Prince William News Thread 4: April 2004 - June 2005

[micas]

Bravo for the pics! Kate is very elegant!

[sara1981]

new pictures of Prince William at Polo and no girlfriend of Kate at polo check it out!

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Sara Boyce

[Amira]

More pictures of the event :)

[Amira]

and much more :)

[popsicle]

who's the girl in the pink?

[grecka]

Has William graduated from St. Andrews yet?

[micas]

More pics. I don't now were thwy are taken because i can not understend russian. So if some can trans late go had.

[corazon]

A question, Camilla no attend to the polo mach?

Wills y Kate in the wedding

[lashinka2002]

more pics at rex

http://www.rexfeatures.com/cgi-bin/r...x=20&fNext.y=3

[sara1981]

check it out on Hello magazine

Hugh holds an umbrella over his bride to protect her from the rain. The newlyweds spent their first night as man and wife in a 12ft teepee in the grounds of her family estate
Photo: © EMPICS
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Wills acted as an usher at his old friend's wedding
Photo: © EMPICS


6 JUNE 2005

It was a sight royal fans the world over have been longing for for quite some time. Prince William, with a broad smile on his face, standing side by side with Kate Middleton as the wedding march played in the background.

Those already anticipating the day Wills makes his vows will have to wait a little longer, though - he and his girlfriend were simply guests at the nuptials of two close friends. The second-in-line acted as an usher at the marriage of his chum Hugh van Cutsem to landowner's daughter Rose Astor.

With a light drizzle falling over the church in Burford, Oxfordshire, the 30-year-old groom escorted his fiancée, who wore an ivory gown with lace sleeves, into the church under an umbrella. Once inside, the couple made their vows in front of a who's-who of British society. Among those in attendance for the ceremony were advertising mogul Maurice Saatchi and banking heir Zac Goldsmith.

William's girlfriend of two years might have been forgiven for feeling a little awkward, since her beau's ex-girlfriend Jessica Craig was present too. Conspicuous by their absence, however, were Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, who likewise stayed away from the wedding of elder brother Edward van Cutsem to Lady Tamara Windsor after finding out they were to be seated separately.

Prince Harry wasn't able to make it either, as he is currently in the thick of combat training at Sandhurst. And it seems the young royal is feeling the strain of military life, because he has been forced to trade his army boots for trainers after developing painful blisters on his feet.

[florawindsor]

is this source trustworthy

from mail on sunday:

But is a Southern belle William's real love?

By SHARON CHURCHER and CAROLINE GRAHAM, Mail on Sunday 16:25pm 5th June 2005 Behind William and Kate's smiles at the wedding there was an undercurrent of uncertainty.



For as he approaches the end of his student days at St Andrews this month, William's own relationship with Kate has reached a crossroads and they do not know if they have a future together beyond university.

Despite their show of happiness, their relationship seemed devoid of the joyful bounce of Prince Harry and his girlfriend Chelsy Davy.


William has maintained he is too young to consider settling down and recently said he would not marry before he was 30. But a close university friend revealed the real reason behind his reluctance to commit to Kate: dazzling blonde Southern belle Anna Sloan, 22.



The Mail on Sunday has learned she is the girl who set herself apart from countless others by turning down William's offer of a date.

"He is tantalised by Anna," said the friend. "She is beautiful and brilliant and the girl who said 'No' to him. He actually cast his net in her direction before he went out with Kate but she rejected him. His chat-up line is, 'I'm the future King. Do you want to pull?' He really didn't think it would fail with Anna."

But fail it did when the wealthy student at Edinburgh University told him she just wanted to be friends. According to well placed sources, the thunderbolt of attraction William felt for Anna has never been matched by the relationship he has with Kate - a girl he values for her loyalty and discretion.

Though he has accepted that romance is not on the cards, an intriguing friendship has developed between the second in line to the throne and the charming girl from Tennessee. And it is based on a tragic bond. For both know the pain of losing a parent in a horrific accident and speculation about their families' personal lives in its wake.

Anna's father, George, was killed in a bizarre accident in which he shot himself out walking on his 360-acre estate. Although it was an accident, there were rumours that he had committed suicide because the farm wasn't making money and had staged the accident to protect Anna and her sister Wendy's financial future. His life insurance has left them extremely wealthy through a trust fund.

According to friends, a deep friendship has grown between William and Anna from that shared knowledge. Last August, William was one of a group of friends who visited Anna at the estate.

Now he has told friends he wants to include a trip to America to see Anna after he graduates, despite a hectic summer schedule. At her Nashville mansion, Anna's grandmother, Margaret Sloan, said: "Anna and the Prince have a very private friendship." Asked about the tragic bond between them, she said: "Anna does not want to discuss it. They are friends and that is all we have to say."

