Posted on 05/05/2003 1:58:57 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Prince William, son of the late Princess Diana and heir to the British throne Prince Charles, wants to move to the United States after he finishes university in Scotland, a London newspaper said yesterday.
Meanwhile, newspapers also reported that William, 21 next month, has fallen in love with a female flatmate.
William "is determined to hold on to his privacy and believes living in the States gives him the best opportunity," a royal source told the Sunday Mirror tabloid.
A courtier said William, a student of art history at St Andrews University, wants to take either a post-graduate degree at a US college or a job with a US art auction house or gallery.
The courtier said New York was William's preferred choice of destination once he finishes university in Scotland in the summer of 2005.
"Various options are being discussed. It would be for a year or perhaps two... Like his mother, he wants his independence and is convinced the States will offer that to him," the courtier said.
The news came as British tabloids reported that William was dating fellow St Andrews' student Kate Middleton, 20.
Papers said William fell for the brunette after watching her at a university fashion show where she modelled a revealing lace dress.
"Wills thinks Kate is absolutely gorgeous," a friend of the pair was quoted as saying in The Mail on Sunday.
"They have a lot in common and they get on very well. They both love art and travelling and Kate has become a real confidante. They are certainly very close, but she's very discreet about William and he's very coy about her," the friend said.
Tabloids carried pictures of Kate and William being tactile while watching a university rugby match together on Saturday.
But Kate's father, company director Michael Middleton, said his daughter, who shares a flat with William and another male and female student, were "just good friends".
"We are very amused at the thought of being in-laws to Prince William, but I don't think it is going to happen," he told the Sunday Mirror.
Meanwhile, The People tabloid said William was planning a marathon drinking session with friends to celebrate his 21st birthday next month, after turning down the chance to have a big birthday concert in the grounds of Buckingham Palace.
AFP
I bet he's wrangling for a visit to the ranch. He doesn't want to wait around his whole life waiting for someone to die.
Read this from Declaration of Independence.
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Sounds good!
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