We rarely get to see Duchess Kate in unscripted moments. Did we ever? Not really, although Kate was more accessible back in the day. Kate has always seemed reserved, like she doesn’t reveal much of anything to anyone. Secretive, almost. Which works well when you’re trying to land a prince, although it reads as squirrelly and overly image-conscious once you’ve actually landed the prince. Even when the newspapers and magazines print interviews with people who have met William and Kate, it always comes across like a PR plant, like someone is getting paid to call Kate a “princess” or say that her hair looked pretty.
With that in mind, People Magazine has an interview with Martin Katz, jeweler to the stars, who met Will and Kate in Mustique. And guess what? When Will and Kate are amongst the rich and well-connected on a private island inaccessible to the peasants, they’re Just Like Us. Kate even talked about her special scuba lessons, because she only cares about vacations. Katz says he met William and Kate in Mustique in 2008:
“I was standing at the [hotel] bar ordering one of the fancy drinks and Kate actually came up to the bar and was quite pleasant and chatty. She couldn’t be more friendly and more open,” Katz tells PEOPLE. While Katz chatted with Kate, his wife talked to Prince William – until Katz found a memorable way to break the ice.
“We started talking about scuba diving. They had gone that day or the day before, and while I was talking, I was holding a glass of fruit punch and it slipped from my hand and crashed to the floor and sprayed all over the prince’s feet. He was in flip-flops.
“I was mortified of course, but all I heard was, ‘That was quite refreshing, thank you.’ His mother would have been quite proud that he handled himself with such dignity. It was a very embarrassing moment for me, and he was very kind about it, and my wife never lets me forget that moment. I tried [to buy him a round], but I don’t think he was partaking in any more rounds…”
“They had a wonderful villa that overlooked a very quiet beach,” Katz says. “It is a very simple life. We saw them up by their villa and occasionally on the beach. They were pretty much allowed to be left alone. Kate looked very casual, she wasn’t particularly wearing makeup, she looked lovely. She just couldn’t be more gracious and talked to everybody who would talk to her. It wasn’t like she was working the room, but if someone wanted to speak to her, she was happy to speak. They were lovely and they couldn’t be more present. I think what struck me was that they were human like everybody else, dressing to fit in like everybody else.”
If this was 2008, that was after Will and Kate and weathered their big 2007 split and William had come back to her, allegedly promising her that he would marry her, eventually. Those were the years – late 2007 through 2010 – that Will and Kate tended to go on luxury holidays every other month. One year, I swear, they went on something like 10 vacations together. And every time they go to Mustique, it’s always through the Middletons. As in, Carole and Michael have always and probably will always pay their way.
Anyway, at least we know that Will and Kate are totally natural and down-to-earth in the luxury of their favorite elite, private vacation spot.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
Lovely stuff. My opinion of them has changed completely. They sound wonderful.
Same here. So accessible. Such down to earth. Very no-makeup. Much fruit-punch-on-shoes.
Next time I’ll organize a barbec, in French it sounds more chic, on my very private island I swear I’ll invite them, and I will ask to bring Belgian finest beer.
To me, the finest Belgian beer is Fat Tire. 😉
SO Unexpected! they are nice in a sexy Island full of one percenters, cloistered and rich, I Love this story, is so cool to see them being normal
We often forget about the “simple life” they lead in their private villa overlooking the beach.
Why is Martin Katz gossiping about a chit chat that happened seven years ago? Thirsty?
Slow, more like, I’d say. Just like the diving certification.
They had to go back 7 years to find anyone who had something nice to say about them?
All this time I thought they were behaving like they were above everyone else – how wrong I was. They are super nice, super down to earth, super human. Oh no, scratch that, they are just HUMAN – like everybody else. Too bad they had to go on a luxurious island to show their true, wonderful, amazing colors. I feel that if we would get to know each other, we could become beer buddies.
Well, yeah. Wouldn’t you be?
