William, Harry, their Girlfriends and the Press


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One question is whether the invitations were mass mail-outs or whether they were formal invitations that asked for a formal RSVP. That makes a difference.
 
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Mermaid1962 said:
One question is whether the invitations were mass mail-outs or whether they were formal invitations that asked for a formal RSVP. That makes a difference.
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What gets me is that in order to even contact Kate or Pippa, they had to rely on the business address of Party Pieces in the first place. I'm sure they're not the first to try and contact Kate that way. How formal of a response do you ever expect from someone when you have no real clue how to contact that person personally in the first place?

I bet we here at TRF could come up with the fanciest formal invitation ever imagined inviting Kate to participate in an open forum chat and even include one of those formal RSVP cards that are self addressed and stamped and mail it to Party Pieces and it'd just go in a big bag along with all the other well meaning communications from all the other like us with the bright idea of using the family's business address as a way to get to Kate.

I do believe it was well meant when the employee said that the mail had been passed onto the girls, but I also could see why it was perhaps never even glanced at too. Employees at Party Pieces also are most likely not paid to sort through personal communication to the family either... they're there to work for the company.
 
I agree that perhaps even though someone at Party Pieces said the invitations had been given to the girls they may not have received them. One point though that always irks me is when the not very large (although it seems from what we have heard to be making the family a lot of money) mail order company is spoken about as though it was Ford Motors in its heyday. It is a smallish family business and that is probably how it is so successful, it seems to have few employees and seems to be run from their home.
I am a bit at a loss why the charity invited Pippa, Kate I can understand as it was an attempt at making Prince William accept by including his girlfriend - but her sister?
Perhaps they should be given the benefit of the doubt about receiving the invitation but Prince William´s office did as they answered but that doesn´t mean that he even heard about the event, in a royal household correspondence is handled by staff.
 
What a storm in a teacup !!

Okay, so Wills has a girlfriend (NOT a fiancée).
She has no official standing in society, but is escorted by Wills at some weddings, and other occasions. Let's not turn her into the next Diana.

Wills has his job in Anglesey to think of, and he is a serving officer. He likes Anglesey, she doesn't (so we're told).

Everyone should leave Kate and her family alone, to get on with their lives.
 
A frightening lack of decorum for a charity to go public about who was invited and who did or did not respond. What was their intention in inviting Kate? It appears they tried to use her to bring attention to their event, and by not contacting her beforehand and discussing her attendance they showed poor planning and class. Kate is most likely inundated with invitations due to her relationship with P William by companies that would not have been the least interested in her otherwise. Would they have made it known that she would be attending if she had said yes?
If you have no relationship with an organization and you simply end up on their mailing list it is not rude to ignore an invitation even if it requests and RSVP. If the organization had not put any effort in to building a relationship with Kate prior to this event then she was perfectly proper in ignoring the invitation. If the organization deems someone important to their cause then spend some time in making them a supporter. To simply be a name on someones mailing list is not enough.
 
I agree, and the they just announced that she did not repley to get their story in the papers.. which is a shame in my opinion but you know what they say in bad attention is still attention.. to bad they did it by hurting kate's name.
 
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Shock development: Journos change Christmas script!

:previous:
Forget about the "quitting work" part, there's something much better.
Instead of dusting off the tired annual "Kate for Christmas at Sandringham" story, this year there's a more inventive angle: delete Kate, insert Carol!
Meanwhile, Kate’s parents Carole and Michael are said to be joining the Queen for a New Year break at Sandringham in Norfolk.
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:D
 
windsorgirl said:
If the Express can't even get the date of Diana's 50th birthday correct (it would have been July not August), they won't get much credit for predicting future wedding plans -- at least not from me! :lol:
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I was just thinking the same thing!!!!!!!!:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
windsorgirl said:
If the Express can't even get the date of Diana's 50th birthday correct (it would have been July not August), they won't get much credit for predicting future wedding plans -- at least not from me! :lol:
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I agree with you there!
 
Not only that, but it got Diana's birth month wrong. She was born in July, not August.
With a mistake like that, how could the article be taken seriously?
 
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Here are the latest Richard Palmer (Daily Express) Tweets: (Read from bottom up)

I think it's true to say the staff will have prepared a plan for how they would deal with it in general but not specifics eg wedding venue.

