On Friday, we heard the disturbing news that Prince William’s stag party (bachelor party) was being held this weekend, and that Prince Harry had organized something special for him. My theory was that the party would involve strippers, hookers and assorted bar wenches, nubile young things who would be giving birth to assorted ginger and balding babies nine months from now. I was totally wrong, though. At least as far as I know now. According to the British papers, the stag party was a sausage-fest. Just dudes, William and Harry’s Eton buddies and official royal sycophants, all gathered on some dude’s country estate. Boring!
When Prince William chose his brother Prince Harry to be his best man, he may have expected he would spend his stag party downing cocktails in the public eye at some of London’s fashionable nightspots.
Instead, at the weekend he marked the end of his bachelor days with a low-key private party, thought to have been held at a friend’s country estate outside London.
The party was attended by about 20 of the Prince’s closest friends including James Meade, whom he met at Eton, and Thomas van Straubenzee who attended Ludgrove Prep School in Berkshire with the Prince
Hugh van Cutsem, one of Prince Charles’s godsons, was also present. His father owns a large estate in Norfolk, leading to speculation that it could have provided the perfect bolt-hole for a low-key event.
Guy Pelly, a nightclub owner renowned for his love of partying, is understood to have planned the stag weekend with Prince Harry. But as with all good stag nights it appears the details of what went on are unlikely to emerge. All guests were sworn to secrecy.
Mr Straubenzee yesterday declined to comment. He said: “I’m very sorry but I have got to keep it a secret. I hope you understand.”
The Prince, who will marry Kate Middleton next month, had initially planned to spend the weekend taking part in a variety of watersports in Exmouth, Devon, including racing speedboats and water-skiing. The plans were cancelled, however, after they were leaked to the press.
Journalists had flocked to the River Exe hoping for a glimpse of the royal party. It was rumoured that Prince Harry had chosen the Turf Locks pub as the venue for part of the party.
Yesterday, as Prince William and his friends returned from the weekend, a source at St James’s Palace confirmed that the event had taken place but refused to discuss any details. The source said: “I can confirm that Prince William’s stag party happened this weekend. It was an entirely private event and we don’t intend to make any further comment.”
The Prince’s desire for a low-key party was similar to that of his father, Prince Charles, who held his stag night within the confines of a suite at Whites, a gentleman’s club, before marrying Lady Diana Spencer.
Shortly before his wedding the Duke of Edinburgh entertained some of his naval friends at a stag party at the Dorchester. The Duke and his friends famously smashed the flash bulbs of press photographers to ensure privacy. In 1986 the Duke of York thought he had escaped public attention by holding his stag at the Notting Hill home of Lord Lascelles, only to be gatecrashed by his future wife and her friends dressed as police officers.
Prince William’s stag weekend was in marked contrast to that of Peter Phillips, his cousin and the son of the Princess Royal, in April 2009. The Prince arrived at the event by RAF helicopter with his brother before enjoying several drinking games in which he reportedly downed pints and dropped his trousers.
His own party would have been organised closer to the wedding on April 29, but pressing royal engagements meant it had to be held earlier.
Prince Harry is due to join a trek to the North Pole for disabled servicemen tomorrow, while Prince William has to return to RAF Valley in Anglesey, where he is serving as a sea rescue helicopter pilot.
[From The Telegraph]
I’m getting the feeling that this “stag party” was either A) Supposed to throw everybody off so that the real stag party could go off without a hitch a few weeks from now or B) something dirtier than the sausage party we’re being told about now. Seriously, how can a bachelor party involve only dudes on a country estate? That just sounds so… meh. Maybe there was lots of alcohol and porn? Even then, it sounds too safe.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I agree, Kaiser….with Ginger organizing the stag party, there has to be more than this going on.
I believe this version of the stag party is for the general public.
What goes on behind Royal doors are sacred – the real party is not yet rated. LOL
My new theory:
There is a stable of ponies (read: hookers, male or female) that services the royal family discreetly (as in, with a ironclad privacy contract) in return for steady paychecks and retirement benefits. They are made available for stag and/or hen parties, bored royals, etc. That is the only way I will believe THIS was what Harry organized. Whether or not Wills would cheat on Kate is totally unknown to those of us NOT in the relationship, but it just seems that Harry would give him the opportunity.
Yep, this is the “official” stag. Somewhere down the road lies the true partay.
In some pictures, it looks like he’s wearing that “spray-on” hair thing (forgot the name).
mmmm Prince Harry.
William’s smile is so disingenuously cheesy. Kinda like Prince Charles.
Ita that this was the official & therefore very proper party.
Who cares?
I find this whole wedding hoopla a huge bore.
