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MUSTIQUE TRYST FOR PRINCE WILLIAM & KATE MIDDLETON?

ON LEAVE: Quality time for Wills and Kate

Sunday May 4,2008

By Adam Helliker

WITH A MONTH off before he joins the last stage in his service training with the Royal Navy in June, Prince William has promised his girlfriend Kate Middleton they will at last have a bit of quality time together.

Although friends of the couple have been sworn to secrecy regarding the proposed destination, there is chatter that William favours taking Kate to the Caribbean island of Mustique later this month.

The pair last went to Mustique two years ago, when they stayed in the five-bedroom villa of John and Belle Robinson, owners of the Jigsaw clothing chain, where Kate was employed as an accessories buyer.

The secluded Villa Hibiscus, which has a gazebo and an infinity pool, is usually rented out for £8,000 a week, but was loaned free to William in exchange for a donation to a local charity.

Both were said to have judged their Caribbean vacation as one of their most successful yet. On the few occasions they ventured out of their room, they went to the island’s fashionable Basil’s Bar, once a favourite of the late Princess Margaret, where they ordered their favourite cocktails – vodka cranberry for him and Piña Colada for Kate.

After his four-month assignment with the RAF ended on Friday, the Prince has a series of low-key engagements lined up on behalf of some of his chosen charities, among which number Centrepoint, the Tusk Charity and the Royal Marsden Hospital, and he will attend this Wednesday’s City Salute in London.

These apperances are all guaranteed to give him good reviews to make up for the criticism he received for commandeering a Chinook helicopter for his personal use – a subject he has become somewhat thin-skinned about if anyone makes any quips.

I hear that royal aides have even gone so far as to issue “guidance instructions” to military personnel who may come into contact with William on Wednesday that “no jibes about helicopters” should be used in any speeches or conversations with His Royal Sensitiveness.