The staff have always said they expect to be given 3 days notice to prepare for an announcement.

My guess is still they will wed next summer but I honestly believe they haven't discussed it with any of their staff or wider family+friends

...a friend of his tells me William doesn't even know if he'll be at Sandringham at Christmas or New Year. He may be on duty at RAF Valley.

As for the suggestion that William will go to Sandringham at Christmas to ask the Queen for permission to marry Kate....

But I am told that it's very unlikely at this stage that the Middletons would get an invite to the Big House.

I wondered if the shooting lessons might be a precursor to the Queen inviting the Middletons to Sandringham after Christmas.

Against that, I am told that the Middletons have never met the Queen and the likelihood of them meeting in the near future is remote.

To bring the Queen into the equation by involving her estate officials and the Royal Family's lawyers seems to me to advance the wedding.

What does all this mean for a royal wedding? Your guess is as good as mine. William is very protective of Kate and her family.
The argument for harassment is that the royal party claim they asked the photographer to move on several times. Was he just doing his job?

Clearly, we in the media will seize on these pics as evidence that a royal wedding is moving closer, something our readers want to read.

I'm told the pics of the Middletons were taken from a public road, looking onto Balmoral land open to the public.

I imagine lawyers for the media would argue there was genuine public interest in Michael and Carole Middleton being photographed at Birkhall

I am told a group of kids doing the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme were on the same bit of land 15 minutes later.

William and his advisers are examining the possibility of legal action, claiming the royal shooting party was harassed.

The Queen's Balmoral estate is consulting lawyers about pictures that appeared today of the Middletons on a shooting trip at Birkhall.

Not much to show for me in tomorrow's newspaper so I'm going to tweet a few things I have learned about the Royal Family and the Middletons
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So, according to Palmer, there might be a lawsuit because of the pics, the Middletons may not even meet with the Queen, Prince William may be on duty for Christmas, there's to hint of a engagement yet.
 
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There's a new glowing article from The Express entitled:

Why Kate Middleton is the Model Royal Bride
 
Christmas speculation has officially begun:

Will the Queen invite Kate Middleton for Christmas? | Mail Online

When her parents were invited on a stalking weekend at Prince Charles’s private residence, it seemed as if Kate Middleton had moved one step closer to marriage.

And with Christmas just weeks away, speculation is mounting that she may move even closer still before the year is out.

Royal aides have not ruled out the prospect of an invitation for Miss Middleton to spend Christmas Day on the Sandringham estate for the first time.
 
isn't the Christmas invite only for engaged partners and married ones? why would she get an invite? i'm sure they'll get engaged in spring with a summer wedding, so probably no invite this year.
 
little thing i noticed in the article: "hardly to the manner born"... shouldn't it be "manor born"?
 
The count down to Christmas at Sandringham, has started..lol... Well if she does show up for Christmas it will seal the deal... 52 days too see...
 
cd_1 said:
little thing i noticed in the article: "hardly to the manner born"... shouldn't it be "manor born"?
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Perhaps it's just another snotty litte jibe regarding Kate's (Quelle horreur) middle class roots!! :ohmy:
 
I have read the papers regarding all this speculation and all I have learnt is that Prince William allowed his girlfriend´s parents to shoot on a royal estate and that Kate´s mother, Carole, learned that disgusting sport of stalking a defenceless stag and killing it. Bravo!
 
Wisteria said:
I have read the papers regarding all this speculation and all I have learnt is that Prince William allowed his girlfriend´s parents to shoot on a royal estate and that Kate´s mother, Carole, learned that disgusting sport of stalking a defenceless stag and killing it. Bravo!
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Really?! :ROFLMAO: Oh my... Thanks for the chuckle of the day! ;)
 
An excerpt from Katie Nicholl's book, entitled William & Harry, is online. This excerpt covers Prince William & Kate Middleton's romance -- from their student days in St. Andrews, breakups, makeups, leading to a possible royal wedding in 2011.

Katie Nicholl also gives an interview to Vanity Fair. (she's promoting big time!)
Book Excerpt: Prince William & Kate Middleton's Love Story | British Royals
 
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