The new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have decided not to go on honeymoon immediately and will spend the weekend in the UK before the duke returns to work next week

The new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have decided not to go on honeymoon immediately and will spend the weekend in the UK before the duke returns to work next week.

William and Catherine left Buckingham Palace by helicopter on Saturday, following their wedding parties.

They celebrated at the palace with 300 friends and family on Friday evening, after a larger lunchtime reception.

Meanwhile, Clarence House has released three official wedding photographs.

The locations of the couple's UK weekend and their honeymoon - which will be overseas - will not be disclosed in advance.

The couple have asked that their privacy be respected during the coming days, and while on their honeymoon.

The couple emerged hand-in-hand from Buckingham Palace's garden entrance on Saturday morning.

The couple, who had spent the night at the Queen's official London home, stopped briefly to chat to two Royal Household footmen before boarding the helicopter.

Prince William will go back to his job as an RAF search and rescue pilot next week. They live on Anglesey, but St James' Palace said they will not be spending the long weekend there.

British Royal newlyweds the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge left Buckingham Palace by helicopter this morning for a mystery honeymoon destination.

British Royal wedding - Watched by an estimated television audience of two billion
Among the destinations mentioned have been Kenya, Jordan, Bequia, Necker Island, Mustique, Lizard Island, off the coast of Queensland, Australia, Chile and Scotland.

It was earlier reported that Prince William had yet to tell his wife Kate Middleton where they were going.

The couple's wedding yesterday was watched by an estimated television audience of two billion.

Prince Harry has planned a secret ‘survivors’ post-wedding breakfast’ at Buckingham Palace for VIP guests who have partied through the night.

 

The 26-year-old, who is calling his part of the Royal Wedding planning ‘wedmin’, is said to be heavily involved with arrangements for the evening celebrations and wants to give William and his bride a party to remember.

Three of the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace will be converted into a nightclub on the night of the wedding and Harry, who is best man, has organised for the DJ to play into the early hours, while caterers have been briefed to prepare bacon sandwiches and fry-ups for those guests still standing at the end of the night.

And although the bride and groom may not manage to stay up – they are leaving for their honeymoon the next morning – Harry, known for his partying stamina at nightclubs Raffles and Boujis, hopes many of their friends will be dancing until dawn.

The Prince has played a significant role in planning the evening celebrations, which are being hosted by his father Prince Charles.

Just 300 guests have been invited to the exclusive party, which includes a drinks reception from 7pm followed by a dinner and speeches and then dancing.

Charles and Camilla, who have arranged for a performance by Bollywood dance duo Sandip Soparrkar and his wife Jesse Randhawa, have asked around 100 family and friends, while the bride and groom have invited 200 friends from school and university and Prince William’s ‘Glosse Posse’ set from Gloucestershire.

Sources close to William and Harry have instructed aides to plan a proper ‘knees up’, and courtiers are expecting it to carry on into the next day.

Charles has hired chef Anton Mosimann to prepare the three-course meal while party planners Fait Accompli are understood to be overseeing the entertainment. A bar will serve spirits, cocktails and champagne all night.


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Caterers have been told they will be working a double shift to cook up breakfasts the following morning. 

‘Harry has organised a survivors’ breakfast at 6am in the Palace after the party. It will mostly be their best friends from Gloucestershire who have known William his whole life. 

‘It won’t be for the oldies, but the young ones. Harry is determined to make this a night to remember.’

Harry has been assisted by the princes’ close friend Guy Pelly, who owns Fulham nightclub Public and previously ran Mayfair haunt Mahiki.

The couple have organised for guests to enjoy ‘treasure chest’ cocktails – a potent mixture of rum and champagne served in a chest.

Royal snub to Blair, Brown

It's the political whodunit before the royal wedding. The exclusion of former Labour Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from Friday's wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton has led to furious speculation over whether it was a calculated snub and, if so, who was behind it. Labou
r MPs suspect Prime Minister David Cameron's office. "I blame Downing Street for not spotting it and saying, 'We don't like Gordon Brown either, but he really should be there'," said Labour's shadow justice minister Chris Bryant.
"It makes you want to ask what the motive is. It seems to be picking a fight quite unnecessarily," added Labour MP Graham Allen.

Former Labour Europe minister Denis Macshane said he will table Parliamentary questions to find out whether the government had any role, adding: "It is quite gratuitous to invite two living former Prime Ministers who are Conservatives, but snub the ones that are Labour."

