spirit among the families occupying the
grace-and-favour apartments. Kate will find , perhaps to her disappointment ,
that they all live very separate lives, especially her royal in-laws.
As for William, few married men choose to move their bride into the home where
they were brought up.
For him, there will be
corridors, and playing
the palace, as well as
then private secretary
Lady Jane.
the memories of scrambling with Harry round the endless

with chauffeur David Griffin's dog on the green outside
with their cousins , the three children of the Queen's
Robert (now Lord) Fellowes, married to Diana's sister
William is bound to tell Kate the glorious tale of when imperious Princess
Michael brought in pest control people to round up all the stray cats she felt
were troubling her Burmese and Siamese pedigrees.
Humanely trapped in cages, the cats' escape was then secretly masterminded by
Diana and William, who arranged their dramatic release, replacing them , to
haughty Princess Michael's fury , with a solitary stuffed toy cat.
No doubt, William's memories will come flooding back once the couple are
installed. Not all of them will be happy, but Diana would be thrilled to know
that he's brought Kate back to live there.
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KATE, QUEEN OF THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
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IN a room full of some of the richest men and most beautiful women in the world,
the Duchess of Cambridge stole the show at her first official evening
engagement.
Wearing a rose pink and organza sequinned Jenny Packham evening gown, Kate had
the crowd of bankers and financiers eating out of her hand last night.
Even though the 900 guests surrounding her at the champagne reception were
collectively worth billions, they couldn't resist crowding around the Duchess
and snapping pictures of her, the flashes on their camera phones going off every
few seconds.
All of this took place against the distinctly flashy backdrop at the Ark tenth
anniversary fundraising event Z which included such unregal entertainment as a
group of Mexican swimmers in tiny trunks somersaulting from a high-dive board
into a tiny pool below, and scantily-clad acrobats hanging from the ceiling of
the neon-lit marquee. While the event is likely to raise more than 614million
for charity, it has been criticised for its opulence and 'vulgar extravagance'
at a time of financial crisis.
But the Duchess was the picture of elegance in a 63,835 Jenny Packham dress,
topped off with a simple pair of 6175 evening sandals from High Street store LK
Bennett.
Accompanied by her husband in a tuxedo, she arrived at the event in the gardens
of Kensington Palace at 7.30pm to be greeted by Arpad Busson Z the charity's
founder, former boyfriend of supermodel Elle Macpherson and on-off partner of
actress Uma Thurman.
After almost an hour mingling at the champagne reception, the royal couple moved
on to the dinner, where guests had paid 610,000 each for a ticket, or upwards of
650,000 for a table of ten. Seated at their table Z number 75 Z was a mix of the
powerful, wealthy, influential and beautiful, including model Laura Bailey,
actor Colin Firth, socialite Jemima Khan, designer Tom Ford and Vanity Fair
editor Graydon Carter.
But even in the presence of so many glamorous women, the Duchess's slender
figure caused a few comments, with one American exclaiming loudly: 'She's like a
bean pole!'
After dinner, DJ Mark Ronson was due to encourage guests to take to the
dancefloor. William and Kate, however, were expected to bid a gracious farewell
and return to the apartment the Duke shares with Prince Harry at Clarence House.
BUT PIPPA DRESSES DOWN IN DENIM
SHE seems entirely at ease with life in the public eye.
But so casual is Pippa Middleton's approach that it has caused a few raised
eyebrows.
The Duchess of Cambridge's sister wore a denim jacket to the prestigious Queen's
Club yesterday as she joined former flame George Percy to watch Scot Andy Murray
beat Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic.
But as Pippa, 27, drank pints of Pimm's in the members' lounge, an onlooker
remarked: 'It is rather irregular to see denim in the clubhouse. It certainly
stretches the boundaries of smart-casual.'
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THE HOST? A LADIES' MAN. THE GUESTS? FLASHY. THE BASH? CRUDELY LAVISH. IS THIS
REALLY A SUITABLE SOCIAL DEBUT FOR WILLS AND KATE?
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THE ANNUAL charity Ark dinner is an event so flashy that even many London hedge
fund managers baulk at going, preferring, as one put it, 'to do their giving
discreetly'.
But come tomorrow evening, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will make their
regal entrance into a giant, elaborate marquee on Perks' Fields, right behind
Kensington Palace , the field where William, as a child, used to meet his
parents' helicopter when they returned from engagements.
There, amid the cheerful artillery of popping champagne corks, William and Kate
will be welcomed by 900 guests in evening dress and diamonds, who have each paid
610,000 for a ticket, or upwards of 650,000 for a table of ten.
After drinks and canaps, the gilded guests , from high-finance non-doms to what
one past attendee describes as 'cafe society rent-a-crowd' , will eat a lavish
dinner courtesy of exclusive catering firm Rhubarb, watch a tear-jerking film
designed to loosen the wallets, and then listen to William's first public speech
as a married man, during which he will announce a high-profile, new
collaboration between Ark , Absolute Return for Kids, which provides assistance
for some of the world's poorest children , and the Princes' Foundation.
Then DJ Mark Ronson will hit the decks and the couture and the collagen
injections can have a shake down on the dancefloor.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to perhaps the most bumptiously decadent night of
the social calendar , and one that after all the careful PR exercises around the
Royal Wedding many would deem a mighty incongruous first official Royal
engagement for Kate and William. That the royal couple should have chosen this
event as their 'coming out' of honeymoon hibernation is a testament to the
influence of one man , Swiss-born Arpad 'Arki' Busson, 48, the founder and
trustee of the charity after whom it was named.
This perma-tanned, charismatic figure is as well known in the gossip columns as
he is in the hedge fund world, primarily because Uma Thurman, his on/off
girlfriend and sometime fiance, supplanted supermodel and knicker tycoon Elle
Macpherson, mother of his two children, in his affections.
Euro pin-up Arki, who runs a fund of funds called EIM, has one foot in finance
and the other in the beau monde , and that is both the Ark charity's strength
and its weakness.
'He has a genius for channelling money from showy types who'd never give it
without an admiring audience,' says another annual attendee of the dinner.
'Anonymous donation with no glory is absolutely not Ark's style. The dinner is
about showing off who has the most.'
It might not feel 'of
ostentatiousness, but
falling since the top
dinner raised upwards
the people', and some are turned off by its

financially, it works. Though revenues have been steadily
year of 2007 (pre-crash, obviously) even last year the Ark
of 614 million in one night.
It doesn't all come from high rollers either: one year, an overexcited guest is
said to have woken up the next morning with an evil hangover and the horrible
realisation that he'd bid 6250,000 to fly into space with Richard Branson.
It's that sort of night , with any luck, everyone gets caught up in the bidding
fever.
The question is, what are the royal couple doing associating with this
attention-seeking crowd? How the collaboration came about is uclear. William is
known to get personally involved in every aspect of his public life, so it's
highly unlikely he didn't himself agree the deal.
However, for the Ark charity, their attendance is a huge coup and could not have
come at a better time. Some City gossips had been whispering that the gala
dinner had lost its early frisson (after attracting Bill Clinton and Madonna,
how could it not?) 'partly because the world has moved on and partly because
it's not a new night any more'.
At the same time, a few high-worth supporters had stepped away when it turned
out that Arki had lost some of his investors' money with Bernie Madoff, a name
so toxic that people didn't want to be associated with anyone who'd had money
with him.
Against this backdrop, the newlywed royal couple are a particularly welcome
injection of fresh-faced, filler-free youthful enthusiam. All the more so, since
William will be announcing a long-term alliance with the Princes' Foundation,
set up by William and Harry in 2009 to channel money to good causes.
