Prince William to marry Kate Middleton in 2011
Tuesday 16th November 2010, 2:30PM GMT.
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PRINCE WILLIAM is to marry Kate Middleton next year, Clarence House said today.
William, second in line to the throne, will marry in the year which would have marked the 30th anniversary of his parents’ wedding.
The couple, who are both 28, got engaged during a private holiday in Kenya last month, Clarence House has confirmed.
Kate Middleton and Prince William
A date for the wedding has not yet been set.
The statement from Clarence House said: “The Prince of Wales is delighted to announce the engagement of Prince William to Miss Catherine Middleton.
“The wedding will take place in the Spring or Summer of 2011, in London. Further details about the wedding day will be announced in due course.
“Prince William and Miss Middleton became engaged in October during a private holiday in Kenya. Prince William has informed The Queen and other close members of his family. Prince William has also sought the permission of Miss Middleton’s father.
“Following the marriage, the couple will live in north Wales, where Prince William will continue to serve with the Royal Air Force.”
William carried out some of his training at RAF Shawbury, alongside his brother Harry. Prime Minister David Cameron’s spokeswoman said he was “delighted” and sent the couple his very best.
The Prime Minister was informed of the royal engagement during the Cabinet’s meeting this morning.
His spokesman said: “The office took the call during Cabinet. The Prime Minister relayed the news to the Cabinet.”
Happiness
Labour leader Ed Miliband said also said he was also delighted for Prince William and Kate Middleton.
“The whole country will be wishing them every happiness,” he said.
Prince William and Kate Middleton both started out on the same history of art course at St Andrews in 2001, although William later switched to geography. For several years, they were flatmates, sharing accommodation with friends.
Miss Middleton, who is six months older than William, was credited with persuading the prince to stay on as he struggled to adjust to university life during his first year.
They graduated in the same ceremony from St Andrews in 2005 and their families joined them for a celebratory lunch.
The couple’s relationship was exposed in 2005 when they were photographed together on the Swiss ski slopes of Klosters.
Miss Middleton is the eldest child of businessman Michael Middleton and former air hostess Carole.
She was raised in a modern five-bedroom detached house in the Berkshire village of Bucklebury and her family, who are self-made millionaires, run a mail order toy and party goods company.
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About time, Wills!!!
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Has the Severn flooded again or is it just Shirley Tart drooling?
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Come on Eva – you mean you’re not going to join the rest of the nation in rejoicing over this happy news…..me neither!!!
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congratulations i wish them good luck for the future
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Tax payers expense, can our nation afford what is obviously going to be a state occasion, i doubt it.
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And will this cost us tax payers anything ?
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Another new outfit for Shirley Tart then?? I’m sure we’ll soon be subjected to more of her drooling over the next few months.
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No doubt it’ll be the usual drivel including the term ‘who trained as a helicopter pilot in the county’.
I suspect the troops at Ketley are already surfing wikipedia to see if there is some ‘fact’ about the future bride, fear not I have it here! –
‘Kate who once had a pet dog, Samson, which was the great-great-great-great grandson of a jack russell owned by the daughter in law of Mrs Miggins of Duddleston Heath’ :-)
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Do you have Mrs Miggins’ contact details?
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All I know is that it’s a white house overlooking a field.
It’ll be easily identifiable, there will be lots of people wearing trilby hats and a ‘press’ ticket tucked into the brim, they’ll be hiding amongst the bushes or knocking on neighbours doors.
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WHO CARES?!
Have they set a date for the divorce yet? Just wondered given the state of the last lot of royal weddings.
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What a sorry lot of pathetic half wits, why should Britain weep when it has the likes of you lot in it’s midst. William is a fine young man, who has done more challenging things in his lifetime than anyone on this stream, oh! that the rest of his generation in this country had done one fiftieth of what he has done. Yes, now let’s have the “pathetics” drawing my attention to the fact that he did this with Royal money backing him and without it he couldn’t have done it. Fine, well he has done things that all the money and backing in the world wouldn’t help him. He is a “person” who any parent, if they are normal that is, would be proud to call their son. And, if he is not special, compare him to Prince Edward, all the money and backing he had and he still turned out a duffer. Kate is also a fine young lady and they will make a brilliant couple and I will gladly agree to my taxes paying for their wedding. They are our future King and Queen and we should give them our respect and affection. Congratulations to them both and shame on the juvenile and ill informed comments on this stream.