The Palace's initial explanation was that former Tory premiers Margaret Thatcher and John Major are both Knights of the Garter - the highest knighthood given by the royal family. In addition, Major was made a guardian of William and his brother Harry after the death of Princess Diana in 1997.

A Palace spokesperson said, "It is a private wedding and the couple are entitled to invite whoever they want. Prince William is not the Prince of Wales or the King, and he hasn't got that link to prime ministers in the way that the Queen does."

 

President Jacob Zuma’s daughter Duduzile on Saturday wed businessman Lonwabo Sambudla at Nkwenkwezi Private Reserve in East London.

The wedding had a distinctly Durban flavour and guests looked on admiringly as father and daughter arrived by rickshaw, which they had boarded at the venue’s gate.

Dudu, 28, once described herself as a “jeans and T-shirt girl”, but on Saturday wore a white gown encrusted with Swarovski crystals and silver Christian Louboutin shoes.

The couple, who met through a mutual friend three years ago, announced their engagement in September.

Dudu’s twin brother, overnight multi-millionaire Duduzani, followed as the rickshaw pulled towards the garden, where the guests were waiting. Zuma later gave his daughter’s hand in marriage to Sambudla, a controversial ex CEO of the ANC Youth League financial arm. Zuma’s four wives were also present.

Flashy cars, police sirens and blue lights were the order of the day as political bigwigs, business heavyweights, serial BEE dealmakers, socialites and wannabes arrived.

The cavalcade was made up of everything from Range Rovers, Audi Q7s, Mercedes GL 500s to Maseratis, Bentley convertibles and Lamborghinis.

Duduzile’s cousin Khulubuse Zuma arrived in a huge 5.7 litre Dodge Ram SUV. Kenny Kunene was among the last to arrive, and he stole the show in a black Lamborghini.

The wedding took place amid tight security and the media was barred from entering. Security guards and wedding organisers had their hands full checking that the 650 guests had wedding invitations.

The guest list included Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Jeff Radebe, his Science and Technology counterpart Naledi Pandor, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla Mandela.

With exclusive rights to the wedding sold to a local magazine, guests were asked to leave their cellphones in their cars.

Dudu’s spokeswoman Farah Fortune said: “Dudu really wanted it just to be her day that she can enjoy. She wanted it to be as private as possible.”

Although 40 members of the Kwakhanya Community Care project had stood outside for hours, looking colourful, ululating, singing and welcoming the guests, they were also not allowed inside.

An after-party organised by Kunene at Unitra sports ground in Mthatha on Saturday night was expected to draw thousands. A traditional Xhosa wedding will take place at Sambudla’s home in Mthatha on Sunday.

* The Zuma wedding threw parts of East London and Mthatha into party mode, with “sushi king” Kenny Kunene taking centre stage as the organiser.

The celebrations will reportedly cost more than R3 million.

Sunday’s cultural wedding in the semi-rural village of Sambundla at Fairfield Trust Farm, will be followed by an after-party at the Walter Sisulu University Unitra sports grounds in Mthatha. Saturday’s formal wedding came after a pre-party on Friday night at East London’s ZAR club, owned by Kunene.

On Thursday, Kunene flew guests from Joburg to Cape Town in two private jets and then back.

In typically over-the-top style, there was the licking of champagne off the bodies of two bikini-clad women in a champagne-filled bath – and throwing of rose petals and strawberries over their breasts – all the while posing for the cameras.

Entertainment includes award-winning Durban Kwaito group Big Nuz, DJ Fisherman, DJ Fistaz Lvovo, Winnie Khumalo and DJ Tumza in a mini-festival at Unitra sports grounds, where 50 000 are expected.

Ronnie Wood's ex-wife has sold the house they shared and has splashed out on two new luxury homes.

Jo Wood pocketed £11.2million from the sale of the seven-bedroom South-West London pile as part of her divorce settlement from the 63-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist.

The mother-of-two, 55, is treating herself to a house in Primrose Hill, North-West London, where neighbours will include TV chef Jamie Oliver, 35. She is also buying a seafront flat in Miami.


Friends said that she wanted to move on after Ronnie ran off with young Russian lover Ekaterina Ivanova. One said: "There were too many memories of Ronnie in the old house."

Mel Gibson breaks silence on domestic violence scandal

Mel Gibson has broken his silence on his damaging domestic violence scandal, calling the leak of angry personal phone calls with his then-girlfriend last year a "personal betrayal."