The Princes' advisers were, no doubt, inclined to forgive the Ark dinner's
reputation for excess if it can help access reservoirs of cash for the projects
the princes are so keen to support.
And it is certainly true that the interests of the Ark charity , based around
children's welfare, focusing on health in sub-Saharan Africa, education in the
UK, the U.S. and India and child protection in Eastern Europe , coincide with
the aims of the Princes' Foundation.
Besides, Palace sources say that the dinner (now in its tenth year) happened to
fall at the right time for the couple. William is off the helicopter-flying rota
this week because of the Trooping The Colour and the Duke of Edinburgh's 90th
birthday this weekend.
Moreover, as one charity insider points out, a new foundation doesn't have that
much choice of where to go to raise funds , all the more so at a time of
financial austerity: 'There is a limited market of people to tap up. The Duke
and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry are keen to get as much money as
possible into the Foundation and therefore must schmooze.'

It may be that the Ark party , with its very public auction in which masters of
the universe seek to outdo each other's largesse in front of their staff and
lady friends , is not actually the best or most accurate representation of the
charity itself.
It is a dilemma of which Ark is well aware, for it is a worthy, professionally
run outfit, with six new inner-city schools in Britain under its super-vision, a
programme to get children out of care in Eastern Europe and several health
projects in Africa to its name.
Arpad Busson, the man who secured this royal connection, is a curious mix of
party-lover, philanthropist and high financier , a legacy of his unconventional
upbringing. His mother, who died last month, was Florence 'Flockie'
Harcourt-Smith, an English debutante. (Uma Thurman left the Cannes Film Festival
early to attend the funeral in Paris). The gregarious Flockie had a coming-out
ball at Claridge's in 1956 which Time magazine said was the swankiest of the
season, with 60 technicians hired to create a moonlit garden in the ballroom.
Arpad's father, Pascal Busson, was a French war hero and a financier who for a
time ran Lehman's bank in Paris. But it is Arki's namesake and late
step-grandfather on the maternal side, Arpad Plesch , a successful businessman,
famous socialite and playboy of note , who seems to have been some kind of role
model, consciously or not, for the man who has so captivated London society.
It has often been said that Arki is half hippie, half 'hedgie'. The hippie side
is in evidence in the beaded friendship bracelets he likes to sport under his
dapper suit, and also in his unlikely yet multiple links to American LSD guru
Timothy Leary.
Leary was the ex-husband of Arki's eccentric aunt, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, who
fell out with the family and was disinherited, due to her drug-taking and is now
said to be writing her 'explosive' family memoirs.
After Le Rosey school in Switzerland and National Service, Arki made his way to
the U.S. where he would eventually meet the man he sees as his mentor,
hedge-funder and billionaire Paul Tudor Jones. They met in a New York restaurant
in the Eighties and Arki worked for him for a number of years before branching
out alone.
Father-of-four Tudor Jones manages the 'Robin Hood Foundation' in New York,
which runs poverty-alleviating projects and a fundraising gala dinner on which
the Ark set-up was based.
But aside from his success at making money (his fortune has been estimated at
6200 million), it is as a champion seducer of some of the world's most beautiful
women that Arki has earned the envy of rivals.
When he was young, he dated actress Farrah Fawcett who was 16 years his senior;
he was said to have met her on the French Riviera and seduced her away from Ryan
O'Neal by pretending to be an Italian prince, although he denies the prince bit.
Then came his relationship with Elle 'the Body' Macpherson. The couple were
together for ten years and have two children, Arpad Flynn, 13, and
eight-year-old Aurelius Cy. They did eventually get engaged before splitting for
good. Next came Uma Thurman, and although they too were briefly engaged, he
never followed through with that pledge either.
He has a luxurious holiday home in the Bahamas, but is based in Chelsea, London,
not least as his children with Elle are at school here.

So far, so very un-regal.
What is perhaps particularly surprising is that the Royal couple have chosen to
get involved with the Busson's Ark gala now, when its lavishness seems
counter-intuitive to the mood of the times.
One banker, who is going to the bash tomorrow, told me that 'there is a profound
change of attitude in the City. People earning three million a year are now
driving Fiat Pandas and riding bikes. They don't want to be seen as those
spendy-spendy oiks who buy cars and watches'.
For all its glitzy allure, whether the night will be seen as a triumph for the
Princes' charitable Foundation, or a regrettable lapse in judgment, only time ,
or cash , will tell.
Gala host: Arki Busson, with on-off love Uma Thurman and, inset, royal guests
Kate and William
'These days, City bankers are riding bicycles'
One drunken guest bid 6250,000 on a space flight with Branson
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MICHELLE HAILS KATE, BRITAIN'S FIRST LADY OF STYLE
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SHE may be a new hand at the fashion game, but the Duchess of Cambridge won the
battle of the first ladies in another high street dress yesterday.
Kate's 6175 Reiss dress caused such a frenzy after she appeared in it to meet
Barack and Michelle Obama at Buckingham Palace that the retailer's website
crashed.
She eclipsed first lady Mrs Obama and Samantha Cameron Z who both opted for
expensive designer labels Z in a bandage-style Shola dress.
Reiss shops across the country were selling out last night and an assistant at
the Kensington High Street store said 20 dresses were sold online within two
minutes of Kate's appearance. A spokesman for the firm described it as

'Shola-mania'.
Emerging fashion icon Kate has resolutely stuck to off-the-peg outfits and has
worn Reiss on several occasions, including for her engagement portrait.
David Reiss, founder and MD of the company, told the Daily Mail: 'We are
thrilled that Kate continues to be a customer of Reiss, and that she has chosen
one of our dresses for such an important occasion.'
Her low-key approach was in marked contrast to Mrs Obama, who sported two
designer outfits Z the first a patterned prom-style dress by Barbara Tfank,
worth at least 61,400, and the second by Roksanda Ilincic, which she wore to
visit Downing Street, costing 6815.
Mrs Cameron loyally sported home-grown talent in the form of an embroidered silk
dress by Peter Pilotto Z currently on sale in Harvey Nichols for 62,360, but
borrowed for the occasion to promote the British designer.
The only fly in the ointment was U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who
committed something of a faux pas by arriving for the official lunch at
Buckingham Palace wearing unflattering three quarter length trousers.
Although there is no official dress code, ladies are expected to wear a smart
skirt or dress.
Yesterday's encounter at the palace marked the new Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge's first official duty as a fully fledged royal couple.
They spent 20 minutes with President Barack Obama and his wife Z twice as long
as scheduled Z shortly after they had been greeted by the Queen at the start of
their three-day state visit.
Last month, to the surprise of many, the Obamas were not invited to the royal
wedding, a decision viewed by some as a snub. St James's Palace insisted at the
time that no offence was intended; the invitation simply wasn't forthcoming as
the wedding was not a formal state occasion.
Judging by the warmth of their meeting yesterday, no offence was taken. Indeed,
the Mail understands that the Obamas have already privately given a
'substantial' donation to the charitable gift fund the couple set up in lieu of
a wedding list.
At yesterday's historic meeting Kate, looking tanned following their ten-day
honeymoon in the Seychelles, appeared as elegant as she was for the wedding.
Apart from her priceless engagement ring, which once belonged to Princess Diana,
her jewellery was as low-key as her outfit.
Her look was finished by a plain black Maude clutch bag by Anya Hindmarch
Bespoke and matching heels from another High Street store, LK Bennett.