I think they decided with something low key since the British are hit quit hard with the recession. If news leaked out of a total over the top, lavish stag party then the royal family would take (yet again) a hit to their image. They are out of touch with reality enough as it is.
This was a red herring. The real stag party’s still on the way.
Who wants to toss thier thong to Ginger?
@devilgirl you are absolutely right.everyone is trying to make this wedding the event of the year but seriously even Charles’s wedding to Camila was more exciting..
they can’t afford a scandal. meanwhile,even though there’s a recession they only need a lot of money to get high end hookers;there are cheap ones too.lol
He looks like he has more hair.. doesnt he?
I guess I’ll have to disagree with everyone. Where is it written that every guy wants some crazy debauched stag party? I’ve heard of several guy friends who had very enjoyable but low-key stag parties with all their guy friends, just drinks, music, darts, pool, sitting around, shooting the shit.
Not every guy wants to walk down the aisle with a fresh new STD. And knowing William and how, sorry, kinda boring he is, I totally believe that was his stag party. And he probably loved it.
ITA with Anastasia. Most of the stag parties my husband has gone to involve lots of drinking, some illegal smokage, darts &/or pool, late night pizza, crashing on the floor of someone’s house & waking up with wicked hangovers. In our late 20s & early 30s, everyone is too old to waste time & money on strippers
Is Prince Charles wearing a leek? (Emblem of Wales, but it’s a real leek?)
OMG those Windsor guys are SO hot looking!
@Anastasia- EXACTLY!
I love that first pic of the two of them! They’re so hot!! I don’t care to read about his party I just want to see the wedding! 😀
Since they can’t bne assed to pay for anything themselves, maybe they should release a copy to those who actually did. Except, I can’t imagine many things more boring than watching a stag party, especially a stranger’s. You want stories of debauchery, watch the wedding episode of every unimaginative sitcom (every sitcom) that goes through the joyless process of trying to slap a story onto the template. Up next: She’s in labour, but while her cooler head prevails, he’s driven halfway to the hospital without her, oh, what if she gives birth in a taxi, or they run afoul of some toughs who turn out to be sentimental saps? Hi-LAR-i-ous Repitition Syndrome, here on CBS–wait! He’s going to be late to his wedding to the shrill, unpleasant shrew because of the machinations of chance and an almost-too-late realization that whatever he’s got with the ornery dame is better than enjoyment of life? But it’s the season finale, don’t leave me cliffhanging! Oh, noooooooo!
It does seem a bit tepid compared to some of their shenanigans at pubs all over the British countryside, doesn’t it. Doesn’t mean there weren’t hookers and shit there. Harry’s been to that new sex club in London, so maybe he hired some of the talent.
Absolutely, Anastasia and Bodhdi 4/15. Not every man wants a lap dance on his stag, or every woman to wear a pink T shirt and angel wings on her hen!
Although that said,I find Pretty Tarheel’s (3)premise very interesting!
I’m still not over the offical wedding cake being fruitcake.
“SAUSAGE PARTY”!! Hah! We know what THAT means!
@Isabel, it’s supposed to be much tastier than what Americans consider fruitcake. I would be appalled if someone had an American fruitcake for a wedding cake, but the descriptions I’ve read actually sound pretty tasty.
Mr. Tarheel played in a poker tournament, smoked cigars, and drank booze with all of his buddies. Of course he was 36, had been married once previously, and the guys organizing his party were all married and responsible. Had Hot Harry been doing the organizing, I would have been worried-not because of Mr. Tarheel’s behavior, but because we would have had to drain the pool the next day.
I haven’t lived in the UK for 12 years, but a traditional stag and hen party do NOT involve strippers or hookers!
There’s lots of drinking and childish pranks involving underwear or nudity (by the guys) and lots of drinking and dancing round the handbags (by the girls)
Sorry, but that’s it! The official Stag Party details sounds perfectly normal to me …
I actually think it was tame & stuffy but they want you to think it was some crazy party.
@ Isabel,
More news on the Fruit Cake apparently it’s one of two wedding cakes, the other will be a Chocolate Biscuit Cake , lots of gooey chocolate with cookie chunks in it to hold it together.
The fruit cake is probably for show in the wedding pix, multiple tiers covered with marzipan paste and inch thick concrete icing. Looks good but practically inedible.
Yeah, not all guys want to have a stag party that involves: cheating on their fiance with some random hooker/strippers. Only insecure guys think that all men do these childish things. If you need to have random women to have sex with you for your stag party, then you really shouldn’t be getting married!
Agree with everyone who says that bachelor parties don’t need to be full of debauchery. My cousin got married to his high school sweetheart in his early twenties, and for his ‘stag night’ he got together his groomsmen and his dad and built a new fence for his dad’s house. Lots of beer, but no strippers.