The Oscar-winning director of "Braveheart" described the leaked tapes, in which Gibson was heard ranting, swearing and threatening Russian girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, "terribly humiliating and painful for my family."

Gibson added that he did not care if he ever acted again.

"I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality -- period," Gibson told Hollywood journalist Allison Hope Weiner in a lengthy interview for website Deadline Hollywood on Friday.

Gibson last month pleaded no contest to a charge of hitting Grigorieva, the mother of his baby daughter, as their relationship broke down in early 2010.

He was sentenced to three years probation, a year of counseling and community service.

In his first public comments on the saga, Gibson said the tapes of phone calls leaked a year ago were edited, adding; "It's one terribly, awful moment in time, said to one person, in the span of one day and doesn't represent what I truly believe or how I've treated people my entire life."

"Who anticipates being recorded? ... Who could anticipate such a personal betrayal?" Gibson said.

Gibson's longtime manager left him, his movie "The Beaver" was delayed for months, and actors on the sequel to comedy "Hangover 2" refused to work with him because of the fall-out of the sexist and racist remarks on the tapes.

Baywatch star David Hasselhoff says he is enjoying romantic trips to the Welsh countryside as he "woos" his new girlfriend.

The actor, who is a judge on the new series of Britain's Got Talent, met Hayley Roberts from Glynneath at an audition for the show in Cardiff.

The couple have been spotted at restaurants in Swansea and Hasselhoff has been to meet her parents.

But he said he was struggling to understand her Welsh accent.

The actor, nicknamed The Hoff, said: "I'm big on romance. I wooed her, I was a gentleman.

"I went to see her in Wales. It's been really nice because I've got the chance to see a bit of the countryside, a bit of Wales and it's been a terrific time. Wales is nice."

He said he had met her family but their relationship was still in its early days.

We have long conversations because she's from Wales and I can't understand her”

David Hasselhoff
Former Baywatch star
Speaking on the ITV daytime show Loose Women he added: "We met when I was doing an episode of Britain's Got Talent in Cardiff.

"We have long conversations because she's from Wales and I can't understand her.

"We are just getting started . . . trying to go to the movies.

"We are trying to have a romance and the press is like all over her parents."

The actor, who first found fame in the USA series Knight Rider, said Miss Roberts had joined him on a recent trip to Germany to promote his new record.

She was in the audience as he appeared on the ITV daytime show.

"I have always been a one woman man, despite what people say," he added.

"I like sharing my success with people and taking people around the world. It's a lonely business."

Prince Harry is set to be best man for his brother's wedding dressed in the uniform of the Blues and Royals

Prince Harry is set to be best man for his brother's wedding dressed in the uniform of the Blues and Royals - despite training to be an helicopter pilot.

The 26-year-old is likely to dress in the gold brocade of the Household Cavalry State Ceremonial Uniform, rather than that of the Army Air Corps.

Prince WIlliam's younger brother was on hand earlier today as Kate Middleton went through a practice run at Westminster Abbey ahead of the big day on April 29.

Should two men kissing still be a problem in the UK, in London, today? We should be free to kiss anywhere we choose

You go on a date. Pizza leads to crêpe, which leads to a nice pub you go to regularly. It's all going so well a second date is agreed before dinner is over.

This was my experience upon first meeting James Bull last Wednesday. Enjoying each other's company in the John Snow pub in London's Soho, we kissed. However, someone claiming to be the landlord asked us to stop and after polite words were exchanged, we went back to talking.

The rest of the evening went well, until we were asked to leave by the landlady; she said our kissing was bothering other customers. We eventually left the pub, after being advised by a plainclothes police officer that it was within the landlady's rights to ask us to do so. I was shaking with rage.

I understand that people have different levels of tolerance to public displays of affection. I myself do not enjoy seeing two people lip-locked for hours, in a highly sexual manner, because I think that some things are best enjoyed as a twosome.

But I do not see what we were doing as anywhere close to that, so while it is a shame that our kisses were beyond some people's tolerances, I think that certain levels of affection have to be accepted in pubs during the evening.

I also do not think we would have been asked to leave if we were a straight couple – it would be foolish for the pub not to welcome couples enjoying a date, especially in an area with so many romantic restaurants.

Should two men kissing still be a problem in the UK, in London, today? We have openly gay politicians where their sexuality is a non-issue, we have television storylines featuring both women and men in happy, stable relationships with same sex partners. Walking around most major cities, you come across more than a few well-adjusted gay couples.