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No…he’s still an inbread halfwit!!!
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Gosh!! I didn’t realise he was from Shropshire.
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Who can probably spell ‘inbred’
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MR STUART! i wish my taxes to be used on potholes that way i know my money has been spent well and not wasted on policing some spoilt brats wedding.we dont need the royals.they should turn buck house in to flats for the homeless
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You must forgive us Stuart, we pathetic provincials don’t have the benefit of your obviously long and close personal acquaintance with the happy couple, so can only form our opinions from what we’ve seen and heard in the media – unlike you of course…..
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No, I have never met the man. You said “pathetic provincials”, how very apt in the circumstances. The words that the likes of you and the other anti Royals use say’s more about you than what it can ever say about the Royals and I will leave it at that without labouring the point. As for AJ, his little one liner say’s it all, a very intelligent person by all acounts.
I say it again, why should Britain weep?, the answers are contained in most of these blogs but it is “big” no doubt to make juvenile, sarcastic and ignorant comments purely because one has not got the intelligence to see/know what a monarchy does in terms of the constitution. The one thing I will concede is that most of the extended Royals need to earn a living but the ones who matter, namely William and Harry would show the “antis” a thing or two. Who would dare to compare their accomplishments with this pair _ I am waiting with great interest.
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Too true Stuart. Many people only achieve pathetic things with their time on earth like providing love and comfort for their families on a daily basis, looking after the sick and dying etc. If only they could accomplish something meaningful like having the power to issue passports. That is the constitution (?) bit you refer to, I assume.
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Thank you Nistagmus for saying it so well!
I’d just add one comment, usually attributed to Abraham Lincoln:
“God must love the common people, he made so many of them” (take your pick from the various versions often quoted).
Why have we got a whole celebrity industry when every one of us knows people who have achieved wonderful things with b***er all in the way of recognition.
Why can’t people accept that being a member of the Royal Family, or many other privileged groups, is nothing more than an accident of birth, with no evidence of it bestowing anything more than privilege?
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Stuart, why are you being so protective, surely these people are allowed to have opinions of Shirley Tart.
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He and the rest of his ilk are spoilt & spoon fed brats. What else are they going to do with their time, there’s only so many foxes to hunt or pheasants to shoot. They join the military because of some antique tradition. Let’s face it, they never exactly have a tough time, they get the rank & roles they want. They know they will never be put in real danger, just close enough to the front line for the media to get their photos.
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Monkey,
Perhaps you will tell us what your accomplishments are then I will tell you how you compare with William and Harry. There you are, there’s a challenge, now be honest and justify what you say.
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Stuart
I wish them well and hold no member of the royal family any ill will. But I am not a royalist. I am a citizen not a subject. As with Charles and Diana’s wedding I intend to be out of the country to avoid all of the snivelling and grovelling claptrap that so often seems to accompany such occasions.
The sycophancy has already started in the press and I’ve had enough after a day. For a few weeks the newspapers will be nice. Then the tabloids will dish dirt. We’ll have “unfortunate” photos of Miss Middleton. Things will quieten down. The wedding fuss will be over played. There will be continuous references to his mother whom the press sought to destroy. And then the tabloid vultures will go to town.
The British public, who presently claim to be overjoyed and suddenly patriotic will buy into every scandalous bit of tabloid rubbish. I do believe that however well meant, your view of Prince William is somewhat distorted, and I have yet to see what he has achieved to justify such adulation. I’m sure he’s a decent man but worthy of such high praise?
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“We should give them our respect and affection.”
Yes we should but we won’t. If the role of the royal family is important, then it shouldn’t be given to someone who has no aptitude for it. If the role of the royal family is unimportant, then it shouldn’t be given to someone who doesn’t desire to do the job (considering the fact they will spend their lives under the spotlight and have brickbats constantly thrown at them – all this in repayment for a job of no value).