I’m entirely certain that “squirrelly” is a considerably more apt adjective than “normal” when applied to Billy and Katie.
BTW: squirrelly is my favouritest bit of Americanese. I think we should use it more (or, indeed, at all) in Britland. I might start the trend by abusing the Sixlets with it. The next time they look a bit shifty when I enquire as to the state of their bedrooms, I shall accuse them of being squirrelly. That would be acceptable usage, right?
Yes, that’s an acceptable usage! Squirrelly = secretive, hiding something. I also use it to mean (in other situations) “to look like a squirrel.”
I love this thread, and how fitting that the Middleton coat of arms has three acorns… One to represent each of their three little squirrels hahaha
Excellent! Double abuse! The Sixlets can be squirrelly over undone chores AND squirrelly when stuffing their faces with dinner far too quickly in the hopes of getting out to play football 30.6 seconds earlier than if they actually chewed and swallowed rather than getting the whole plateful in one mouthful (read double cheekful).
This squirrelly thing is looking better and better.
lol 😀
This thread makes me proud to be ‘Murican.
*saunters off whistling “Rockin’ in the U.S.A”*
Nutballs, watch the debate tonight. You might change your mind about that.
Wait, are we allowed to discuss the debate? It is, after all, pure entertainment.
on the topic of squirrels… In the park up near the Cloisters in nyc recently, a passerby came up to me, pointed, and said “what’s that funny little animal called again?” Unsure whether she was pulling my leg (or being squirrelly) I answered… turns out she’s Australian and they don’t have many (any?) squirrels. who knew?
and a bit of squirrelly lore: on the Stanford campus, there are lots of jet black squirrels, a myth often told that they were the result of a science experiment gone wrong…
Birdix – we also have black squirrels. It’s a natural DNA mutation in the grey squirrel, apparently – we had some of yours and they got released, interbred with the usual grey squirrels (which we also got from you!) and now we have loads: http://blacksquirrelproject.org/node/11.
Hardly any of our own native red squirrels left.
BTW – did your daughter find any hedgehogs?
Ha, ha- black squirrels have taken over other campuses and there’s always a story attached. I think the black squirrels are just more aggressive and push out the other types. Campuses are favorite squirrel hangouts because there are so many people delighted to keep them fat and happy, especially students missing pets back home. Of course, maybe they really are plotting to take over the world and using campus libraries to research strategies.
I love squirrels. Our home is in a wooded area, and we have tons of squirrels. They are so clever, and each one has its own little personality. Awesome creatures.
College campus squirrels taking over made me snort out loud, because I once had a HS senior write his college essay about the first time he encountered a squirrel. His family had just moved from Saudi Arabia (where apparently there are no squirrels) and he told me the first time he saw a squirrel, he was a little scared, because it was running around chattering in a tree before descending to approach the bus stop. My student said that he was terrified, but he didn’t want to overreact because no one around him seemed concerned (or even noticed) the squirrel. It was a funny story, so I had him write about that experience for his college essay. He was skeptical about my advice, but I assured him that he would be the only person to write about a squirrel encounter for an essay, and that would set him apart from the others. (He was accepted into the school he wanted)
What a great idea, Sister Carrie. I bet it gave the admissions people a nice break from all the “I will save the world if I can go to your institution” essays they get!
@Sixer —-
“squirrely —- adjective, Slang. 1. eccentric; flighty.”
“The definition of squirrely is someone or something acting very strange.
An example of squirrely is someone who only swims when it rains.”
“adjective: like or typical of a squirrel in appearance or behaviour
(US, informal, pejorative) very nervous, sensitive, strange, or unpredictable”
For example, when I watch people darting suddenly and randomly through traffic across the busy streets downtown, leaving one side of the street from any point to any other point, even zigzagging, stop-and-going as cabs fly by to get to a shop, etc. — I call it “squirrel crossing.
When it gets especially bad, I refer to them as acting like squirrels on crack.