William spoke to the President about his job as an RAF search and rescue pilot,
while Kate and Mrs Obama got down to some 'typical girly chat', particularly
about the wedding.
Both the Obamas are said to have watched the ceremony on television and a source
said: 'Like most women Mrs Obama wanted to know all about it. She and Catherine
had a good chat.'
The young couple did not take any further part in the day, declining to join the
official lunch at the palace citing 'a previous private engagement' and also
missing last night's state banquet.
A St James's Palace spokesman said: 'Prince William has never attended a state
banquet before and is not a full-time working member of the Royal Family as he
already has a "day" job with the RAF.'
* Visiting Westminster Abbey in the afternoon to lay a wreath at the tomb of the
unknown warrior, the President made a gaffe by signing the distinguished
visitors' book with the wrong year.
Mr Obama was heard to ask the Dean of Westminster what the day's date was, but
then dated his entry May 24, 2008, rather than 2011.
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HARDLY BUCK HOUSE, WAS IT KATE?
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Avacado carpet. A kitchen you couldn't swing a cat in. JANE FRYER has a guided
tour of Kate Middleton's very modest childhood home
SO HERE I am in the driveway of an empty, red brick, Victorian semi, ankle-deep
in fresh yellow gravel, shouting to be heard over the sound of a tractor roaring
past, and clutching a very glossy brochure.
Before me is what must surely be the ultimate in Royal Wedding memorabilia.
Forget mugs and tea towels or even that ridiculously overpriced see-through
dress from the St Andrews fashion show... Kate Middleton's childhood home is up
for auction. And it's a potential snip with a guide price of 6495,000.
'It looks a bit lopsided, doesn't it?' says Dudley Singleton, the jaunty and
extremely chatty estate agent who is handling the sale. 'Ages ago, someone sold
off the right-hand bit of the house and hid it behind a hedge. But at first a
lot of people still think it's one house ,so that's a bonus as far as selling it
goes.
'And there's a lovely back garden , properly dog-proofed and very mature, though
not quite big enough for landing a Chinook helicopter. And there's a pub called
the Queen's Head at the end of the road , now, that couldn't be more
appropriate, could it?'
Welcome to West View, Bradfield Southend, Berkshire , the four-bedroom semi

which Mike and Carole Middleton bought in 1979 for 634,700 and where Kate
Middleton, sorry, the Duchess of Cambridge, lived until she was 13.
According to Dudley's particulars, it is: 'A late-Victorian period house of
immense charm with original pine doors throughout, a modern kitchen, NEFF double
oven and hob unit and full oil-fired central heating.'
It is the house where our future Queen spent her formative years. Two doors down
is Bradfield C of E primary school , where she went until she was eight. Round
the corner is St Andrew's Church, where Kate, Pippa and younger brother James
were all Christened.
And, with two weeks to go until Friday, June 3, when it will be sold by auction,
Dudley, 68, thrice married and wonderfully dapper in jade green trousers,
moleskin jacket and a green tie covered with frolicking golden Labradors, has
kindly agreed to give me his 'royal tour'.
We start in the kitchen , a small, sloped-roofed cream-and-black affair with no
room for a table and chairs and, presumably, the very spot that Carole knocked
up 'the amazing white rabbit marshmallow cake' that Kate still remembers from
when she was seven.
According to Dudley, it is 'pretty much the same' as when Kate lived here ,
though the cream-and-black finish is new.
If Carole found it a bit pokey, according to Dudley she should have thanked her
lucky stars she was here in the 1980s, rather than a century earlier. 'In
Victorian times the kitchen would have been a range in front of the fireplace
and a tin bath for the whole family. I have a tin bath, if you want to pose in
it for the photos, Just let me know!'
D URING the past couple of weeks, Dudley has been fending off TV crews from all
over , 'Saudi, the States, Australia, London' , but he is still as fresh and
enthusiastic as a puppy. 'We're all terribly excited about Kate Middleton's
childhood home.'
Even if, with two owners since the Middletons sold it in 1995 for 6158,000, the
house is now empty but for a few scuffed avocado- coloured carpets and some
dog-eared post.
I do my best to imagine the Middletons sitting by the log fire in the cosy
sitting room , 'light and airy with big windows and high ceilings'. Or Kate
indulging her passion for dressing up as a clown in outsized dungarees.
Dudley, who 'got to know the family pretty well over the years' and 'always
exchanges a kiss on the cheek with Carole', is keen to share his insights.
'They're a very pleasant family indeed. Michael's the family rock who sorts
things out. Carole's vivacious and attractive, but I think Kate took more after
her father. Pippa's the more, well, commercial one . . . Anyway, this was a
playroom-cum-living-room when they were here,' he adds.
'They had a wood-burning stove in the fireplace and a big table where the
youngsters did their drawing and all that. Next door is the front sitting room
which was kept as a bit of grown-up sanity for Mike and Carole when the children
went to bed.'
And that , other than a rather grimy utility room with peeling wallpaper and a
tired-looking loo , is the downstairs done. Upstairs, there's a basic bathroom
and two small bedrooms on the first floor. 'The bigger one was Kate's and the
smaller one at the front was Carole and Mike's. Maybe they had a premonition she
would get somewhere in life?'
And two teeny sloped-ceiling rooms in the eaves. 'Kate started off in this one,
but then moved downstairs when Pippa and later James were born,' Dudley chirps
as we crick our necks to peer at a view of the neighbours' bins, garages and
compost heap.
Sadly, I can find no 16-year-old graffiti in Kate's old bedrooms. No 'Kate Loves
Prince William' scored into the skirting boards. No faded remnants of posters of
Wills fluttering from the wall. And no yellowing 'to do' lists for aspiring
princesses floating about. 'She did, though, have all sorts of posters on the
walls , you know, the usual things , pop stars, actors,' Dudley adds helpfully.
And, er, princes? 'I can't remember. But she was conscientious about her
homework and always polite and smiley when I brought buyers round when they were
selling the house, and none of that awful teenage stuff you see so much.'
While Dudley is happy to chat about the Middletons until the cows come home and
gives the 'Kate connection' a nice plug in his glossy brochure , 'I'd be mad not
to' , he has standards.
Unlike some of estate agents, he wouldn't dream of referring to this
Mercedes-crammed slither of west Berkshire as 'Middleton Country'. 'Good God no!
Though I do say it's being sold in Royal Berkshire, but it is royal, because of
Windsor.'
Unusually for a Victorian semi, West View is being sold by auction, and while
Dudley insists the timing is pure coincidence, presumably the sellers , who live
locally but have rented the house out for the past two years , are hoping the
Kate connection will push the price up.
Dudley certainly thinks it'd be a good investment. 'Now, while she's a duchess,
I but when she becomes Queen it'll double in value overnight. It'll be a
memorial to her childhood.You'd have to go back as far as Boudica's mud hut to
find a more modest house that was once home to a future Queen.'
In the meantime, he reckons the successful buyer could rent it out for between
61,400 and 61,500 a month.
While 6495,000 still seems quite pricey for a 'lopsided semi' even in this posh
enclave between Newbury and Reading, Dudley has already had three offers over
the reserve price , 'I can't tell you how much, but they're serious offers' ,
and is expecting quite a turn-out on June 3, when he will be brandishing his
gavel.
Meanwhile, our royal tour draws to a close in the 'very mature' back garden.
This is where things perk up, because here is the tatty green garden shed built
by the Middletons to start their business, Party Pieces , not looking its best
today, with mildew creeping across the floor, but all in one piece.
