Saturday, January 21, 2012

HOT CELEBRITIES: Duchess of Cambridge's parents reveal new line in saucy outfits on their party goods website

21st January 2012
Her brother-in-law, Prince Harry, famously has a liking for eye-catching fancy dress.
Now the Duchess of Cambridge’s parents have launched their own range of rather risque outfits on their party goods website.
Fortunately there are no Nazi costumes among them.

Risque: The French Maid outfit on Party Pieces

A sexy pirate costume on the website run by Kate Middleton's parents

Risque: The French maid outfit (left) and a sexy pirate costume (right) which appear on the Party Pieces website run by Kate Middleton's parents

There is, however, a mini-skirted French maid, a female pirate – showing a generous length of stockinged leg – and a ‘ladybug’ wearing a very short spotted dress.
The Party Pieces firm was set up by Kate’s mother Carole at her kitchen table 25 years ago and has since become one of the country’s largest internet retailers of party goods.

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It is not known how much the company makes because it does not have to file publicly accessible accounts.
But it is enough to provide the family with a country home worth more than £1million, private schooling and a comfortable lifestyle.

Successful: Michael and Carole Middleton, pictured with Prince Charles at the wedding of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge, have built up a lucrative business

The Middletons have been criticised in the past for supposedly ‘cashing in’ on their connections with a range of royal wedding-themed memorabilia including scratch cards and paper plates.
However, their latest range is eyebrow-raising rather than controversial.
For £14.99 buyers can transform themselves into a saucy French maid with a tiny frilled dress, headpiece and apron.
The model on the website also sports fishnet stockings and waves a duster cheekily in the air.

'Cashing in': The Middletons have been criticised previously for apparently taking advantage of their connections by creating a range of royal wedding-themed memorabilia

The firm’s £19.99 female pirate is slightly more covered up, but still manages to display her stockings.
And there cannot be many £22.99 ladybirds wearing strapless dresses that leave little to the imagination.
Fortunately, the male costumes leave a little more to the imagination, with doctors’ scrubs, an Indiana Jones costume and Superman on offer between £14.99 and £39.99.
There is also a blow-up Sumo outfit for £32.99, described as ‘the funniest fancy dress costume you can find’.
The advert reads: ‘Now you don’t have to stuff yourself with pies and put your girlfriend’s thong on to get the Sumo look.
‘Transform yourself from a skinny string bean to a super Sumo in seconds!’

Prince William will join Kate and the Middleton's in the Caribbean for a family holiday ahead of six week separation

21st January 2012
The Duchess of Cambridge has flown out to the Caribbean without her husband for a family holiday but will be joined by him this weekend.
Prince William, 29, will join his wife at their favourite holiday hideaway ahead of his RAF posting to the Falklands.
Kate jetted to Mustique via St Lucia first class on Wednesday, accompanied by at least two taxpayer-funded Scotland Yard bodyguards, along with her parents, brother and sister.
Her husband of less than a year, Prince William, was left behind at their rented farmhouse on the island of Anglesey, North Wales, as he could not get time off work.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at the War Horse premier earlier this month. William is jetting off to the Falklands for six weeks soon

However it is understood that William, 29, will join his wife imminently after he finishes his weekly shift as a Search and Rescue pilot at RAF Valley.
The holiday will be a chance for the couple to spend some time together before the second in line to the throne is deployed to the Falkland Islands for six weeks next month.

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It is unlikely to be a particularly romantic holiday, however, as the Middletons – Michael, Carole, Pippa and James are also in tow.

View of a beach on the island of Mustique. A villa costs upwards of £15,000 a week to rent in high season

Lighthouse at Porth Twr Mawr on Llanddwyn Island off the coast of Anglesey. The newly-weds live in a remote cottage on the island

The family group flew to St Lucia on a scheduled British Airways flight from London Gatwick earlier this week and have transferred to the private island of Mustique, where they are regular visitors.
The family normally stay in a five bedroom, multi-million-pound rented cliff-top villa with its own infinity pool.

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Last month it was reported that Prince William and his wife had decided to cancel a planned skiing trip as they did not feel it would look prudent in the current economic climate.
Holidays to Mustique, where Princess Margaret once had a holiday home, do not come cheap, however, and a villa costs upwards of £15,000 a week to rent in high season.
And last weekend William and his brother Harry jetted off to Spain to spend the weekend hunting on the Duke of Westminster’s estate near Seville.

Get together: (From L) Carole, James, Philippa and Michael Middleton are being joined by The Duchess of Cambridge for their getaway

Get together: (From L) Carole, James, Philippa and Michael Middleton are being joined by The Duchess of Cambridge for their Caribbean break

The tiny Caribbean island of Mustique was made famous in the 1960s when its owner, Lord Glenconner, gave the Queen's late sister a 10 acre plot of land as a wedding present.

Lord Glenconner bought the island, which had been left to wrack and ruin following the decline of the great sugar plantations in the 19th Century, for £45,000 in 1958 .
In the early days, life on the island was simple: with little fresh water and dusty tracks for roads.
But the eccentric Scottish noble struck on the idea of parcelling up and selling off small pockets of land to carefully vetted buyers.
Princess Margaret commissioned theatrical designer, Oliver Messel, to build her a villa, Les Jolies Eaux. She adored Mustique because it was somewhere she could let her hair down away from prying eyes and public scrutiny.
Visitors included her cousin Lord Lichfield, who had a villa nearby, gangster John Bindon — with whom Princess Margaret is rumoured to have had an affair — and Mick Jagger. It was here, too, that she conducted her affair with Roddy Llewellyn, a landscape gardener 17 years her junior.
Princess Margaret gave Les Jolies Eaux to her son, Lord Linley, when he married in 1998, but, much to her distress, he quickly sold it.

William, 29, will join his wife imminently after he finishes his weekly shift as a Search and Rescue pilot at RAF Valley

In 1989 Mustique Island was transformed from a family estate into a private limited company - The Mustique Company - with the 100 or so homeowners as shareholders.
Its status as a private island means that the paparazzi are banned - making it a Mecca for celebrities for celebrities including Mick Jagger and David Bowie.
The island's only watering hole, Basil's Bar, and its legendary 'jump-up' sees rock and roll stars sipping rum punch next royalty without a care in the world. William and Kate are frequent visitors.
Wealthy holidaymakers are attracted by the island's balmy climate and beautiful beaches. There is no “out of season” as Mustique is far enough south to avoid hurricanes and enjoys temperatures of around 75F to 80F all year round.
It is also one of the safest places in the Caribbean. The only murder in Mustique’s recent history occurred 10 years ago when a French heiress was found stabbed to death in her villa — a crime that has never been solved.
Last night a St James’s Palace spokesman declined to comment saying; ‘We would not discuss what the Duke and Duchess do in their private time.’