The thing is, Mr Sixer is now home from work and he says I can’t use squirrelly because I am not pronouncing it correctly.
He says, “But you have to say SKWERRRRRLY. That’s how they say it. You are saying SKWIRRULLY and that’s just wrong and probably touristy or somesuch.”
So now I am sulking.
I would sing the ToMAYto-ToMAHto song to him and tell him he was acting squirrely. However you want to pronounce it works if it properly describes the behavior.
Everything about these 2 is fake. Her image from the beginning has been crafted by Carole – its only now that we are seeing the real Kate. Now that she’s in control, that carefully crafted image is slipping and the real her isn’t go pretty after all.
And there are much more interesting places to squirrel away to than Mustique.
I imagine it’s the exclusivity. Why go to NYC when all the peasants of the world can go there?
Maybe it’s link to royalty. Didn’t Princess Margaret vacation there with her friends? And then there’s Mick Jagger having a home there…
Yes, Margaret did vacation in Mustique and I believe she owned a villa there. I’d like to know if the property stayed in the family (her children). If so, seems like PW would be able to vacation there rather than ask for or accept lodging favors from people outside the family.
Olenna: The kids sold the villa the minute it was transferred to them. Margaret transferred many of her assets to the kids to avoid inheritance tax, but they kids turned around and sold many of those assets off. It was reported that the sale of the villa upset her.
I don’t think Villa exists anymore. I’ll go google the island villas, but IIRC the new owners razed and rebuilt.
Lak, I once read that she was much happier when living on the island, so she probably had many fond memories of the place. I can understand her being upset over the sale because the kids didn’t have the same appreciation for it that she did. But I can also sympathize with the children since not everything they heard or read about her time there was likely favorable.
They probably just feel safer there, nothing mysterious about it. I know you all love to trash them, but they’re just acting like other rich people. The schedule of royal duties you want them to dedicate their lives to seems like a horrible life to me. Just have a quiet, non-violent Revolution, depose the monarchy, and let them just use their private family wealth (which is still considerable) to do what rich people do and leave them alone. I hate to think of lively Prince George dragged into such a stupid royal life by accident of birth. I’m sorry, but your royal duties are just pointless and expecting people to be qualified temperamentally to happily do them for decades just because of their genetics is ridiculous. The royals seem stuck in a bad movie.
I don’t think there’s a lot of people who’d disagree with you. But they do have the ability to get involved with some things that give them life if they choose (thinking of Harry and the Invictus Games), and a full time schedule is about 3-4 days a week, maybe 9 months out of the year. Plenty of downtime. All that being said, I imagine going around opening the newest hospital wing or shopping mall gets really old after a while. But while they taking the money, though, they should do the things that go with it. That’s the criticism, not that it’s so much fun who wouldn’t want to. If Wlliam and Kate don’t want that for themselves or their children I wouldn’t stamp my feet and say they shouldn’t.
It isn’t their money. Other rich people do not have $600 million a year from the taxpayers to support them. While W&K’s main funding comes from The Duchy (also public property), other costs including security costs are enormous and come from that $600 million. IF they ever vote out the monarchy, there would be strenuous debate about how much of that “private wealth” is really theirs.
W&K are free to walk away at any time. They are not prisoners. If they are willing to give up the vast majority of the wealth and privileges, they can leave. There are thousands in line behind them. That’s the problem, they want the money not the work. If they think the work is useless, they’re free to walk away but leave the money and palaces at the door.
I would argue that the years of raising money for charity, Duke of Edinburgh Award, Princes Trust, Save the Children (Anne), The Duchy and Duchy Originals, InvictusGames, WWTW, and Sentebale have not been useless. Of course, those last three are mostly done on Harry’s private time.
Charity work and community visits are what are done by the supporting members of the cast. The Monarch has a political/apolitical role to play. That seems to be the piece that people do not want to cast aside, the idea of a political referee vs. “President X”. That stated, such a referee shouldn’t require $600 million annually in upkeep.
