Royal engagement and…. the royal engagement!

Prince William and Kate Middleton have announced that they are engaged. Since this announcement, not one day has gone by without more details being released, speculation increasing and the whole thing becoming more absurd. Details of this ‘event’ are below. Of course, all of us at OR are very happy for them and look forward to receiving our invitations…

Details:

Kate’s nickname for William: Big Willie

William’s nickname for Kate: Babykins

Another nickname for Kate: Waity Katie

Souvenirs are already available here

Camilla said the news was ‘wicked’

Cameron said we will get a bank holiday

Wales and Scotland’s First Ministers tried to get in on the action with Jones saying “I’m very pleased to hear that they plan to begin their married life in north Wales” and Salmond crying that it was “a match made in St Andrews”

A quick search of the press from the last week found that there have been 259 articles including the words ‘Kate Middleton’ and ‘commoner’

Thanks to ‘Babykins’ and ‘Big Willie’, this has been a very useful week for Cameron as he managed to bury the news that he has taken his ‘vanity staff’ off the Civil Service pay-roll.  This caused outrage on the Labour benches, as of course they would never dream of doing such a thing (or would they…).