Even better, I find the faded wooden Wendy house with sagging door and windows
which Dudley is 'almost certain' dates back to Kate's time.
Just think , Kate might have played house right here, little knowing she'd end
up in a palace!
So finally, what sort of buyer does Dudley envisage beating off the competition?
A Middle Eastern oil magnate or an American billionaire?
'I hope not,' he huffs. 'I want it to go to a nice family like the Middletons
who'll enjoy it and become part of the village. But I'm just the silly
auctioneer. What do I know?'
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KATE: I DON'T NEED TO HAVE A LADY-IN-WAITING
BYLINE: BY KATIE NICHOLL ROYAL EDITOR
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PRINCE William and his new bride are to take a scaled-back entourage on their
trip to Canada and California, in keeping with the 'no frills' approach they
hope to adopt in their married life.
Kate wants to break with Royal tradition and dispense with the services of a
permanent lady-in-waiting, and will 'test the water' by making the official trip
without one.
And William, whose father famously depended on an aide to squeeze his
toothpaste, also plans to take minimal staff because 'he likes to dress himself
and keep things as simple as possible,' said a source. Courtiers say they will
take between six and ten aides on their debut overseas tour in July Z compared
to around 30 for the Queen and Prince Philip on their trips.
'Kate is very low maintenance. She did her own wedding-day make-up and is
confident doing her make-up for the cameras,' said the source. 'She said she
doesn't want a lady-in-waiting. That may change but she'll see how she copes on
this tour.'
It had been rumoured that Kate's sister Pippa would take the role, but that is
now thought unlikely.
A Middleton family friend said: 'I don't think Pippa is going to be involved.
She has her own interests and business projects she wants to explore. At the
moment she has said she won't be coming on full time.'
Even though Kate will require at least two outfits a day, she is not expected to
take a stylist with her. However, she will receive some help planning her
wardrobe, which is expected to feature the same mix of designer labels and High
Street chic she has become known for. She has also put her hairdresser, James
Pryce, on standby.
Expected to be part of the entourage are William's private secretary Jamie

Lowther-Pinkerton, and their Press secretary Miguel Head.
Both are in Canada finalising the itinerary.
The team is also expected to include William's engagement secretary Thea Garwood
and Sir David Manning, the former US Ambassador and now senior advisor to the
couple. 'William depends on him and Kate will find him valuable,' said the
source. 'There's very little Sir David doesn't know.'
A spokesman said: 'It has not been decided who is going, but it's likely to be
no more than ten aides.'
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WILLS PAID 6200 FOR KATE TO BE HIS 'SLAVE'
BYLINE: BY LOUISE ECCLES
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SHE first captivated her prince when she strutted down the catwalk in a sheer
dress. Or so the story goes.
In reality, Kate Middleton had won Prince William's affections months earlier
when he paid 6200 for her during a 'slave' auction at a Harry Potter-themed
party.
The fascinating new insight into the early days of the royal romance comes from
a former housemate of the couple, who is releasing a song about her memories of
the pair as students.
Laura Warshauer lived with the new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in St
Salvator's Hall during their first year at St Andrews University, and watched
them fall in love.
Her song Z titled To Will and Kate, Meet Me at Exit 109 Z paints a picture of a
fun-loving couple who joined in with a huge foam fight in the quad, drank wine
out of plastic cups from Woolworth's and sat on the floor to eat lasagne with
fellow students.
Los Angeles-based Miss Warshauer also revealed how the couple had instant
chemistry and had fallen for each other months before the now well-documented
fashion show in March 2002 when William saw Kate in her see-through slip and
described her as 'hot'.
Miss Warshauer said: 'One of my favourite memories was in November of [first]
year and we were invited to a Harry Potter party at this castle.
'We all got on a big bus to go there and I remember Kate and William dancing
together all night.
'There was a charity auction where you could bid for the person for the day and
Will paid 6200 for Kate. She was dressed in school uniform and was stood on
these stone steps with us all below.
'No one else was winning Kate that night. They already had that connection.'
She added that all their friends expected the pair to end up together. 'They
always had such natural chemistry and it was obvious that Will had his eye on
Kate,' she said.
'I remember a college party with Will and Kate very early on during freshman
year.
'A girl went over to Will and wouldn't leave him alone. She was trying to entice
him, and was being relentless. He was being very polite to her, but at the same
time, it was obvious he wished she would leave him alone.
'A group of us were standing around watching all this unfold and wondering how
to help Will out of this awkward situation.
'Suddenly, Kate just walked up to Will in the most natural way and put her arms
around him.
'It gave Will the opportunity to turn to the other girl and say, "I'm sorry, I
have a girlfriend," while gesturing towards Kate.
'Will then turned to Kate and mouthed in an exaggerated way, "Thank you". She
was the only girl in the room who could have pulled that off so effortlessly.'
The music video shows several pictures of Miss Warshauer with the couple, and
the track includes the lyrics: 'Paper plates and plastic forks we sat on the
floor, drinking wine out of plastic cups from Woolworths.'
The 'Exit 109' in the title refers to where she grew up in New Jersey.
The 27-year-old insists she is not cashing in on her friends and simply writes
about 'special memories'.
She said: 'They are both such incredibly warm, down-to-earth people who
genuinely care about others.
'One night I was little upset about something, and Kate so sweetly put her arm
around my shoulders, asked what was wrong and said "I hate seeing people I care
about upset".
'We drifted apart like so many students after I returned home to go to New York
University, but I would love to meet up again one day.'
Miss Warshauer's single is out now on iTunes. Her album, The Pink Chariot
Mixtape, will be released on June 14.

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KATE, THE DAUGHTER I NEVER HAD,
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BY REBECCA ENGLISH AND TAMARA COHEN
PRINCE Charles movingly described Kate Middleton as the daughter he had never
had yesterday and admitted: 'We are lucky to have her.'
In a touching speech, the clearly emotional prince paid tribute to his new
daughter-in-law Z but still found time to crack jokes about his eldest son and
his famously thinning hairline.
Charles chose to say a few off-the-cuff words as he toasted the newlyweds at a
Buckingham Palace champagne reception thrown by the Queen for 650 guests and
wished the couple a long and happy life together.
Kate's former primary school headmaster Dr Robert Acheson, who is also a friend
of the Middleton family, said as he left the Palace: 'William spoke very well
but it was Charles who really gave high praise to his daughter-in-law. He said
they were really lucky to have a daughter like her.'
The retired headmaster of St Andrews preparatory school in Pangbourne,
Berkshire, added: 'I think Kate will be a wonderful role model. She's an
exceptionally nice person and she's no fool. She will make a very good queen.
She brings a lot to the party and I think they recognise that. The speech really
brought a tear to the eye. She was a delightful child and is now a delightful
young woman.'
Susie Lea, a friend of the Middleton family, described the moment that Charles
brought the house down. 'The Prince of Wales made a few jokes about his bald
patch and his son's bald patch, saying it must be hereditary,' she said. 'He was
stood slightly up on a small stand so he was looking down on William to his
left. William smiled, he was amused. Kate looked amused as well.'
The couple walked into the Palace's historic picture gallery shortly after
1.30pm following their balcony appearance, serenaded by a golden harp played by
Charles's official musician, Claire Jones.
After meeting and greeting their guests, the newlyweds cut their cake to the
whoops and cheers of their friends. One attendee who said his son was a
schoolfriend of Prince William said: 'Kate looked immaculate, she was beaming
the whole time.
'It was a fantastic reception, everyone was very relaxed. William thanked
everyone involved in the organisation of the wedding.'
