CHAPTER TWO ~ ON PAUSE
OCTOBER 2020
"What's the current wedding forecast?" Helene asked.
"Nobody knows." I simply answered.
"What do you mean by that?" Helene asked.
"Nobody knows because, really, there's no planning right now," I explained. "You just have to kind of wait and see how this all plays out, and it's disappointing on one level. You know, but the world has to get better and better to be safe than cause any harm to yourself and loved ones." I answered.
"So, you're just relaxing and taking time off." Helene said.
"Which is what we're doing kind of right now, but at the same time, you know, we had a lot of plans for this summer and this year. But everything's kind of on hold right now." I said.
"Michael and I were actually talking about the same kind of things," Helene noted. "We're not sure what's going to happen with our date." She added.
"I'm a little heartbroken because we did have some great plans." I confessed.
"I'm sure you did." Helene said.
"I'm also like, 'You know what? God has a bigger plan,'" I said. "So we just have to wait and see. Maybe it's going to be better. I have to believe that it will be." I said.
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Court Circular
5 October 2020
St. James's PalacePrince David, Patron, the Hanover Band, this morning received Mr. Stephen Neiman (Chief Executive Officer) at Kensington Palace on the occasion of the orchestra's Fortieth Anniversary.
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Court Circular
6 October 2020
St. James's PalacePrince David, Patron, St. Mungo's, this morning held a Meeting via telephone with Mr. Steven Douglas upon his appointment as Chief Executive.
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"Do you not have any intentions on announcing your engagement, David?" William asked David on a zoom call with their father and grandmother.
"Well, with everything going on I don't want the attention and all the extraneous to be related to my engagement. I think Katalina and I should enjoy our time together since we had to put a stop on planning the wedding." David explain to William.
"But when do you plan on announcing it?" Queen Elizabeth asked.
Lately, her advisors had been pushing her to get David to announce his engagement to boost the image of the royal family and take off the attention of all the drama happening since Harry and Meghan were on a campaign tour of smearing the family's image.
Elizabeth respected her grandson and would never want to force him to do anything that he wasn't comfortable with but she was starting to understand why her advisors wanted the engagement announced and she was hoping this conversation would get David to make a decision to announce sooner rather than later.
David sighed. He knew he would be grilled about his engagement today once his father invited him to join the zoom call. He didn't really care to show the news of his engagement with the public.
He wanted to have this enjoyable experience for himself and Katalina, although she announced it in social media but no one knows she's engaged to him and he liked it that way.
"I do not know. I may never announce it. Well just release our wedding photos and call it a day." David said, half-jokingly but at the same time very much serious about doing just that.
Charles shook his head.
"This is very serious, David. The public would be upset if they knew how long you've withheld sharing your engagement." Charles said.
David rolled his eyes.
"I'm sure they would be very hurt that I chose to keep my private life, private." David said.
Charles was disappointed. He wanted the world to know about this new and wonderful chapter in David's life like it has been done with William and Harry but Charles knew that compared to his older sons, David was the more shy and private one so he knew it would be difficult for him to open up.
"I won't fight with you on this but please at least think about it." Charles said.
"David is going to do what David wants to do, Pa." William said.
David smirked.
"Someone sounds a little jelly to me." David said.
"Davie, I'm about to be married for ten years. You have nothing I want to be jealous of." William said, sticking out his tongue at David.
David did the same and the Queen chuckled.
"You boys keep me entertained." Elizabeth said.
"Happy to entertain you, Your Majesty." David said.
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Bel Ami - British Royal Family Fanfiction
FantasyAfter six years, David and Katalina are ready for the next step but times are uncertain. Started | September 20, 2020 Published | September 20, 2020 Completed | TBA A British Royal Family Fanfiction