It’s questionable how rich they are when they sponge off everybody, not just tax payers.
William once rang up a Mustique Villa owner and begged a free stay at their villa whilst also telling the owner that he had no money to pay for it.
Villa stay was arranged in exchange for a nominal fee to charity. Owner never confirmed if charity ever received the money.
Charles is frequently gifted free yacht rentals.
Andrew and Fergie didn’t get their freebie nicknames by buying their way into their luxury lifestyle.
We don’t know much about Anne and Edward’s lifestyles beyond the luxury properties they live on, but i’m sure if one digs, there will be lots of freebies there too.
@LAK: “William once rang up a Mustique Villa owner and begged a free stay at their villa whilst also telling the owner that he had no money to pay for it.”
– where is that gossip from?
And the thing about living like rich – they are cheap and they very much like free things. They will splurge on some things but they will go to Walmart to get the best deal on stuff. They always use their connections to get free rent or a significant discount. Maybe Bill Gates doesn’t but most rich people really do count their penny. When you one is rich one wants to stay rich 🙂
jwoolman, There is an organized nonviolent group in the UK that wants to eliminate the British monarchy. https://republic.org.uk/. It does not have a lot of support if the polls are to be believed, only about 15%. They state that one reason to eliminate it is that it’s not right to burden someone with being born into the line of succession.
As for boring duties like ribbon cutting – a certain amount of boring-ness is a necessary part of anyone’s life including the super rich. No one can hire out all the boring bits of life.
NOTA, yup — all that.
Tessa: I quite agree. My general point was to counter the frequently used argument that the royals are so rich they don’t need freebies or tax payer money.
The William request for a free villa came from Kate’s former boss at Jigsaw.
I’m using my phone which means I can’t add links, but google ‘evening standard’ and ‘Bella Robinson’ and ‘Kate Middleton’.
You should come up with an article in which she talks at length about Kate and the Villa.
Ps: She wasn’t being snarky. She was trying to be sympathetic and inadvertently painted a really sad picture of Kate.
LAK
The page appears to have been closed. Saying to sum, it’s either a server issue and try agin in a few minutes or the URL is wrong. The URL being the link google gave me or routed me to from various other websites citing the article and providing a link. Not shocking. I’ve read the article before though.
LAK, I did find out that Kate wanted to start a photography career when she quit Jigsaw! She even went around to the best galleries to show her work – planning on jumping over artists who have spent years honing their craft. She’s just so talented!!
The art collection of HM is priceless.
That is a really, really great blazer on Prince William.
Slow news month.
Just a question: doesn’t she get bored. I mean i want to try different things, travel, study, meet people, do important stuff with my position (i mean she has seen what other members of that family have done besides vacationing). I am poor and even i have travelled around a little. She is a mistery to me and useless as far as i’m concerned
But she already does travel and meet important people. Do you mean you’d want to be doing it 6 days a week all year long?
Tessa
Are you saying Kate travels and/or meets people 6 days a week? The traveling is almost exclusively attached to a vaccation. And important people meetings are few and far between.
If she did that 2 days a week it would be a massive improvement. The other royals manage.
No, I’m responding to the “doesn’t she get bored” comment by Egla. Kate already does plenty of traveling and meeting interesting people behind the scenes on non-official basis so to say because of her money and position in life. I can see how someone like that would want to stay home more not less.
She spent a decade going on vacation. To the same two places, Mustique and Switzerland. To lie in the sun or go skiing. She had never even been to the US before she got married. All the rumored wealth from her parents and they never did any interesting travel with it?
She doesn’t seek out new interesting people or places behind-the-scenes, either on her personal time or work time. Never has.
Tessa
What Nota said. Kate and hasn’t traveled outside of her family vacations or William. And she hasn’t met anyone outside of her family friends and William’s friends. It’s sad, but supported by history. She put so much on hold to be able to be where William wanted and when. That leaves no time to visit exotic locations and meet new and/or interesting people.