[Anna_R]

http://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty...princewilliam/

WILLS VISIT THE LAND OF PC PLUM

9 JUNE 2005

Having recently completed his finals at St Andrews University, Prince William is enjoying a well-earned break in The Hebrides. The second-in-line, along with several friends, has travelled to the Isle of Mull where he is now ensconced in a self-catering cottage.

Residents in the harbour town of Tobermory might be forgiven for feeling a little star-struck, but the royal visit is not their first brush with celebrity. Young TV fans will already be familiar with the village's pretty bungalows, as it was here that the popular children's series Balamory was filmed.

Wills is unlikely to join PC Plum and Josie Jump for any of their adventures, though, because he is intent on taking things easy until his graduation in two weeks' time. He and his chums were spotted chatting on the ferry from the Scottish mainland on Monday evening and they likewise turned heads when they visited a local pub to watch the British Lions play New Zealand team Taranaki on satellite TV.

Not everyone was aware of the 22-year-old's arrival, however. According to local reports, restaurant manager Hannah Haddock got quite a surprise when she noticed the future king was standing behind her in the queue at the town's grocery store. When the cashier asked whether they would be paying together, she could only smile and say: "No, separately will be fine."

1. The Prince is taking an early summer break following four years of study at Scotland's St Andrews University
2. Picturesque Tobermory is located on the Isle of Mull off the coast of Scotland

[sara1981]

Prince William in Hello about his graduates

http://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty...agina_1_1.html

Sara Boyce

[sara1981]

William and Camilla share carriage

The Duchess of Cornwall and Prince William will share a carriage in the Trooping the Colour procession on Saturday, royal aides said.

It is the first time that both William and Camilla, his stepmother, have ridden in the official procession.

They will share the first barouche - an 18th-century landau formerly used by the Queen Mother - with the Earl and Countess of Wessex.

William, 22, who is expecting his degree results on Saturday, famously crossed swords with the Earl when his uncle Edward's TV production company broke a media agreement and filmed him at university in St Andrews.

The Duke of York, with daughters Princess Beatrice, 16, and Princess Eugenie, 15, will follow behind in the second barouche with the Princess Royal's husband, Rear Admiral Timothy Laurence.

Prince William and Camilla will watch the Trooping the Colour parade from the window of the Major-General Office's overlooking Horse Guards.

Others in the carriage procession will join them at the vantage point favoured by the Queen Mother and where the Duke of Wellington's desk is kept.

Camilla is expected to appear on the famous Buckingham Palace balcony with the Queen and other senior members of the royal family to watch an RAF flypast following Trooping the Colour. The flypast will include the Typhoon Eurofighter aircraft for the first time. The RAF say the formation will fly at 280 knots - approximately 310mph - and will pass over the Palace at a height of 1,500ft at 1pm precisely. If the weather postpones the Trooping of the Colour ceremony to the afternoon, the flypast will take place at 5pm.

[sara1981]

Nailbiting Time for William

By Laura Elston, PA Deputy Court Correspondent



Prince William gets his degree results tomorrow after spending four years studying at St Andrews University.

The second in line to the throne will be able to access his final grade online from 9am.





Britain’s most famous undergraduate said last year that he was on track to get an upper second class honours (2:1) in his geography MA (Master of Arts), providing his dissertation and final exams went well.

The Prince, who celebrates his 23rd birthday later this month, had a somewhat rocky start to his life in the isolated Scottish town in Fife.

In his first term, he struggled to adjust but eventually settled down after switching his course from history of art to geography.

In the end, St Andrews became a haven where the locals grew used to having a royal pin-up around town.

William found a sanctuary away from the media, even sharing a house with girlfriend Kate Middleton.

Tomorrow morning, the Prince and hundreds of other students at the university will be able to access their degree classifications though a secure website.

From Monday, they will also receive a confirmation letter by post.

With his university experience at an end and military training beckoning, William is preparing to fly to New Zealand, without Kate, to join the British Lions squad on their rugby tour.

During his stay on the islands, he will also carry out his first solo engagements on behalf of the Queen to celebrate the end of the Second World War – marking a new era of royal duties for the Prince.

William, who plans to sign up for the Army and join Sandhurst like his younger brother Prince Harry, has spoken about being “wary” of developing his public role too soon.

He will be one of about 1,400 St Andrews students who graduate in the town at the end of June.

His father the Prince of Wales got a lower second class honours (2:2) from Trinity College, Cambridge, for his history degree.

He also swapped courses, having initially picked archaeology and anthropology.

Charles was the first heir to the throne to take a degree.

The Earl of Wessex, who studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, was also awarded a 2:2.

William, who had seven lectures a week in his final year, wrote his 10,000 word dissertation on the coral reefs of Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean.