Here’s some interesting royal gossip, it just happens to be about Prince Harry rather than Meghan Markle or the Duchess of Cambridge. This gossip involves Harry’s plans for a “stag night,” or what we in America call a bachelor party. In America, a bachelor party can be anything – a trip to Vegas, a camping trip, one night out at a strip club, whatever. I feel like the “stag do” in Britain is slightly different – like, it’s either a pub crawl or a trip with the bros or something like that. I remember that Prince William had a remarkably quiet stag do – he and his friends spent a weekend hunting at some country estate, or at least that’s what the official story was. We never heard otherwise. Now sources claim that Harry wants a stag do that involves a skiing trip to Verbier.
Like many busy grooms-to-be, Prince Harry is juggling a full-time job with wedding preparations ahead of the big day. But it appears the royal, 33, has still found time to plan his stag do – and he is heading off to the slopes. Harry is believed to be preparing to hold his stag party in the Swiss ski resort of Verbier, after royal protection officers were spotted in the upmarket bar La Vache.
According to the Daily Star, Prince Andrew has offered his £13million Chalet Helora to Harry and his friends. It is also thought that Harry and Meghan, 36, will throw a second more civilised ‘stag-hen’ party together at a polo match.
A source told the Daily Star that Harry’s royal protection officers had been spotted in Verbier.
‘I have just seen Harry’s advance close-protection team come into La Vache for lunch. They are clearly on a recce,’ the source said. ‘Quite a few of the staff recognised the Royal Protection Officers who skied with Harry in 2016.’
Another insider added: ‘Prince Andrew cleared the diary of Chalet Helora as a gift from himself and the Duchess of York.’
The bar La Vache is owned by Harry’s friend Rob Sawyer, along with rugby star Lawrence Dallagio, James Blunt and superbike champion Carl Fogarty. Friends expected to be attending the stag party include Guy Pelly, Thomas van Straubenzee and George Stoy. Verbier is an exclusive ski resort that is popular with members of the royal family and celebrities.
It would not surprise me if this was the case, that Harry was planning a ski trip with his bros. But it’s still a bit disappointing – it will be even more fodder for the argument that Harry is just as out-of-touch as his brother. Plus, it just seems like Harry is setting himself up for shenanigans – he could be out in public and people could easily get photos of him doing anything and everything.
Meanwhile, this is really insidery, but the Daily Mail’s Sebastian Shakespeare claims that Harry is fighting with his dad a little bit because Charles wants his longtime aide/friend Michael Fawcett to organize Harry and Meghan’s wedding reception. Harry has flat-out refused but it’s notable because Fawcett is “taking over” more and more of the administering of Charles’ various projects.
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“Prince Harry is juggling a full-time job with wedding preparations” – He’s not the worst by any means but a full-time job? Let’s not gild the lily too much here.
The full time job got me too. Just like any other groom who can’t spare a minute during his 9 to 5 or 6 schedule and must handle preparations late at night on his spare time. How does poor lamb manage to do it all?
Yeah, I was wondering what “full time job” they’re referring to lol.
He’s not even out 2-3 times a week, much less 9-5 🤣🤣
+1000
Potential King Henry Couple are multi tasking to boot. Royal Wedding Planning and continues with Royal Duties work ethics. ‘I am a Prince’ Willnot manage to have a middleton ‘decoy hen do with models’, for the hangers on royal pips.
Then Prince Harry certainly should enjoy a grand stag do and joint ‘hag’ (if reports are correct) with Princess Sparkle I/w!
OMG, please!!! Harry is averaging one event a week!! Please link to his busy work calendar here to show his full time schedule.
I get you like them, but can we sticks to reality please?
That struck me, too. Some “full time job.”
I laughed at that, too!!! A full time job? Juggling!?! I can’t wait to go see the comments in that over at the DM! Harry worked before Christmas, counted his Christmas walk as work, worked last week and is working this week. I count 8 hours in a month. Full time? Where do I sign up????
That was the most surprising part about this story 😄
Also Prince Andrew is in the mix…never good.
And this Stuabanzee is like Chuck Bass…grow up party boy.
Harry’s pals are more of a worry than Andrew’s chalet.
Every time Harry has been caught doing something foolish, he is with these people.
A trip with your friends for your stag/bachelor party doesn’t seem out of touch to me. In fact, that’s where I would be spending the most money…on the fun. Haha. Wedding dress and ring? Meh, we’ve got a budget. The reception? How long does this place stay open because I plan on being here all night. Haha!
So many normal people go overboard for their wedding in ways that they actually can’t afford and/or are taking loans to achieve their dream day. A year or so ago, I read that the average cost of a wedding in the US was $30K!!! So, if you can afford nice wedding festivities, knock yourself out. It’s a special day/time, but I don’t want to be paying it off years later.