If you know otherwise I’d love to eat my hat on this.
What is that smell? Oh yeah, it’s desperation to drum up good PR because they won’t do some actual work.
Really though, how pathetic it is to continue this charade of normalcy and trying to brainwash people that they are normal and humble and simple. I think normal is their code word for lazy. IMO these two buffoons think that if they do some royal work, that probably makes them feel (ab)normal, like they truly believe their current lifestyle of laziness and excess is totally mundane and any change to that, ie. actual effort to work for more than 50 events/12 days of “work” in a YEAR, is a deviation from their definition of normalcy.
That’s how delusional they must be: vacations is a totally normal thing, but being a full-time royal is not. It’s everything that William has shown these past few years in his avoidance of being a working royal, his ongoing dramatics about his mother, his fickleness and fecklessness about his position. He’s always come across as resentful of his royal responsibilities so this “we are so nomal we can totally talk about scuba diving and holidaying in Mustique” probably feels so real for him, because anything that excuses him from being a functioning royal must be his view of how the peasants live.
It’s like Marie-Antoinette playing farmer at Petit Trianon. Or Empress Sisi of Austria dressing her children as peasant kids for fun. These royals love to pretend they’re just like us because they can. They don’t have bils to pay and jerk bosses and awful working conditions to deal with. Eating McDonald’s must be soooooo normal and out of ordinary for them. That’s how out of touch they are.
Their normal will never be our normal. They get to play it, but we have to live it. That’s why it’s offensive when they release articles like this, because they take the public for fools.
Wow, Krishan. I think I love you.
This duo could write a how-to addendum for Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” titled ’21st century tips for using your enemy’s resources against them’.
Part of their ongoing ‘normal just like you’ campaign is to manipulate public sympathy and support for their 2 favorite causes – photos of their private time is bad and support for their multi-million pound scheme for defrauding taxpayers.
Bravo, Krishan. Spot on!
And now the Kate lookalike is doing charity appearances. Wouldn’t it be embarrassing is she ends up doing more for charities than the real Kate ever did?
Saw that! In another case, Kate was expected at a Scouts gathering at Chatsworth(the pile). Cancelled coz she had that “Sailing Thing” earlier during the week so busy DK finds it hard to do 2 appearances in a week. *sighs*
CO2: Was that the comment on heavy are the crowns? Does anyone know if that’s true?
Yes it is. To my knowledge, DK has pulled an engagement or 2 for that org. I don’t think she’s a patron though. With the lookalike, one or both of the Wales bros patronise HFH. Couldn’t they bring in a real royal?
COSquared
Yup. No patrons. Only volunteers. So, it wouldn’t get counted a work.
Then there was the questionable camping in the snow. It was announced last minute during a time when there was heavy criticism on her avoidance of work of any kind. It was during a very cold and tough winter.
“It is a very simple life. We saw them up by their villa and occasionally on the beach.”
A simple life. Got it.
I am a simple person. I should live a simple life like theirs. Why can’t I???
LOL that same phrase struck me too. Such a simple life in their exclusive villa overlooking the ocean.
Well, if it’s the Villa i’m thinking of it’s loaned to them from some hedge fund guy and his wife.
They have to borrow beach houses! That’s so normal you guys.
Her sibs have stayed out of the news since that last takedown article appeared in the DM.
Princess Beatrice has been deep undercover too. The DM likes to rip her a new one every chance they get. But then it’s summer. Aren’t most of the royals across the continent deep undercover?
Pipster always has an “EXCLUSIVE” pic w/ article on the DM almost weekly. “Shows off her famous(!) bum(?) in…” or “Looks gorgeous(?!) as she goes makeup free”. Anyways, Most of the RF’s in Europe have press photocalls at their summer homes around this time.
Can my fellow CBers explain “Doors-to-manual”?
It’s a reference to Carole being a former air hostess before becoming rich.
‘Doors-to-manual’ is part of the safety speech and hand signs that air hostesses give to passengers just before plane takes off.
