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Wills and Kate share the look of love
Last updated at 11:37am on 08.09.06
The happy couple: William and Kate share loving looks
When Prince Charles got engaged to Diana, he was famously unsure whether he was really in love with her, uttering the immortal phrase "whatever
love means".
Well, THIS is love. Here is Prince William leaving a nightclub with his girlfriend Kate Middleton, and if anyone ever had any doubt as to whether they are truly in love, that should be dispelled forever by these pictures.
Kate smiles at William, and it is a smile of the
tenderest affection, a look that says she loves
him, admires him and yes, still fancies him
something rotten.
They are going home together at the end of the evening, and the girl could not be happier.
Now consider William: for the look he gives
Kate, 24, is, if anything, even more revealing.
He smiles at her in a way that is touchingly bashful, but filled with love and warmth and a kind of quiet joy that sits just beneath the surface. He does not look like the sort of man to say "whatever love means".
So here is a confident prediction: that these pictures of William and Kate leaving Boujis in
South Kensington will be sold to newspapers and
magazines around the world and will carry on
being published for many years to come.
But is there anything else we can predict with
equal confidence?
For the questions about William and Kate are beginning to grow, and people are beginning to wonder when there are going to be some answers.
Chiefly, the questions are: What next? And when?
William, 24, is about to return to Sandhurst this
weekend for his final stint of Army training. He
finishes in January, and after that will join a regiment, possibly the Welsh Guards.
But what about William and Kate? They have just enjoyed a holiday in Ibiza together, but as for
any more serious signs of commitment - well,
it seems that for the moment we will just have to
wait.
Kate, his girlfriend for nearly three years now, has met the Queen and has even introduced her parents to her. She has been receiving media training from Clarence House. She is, clearly, being groomed for a life in the Firm.
As for the "when?" - that, of course, is selfexplanatory. With his family history, William
clearly seems like a young man who is determined
to take things at his own pace - and Kate does not look too unhappy about it.
There is, of course, one question we don't
hear any more. It is the "What?" - but no-one
needs to ask that now because the answer is obvious.
It's love, actually.
