On Saturday, Prince William and Prince Harry were photographed on the balcony at Buckingham Palace for the Trooping the Color ceremony, but on Sunday, Radar Online is reporting that William may have joined girlfriend Kate Middleton in Malibu for some house hunting. There are no pictures, only a report that somebody in Malibu saw someone who looked like Kate and William. As far as looking like Kate, it was probably Lauren Conrad in a brown wig (seriously, I really think Kate and LC were separated at birth, probably much like the plot of Parent Trap):
Could the Hollywood-packed beaches of Malibu, Ca. be getting a royal upgrade?
Reports this morning said Prince William, son of the late Princess Diana, has decamped from his native London with on-again-off-again gal pal Kate Middleton. And not just for holiday.
Will and Kate are said to have toured a four bedroom home (already sold) in the seaside community, valued at around $8 million, with an agent from real estate firm Bentzen & Levin.
A RadarOnline.com source has even spotted the pair walking the beach of the exclusive gated enclave Malibu Colony.
While its unclear if William is looking to lease or buy, it means big news for the luxe town, where American royalty (film stars) frolic for the season.
From Radar Online
Will the future king and his long-suffering girlfriend rent/buy a house in Malibu? The kingdom wouldn’t stand for it! Other than a lovely beach, what is Malibu to the British royal family? Is Prince William going to chill with Steven Spielberg and Mel Gibson? Is Kate going to work on a screenplay? So, a Malibu trip is doubtful, I think. Probably just LC and some random tall guy with a bald spot.
Back to Kate and William- Cindy Adams wrote a really bitchy column about the two of them. To be fair to Cindy, I think she just got a really disgruntled royal servant to give some unnamed quotes. According to Cindy and this source, William is now at the point where he “has to” marry Kate, that if Will flakes out on getting engaged, it will be “another embarrassment for the Palace.” The source also has the lowdown on what Will and Kate are really like, behind the scenes. Apparently, Will is “an arrogant young man who expects people to bow and scrape” and Kate is “Not smart… but very calculating… and she knew how to play hard to get.”
IN case you woke up this morning and asked yourselves, “Selves, is Prince William going to really finally eventually marry this Kate Middleton pip he’s been dating?”
At least that’s what I wondered when I woke up, and here’s what one court-watcher replied: “He has to. Been seeing her too long not to. It would be another embarrassment for the Palace. The Queen’s accepted her at events, which means she’s got the royal approval. Understand, he’s not all that easy and affable as he comes off. He’s a bit of an arrogant young man who expects people to bow and scrape.”
And Middleton herself? “Not smart. Hasn’t picked up a book in her life. But very calculating. Her mother’s been planning this her whole life. And she knew how to play hard to get.”
“The wedding will probably be next year after he finishes military service. Face it, London is very depressed. The Crown could use a royal wedding at this point.”
[From The New York Post, Cindy Adams’s Column]
Play hard to what now? I’ll buy that Kate is calculating, and that she’s been trying to figure out a way to get William down the aisle. But I don’t buy that Kate knows how to play hard to get. The game Kate is playing is called “patience”. It’s called “biding her time”. The more William dithers about getting married, the more he reminds me of his father. I think the popular notion that William got the best of his mother’s qualities is overstated. Diana was a very impulsive woman, who let her heart lead the way. William and his dad seem to be the kind of men who are as indecisive as the day is long, regardless of what their hearts or impulses tell them. It’s a shame, really, to see those Windsor genes assert themselves in such a particular way.
Photos are from 6/12/09. Credit: WENN.com and BARM/Fame Pictures
I think this is incredibly unkind. We very rarely read much about Prince William or Harry and all of a sudden he’s arrogant and reluctant to marry?
How old is he now? 27? Why is everyone (i.e. newspaper gossip columnists) pushing him to the altar? Look how that worked out for his Dad. Royal or not he’s still just a kid. If his relationship with Kate doesn’t work out…well it didn’t work out. I’m sure the Palace would rather have that than another divorce.
This is 2009 not 1981, much has changed and there are very few people in Britain or outside of it who would wish an unwanted marriage on this young man..
I call bullshit on Cindy Adams…
Oh, of course he’s arrogant. He’s royalty. Young royalty. Young, blond royalty. This should come as a shock to no one. And is it a surprise that Queenie is pushing (i.e. passive aggressively hinting) for marriage? I’m sure she’d like a great-grandchild.
@Aussie:
roflmao… no wait, u were being serious!!?! 🙂
Um, Ling, why should blond royalty be any more arrogant than dark-haired royalty?
I spew more truth from my arse-hole every morning when I park it on the throne in my bathroom.