I have been asked if it wouldn't have been more appropriate for us to visit a gay bar, but why should we limit ourselves to places that openly state their acceptance? Why should we not be allowed to kiss, as long as it is not indecent, anywhere we choose?

I'm not frequently out in Soho's gay bars. I simply choose the places I know and am comfortable with.

It is important, as we move away from decades of backward laws that outline the differences between gay couples and straight, that we embrace being gay as just something ordinary, mainstream. It's only kissing.

 

Kate Middleton took part in a rehearsal on Friday with her maid of honour and the best man, Prince Harry, at Westminster Abbey.

Keen to make sure her wedding to Prince William passes off smoothly, Kate Middleton took part in a rehearsal on Friday with her maid of honour and the best man, Prince Harry, at Westminster Abbey.
Kate, William's younger brother Harry and her younger sister Pippa were joined by the young bridesmaids and page boys who will accompany the bride down the aisle on April 29, to ensure they know what to do on the big day.
William himself could not take part because he was working at the Royal Air Force base on Anglesey where he is a search and rescue pilot.
"This was one of many rehearsals that will take place and is not the first," the prince's spokesman said.
The abbey was closed to tourists for the rehearsal, which was reportedly aimed at ensuring that Kate's young entourage -- the youngest bridesmaid is just three years old -- are not too overwhelmed by the grandeur of the place.
Palace officials released a detailed timetable of the wedding Friday, and confirmed that Kate will spend her last night as a single woman with her family at the Goring Hotel, not far from Buckingham Palace.

A New Nose for the Wedding

Tara Palmer-Tomkinson who goes all out to be absolutely beautiful. She decided that she will have her nose fixed once more after ravaged by drugs and repaired already.
Tara, 39, had been invited to the wedding breakfast and will, therefore, makes sure her appearance will be perfect.
She planned that this time she will have a strong nose build from a tough cartilage taken from her ribs.
Miss Palmer-Tomkinson states that she became obsessed with her nose after the damage had been done by her previously £400-a-day cocaine habit.

 

17% of women describe themselves as ‘addicted’ to online porn.

It was an ordinary weekday morning when Caroline first noticed how much pornography was taking over her life. With 15 minutes to go before she was due to leave for a job interview, she opened up her laptop to print off an extra copy of her CV and there, onscreen, was a grab she'd saved from pornhub.com.

"I remember the feeling of being sucked in, really wanting that two-minute fix, that numbness I got when I used porn," says Caroline. "I was stressed out, and I risked being late for my interview, but I pressed play anyway and fast-forwarded it to the bit I wanted. It took two minutes." But the relief was to be short-lived. "Afterwards I just hated myself for giving in and getting off on images that treated women like pieces of meat. But I kept going back."

Although there is much debate about whether "porn addiction" even exists, Caroline, a 21-year-old English graduate, has just finished seeing a sex addiction therapist to help get her porn habit under control. Having started watching porn out of curiosity when it became available over the internet in her mid-teens, she and her mates used it as a graphic form of sex education. She saw nothing wrong with it, particularly as she was raised in a generation of girls for whom it was seen as hip and liberated to enjoy watching sex.

Then, as she entered a depressed job market after university, it became a form of escape, a default she turned to whenever she felt anxious or bored. "I'd be stuck at home in front of my laptop on my own all day. I'd wake up with all these ideas for the day – and end up surfing for porn, trying to distract myself, eating and then going back for more porn. No one would ever have known. But I didn't get much done. It was like a constant battle between my sexual urges and my self-control. I'd think to myself: 'It's not doing any harm.' But then I started to loathe myself for giving in and wasting so much time on it."

Caroline is not alone. While it's accepted that women are watching – and enjoying – porn more and more, it's less recognised that some are also finding it hard to stop. At Quit Porn Addiction, the UK's main porn counselling service, almost one in three clients are women struggling with their own porn use, says founder and counsellor Jason Dean. Two years ago, there were none.While more than six out of 10 women say they view web porn, one study in 2006 by the Internet Filter Review found that 17% of women describe themselves as "addicted".

Dean says: "I remember getting my first woman contacts about two years ago and thinking that was fairly unusual. Now I'm hearing from about 70 women a year who are coming for their own reasons, not because their male partners have a problem."