ETA: Also, considering many men and women do the strip club thing (speaking from US perspective), I like the good time with friends angle. I like when bachelor/bachelorette parties are toasting your new life as opposed to mourning the loss of the single life.
I mean, at the end of the day Prince Harry is still a rich guy with rich guy friends. Of course, the stag party is going to be in Verbier or something like that. If I had his money mine would be too. As long as he keeps doing his job and repping the Queen well when he’s supposed to it doesn’t bother me.
Exactly. I mean what do people expect him to do? Get a couple of rooms at a Motel 7 with a couple of cases of beer??
I KNOW. I love your response and the one below. He is RICH!!! What do people expect???
This, exactly. My brother is getting married in July and he and his friends are probably going to do a camping weekend somewhere, but I have no doubt that if they were rich, they would be private-jetting off somewhere fancy. I’m no royal apologist but come on, the guy has more money than most of us combined, going on a posh ski trip isn’t at all surprising.
Harry has the taxpayer’s money which he spends like it’s water. I would love to know who paid for his private hunting trip, glamping, Monaco and now this. All in less than 5 months.
Beware of pissed off plebs, Harry.
I imagine he paid for it with the multi-million dollar allowance he gets from his father each year.
I agree as well. He is quite wealthy. We all know that. And we feast on news about the royal family. So let him have his fun. And let us read about it. Aside from that, nothing too see here Move along.
Well we do not know how true this is. Harry may be planning a ski-ing holiday this month or next month. The Royals do ski. Very soon people will be criticising them for going ski-ing something they have done for years, and it one of the ‘royal pursuits’. I wish people would just leave them alone.
I dont get what’s so out of touch about this. It’s no different than a group of dudes going to Vegas. He’s staying at his Uncle’s house. It seems like what a lot of rich British guys would do for their stag-do. I’m always puzzled by what people’s expectations are for the Royal family. They will never be Joe Schmoes. They are rich and they are royal. There is a limit to how “normal” they can or will actually be. But this sounds pretty average to me
I really don’t understand what the issue is – it sounds like a normal stag trip. Perhaps 25 years ago people went on a simple pub crawl for the stag-do, but those days are long past. These days many UK grooms take longer trips to Europe with their mates (Prague and Spain are very popular stag-do destinations).
Wait, how is a weekend away with the boys for a bachelor party “out of touch?” Going forward, will all leisure travel outside of the UK be deemed “out of touch” and “disappointing?”
I’d be most concerned for the shenanigans. He doesn’t seem to surround himself with super stable, well behaved guys. He’s getting too old for obnoxious shenanigans to be ‘cute’. Hopefully they can manage to have a bunch of fun without being embarrassing.
…but so are the pals, that is, getting older. There were no shenanigans at Inskip’s wedding in Jamaica.
Let hardworking potential King Henry and technically (3rd in Line) enjoy his Wedding!
He is NOT 3rd in line. There are William, George, Charlotte, AND this new baby ahead of him.
Hardworking?
oh yea, and Charles…
Harry is a Prince – pretty much any vacation he takes is going to be “elite”. Let’s not kid ourselves. I’m kind of confused as to how people are expecting him and MM live? They are still royalty for God’s sakes! Also, this is not some crazy Vegas bachelor party at Tao – its a ski trip with his bros, which I’m sure will be pretty discreet (to the public) and we’ll know very little details.
Oh please this comes from the Daily Star.One of the least trustworthy trash rags out there. There was also stories last year of them checking out the place for Harry and it ended up being for Will’s trip where he was ‘dad’ dancing.
I really don’t understand how this is out of touch?
After watching the Smithsonian interview with The Queen…my feeling was that when she kicks it one day, things are to be very messy for the House of Windsor.
I’d have to agree with that. The Charles/Andrew battle alone is going to be sheer entertainment.
I actually found the second link to be much more interesting — Charles has rehired, TWICE, a “bullying” employee who was caught selling gifts Charles had been given on his behalf?!
And on top of that, one of Charles’s charities pays this man’s company a substantial amount of money?
Good lord, you would think Charles would at least *try* to keep things more aboveboard while he’s still the heir.
I am no fan of Harry but am perplexed as to why Verbier is always described as an “elite” ski resort. It’s no more so than any ski resort in France or Switzerland. We ski there all the time as it’s reasonably close to Geneva airport and therefore doable for a weekend/long weekend. We’ve done a ski share where we rented a house before and it wasn’t particularly expensive at all.
Sure, most people don’t own property there but that’s true of most ski resorts!
That said, pmsl at “juggling a full time job”. These people are deluded.