Prince William and his pretty brunette lady friend, Kate Middleton, are slowly easing out of their romantic relationship. Once deliriously happy, they are now seriously contemplating their future and it doesn’t appear to include each other the way it once did. They still share a house off-campus at St. Andrew’s University in Scotland, but Kate is planning to move out and William is planning to move on. He wants to see the world alone after his finals in May. A tiny crack first appeared in the idyll in September when William cruised the Greek Islands with six male friends. The bully boys hired an all-female crew, which for some silly reason, did not amuse Kate the way it amused William.
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The heir to the throne wants to visit a girlfriend at her family’s wildlife preserve in Kenya when school ends and maybe spend some time with another friend, Anna Sloan, the American heiress who lives in Nashville. Kate did go with William to Highgrove for a birthday party for his father, Prince Charles, earlier this month, but friends of the couple don’t think she’ll be invited to spend the holidays with the Windsors at their Scottish castle, Balmoral. Somehow, I don’t see Kate gnawing her knuckles over missing this particular family gathering.
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Princess Grace’s children patched up their differences long enough to celebrate Monaco’s national Thanksgiving Day last weekend. Grace must have been smiling in heaven at the sight of Princess Caroline elegantly dressed in a beige satin coat and a pillbox hat, Princess Stephanie in a smart gray suit, and Prince Albert looking as snappy as he can, beribboned and wearing a ceremonial naval uniform, graciously standing in for their father, Prince Rainier, who is in the hospital with bronchitis and couldn’t be there. Rainier had asked the threesome to attend in his place and was so pleased to see the pictures of them together on his country’s big day. It was not ever thus.
Paul McCartney is working on plans for his halftime show for the Superbowl in February. He wants it to be fun for all ages, but not controversial, vulgar, or sexually suggestive. None of those tacky wardrobe malfunctions either. Sir Paul will do some new material and even dust off some of his greatest hits including “When I’m 64.” Paul will be 64 in 2006, but he’s quick to say 64 is very young these days, so he’s not singing about old parties.
Gaetana Enders being Italian, loves music and knows a great singer when she hears one. So when she met Marcelo Guzzo in Madrid at a private concert given by the eminent international designer Duarte Pinto Coelho, she was so impressed by his splendid baritone voice, she decided that even though he had no connections whatsoever in New York, he should be helped financially to come here and audition. Marcelo, from Uruguay, had been studying in Charleston on a scholarship and couldn’t really afford to take lessons, so Gaetana arranged for him to come here and have her friend, the former Metropolitan diva, Anna Moffo, audition him. That lovely lady was so impressed that she decided to take him in herself and has been giving him free lessons for the past two months and arranging a scholarship to pay for further expensive lessons that he otherwise could not afford. Now Marcelo is preparing to present himself at the Metropolitan Opera’s competition for young singers in February. To make things really dandy, Marcelo, 29, is good looking, tall, elegant and has a great presence.
Gaetana hosted an evening at Alexis Gregory’s far-flung apartment to introduce Marcelo to 55 of her sophisticated friends and they all said, “Ahhhhh!” The consensus is that he has a great future and when he the sang the toreador song from “Carmen,” he quite took their breath away. Listening to all this were Reinaldo Herrera, Patricia Patterson, Lee Thaw, Olga Rostropovich, Baron and Baroness Lambert, Kenneth Jay Lane, Boaz Mazor, Bob Colacello and Italian Consul General Bandini and his wife, Consuelo.
You can read in this month’s Architectural Digest all about Nancy Reagan and Jacqueline Kennedy and how they decorated their private quarters in the White House when they lived there as two of our greatest first ladies. Both had exquisite taste and distinctive taste.
Of course they had a little help from their friends, such as Nancy with the late Ted Graber, the famous California interior designer, and Jackie with Stephane Boudin, the French master of the grand and the opulent, and Sister Parish, who was just as famous in her American way as Boudin. I wrote the story, and I was happy to be a friend to both of these wonderful ladies.
Rudy Giuliani, Angelina Jolie, Glenn Close, Sigourney Weaver, Gov. George E. Pataki and Barbara and George Bush all signed their favorite children’s books for The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children’s auction at the Pierre hotel. Bobby Short brought pianist Barbara Carroll, who performed for the guests including the evening’s co-chair, Stone Phillips, emcee Al Roker, and NBC News president, Neal Shapiro, the gala’s guest of honor. The night raised $350,000 and everyone clapped their hands with glee when they heard these happy numbers.