Breaking Mustique Vacation News! My guess is that Prince William and Duchess Kate are going to try to make it to Mustique mid-November, possibly even late November. They won’t be able to put it off much longer, as we know it’s SO difficult to find some time to have a proper vacation for these two. The reason why they’ll have to put off their vacation until mid-November? Because they just signed on to do some events on behalf of Remembrance Sunday.
William and Kate will join the Queen, Prince Philip and other senior members of the Royal Family at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday November 7 for the British Legion’s traditional televised service. The following day, Remembrance Sunday, the couple will join other relatives at the Cenotaph, where Kate will watch from the Foreign Office balcony as William lays a wreath to mark the sacrifice of Britain’s War dead.
William, 33, will take the veterans’ salute on Horse Guards Parade after the wreath-laying ceremony which this year will also be attended by King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and his wife Queen Maxima in honour of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of their country from Nazi tyranny. Prince Harry, who served two tours of duty in Afghanistan, is to join his grandfather Prince Philip at the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey on November 5.
Prince Charles and Camilla will be abroad on a tour of New Zealand and Australia during the remembrance period. They will attend commemorations in Canberra on Remembrance Day, November 11.
William and Kate have missed out on some significant events in the past year along these lines, which has given many people the impression that Will and Kate are lightweights, that they are only interested in “fun” events, like Wimbledon, yacht racing, movie premieres, hanging out with celebrities and anything that involves Ben Ainslie. The fact that Will and Kate have added these appearances to their schedule says to me that somewhere along the line, someone convinced them that they need to balance those “fun” events with some serious, remembering-wars-past events.