An astonishing 10,000 canapes were served during the two-hour reception,
prepared by Buckingham Palace's 21-strong team of kitchen staff. Guests toasted
the happy couple with a 6200 Pol Roger NV brut reserve champagne and a selection
of other soft and alcoholic drinks.
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DIANA'S GREATEST LEGACY: WILLIAM MARRIED FOR LOVE
BYLINE: BY ROSA MONCKTON DIANA S CLOSE FRIEND
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WATCHED the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton with tears of
happiness for them, and for their very evident love for each other, but also
tears of regret that Diana was not there to bear witness to this love. William
powerfully reminded us of his mother s eternal presence by giving Catherine his
mother s sapphire engagement ring.
It was also lovely that Carole Middleton wore a Catherine Walker dress:
Catherine, my neighbour in Sussex, who died last year, was Diana s favourite
designer, and is much missed by all her friends, as well as the world of
fashion.
However, for me the most moving moment was seeing Prince William and Prince
Harry leaving Clarence House together to go to Westminster Abbey. Their role as
Princes means that, in a certain way, they belong to the nation, yet they are
also Diana s gift to us. How very, very proud she would have been of them, of
their achievements and their obviously unbreakable bond with each other.
She already saw how strong and precious that bond was, but that did not prevent
her from worrying about them constantly, especially when they were apart.
So on the trip around the Greek islands I went on with Diana ten days before her
death, I took her to a small Greek Orthodox church where we lit candles for her
two boys and my two girls she was also godmother to my daughter Domenica.
Although Diana was not a religious person in any conventional sense, she
understood the intimate connection between faith and William s future role a
link that the service in Westminster Abbey highlighted in much more magnificent
surroundings.
Diana fought hard to give her sons as normal a life as it was possible for them
to have within the constraints of their position. She did not want either of
them to feel as trapped as she did, and particularly wanted William to be strong
enough to bear the burden of kingship. She expected him to be in touch with his
future subjects, to understand the dayto-day realities of their lives, and to be
in a position truly to understand those realities, rather than merely to observe
them from afar.
It is something that she often talked about with me, and she made it her
business to steer them along a common path of empathy with the most vulnerable
and troubled in society. Her own painful feelings of inadequacy gave her an
intuitive understanding of others plight.
This link to Diana s passion for such work could perhaps best be seen in the
presence in Westminster Abbey of a group from Centrepoint, the charity for the
homeless, to which Diana introduced William, and of which he is now Patron.
The extraordinary relationship that Diana had with both of her sons shows the
immense, transforming power of love. It is an absolute credit to her that
William was able to marry Catherine. He did not feel that he needed to marry
into the aristocracy although he would have been aware of the insistent
murmurings in the Palaces until relatively recently that the vigorously
entrepreneurial Middletons were not the sort of family that befitted dynastic
union with the House of Windsor.
William was secure enough in himself to be able to marry for love, and that is
Diana s greatest legacy.
Despite the unhappiness of her own marriage, she was a great believer in the
redemptive power of romantic love, and I am sure every mother in the land who
has watched the courtship of William and Catherine, in all its passion and
ordinariness, would have shed a tear for a mother not there to witness her son s
obvious happiness.
Diana was impulsive she had a whim of iron but William has inherited his father
s deep thoughtfulness. So often people make the best decisions based on the most
bitter experience; seeing the pain his parents went through has given him a rare
wisdom.
DIANA met Prince Charles only a handful of times before they married. They did
not know or understand each ot her. How delighted she would have been at the
length, stamina and fidelity of her son s court-ship. He and Catherine have been
together for a decade, and the time they had together at St Andrews, before
anybody was aware of their relationship, is the most precious foundation to a
joint life that will have to be lived in the spotlight.
Somehow, Diana s own unhappiness has helped to give her son bot h t he capaci t
y and t he opportunity for great love. Phoenix-like, a great joy has risen from
the still-glowing ashes of Diana s experience, and it has transformed the future
for her son, our future King, and our nation s history.
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HARRY PAYS TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM THE DUDE BUT DITCHES HIS COMMENTS ABOUT KATE'S
KILLER LEGS
BYLINE: BY KATIE NICHOLL
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PRINCE HARRY paid a moving tribute to his brother 'The Dude' and his new
sister-in-law 'The Duchess' during a heartfelt speech at their evening wedding
reception on Friday.
Harry also told the couple's friends and family that he loved Kate 'like a
sister' and how the story of the couple's long romance 'inspires' him. According
to several guests, Kate was 'very emotional and touched' by Harry's tribute and
even shed a tear during the evening's festivities.
Harry delivered his best man's speech, which he had been working on for the past
fortnight, at 9.30pm after 300 of the couple's close family and friends had
enjoyed a three-course meal with vintage champagne.
He had asked his best friends Thomas van Straubenzee and Guy Pelly to be a
sounding board ahead of the speech and is understood to have dropped a reference
to 'Kate's killer legs' from the final edit.
'Harry had some joke in about how he had immediately given Kate the thumbs-up
when William first brought her home because she had such a great pair of pins,
but he didn't want to embarrass her,' said a friend.
According to sources inside the evening reception, Harry's speech was 'warm and
affectionate' and peppered with good humour and jokes. One partygoer leaving the
Buckingham Palace event in the early hours of Saturday told The Mail on Sunday:
'Harry said William was the perfect brother. It was exactly how you would expect
a best man's speech to be. He cracked loads of jokes about William. He called
him a "dude" several times. He kept coming back to it, saying "What a dude".'
Harry described his brother's relationship with Kate as 'inspirational' and to
much applause added: 'William didn't have a romantic bone in his body before he
met Kate, so I knew it was serious when William suddenly started cooing down the
phone at Kate.'
Harry, famous for his impersonations, then did a high-pitched impression of Kate
calling William 'Billy' and of his brother calling Kate 'Baby', to much hilarity
from the guests.
Earlier in the day it was the Prince of Wales who had been playing the joker,
making a comment about his son's thinning hair during thewedding breakfast at
Buckingham Palace.
After the wedding breakfast, the newlyweds had returned to Clarence House in
Prince Charles's Aston Martin, which had been customised by the best man with
balloons and a JU5T WED number plate.
Harry returned shortly afterwards and he, Kate and William spent the afternoon
relaxing and watching a replay of the wedding ceremony on television.
As they made their way to the reception with Charles and Camilla, William was
heard talking about how his goddaughter bridesmaid Grace van Cutsem, the
three-year-old daughter of his friends Hugh and Rose van Cutsem, had covered her
ears with her hands because of the thunderous applause from the crowds in The
Mall. 'Did you see how terrified Grace looked?' he remarked to his wife.
As PREDICTED, the evening celebrations continued into the early hours. The Queen
and Prince Philip had left Buckingham Palace to William and Kate, and glitter
balls had been hung in the throne room where a disco continued into the small
hours.
Kate had changed out of her Alexander McQueen wedding dress and into a
floor-length ivory satin gazar gown with a diamante-embroidered waistband and a
cream-coloured angora bolero jacket, also designed by her wedding dress maker
Sarah Burton. Her hairdresser James Pryce reprised her engagement-day hairstyle
for the evening event.
Kate left Clarence House to travel by car to Buckingham Palace with her husband,
who was dressed in a dinner jacket and black tie. They were followed by Charles,
also wearing a dinner suit, and Camilla, who wore a blue Anna Valentine dress.
As they filtered into the party, guests were greeted by a military band in full
uniform and serenaded with bagpipes. The atmosphere inside the Palace was
described as 'electric' and 'buzzing' by a female band member who performed for
the couple.