In this scenerio, William’s friends used it, sometimes with attendant hand signs, in reference to Kate as a dig reminding her of her humble origins. In her presence.
The awful thing about William is that he never stopped his friends.
‘Doors-to-Manual’ is one of many sobriquets used by William’s charming friends and acquaintances in reference to Kate. Frankly, of all the nicknames she acquired in her GF years, Waity was the most flattering.
Thanks. Shows who he respects more, doesn’t he ? If your mates are continuously bullying your partner, your natural instinct is to jump to his/her defence. She really let herself be a doormat.
How do we know they used it in her present AND used it to offend her? Unless someone was standing right there and later leaked it to the press? Doesn’t really sound like something Will would be OK with judging from the way he’s treating Mike and Carole.
That comment came out during the post-2007 breakup. The Middletons had hired a PR consultant at that point, who now works for the Express. Did one of William’s circle say it and somehow it got out, as Tessa intimates? Or was it part of the big “poor rich middle class girl dumped by prince and snubbed by his snobby friends” PR push from the Middleton camp?
Tessa, I think he respects his MIL. His wife is a different matter.
Gee! What a prince!
Tessa
Loads of info came out during the last break up and was approved by the Midds for pro Kate PR articles during that time. William’s security calling her “the mattress” because he would call her late and she would leave early.
Possibly Harry and others calling Kate a “limpet” as a very clingy mollusk that is tough to remove. Somewhat confirming this behavior with William announcing to a pub he’s free post break up. As well as many reports noting Kate clung to William to keep ladies away. This was used both pro and anti KatePR.
Even Whitaker wouldn’t say William is in love with Kate. That he loves her and they are friends is as far as he went. And he was a respected royal insider.
Add this all to the pile of how William’s ex’s all nnoted he had a wandering eye being a point that lead to break ups. Kate making her move to William while he was dating another. It’s too much to ignore and too much supporting it to claim it’s made up.
Nota/Tessa: the PR guy is now the editor of the Mail on sunday, not the express.
That information was part of the pro/anti Kate push during the 2007 media blitz.
That’s also when most of the inner circle nicknames were made public, some as listed by Florc, others like Wisteria Sisters (to include Pippa) were meant to be a compliment and IIRC came from an article in Tatler.
It was around this time that so much information about the relationship made it’s way into the public arena.
They also didn’t play up her family wealth at this time. She was very much the ordinary, sensible girl that William was an idjit to lose.
Florc that’s just nasty gossip. Obviously none of it is true. Jeez!
LAK, thanks for the correction. Mail or Mail on Sunday? For some reason I thought he was in charge of a Sunday edition.
That’s a good summary, thanks FLORC! So much of that disappeared in the post-engagement whitewash.
Hey @FLORC! Even if it’s true, I don’t see anything wrong with Kate clinging to Will. She wanted him and wanted to be in a relationship with him. Different people have different relationship styles.
As far as what “others” called her, well, people will always talk. Even about those who are not royal. It’s just how it goes so it’s not worth to even be bothered about it.
maggie
Support your claims please..
And you know I don’t get your tones. Are you being sarcastic? Seems like you might with the “jeez” at the end.
Tessa
Just seeng your post now.
I’ll side eye the hell out of anyone feeling they must cling to their partner to keep them faithful. Not only does it display a lack of trust on 1 end, but a lack of respect on the other.
So, yes there are different styles of relationships. Some healthy and some with characteristics that are not. There’s nothing good that can come out of praising or accepting a relationship like that. IMO anyways.
And the names. People do talk and always will. There’s just a rewritting of history with this. It’s more stated because it’s been whitewashed. It’s history unfolding. It’s not told accurately from both sides though. Just nice to keep track of things. Just like that story LAK spoke of. The URL is dead. You can get the jist of the story from the link search page caption, but no article.
Nota: The Mail on Sunday is the sunday edition of the DM. Sunday papers tend to be more respected no matter their audiences because they usually have their proper journalists and investigative teams working on them.
