Prince William and Kate Middleton hear wedding bells
ONE DAY, it will be their turn. In the meantime, Prince William and Kate Middleton are happy to celebrate their friends tying the knot instead.
Arriving together, they made a low-key entrance at the church where friends Harry Meade, 27, and Rosie Bradford, 30, got married yesterday.
Mr Meade is a long-time friend of William and Harry. He hosted the 2005 party where Harry caused outrage by dressing in a Nazi uniform.
Kate looked like a princess as she arrived at St Peter And St Paul Church in Northleach, Gloucestershire, in an electric blue dress, dark fitted jacket and wide, feather-trimmed hat.
She and William, both 28 and together for nine years, have been at the centre of increasing speculation about when he will propose. Now his 21 months of training as a search-and-rescue pilot are behind him, the couple are living together in a farmhouse in Wales.
Reports of an imminent engagement were further increased by recent claims that the pair have just returned from a secret 10-day holiday in Kenya. Even the Royal Mint is said to have made tentative preparations for a commemorative coin.
William is expected to respect tradition and ask the Queen for permission to marry.
Protocol dictates that any official announcement would be made next February, with three possible summer dates in mind.