'Kate looked beautiful. Absolutely serene. She had changed into a full-length
white dress. It was stunning. I saw the couple together. She and William both
looked very, very happy and were smiling as people came over to them.'
At 8.30pm a three-course dinner was served by Swiss chef Anton Mosimann. He had
brought 25 staff from his Knightsbridge restaurant into the Palace.
William, Kate and Pippa, Kate's younger sister and Maid of Honour who has been
instrumental in helping to plan the party, had visited Mosimann's last month for
a tasting and instructed the chef to create a 'simple and unstuffy but
sophisticated menu'.
Harry was seated next to his on-off girlfriend Chelsy Davy and gave his speech
at 9.30pm after dinner was served.
'Kate had been amazingly composed throughout the day, but she did look as though
she had a tear in her eye when Harry gave his speech. She was very emotional,'
said a source.
THE father of the bride delivered a speech that had the whole room roaring with
laughter when he told the controversial story of William landing his Chinook in
the back garden of the Middletons' family home.
'I knew things were getting serious when I found a helicopter in my garden. I
thought, gosh, he must like my daughter,' said Michael Middleton.
Speaking warmly of William, whom he called 'one of the family', Mr Middleton

said: 'I did wonder then how William was going to top this if they ever got
engaged. I just thought, What will he do? You can't get much better than that
and we are certainly not used to princes landing helicopters in the garden.'
Partygoers said that both William and Harry used the evening to pay moving
tributes to their late mother, Princess Diana. 'All the speeches mentioned
Diana. Of course they did, she was their mother, after all,' said one.
After the speeches, William and Kate took to the dance floor by themselves for
the first dance, a rendition of Elton John's Your Song sung by Ellie Goulding.
The 24-year-old singer Z the only act to perform during the night Z was chosen
by the couple because she is their favourite artist.
'It was an amazing honour to be asked by Kate and William to perform at their
party. The atmosphere was incredible and it is a night I will never forget,' she
said yesterday.
THE music continued until 2am. Among the songs played were You're The One That I
Want from the musical Grease. William had requested songs by rapper Tinie Tempah
and the Body Rockers' I Like The Way You Move.
Even the mother of the bride had a request and asked for the 1986 Jermaine
Stewart song We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off to be played.
Two female partygoers said the dancing was 'fun and outrageous', adding: 'There
was a chicken dance with lots of arm-flapping, which was particularly good fun.
Everyone was on the dance floor. The guests were really up for partying.'
Even backroom staff weren't exempt Z Buckingham Palace catering staff said the
Palace threw a party for workers with bottles of Jacobs Creek wine, Boddingtons
beer, vodka and gin on the menu.
Just after midnight, the first guests began to leave. Among them were Charles
and Camilla, the official hosts of the event, who were whisked through the main
Palace gates at 12.20am looking happy and relaxed despite the long day. At
2.45am loud cheers could be heard from over the Palace walls as a fireworks
display was let off in the back garden.
Partygoers whooped and cheered as red and white rockets were fired in short
bursts.
By 3am only a handful of hardened partygoers were left inside the Palace,
including Harry, Chelsy and Pippa.
AT 3.10am Harry, wearing a black dinner jacket and white dress shirt with three
buttons undone, emerged to lead revellers on to the second venue of the night Z
the nearby Goring hotel.
The 101-year-old hotel, which had been hired out in its entirety by the
Middleton family, became the focus for guests looking to continue partying into
the small hours.
In what appeared to be a well-organised procedure, a convoy of three silver
coaches, each filled with about 30 guests, was used to transport revellers from
Buckingham Palace.
Harry, who seemed in high sprits, sat in the front row of seats, directly behind
the coach driver, as he was taken from the Palace, with Pippa in the row behind
him.
A black Range Rover followed close behind carrying Chelsy, 25, and Prince
Andrew's daughters Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.
Chelsy and Eugenie were in the back seat and Beatrice, wearing a purple and gold
one-shoudered dress, in the front.
The Princesses stayed at the party for an hour before departing in a taxi at
4.08am.
Police had already sealed all four road entrances to The Goring hotel preventing
anyone other than Royal guests accessing the hotel entrance, which was adorned
with white and pink hydrangeas and red geraniums mounted on garlands of ivy.
As he arrived at The Goring, Harry bolted from the coach and into the hotel
foyer where he was greeted by hotel staff and security who took the names of
partygoers at the door.
Butlers in bowler hats welcomed revellers in via the tented porch and through
the front door.
Other guests followed on foot, some swigging from champagne bottles as they made
the five-minute walk along the deserted streets around Buckingham Palace to The
Goring.
Many guests were spotted clutching handbag-sized presents wrapped in gold paper
Z believed to be wedding favours from the couple.
At one point several of the guests who walked to the hotel took part in an
impromptu piggy-back race past the Palace walls before dismounting when they
reached The Goring.
The revelries at the hotel, where Kate spent her last night as a single woman on
Thursday, continued until sunrise.
Tony Unsworth, 59, a family friend of the Middletons, said: 'I went to bed
around 1am but I heard guests stumbling around at 5am coming back from the
Palace.'
'Xytx yxt yxt xyt xyt xyt xyt xyt xyt xyt xyt'
'Xytx yxt yxt xyt xyt xyt xyt xyt xyt xyt xyt'
all-night party: Chelsy Davy and Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice, above, and
Prince Harry and Pippa Middleton, below, leave Buckingham Palace in the early
hours to go to The Goring hotel. Right: Kate heads to the evening reception
royal revels: Carole Middleton, far left, looking elegant as she leaves for the
evening reception at Buckingham Palace. Several hours later and these lucky
friends of William and Kate, pictured above and left, were happy to adopt a more
relaxed look as they made their way from the Palace
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TWO SHORT WORDS, AND KATE SENT A CHEER AROUND THE WORLD
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HOW I SEE IT
ROBERT HARDMAN
TWO tiny, softly-spoken words cut the pin-drop silence of a dumbstruck
Westminster Abbey and sent cheers ringing from Whitehall to Bucklebury to Papua
New Guinea: 'I will.'
And with that, Catherine Middleton went from 'Miss' to future Queen Consort of
16 nations spanning nearly seven billion acres and a large part of the Earth's
surface.
At her side was the young man with, perhaps, a greater burden of expectation
than anyone alive. And now, he no longer carries it alone.
With his own no-nonsense 'I will', Prince William opened a new royal epoch,
happily reuniting the Monarchy with those powerful memories of his late mother,
all of it in front of half the planet.
Prior to this moment, the most-watched event in British history Z perhaps in
world history Z had been her funeral here 14 years before. How many billions
were watching now over supper in Sydney or breakfast in Ottawa; how many eyes
prickling, throats tightening as that bravest of adolescent mourners now
returned as the happiest man in the land?
The sense of a turning tide was as inescapable as Low Water on the Anglesey
shoreline.
In the annals of our 1000-year-old Monarchy, this was a very good day. In the
annals of the House of Windsor (created: 1917), it was a very great one.
The Royal Family has acquired a new recruit capable of great grace and poise
under the most extreme pressure imaginable. What's a garden party Z or even a
State Opening Z after that 318ft walk to the Abbey altar?
What is a plaque-unveiling or a state visit after getting 'William Arthur Philip
Louis' crystal clear, unquavering and in the right order?
Prince William, likewise, showed supreme unflappability as he gently fought with
an obstreperous band of Welsh gold, as he proudly steered his future Queen into
the daylight before a dazzled world already running out of superlatives.
