The British press is still freaking out about the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s ski holiday last week. William and Kate managed to slip away undetected, have a holiday and return without anyone being the wiser. Then they released photos from their holiday in the hopes that everyone would be grateful to see Charlotte and George. Did it work? Eh. From what I’ve seen, most American sites are covering the ski trip as a pleasant family holiday and LOOK AT THE BABIES. Most British sites are throwing shade though. The Daily Mail did yet another takedown of the trip and William’s increasing paranoia about British taxpayers wanting to know just where he is and what he’s up to. The Cambridges’ press office still hasn’t confirmed where they vacationed (“bizarrely,” as the Mail writes), but the Mail says they were in Courchevel, the “upmarket playground of the oligarchs.” Apparently, there were some sightings by some locals. Royal aides are still refusing to say how the Cambridges flew to Courchevel (privately or commerical), but a “senior royal source” told the Mail that they “booked and paid for themselves.” Do you believe that?

Meanwhile, the Daily Mail is also previewing what will inevitably be a larger story this month – whether or not William will attend the wedding of Jecca Craig. Jecca was one of William’s first girlfriends and they’ve been friends for half their lives. Many believe that Jecca is William’s “non-negotiable,” or his Camilla. It’s also been said that of all the women in William’s life, Kate cannot stand Jecca and Isabella Anstruther Gough Calthorpe. Notably, there was a big kerfuffle in 2014 when Kate took George to Mustique with her family, all while William traveled to Spain to go boar-hunting with Jecca. So… yeah, there are rumors. There have been rumors for years. Here’s Sebastian Shakespeare’s piece about Jecca’s wedding:

The Duchess of Cambridge managed to avoid attending the London wedding of Prince William’s first university girlfriend, Olivia Hunt, at the weekend because of a conveniently timed family skiing trip to France. But Kate may struggle to prevent her husband joining friends at another wedding at Easter, even though it will take place more than 6,000 miles away.

Jessica ‘Jecca’ Craig, 34, who became so close to William when they were teenagers that they reportedly had a ‘pretend engagement’, is to tie the knot with conservationist Professor Jonathan Baillie in Isiolo, Kenya, on March 26. While the trip to Africa might seem unlikely for William, 33, whose daughter, Princess Charlotte, is just ten months old, his relationship with Jecca’s family is so important that he attended her brother Batian’s 2008 wedding in Africa, rather than that of his own cousin, Peter Phillips, the same day.

The wedding will take place on the 55,000-acre wildlife reserve run by Jecca’s father, Ian Craig, in the foothills of Mount Kenya. It is where William spent part of his gap year before university and where he returned for the holiday on which he proposed to Kate.

Jecca has the distinction of being the only woman before Kate Middleton to have provoked an official bulletin about Wills’ love life. In 2003, Prince Charles’s staff issued a statement in which it was denied the couple were in a relationship. They had never done this for any of William’s other alleged girlfriends, prompting speculation there may have been some truth in the rumours. Shortly after, Jecca was seated next to the prince at his ‘Out Of Africa’ 21st birthday party at Windsor Castle. In an interview, he insisted he did not have a steady girlfriend at St Andrews, where he had first met Kate two years earlier. It was not until 2004 that he was happy to be photographed with Kate.

Jecca’s family helped encourage the prince’s commitment to saving endangered African wildlife, which continues to this day. Her Canadian fiancé is director of conservation at the Zoological Society of London and worked with William on one campaign. A Kensington Palace spokesman says: ‘We have no comment to make.’

[From The Daily Mail]

I bet William would actually love to go down to Kenya for the wedding, but will he? William does whatever he wants, regardless of the consequences, so the question is… would William want to watch one his great loves marry another man? And if he does go to the wedding, would he bring Kate? And if Kate doesn’t go, what does that mean?

Photos courtesy of WENN, KensingtonRoyal Twitter.