The young Prince stands by his girlfriend despite the drugs-and-sex scandal surrounding her uncle. Phillip Koch reveals the inside story.
With this passionate kiss Prince William declares to the world he is still head over heels in love with Kate Middleton — a love that can even overcome the worldwide scandal over her uncle’s involvement with cocaine, ecstasy and prostitutes.
William cast caution aside and passionately, and very publicly, embraced Kate in front of photographers. It occurred just minutes after a Palace official phoned to tip him off about the scandalous story on Kate’s uncle, Gary Goldsmith, 44, in the UK’s News Of The World.
These intimate photographs of a prince so obviously in love send a clear signal that William, 27, is willing to do anything, even risk the crown, to be with Kate, also 27, his girlfriend of eight years.
The Palace is still reeling in embarrassment after a semi-naked and heavily tattooed Goldsmith — the brother of Kate’s mother Carole — was filmed giving drugs to an undercover reporter and offering to provide him with high-class hookers.
Kate and Wills were with friends enjoying a Saturday night drink at a local pub when he received the phone call from a Palace official tipping him off about the front page story.
Kate was so distressed by the revelations, she ran out to the car park, breaking down in tears and too embarrassed to go with Wills to Highgrove, the home he shares with his father Prince Charles.
“It was then that William went after her, put his arms around her in a loving hug and reassured her,” says Woman’s Day royal reporter Judy Wade. “He finally managed to bring a smile to her face by repeating how much he loved and needed her.”
Judy says Kate feared the exposé of Goldsmith’s wild lifestyle at his crudely-named Ibiza home, La Maison de Bang Bang, would drive a wedge between her and Wills.
Even Kate’s Australian relatives are shocked by Goldsmith’s behaviour. They admit in an exclusive interview with Woman’s Day that they now fear William will not marry Kate.
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