This is where my heart goes out to William and his cohorts – they have been bred to do the job, they’re institutionalised from birth, they may have desire and aptitude (and equally they may not and they probably can’t differentiate) but as for free-will, forget it. As a supposedly civilized nation it’s long since been time to say enough to this hereditary system on the grounds of basic human rights (those of the Royal Family). God Save them, indeed!
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At least from Simon and Nistagmus we get comments that are intelligent albeit not Royalist. They differ sharply from the other Republicans (they probably don’t know what that means) who write before putting their brains into gear. As society evolves and changes, it is reasonable to think that support for the monarchy will diminish over the years and if this is based on a sound footing with as good, preferably better, alternatives mooted or brought into being then nobody can have complaint, least of all the Royal Family. But those that are prepared to “think” first, I ask you to look at some of the comments here, they strike me as coming from the type of people who sat around the guillotine during the French Revolution. Albeit everyone is entitled to their own views and opinions, god forbid that these type of comments should be regarded as serious in discussions on the Monarchy. I am a confirmed Monarchist and have been since 1953 which for me was a date which was particularly significant, albeit I would not extend my support beyond the immediate offspring of the first heir to the throne. The rest should have to work for their living and it is the fact that there are so many “hangers on,” that is responsible for so much of the “anti” movement.
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Who is this “Clarence House” who’s got so much to say on the subject?
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Clarence House was an old-school-tie chum and polo playing mate of Tarquin Loves-Parkin-Cayke,2nd son of the Marquis of Dobbies Island and has since become a spokesman for all constitutional matters.
Clarence is also the proud owner of a Jack Russell,Delilah,from the breeding stock of the aforementioned Mrs Miggins.
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Not the member of the Buckingham Palace staff who used to spy for the Russians then?
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Whoopie flipping do!!
so what if a couple of upper class toffs are due to marry.
I suppose we’ll have to listen to six months of the BBC speculating over the dress, the location,the guests, the honeymoon. “I’m bored with it already”!!!
Can we get back to real issues which have an actual impact on our lives?
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This article should simply be;
Couple who met at university to marry in 2011.
Everything else is irrelevant.
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The comments board should have an ‘I agree with this comment’ option to save me having to type out that I agree with this comment.
I agree with this comment.
I also agree with the comment I’ve just made.
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I, too, agree with the comment you’ve just made. I hope many other readers will agree with it too.
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I disagree.
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I see you disagree. Can we at least agree to disagree on the subject?
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Rob, It’s not a person. It’s where Shirley Tart hangs out. Somewhere in the Ironbridge Gorge I think. Lord help us when she really gets into full flow. Yuk!
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#8 [Prince Edward, all the money and backing he had and he still turned out a duffer.]
Isn’t he the one who runs his own business and hasn’t got divorced yet?
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“Isn’t he the one who runs his own business and hasn’t got divorced yet?”
In royal terms that makes him a duffer – where’s the tabloid column inches in that to keep the drooling sycophants happy?
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Yes, and he is the one who made a right pigs ear of his course with the Royal Marines, had to resign his commission yet being the highly experienced and long serving officer that he is, still parades up and down like a South American General, sporting all the badges of rank, medals and paraphenalia of a Regimental Colonel. Don’t compare him with Wills.
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Get your wallets out taxpayers!!
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it is rumoured william and catherine will be created a duke and duchess. considering the kings and queens in the middle ages held their court in shrewsbury, may i suggest the duke and duchess of shropshire and while they are at it, perhaps englands premier borough may be created city status.
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“perhaps englands premier borough may be created city status”
As a resident of the borough in question I have no wish to subsidise the unnecessary ceremonials and expense that would be the inevitable result of us gaining city status – if you lot in Salop don’t mind paying for it then it’s up to you….
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They’ll have to sell the Golf course in order to pay for it..
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England’s premier borough? Do you mean The Royal Borough of Windsor or Richmond upon Thames
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i do not think our money will be contributing to the wedding. surely williams finances are governed by his father from his farms in the duchy of cornwall. pehaps the future duke and duchess of shropshire will honeymoon in the duchy
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Shirley Tart would explode if that were to happen.
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Any chance of covering some other news other than this. Ok a few posts but the website in bombarded with it today. The national press is already giving it enoug coverage!
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wonderful news – so pleased!
God save the Queen!