Any news story carried by a sunday paper can be taken at face value because it has been thoroughly fact checked and investigated. Every public figure fears a sunday expose if they have stuff to hide.
TessaD/Maggie: unfortunately, lots of white washing. Old interviews and articles have been scrubbed from the internet. The article I referenced was up for a very long time. Sad to see it’s been scrubbed. There are blogs that are dedicated to saving these old articles, where they’ve copied and pasted the article into blog, but too many to reference.
“His mother would have been quite proud that he handled himself with such dignity.”
Dignity?? OMFG….it’s not like he survived a terrorist attack. He was in a bar and had a drink spilled on his feet.
It shows that he has good manners. Most people, rich or poor would raise hell at this.
The guy who dropped the drink is a rich, famous, well-connected jeweler. Of course William isn’t going to act like a b*tch around him. He knows that gossip spreads fast among the rich and I think he cares more about what people in his social level thinks about him than he does about the public in general.
@anne_000 could be that and could be that Wills just was in a good mood or has good manners. Could be anything.
Or William knew that next year he’d be hitting up that wealthy jeweler or his friends for a free week on Mustique.
Or they were just flip flops and he was already tipsy?
Who doesn’t laugh that off? Regardless of financial standing. It’s like getting praised for saying “thank you”.
And I’m surrounded by people who could be snooty(sp?). I’m not giving them a lollipop for not acting entitled.
Who are these “most people?” LOL do people really raise hell about things like this?
Hey @Tough Cookie! Hell, yeah, a lot of people would get angry instead of brushing it off. Most Americans would – it’s kind of a sport here, to make a big deal out of nothing.
Tessa
Also American. People make things out of nothing everywhere. And I’d hardly call it a sport. Just a social entitlement issue that come with a generation of expectations and instant gratification.
Also, people get annoyed and make something out of nothing when it is counter productive to their routine or is an unexpected annoyance. William was on vacation and doing nothing. Things were relaxed. This is how most respond when relaxed. If he was stressed and irritable he might lash out like others would.
I was impressed. That was a gracious response. I expect him to have good manners, and he did.
He’s still a lazy bum.
They need to stop with this “normal” b.s. Nobody is that stupid to believe it.
I look forward to a scandal involving both Cambridges sometime. Now, that will be news worth reading!
well if things keep going as they are am sure it will be coming out soon enough. One of the reasons why Kate had always had this image of a discreet, secretive GF is probably to hide her family dirty laundry as they are ALL rather secretive, particularly when it comes to money and the family business. Me thinks its to do with dodgy Uncle Gary and how he ‘funnels’ money through the Middleton families various business ventures (Party Pieces and James’s failed businesses). Tax avoidance at most.
As for Willy his scandals will be his cheating and freeloading ways. Hers, as above, will be her family.
Imaginary PrinceW: —- off with your head! No, I know, I banish you! Hereby! Off the island! To the boat, no water or food!!! Har! Bobbing for miles, wot, certain death, har! Barman, take him!!! Guards!
Imaginary Private Secret Posh Island Bar Patron: But! It was just a bit of fruit punch! It was an accident! Miss Kitty’s hair extensions struck me hard in the shoulder with great weight and force when she slipped off her wedges, and I fell forward! I am sorry! Really! I’ll replace your sandals, Your Royal Sir-ship!!!
iPW: — eh, but I’ve never got to banish someone! I want to banish you! I want to!
iPSPIBP: I beg you! I’m here with my family for a few weeks, holidays you know, kiddie’s birthday too, granny’s last trip, what? And I’ve a jolly lunch with Mick Jagger tomorrow too, so please —
iPW: I say! Mick Jagger! I want to go to your lunch! I want your chair, then! Mine!
iPSPIBP: I – yes, yes, I am sure, I will make a call! You shall have my seat —
iPW: Will there be models there? I want lunch with Mr Jagger, with models! I’ve never had an island lunch with Mr Jagger with models!