Lip-reading viewers may have spotted what happened next. 'Are you happy?' asked
the new Duchess of Cambridge as they climbed into the State Landau. 'It was
amazing, amazing,' replied the Duke. 'I am so proud you're my wife.'

The most striking aspect of the whole occasion was the simplest of the lot: the
sight of two people so confident and comfortable with each other that you can
already hear them finishing each other's sentences. They were even doing it on
the Palace balcony. 'Are you ready?' asked Prince William. 'Okay, let's ...' She
finished that one with a kiss. Westminster Abbey began the day with the flavour
of a rather grand country wedding Z lots of intergalactic hats, handsome chaps
in uniform and exuberant flowers, all capped by several maples and hornbeams
from the Highgrove garden. Trees in the Abbey? 'Unheard of', said one orderly.
Yet also inspired.
Guests gaily tested the patience of the Abbey ushers as they kept leaping out of
their seats to 'Mwa-Mwa' or shake hands with an old chum from the Army or St
Andrews or a royal charity.
At one point, there was aisle gridlock. I spotted Earl Spencer trying to lead a
trio of young Spencer belles through a yacking standstill, his path blocked by
people shaking hands with the film director, Guy Ritchie, and the Lord Great
Chamberlain, the Marquess of Cholmondeley. Progressing through the throng
beneath a blue 45-degree Philip Treacy hat was It-girl and royal chum, Tara
Palmer-Tomkinson, escorted by her novelist sister, Santa, and historian
brother-in-law, Simon Sebag-Montefiore.
Morning coats were
offering a 'lounge
that he had rented
outgrown the tails
the general order of the day, regardless of an invitation

suit' option. The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, declared
his from Moss Bros Z suggesting that he must have lost or
he wore for five years at Eton.
David Beckham had embellished his traditional wedding kit with a wing-collared
shirt and his OBE, despite the dress code specifically advising against
decorations for civilian guests. He was wearing it on the wrong side, too. Few
seemed to notice. All eyes were on Mrs Beckham, not his gong.
I found myself seated deep in Middleton country, just behind Michael Middleton's
proud cousin, Cambridge geo-physicist, Penny Barton. She was delighted by news
of the new Dukedom of Cambridge. 'Maybe, William will be the next Chancellor of
Cambridge University,' she suggested. Prince Philip's retirement does, indeed,
create a vacancy.
Less relaxed were the official guests, all those ambassadors and
Governors-General and Cabinet Ministers knowing that they must be on best
behaviour lest a camera spot an injudicious yawn.
I spotted a very chuffed-looking Ralph Gonsalves, prime minister of St Vincent
and the Grenadines, one of the Queen's 16 realms (the one which includes royal
Mustique). Could this be the same 'Comrade Ralph' who staged a referendum on
abolishing the Monarchy just 18 months ago? It was just as well he lost the
vote, then, or he would not have had the call-up yesterday.
Suddenly, the bonhomie vanished as the groom arrived with his best man. The
queue for the loos just behind William Shakespeare in Poet's Corner vanished.
Someone had flicked a switch from fun family event to living history. Prince
William and Prince Harry had caused pan-generational hysteria on the streets,
these two young blades in their magnificent uniforms Z waving at the people,
saluting the Cenotaph, prompting countless thoughts of 'How proud their mother
would have been ...'
Inside the Abbey, after brief chit-chat with assorted Spencers and Mountbattens,
they disappeared to St Edward's Chapel to wait. By now, the focus had shifted to
the Goring Hotel where Miss Middleton and her father appeared to be smothered by
a deluge of silk pursuing them into the Rolls-Royce. Michael Middleton's
good-natured calm and infectious pride throughout this entire engagement have
made him a hero figure to Dads up and down the land. Here was the finest hour in
any father's life. Might he finally crack?
On the Abbey steps, Catherine reached out for his reassuring hand one last time
and he grasped it. But this was no timid bride stepping forth into the unknown.
Together, they strode. Inside, it was the Windsors and Middletons who were
setting the example, holding it together. Around them, lesser mortals sniffled
and dabbed their eyes and gulped as Charles Hubert Parry's 'I Was Glad' came
forth brilliantly. Glad? Here were 1,900 people ready to cartwheel.
As the bride came into view, beneath Prince Charles's trees, Prince Harry turned
and murmured in his brother's ear: 'She looks beautiful. I can tell you that.'
Moments later, William saw for himself and whispered: 'You look Z er, you are
beautiful.' He even had a little joke for Mr Middleton: 'Just a small family
wedding.'
Pippa Middleton marshalled her little team with the panache of the professional
party organiser that she is.
Later on, younger brother James, would read from Romans 12 with polished gusto.
For mother, Carole, elegant in a (Cambridge) blue Catherine Walker suit, it must
have required huge reserves of reserve not to blub all morning. The Middleton
clan, it must be said, has done this country proud. Even Naughty Uncle Gary was
immaculate in his dark morning coat in row three.
No future Prince of Wales could marry without the great Welsh favourite, Guide
Me, O Thou Great Redeemer. Musically, this goes down as one of the great royal
weddings, the unapologetic emphasis on British music Z Parry, Elgar, Walton Z
proving entirely justified.
The twin choirs of Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal were a sublime double
act, even if it was impossible to look at them without spotting the odd
awkward-looking Cabinet face berthed just behind them. Has Kenneth Clarke ever
looked so angelic?.
Against the Archbishop of Canterbury's booming tones, the couple's vows seemed
more poignant, humble even. On the bride's 'I will', a disembodied roar could be
heard ringing around outside the Abbey. It was like walking past a football
ground when a goal goes in.
The Bishop of London Z an old chum of the Prince of Wales Z reminded us that
'every wedding is a royal wedding'. A good marriage, said Dr Richard Chartres,
should 'transform' not 'reform' man and wife. And he raised a shy smile on the
face of the new Duchess as he talked of the 'family life' which lies ahead.
Perhaps the most touching part of his sermon were words which the couple had
written themselves Z a prayer for the day. 'God our Father, we thank you for our
families,' it began.
Those families held back Z Prince Harry arm-in-arm with Pippa Middleton, Prince
Charles escorting Carole Middleton and so on Z as the bride and groom processed
into the world. But not before the ritual bow and curtsey to the Sovereign. The
Queen, in primrose, has seen more royal weddings here than anyone else alive.
'Amazing,' was how she would describe it later.
All down the aisle, the guests who had merely smiled on the way in now bobbed
and bowed to the new Duke and Duchess on the way out. In the open air, the
crowds hit a new pitch of delirium. After this, the procession and the balcony
appearance would be a doddle. Even the groom's speech to the 600 reception
guests - full of self-deprecating gags about his hair Z was no great ordeal.
Ever since this engagement was announced, there has been an inevitable tendency
to compare this betrothal with previous Windsor weddings Z notably that of the
groom's parents or the austerity era union of the Queen and Prince Philip.
But yesterday's great occasion also evoked a different sort of royal landmark,
another occasion when a jaded country suddenly, unexpectedly found itself
pleasantly overcome by an explosion of benign royal euphoria.
If anything, the mood among the million-strong crowd drifting away last night
was reminiscent of 1977 and the Silver Jubilee Z a reminder of the power of
Monarchy to send the self-esteem of a troubled nation soaring.
Perhaps we can now put to bed those preposterous grumbles about the cost of it
all. If we go with the upper estimate of 620million being tossed around by the
moaners (all police bills, not dresses or cake), it is still less than half the
642million cost of the basketball arena for next year's Olympics. And that
structure will be demolished a fortnight later. Enough said.