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It’s fairly obvious that people are either in the interested or not interested group, it seems that the majority of the hurtful comments being made is coming from the interested side of things, how utterly British!
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Actually the missing meat and veg on a gingerbread man/person is more interesting but we’ve only got the one article about that JGH!
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I do hope you’re not refering to Prince Harry with that comment..
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wife has taken over the telly for every scrap of info – media has gone mad no more time to report actual news – doomed untill at least autumn next year, I’ve gone to live in shed at bottom of garden let me know when its all over!
PS: congrats anyway :-)
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Firstly, I am not a ‘Royalist’.
What does upset me is the jump on the bandwagon type saying ‘It’s our taxes’.
Nobody truly knows how much the Royal family cost when offset against other costs.
How much money will this bring to the country in terms of visitors and interest.
Media and visitors from all around the world are pumping massive amounts of money into our economy every day due to this story and at the end of the day – if you don’t like it, don’t turn on the telly or buy a newspaper – because you’re encouraging it.
They are a young couple who are in love. Don’t blame them.
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Well said!!!
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Can I suggest you read your own comment rather carefully Matt?
First you say “Nobody truly knows how much the Royal Family cost when offset against other costs. How much money will this bring to the country in terms of visitors and interest.”
Then: “Media and visitors from all around the world are pumping massive amounts of money into our economy every day due to this story”.
So – do they earn more than they cost us or do they operate at a nett loss? By your own admission taxpayers have no way of knowing, so in exactly what way are people jumping on the bandwagon by saying “It’s our taxes”? Why the hell shouldn’t they?
We’re all supposed to be “feeling the pain equally” so why don’t the same accounting rules apply to this lot?
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I have no way of knowing how much the Royal family cost. Nobody does.
My issue is not with cost, it’s just the ‘Bandwaggoners’ like to think its all give give give by the UK taxpayer, when that’s not always the case.
They are a young couple, who are in a priviledged position, why should people continue to have ago at them when it’s no fault that they are who they are.
Lets see them get married and have a hopefully happy life together.
Why should we not argue with that?.
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Yep we make a lot of money apparently from the Royals. The Royals unfortunately have to live in a gilded cage in order that we can. This makes us bad people. We’re no better than those people, who are they now ? There’s a term for people who make profit off the back of other people’s suffering – Profiteroling ? Profiter…er..er..ah yes, got it, Bankers!
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Ooh, you’re all so intelligent and impressive – your bitterness and jealousy is really not good for your health… I wish Prince William and Kate every happiness and whatever the wedding costs ‘us tax payers’ the country will undoubtedly be recompensed many times over – this is clear by the level of interest and business already emerging. CONGRATULATIONS WILLS AND KATE – YOU’LL DO OUR COUNTRY PROUD!
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One is not impressed by the attitude being displayed by you Shropshire subjects. Don’t make one cross else one will have to come up there and make a scene.
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Oh yeah, you and whose army?
…….oh…….
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NEWS STRAIGHT FROM MY FRIEND IN THE NEWSPAPER BUSINESS. Queen Shirley has been seen trying on a number of hats in the shopping centre.
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The usual suspects, you know who you are! The usual drivle and anti-establishment comments….
Shropshire comedy at it’s best, who needs a telly?
Gimme 6!!
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That’s drivel Observer… what’s the “gimme 6″ about…do you suddenly feel the need to double your IQ?
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So it’s six times greater than yours then? Don’t be a Kermit all your life, take a day off!
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“Don’t be a Kermit all your life”
What? Is this some sort of code used by members of the anti-anti-establishment community?….You know, the sort of people who boast about their’s being six times greater than someone else’s?
….and “drivle” on about people they’ve never met?
Never mind, I expect your daytime TV viewing will keep you well stocked up with monarchist soft porn for the next few months….
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Who or what is Kermit?…… penny dropped?
Enough said.
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Spot on. Comedy gold!
‘Gimme 6!!” – The irony. Making a Salopians are inbred gag…get this – in reference to an article on the Royals! Genius.
The apocryphally six fingered ghost of Ann Boleyn would laugh her head off…if she could find it of course.
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At last, someone who appreciates my ironic humour, which was obviously to high-brow for some!
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