iPSPIBP: I’m sure there will be, yes, yes, I’ll fly some in — just — don’t banish me!
iPW: Miss Kylie Minogue too? And a great chocolate pudding!
iPSPIBP: Yes, yes, her too! I swear it!
iPW: Oh, well, then I suppose no banishing today, fie, another time perhaps, but, right, jolly good then, you can stay, but I also want those new sandals, right? Right? two pair, I think! On a budget, right? Can’t pay for sandals, ho? Not made of dosh, am I, har, not like some moneybags teacher or waiter, wot? My mandals-maker’s in Florence, eh? Eh? A pair, just like this! Wot! Two pair, really, ho! Can never be too careful, best make it three pair! By Tuesday next, wot! Delivered here! Come on, Kitty, old Thing, put that chicken down, it’s not going to lay a Fabargé egg today, let’s go back to our private island cottage, so I can decide what I will wear to lunch tomorrow with Mr Jagger and the models and Miss Minogue! Barman, you old fart, send some servants up right smart to bathe my feet, eh, quite splashed on aren’t they? Fruit punch! Naff drink1 Not the thing! Not the thing! Send ‘em up now! Perhaps those servants over there, the grovel-y ones, eh? Eh? we’re in the King’s Dulcet Repose of Napolean’s Golden Crown of Bees cottage, eh? The simple place wot, with the guards up front in the great tall leaf-hats and red shorts, wot? Must hie it, our Bentley cartride is here, ho! Don’t forget, my man, four pair! Or, you’ll be banished and your lands taken, eh, eh? Ho! Kitty, don’t forget your new jewel bits I had that dreaful old lady subject of mine gift you, back when we had our salads,, quite nice ear-bobs, eh, eh, you’re welcome, old thing, har! ho! Love the islands, nice people, lovely pace, easy living, eh, eh, off we go then, foot bath, Miss Minogue, fine day’s work, ain’t it old girl, ho!
*cyber hug* Don’t stop!
2nd this!
Ha *curtsies* thank you! sorry I didn’t have a way/time to clean cut “ginger prince and trouble with hot half-brazilian love” to get it past the gates, but thanks, m’dears, I’ll scribble as I can.
XXXOOO Liberty!! I don’t know why but the word “wot” makes me giggle hysterically. My nose is running from laughing so hard.
LOL! Dulcet repose! I don’t know why, but this phrase made me think of Hugh Grant’s drunken recitation in that boat with Bridget Jones!
The chicken’s not laying Faberge eggs today. HAHAHAHA
Loved that bit! Made me choke on my milo!
Mustique is an EXPENSIVE island, but it is not a private island.
I thought a portion was private or restricted.
From their official website
“The islands gentle year round climate and natural beauty of rocky headlands, dramatic hilltops and pristine palm fringed beaches, combined with the most exclusive collection of villas anywhere in the world, make Mustique a truly unique private idyll.
For generations, those who have visited Mustique have been captivated by the unique sense of island life; where you can enjoy the ultimate in luxury villa living with the privilege of being on your own private tropical island. ”
“Over fifty years ago Lord Glenconner, Colin Tennant, arrived on Mustique and bought the undeveloped island for just £45,000. There were no roads, no jetties and no running water. Lord Glenconner’s initial ambitions were to see his new estate thrive as a cotton plantation, however his plans were not successful and he looked for other ways to develop the island.
Having given his good friend Princess Margaret a plot in 1960 as a wedding present, there was considerable media interest in Mustique as a destination and in 1968 he formed the Mustique Company to develop a private island hideaway.”
From a tourism site
“Mustique is owned by The Mustique Company which is responsible for the well-being and development of the entire island, ensuring that its original character is carefully preserved.”
Sounds like it is privately-owned, but presumably anyone can rent a villa or lease a room at The Cotton House. I don’t think you can show up and hang out on the beach without leasing a villa or room.