Princes Plan Girly New Year
After a Christmas away from their girlfriends, Prince William and Prince Harry will spend New Year with Kate Middleton and Chelsy Davy in various parts of the world.
William is said to have accepted an invitation by Kate’s family to spend Hogmanay at their farmhouse in Perthshire, Scotland, seeing in the New Year in traditional Scottish style, no doubt.
Soon afterwards, Wills and Kate will celebrate her 25th birthday on January 9 by flying off to the Swiss Alps for a spot of skiing.
Meanwhile, Prince Harry will see the New Year in with Chelsy for the third year in a row. The couple will spend ten days with her parents on the Indian Ocean island of Bazaruto, off the coast of Mozambique.
Lovely! I am glad to know that Prince William and Prince Harry will be able to spend significant time with their young ladies over the holidays! I do not know where you get your information, John, but it certainly is first rate!
By Gigi on December 20th, 2006 at 5:32 pm
i agree gigi. love all of the info on this site. good luck to the princes and their gals!!
By s.s. on December 20th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
John, what’s your opinion of this news?
By Christine G on December 20th, 2006 at 8:42 pm
I think it’s going to happen, Christine. I’ll be posting more about Zara in the next few days.
By John on December 20th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
Now this is very exciting! Many of the Royal cousins are close in age, so we could conceivably have Royal weddings every year for five or six years on! Lady Louise Wessex won’t be marrying any time soon since she is a toddler.
By Gigi on December 21st, 2006 at 1:21 am
awesome! new year’s in mozambique! more warm than dc, that’s for sure!!
By Ziny on December 21st, 2006 at 1:59 am
At least these Princes know how to nurture a relationship!!! it seems they know the meaning of Whatever in Love MEANS.lol
By Trudie on December 21st, 2006 at 2:03 am
Good for them. I thank Diana for attempting to expose them to more of the every day pleasures, and I thank their father for letting them live, enjoy their lives, and not interfering in their love lives. I think it’s wonderful they are in what appears to be nice stable relationships.
By Positive on December 21st, 2006 at 10:06 am
Well said, Positive! I agree that it is very important that they be able to live more nnormal lives than their father or their Grandmother, the Queen were permitted to do. At the end of the day, the gifts of normalcy and unconditional love (unknown in the Royal family before Princess Diana) that their Mother gave Prince William and Prince Harry will be their salvation.
By Gigi on December 21st, 2006 at 3:31 pm
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By mandy on December 21st, 2006 at 6:24 pm
Mandy, please don’t leave long links as they break the site on some browsers. You can combine them with text, as I’ve done above.
By John on December 21st, 2006 at 7:39 pm
Thank you John. Sorry.
By mandy on December 21st, 2006 at 7:41 pm
I thought she was supposed to be in Scotland with her parents for the holiday?? Did she not leave yet??
Just curious??
By mandy on December 21st, 2006 at 8:11 pm
The Middletons will probably be taking the cottage in Scotland for the traditional 12 days of Christmas, so Kate may still be in London until the weekend. That is my theory, anyway.
By Gigi on December 22nd, 2006 at 4:41 am
If she hasn’t gone away yet, she’ll have problems. Heathrow has been fogbound for two days and all flights to Scotland have been cancelled for the next 48 hours. The trains stop running on Sunday afternoon, and the roads are jammed full.
She may have to go to Sandringham after all.
By John on December 22nd, 2006 at 9:55 am
If it isn’t one thing, it’s another. After an exceptionally mild December, winter came roaring into Colorado and Denver Airport is basically shut down with hundreds of stranded passengers, all trying to get to their Christmas desitinations. Mother Nature is very uncooperative this year. :/
By Gigi on December 22nd, 2006 at 3:44 pm
John, I read that Prince Harry will be deployed to Iraq in May…is this true? I think I remember you saying that he wasn’t going to be stationed so close to danger (or was that that he wasn’t going to Afghanistan?) I don’t remember. What’s the story? Thanks!
By Lauren on December 22nd, 2006 at 8:45 pm
John, not only Kate, but I hope Prince William will be able to make it to Scotland to meet the larger Middleton clan as well. Now that William’s family including the Queen and their inner circle have met Kate numerous times, it’s time to bring the serious boyfriend around the girlfriend’s family for the holidays. The boyfriend just happens to be a future king.
The introductions are not going unnoticed.
By Positive on December 23rd, 2006 at 1:26 am
Lauren, where did you read that Prince Harry was being deployed to Iraq, do you remember? I thought he wasn’t to be allowed to serve in any forward area. I doubt there is any place in Iraq that isn’t a “forward area.”
By Gigi on December 23rd, 2006 at 6:23 am
There’s a lot of conflicting stuff on this, Lauren. The Blues and Royals are being deployed to Iraq in May and Harry wants to go. His officers have told him they can’t risk his presence there.
I think it would be very unlikely he’d go because he’s not the type of soldier who could be kept in the office shuffling paper, and he would pose a danger to his men elsewhere, as he’d be targeted by the enemy.
By John on December 23rd, 2006 at 9:21 am
didnt harry do an interview where he said he wouldn’t sit on his ‘arse’ while his men were fighting? obviously he is going to be putting his men in danger if he is fighing… but wouldnt he have known that the chances of him actually fighting were slim… even at the very beginning?
By s.s. on December 23rd, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Maybe Prince Harry thought he would be able to persuade both the Queen and the government to allow him to fully participate, as Prince Andrew, also a “second son” did, during the Falklands War. I see trouble down the road here if Prince Harry is made to sit back while others fully serve. When young, active men get frustrated and prevented from fulfilling their potential, there is always some sort of reaction and rarely is it a good one. The nucleus of the stubborn, selfish attitude that sank the Duke of Windsor was said to be when he was forbidden to serve in a forward area during WWI. Of course, he was the Prince of Wales, the heir, so he should have realized that was unrealistic.
By Gigi on December 24th, 2006 at 12:36 am
thanks for the response gigi! i agree that trouble could come up down the road… hopefully he will not end up like the duke. i feel sorry that harry can’t fight, but i absolutely agree w/ it because putting his comrades in danger on his behalf would be selfish.
By s.s. on December 24th, 2006 at 12:59 am
I agree with the decision regarding Prince Harry’s military service also, Ziny, for the very reason you mentioned, that his presence in a forward area would place his comrades in extra jeopardy. The enemy would like nothing better than to kidnap a member of the Royal family and hold him for ransom. His life might be spared, but his comrades would be killed outright, I am afraid.
By Gigi on December 24th, 2006 at 6:37 am