Yesterday's scenes will be played out for years to come. This has all the
makings of one of the great royal unions. There is no question. Britain and its
best-loved institution have won gold.
A MILLION KETTLES...AND A TV RECORD
THE wedding is likely to be the most watched TV show of the decade.
Official viewer ratings will not be released until later today but figures from
the National Grid suggest the event could be a record-breaker.
When the couple reached Buckingham Palace following the ceremony, demand for
electricity increased by 2,400 megawatts (MW) Z the equivalent of nearly a
million kettles being turned on.
This surge indicates of the number of people watching beforehand who return to
doing other things when key moments have passed.
It is the fourth highest power surge of all time, behind the record 2,800MW
increase that followed England's semi-final penalty shootout defeat by West
Germany in the 1990 World Cup, a 1984 episode of The Thorn Birds, and England's
2002 World Cup semi-final against Brazil.
When the the newlyweds appeared on the Palace balcony there was a huge 3,000MW
drop in energy use, suggesting the nation's eyes were back on their television
screens.
NOW, THE SUNSHINE HONEYMOON
Now that the mystery of the bride's wedding dress designer has been solved,
speculation is focused on where the royal couple will spend their honeymoon, due
to start today.
Sources have privately confirmed the obvious: William and Kate will holiday
'somewhere hot and sunny' where they can 'relax completely and privately' for
two weeks.
Mustique is the odds-on favourite for their romantic getaway. Kate's family
visit the private Caribbean island regularly, and she and William have spent
several romantic breaks snorkelling, jetskiing and sunning themselves there.
Another favoured destination is a nostalgic but relatively public sight-seeing
tour of Jordan, where Kate lived as a toddler. King Abdullah II is rumoured to
have offered the use of his lavish private summer palace in the Red Sea resort
of Aqaba.
But a brief sojourn at a UK destination has not been ruled out. A few days in
Balmoral, Scotland, would follow in the footsteps of William's father, who spent
both his honeymoons there.
Another mooted destination is Kenya, where William proposed. He has often said
his heart is in Africa and he also spent his gap year in Kenya. Tanzania, the
Seychelles, Australia, or a cruise have also been suggested as likely choices.
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WHY NEW ROYAL WON'T BE CALLED PRINCESS KATE
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KATE Middleton has left behind her commoner roots and her name to become Her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge.
Prince William was given a dukedom, the highest rank in British peerage, on his
wedding day by the Queen, and will be known from now on as the Duke of
Cambridge.
He also became the Earl of Strathearn and Baron Carrickfergus, and Kate the
Countess of Strathearn and Baroness Carrickfergus Z though the titles are
expected to be used only rarely, mainly in Scotland, where they met and fell in
love, and Northern Ireland respectively.
According to protocol, Kate should also be called Princess William of Wales
rather than Princess Catherine or Princess Kate, because she was not born with
royal blood.
Instead she adopts her husband's first name, as Princess Michael of Kent did
when she married the Queen's cousin Prince Michael of Kent.
But on hearing the new, formal titles for the first time yesterday morning,
members of the public lining the route to Westminster Abbey were already
indicating that Kate will be known to them as 'Princess'. 'She's a young lady,
Princess suits her better than Duchess,' one woman said.
William's uncles Andrew and Edward were given several royal titles when they
married, but his father Prince Charles did not receive any additional titles.
As heir to the throne, Charles already had
Cornwall. His second wife Camilla took the
married Charles six years ago, partly as a
were still resentful about her 'taking the
Wales.
eight titles including Duke of

title Duchess of Cornwall when she
concession to a sceptical public who
place' of the late Diana, Princess of
When Charles takes the throne, William is expected to inherit the title Prince
of Wales. At this point, his wife would almost certainly be titled Princess of
Wales, and would be recognised formally as Princess Catherine.
All titles are gifts from the Queen, but Her Majesty conferred them following
private discussions with her grandson, 28, and his bride, 29.
Another option mooted was the Duke of Clarence, but the Queen gave a clue
Cambridge would be chosen by visiting the historic university city three days
ago.
The last Duke of Cambridge was a famous military figure who also married a
commoner for love Z but kept a mistress for more than 30 years.
Born in 1819, Prince George, a grandson of George III, refused to have an
arranged marriage and declared such unions were 'doomed to failure'.
He fell for actress Sarah Louisa Fairbrother, but by the time they married in
1847, she was pregnant with their third child. The controversial marriage was
never approved or recognised by his cousin Queen Victoria.
Miss Fairbrother was considered an outsider by the Royal Family and never got
the title the Duchess of Cambridge.
There are claims that the duke was actually reticent about the marriage and
intentionally used an abnormal signature to sign the register.
Soon afterwards he took up with a mistress, Louisa Beauclerk, and described her
'the idol of my life and my existence', staying with her for three decades until
her death.
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BRITAIN LOVES KATE...WILL THE ROYALS?
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MAIL POLL REVEALS FEARS MIDDLETONS FACE SNOBBERY AT THE PALACE
KATE Middleton's popularity has soared but the public fear she will suffer
snobbery when she joins the Royal Family, a poll for the Daily Mail reveals
today.
As they count down to Friday's wedding, Prince William and his bride will be
cheered by an overwhelming surge of popular goodwill, with three quarters of the
country planning to watch the ceremony on television.
More than half the public think the wedding will strengthen the monarchy, and
support for Kate as the future Queen has leapt dramatically. The findings
suggest her dignified behaviour since the engagement in November has been
greatly to her credit, with women especially impressed.
But many fear she will suffer snobbery at the palace once she crosses the
threshold from commoner to royalty.
And the vast majority think her parents will be increasingly cut out of her new
life as Princess Catherine.
Nonetheless the poll, by Harris, shows the young couple can ride a wave of
public enthusiasm as they embark on married life.
The euphoria contrasts with popular sentiment in 2005 when Prince Charles
married Camilla Parker Bowles. Then, 65 per cent believed their marriage would
weaken the monarchy.
Only two per cent think the same about Kate and William, with 51 per cent
believing the monarchy will be strengthened and another 47 per cent thinking it
will remain as strong as it is now.
Eighty per cent think William would make a better king than his father, and 87
per cent see Kate as a better queen than Camilla.
However, less than half those people questioned thought Charles should step
aside to allow William to become the next king.
The Daily Mail commissioned the snapshot of public opinion to test feelings
towards William, 28, and Kate, 29. Three out of four of those questioned said
they intended to spend at least part of the bank holiday watching the wedding
live on television. In November, less than half the public were convinced it was
good for William to marry a commoner Z but this has now leapt to an overwhelming
majority of 85 per cent.
Only 45 per cent, however, said they think Kate will be accepted as an equal by
the other members of the Royal Family, and only 28 per cent think her parents
Carole and Michael Middleton will be warmly welcomed by the new in-laws.
Asked whether Kate would make a good queen, 57 per cent responded yes Z a
significant jump up from 45 per cent when the same question was put last
November when the engagement was announced. The support was particularly strong
Z 63 per cent Z among women.
William would make a good king according to almost three in four people (73 per
cent), which has risen from 68 per cent last November. Most people now back
scrapping the law which gives males priority in the royal line of succession.
Sixty-two per cent of those questioned said that if William and Kate's first
child is a girl, she should succeed to the throne even if they went on to have a
boy.
Ingrid Seward, editor of Majesty magazine, said: 'Women like Kate because she is
homely, and she's a woman's woman.
'One gets the feeling Kate is a very loyal girl and whatever William does she
will be backing him up. She does seem to know instinctively how to behave.'
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