Prince William and Kate to marry in 2012?
Posted on August 17th, 2009 by Austin
On Friday, Kate Middleton attended another wedding on the arm of boyfriend, Prince William. And insiders say it will soon be her turn to be bride.
Sources tell the UK’s News of the World that after eight-years of courting the 27-year old Prince is under great family pressure to make Katie his bride. And that the question is not longer ‘if’, but just ‘when.’
Affectionately dubbed, ‘Watie Katie’ by the Brits for her long-term romance, Kate is said to have been told by the Royals that 2011 is when she should be wed. The Queen is due to celebrate sixty years as the Monarch the following year, and this would fit well with those plans.
Katie met Britain’s heir-to-the-throne at St Andrews University in Scotland in 2001, when they both joined as students, and today they are deeply involved in undisclosed plans to become the new Prince and Princess of Wales. But William – known as a serious type and a really deep thinker – is aware wedding plans are a momentous step, “He knows that as soon as any announcement is made, their lives will never be the same again.” says one source.
Palace sources tell reporters that Prince Charles wants his two sons, now deeply engaged in their military careers, to expand their workload as Royals by attending more public engagements, including foreign trips, and even doing TV interviews.
William has two solo tours lined up for next year, representing the Queen in Australia and South Africa. This is meant to establish him as a working Royal in his own right before a wedding unleashes what insiders believe will be the same worldwide mania once invoked by Diana.
The Queen and her staff are eager to avoid such a circus, and this desire is said to be dictating the pair’s wedding plans. But a wedding still looks like a go, “It is now accepted among senior members of the family that William and Kate will marry,” says a reliable source at the Palace. “But the timing is important. It would be wrong to force the situation before William is established in his own right.”
The goal, so we’re told, is that Kate should then play a supporting role to the upcoming King – in much the same way as the Duchess of Cornwall has for his father, Prince Charles.
That’s a nice dream. The truth, of course, is that once that rice hits the fan Kate will become a worldwide celebrity, and the world’s interest in her every movement will not pause for a minute from that moment on. How King William copes with this has yet to be seen.
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