There is little difference in the way the genders become hooked, says Jason. There is the same pattern of exposure, addiction, and desensitisation to increasingly hardcore images. The main contrast between male and female porn addicts is how much more guilty women feel. "Porn addiction is seen as a man's problem – and therefore not acceptable for women," says Dean. "There's a real sense among women that it's bad, dirty, wrong and they're often unable to get beyond that."

Orgasm releases a dopamine-oxytocin high that has been compared to a heroin hit, and many regular users of internet porn report experiencing an almost trance-like effect that not only makes them feel oblivious to the world, but also gives them a sense of power that they don't have in real life. "The PC becomes an erogenous zone. The more you keep trying to put porn out of your mind, the more it keeps popping back in. The brain then learns that porn is the only way to cope with anxiety."

Yet, what strikes you on the porn addiction websites is the real sense of despair and loneliness for the women who get caught up in it – and how early it starts. Many talk of a problem dating back to their early teens, before they've even had a relationship.

One 19-year-old college student writes: "It started seriously when I was about 14, I stumbled across some pictures while doing homework. Because all I had typed into Google was 'cream and sugar', I knew my parents wouldn't notice. I learnt all the ways round the parental controls, meticulously deleted my activities on the history and deleted the search engine entries every time."

Psychotherapist Phillip Hodson, of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, says that in consulting rooms, the issue of woman habitually using porn "is something that has not been aired before. It's something new that's just beginning to surface . . . Traditionally women's voices have been against porn. It's seen as more of a male thing, because it's men who are supposed to be visually stimulated. But that doesn't mean that women aren't. Men are just maybe more so."

Women who become regular users can suffer depression and low self-esteem because it can be hard to reconcile their enjoyment of porn with their intellectual dislike of seeing women used as sex objects. "Porn has an instant effect on the human body and mind and the psyche, even if you disapprove of what you are seeing . . . So women may find their body is saying yes, even though their mind may be saying no – and that can be upsetting."

 

British actress/model Elizabeth Hurley has begun divorce proceedings to officially end her four-year marriage to Arun Nayar

The Austin Powers star cited the millionaire businessman's "unreasonable behaviour" in her petition to end the union, which was filed by her lawyers at London's High Court on Friday (01Apr11), according to Britain's The Sun newspaper.
Hurley's love life hit headlines in the U.K. in December (10) after it was reported that she had spent two nights at a London hotel with cricket ace Shane Warne.
Speculation about a budding romance with Warne prompted the brunette beauty to reveal she had split from Nayar several months previously.
In a post on her Twitter.com page, she wrote, "Not a great day. For the record, my husband Arun & I separated a few months ago. Our close family & friends were aware of this."

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's heartbreaking romantic reconciliation will always remain a secret after she was buried with his last ever love letter to her.

They were Hollywood's golden couple who were married twice and she always declared him to be the love of her life.

But Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's heartbreaking romantic reconciliation will always remain a secret after she was buried with his last ever love letter to her.

Taylor, who passed away last week, received the letter from Burton just before his unexpected death aged 58 in 1984.


Love of her life: Elizabeth Taylor was buried with ex-husband Richard Burton's last love letter to her

According to reports from New York, having kept the letter safely stored next to her bed for the past 27 years, she was granted her wish to be buried with it, when she was laid to rest in Los Angeles last Thursday.

The screen siren, who was 79 when she died from congestive heart failure last Wednesday, has always refused to reveal exactly what her fifth husband wrote to her.

However, she did reveal a small part of the letter to her biographers Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger:

She told them: 'In it he told [me] what he wanted. Home was where Elizabeth was, and he wanted to come home.'

Burton and Taylor were married between 1964 and 1974 and then again in 1975 for another year.

She received his final love letter, which he sent on August 2 1984, three days before his death,  as she returned to her home in Bel Air, Los Angeles, from his memorial service and promptly burst into tears after she recognised his handwriting.


Final resting place: Taylor was buried with the note which will always remain a secret

Burton wrote many love letter to Taylor, more than 40 of which she had published in a the biography Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the Marriage of the Century.

The letters, many written when the couple were no longer together, contain repeated declarations of love.

He wrote: 'I love you, lovely woman. If anybody hurts you, just send me a line saying something like 'Need' or 'Necessary' or just the one magic word 'Elizabeth', and I will be there somewhat faster than sound.

'You must know, of course, how much I love you. You must know, of course, how badly I treat you. But the fundamental and most vicious, swinish, murderous and unchangeable fact is that we totally misunderstand each other.