I think it’s a shame if anyone is pressuring William to get married to Kate simply because they have been dating for years. I agree with drm, it’s better for him to not marry Kate than to have another high profile, nasty divorce. I hope for his sake he “gets it right.” I can’t help but feel sorry for both Wills and Harry because they’ve been through such turmoil & heartache with the loss of their mother. I will never forget how sad it was to watch them both walking behind their mother’s coffin. I’m sure they both feel a deep hole in their hearts over that loss.
I have never heard anything about Wills being arrogant or difficult…hmmmm….he appears rather shy from most accounts.
Prince William arrogant? What’s the future king of England supposed to be, a good ol’ boy?
At least in his public outings, William is very open and caring, especially with children.
Thanks CB for the great pix!
They met at St. Andrew’s, not on a one-day seminar. You don’t pass there without becoming at least partially acquainted with a book. Plotting indeed. 🙄
God, but isn’t his little brother SMOKIN’ hot?
Oh, man, if I were a 20-something Brit lady, I’d be in a fine state over that Harry.
LMAO @ Best of British. Nuff said. 😎
It’s about time people start calling things what they are. Prince William is in his late 20s and has completely neglected most of his royal duties, i.e. the only things he’s actually supposed to do. Since a royal commentator pointed this out publically, Buckingham Palace has staged this giant PR machine to get him out there doing everything possible and things that pull on the heart strings to divert attention from that comment like finally talking about his mother (which was scripted, not by himself, and rather cold), being interviewed by a cancer patient, etc. If William really cared about any of this, he would have been working at it a long time ago. His only priorities are avoiding the media and hanging out with Kate and boozing up, pretty embarassing for someone claimed to be the smartest of the British royals in standardized testing. Check out my blog PopSpiracy for more info on this. By the way, I highly doubt he was in Malibu.
Mairead beat me to it. Middleton has a college degree, so highly unlikely she’s never picked up a book. Sounds like Cindy should get a new source, one with a clue.
That raises the point, though, if the source was so far off on this, why should we believe the comments about Will’s temperament or anything else?
Yeah Kate went to St. Andrews and I visited the campus. Doesn’t look like the kind of place you can survive by not reading your books. I also saw the outside where William lived his 4 years there. He had some pretty nice digs and an ocean view of the North Sea!
Haha, the LC/Kate Parent Trap scenario is funny!
Wouldn’t it be more embarrassing for the family if William was pushed into marrying Kate, and then they later got divorced because he didn’t actually want to marry her?
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If any of this is true, why would anyone want anything to do with a calculating woman driven by her mother?
I’ve always heard he was shy, which can be mistaken for arrogance. On the other hand, true arrogance is hard to mistake for shyness.
I remember hearing that Diana wanted a successful marriage because her own parents’ divorce was so devastating. So I can see why William would look around at the unsuccessful marriages in his close family and realize that he doesn’t have a lot of role models for good marriages–and that simply having the desire for a good marriage didn’t mean his mother had one. Put all of that together with his awareness of being in the public eye, and I can see why he’d be reluctant to marry.
Yes …yes! When the little people need pepping up just let them watch the sublimely wealthy have the PERFECT wedding!!! That will SURELY make them all feel better. Taxes well spent. Cheers! (Gawd that is really medievil mentality).
He doesn’t have to marry anyone. He is still young, and just because she is doing absolutely nothing with her life, as opposed to other women of her generation and just sits and waits for a marriage proposal, only means someone should tell her this is 2009.
I’ve met Cindy. A bubblehead who wrote a book about her dog Jazzy being a gift. There’s a book, see?
How weird, you talked about Lauren Conrad in a brown wig and a few days later she is out photographed in one!
http://stylenews.peoplestylewatch.com/2009/06/15/lauren-conrad-goes-brunette-for-the-day-love-it-or-hate-it/?xid=rss-topheadlines
From what I remember Kate pulls it off better. Lauren looks pretty bad.
I prefer to imagine that Wills and Harry look to the heavens for any sage advice from their angelic mother (mum) when at a quandry in their young lives. Their father aparently made all the mistakes that they should try to avoid.
There is nothing she has that the Windsor family looks for in a Royal bride for children. Kate’s common (one mark against her) Kate’s not blond-Windsor’s tend to marry blonde or lighthaired people to produce children just look back at the Queen’s husband Prince Phillip-blonde,Prince Charles wife Diana-blonde Princess Margaret’s husband-ash blond,Pr Edward’s wife-blonde,Prince Andrew’s former wife-Red head.
Kate’s not an Aristocrat(Ten marks against her)
Kate’s family is tacky scraping desperate social climbing middleclass. William has dated her for seven years and watched her reputation be raked over the coals in the British press.
William is 27 and does not need to marry anyone , he’ll use her until she gets panicky hitting 30 and dump her ska#aannnk arse!