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updates by Joyce Barslow

Prince Albert & bride honeymoon in South Africa



The Oyster Box Hotel pool, South Africa


Umhlanga, South Africa
Following their two-day royal wedding on July 1 & 2, 2011 in Monaco, Prince Albert and his bride, Charlene Wittstock, chose to honeymoon in Wittstock's homeland at the Oyster Box Hotel, a luxury seaside resort in South Africa.

The royal couple who met at a swim meet in 2000 also attended a July 7 International Olympic Organizing Committee banquet in their honour at the hotel.

During her engagement, the princess-to-be had returned twice to the Durban area to participate in the world's largest swim event, the Midmar Mile, in support of Special Olympics.

When Princess Charlene was 17, the Rhodesian-born swimmer, moved to Durban (South Africa) to train for her Olympic bid while also teaching swimming to children in the nearby port of Richard's Bay. 

The Oyster Box
The family-run hotel is in the Umhlanga Rocks, 20 minutes north of Durban. It was constructed in 1869 as a beach cottage and originally used as navigational beacon known as the Oyster Box. It was first converted into a hotel in the 1930s. Several photos are shown on its Web site.

The luxury hotel's President's Suite has two floors, an ornate gold-leafed bed, a private swimming pool and a free-standing marble bath overlooking the Indian Ocean. Its terrace and private dining area can hold 10 guests. Price: US$7,500 per night.

Photo: Prince Albert and Charlene Wittstock by Karl Lagerfeld
Prince William and Kate honeymoon in the Seychelles islands

The beach on a Seychelles island

May 21, 2011 - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge spent a 10-day honeymoon at the Indian Ocean resort in the Seychelles islands.

A Seychelles government statement said that the east African nation was honoured to have hosted the couple. "They left happy and clearly content with their stay," Alain St. Ange, the head of the Seychelles tourism board, told Associated Press.

Before they left, the couple invited the folks who had been protecting their privacy on North Island, the Seychelles coast guard, ashore to personally thank them.

"In a world of so much turmoil they bring a welcome and much needed breath of fresh air with their warmth and humility," said British High Commissioner Patrick Pillay, who saw the couple off.

The Republic of Seychelles comprises 115 islands in the western Indian Ocean. This was East Africa’s second connection to the royal wedding, William proposed to Kate in October 2010 in a rustic log cabin on the slopes of Kenya’s highest peak, Mount Kenya.

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