GIRL ABOUT TOWN: Kate will accompany Prince William for Caribbean Royal Tour

By Charlotte Griffiths For The Mail On Sunday

After my revelation last week that The Duchess of Cambridge has been disappearing from her husband’s private social life of late, I can reveal she plans to make herself very visible next year – by touring the Caribbean.

Kate intends to answer those who, in the aftermath of my big disclosure, have suggested she has become an ‘invisible’ part of Prince William’s life, by accompanying him on a major Royal tour.

She has even cancelled the traditional Middleton family start-of-the-year trip to Mustique in order to accommodate planning for the tour. I’m told the destination is expected to be the Caribbean and that William and Kate’s children are set to join them.

After my revelation last week that The Duchess of Cambridge has been disappearing from her husband’s private social life of late, I can reveal she plans to make herself very visible next year – by touring the Caribbean

In July Kate visited a naval base in Portsmouth with William

If all goes to plan, it will be Prince George’s second Royal tour, while his little sister will be making her official over- seas debut.

By the time of the trip – in February or March Princess Charlotte will be an adorable nine months old and will undoubtedly steal the show – just as her brother did at the same age touring Australia last year.

The first clues about the Royal tour came when Kate re-arranged her trip to Mustique. For the first time in years it won’t be in January or February, but earlier, in November.

The couple’s regular holiday chums – most of whom keep to the same weeks every year – were said to be surprised, as the sociable Middletons tend to arrange their holidays to coincide with other families they are friendly with.

Kate and William would not be far from the Middletons’ favourite island during their Caribbean tour, of course, but they will not be deviating from visiting an assortment of the 16 Commonwealth countries where the Queen is Head of State.

The Cayman Islands, The Bahamas and The British Virgin Islands are said to be high on the list. The latter is a familiar Royal stomping ground as it is home to Sir Richard Branson’s Necker Island, a favourite holiday destination for most of the young Royals. Prince William first visited the private island with his mother Princess Diana in 1990. A Royal insider said: ‘Nothing is certain yet but these things must be planned miles in advanced. It certainly won’t be a holiday.’

An aide to the governor general in the Bahamas said: ‘I am not able to confirm any information but I refer you back to Buckingham Palace for their schedule.’

Will Pippa Middleton get a proposal over a plate of pasta next month? Since 2013, the Middleton clan has been on tenterhooks every time Pippa has been whisked away by financier boyfriend Nico Jackson.

Now, Nico, 36, has planned a romantic trip to Italy to mark Pippa’s 32nd birthday and, as usual, friends and family are hoping the on-off pair will be ‘on’ once and for all.

Kindly James Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge’s younger brother, 28, joined his Geordie lass girlfriend Donna Air, 35, to visit her sick family in Newcastle last weekend, calling in on her grandmother Mary who, I am sad to report, is battling lung cancer, and grandpa Joe, suffering from dementia, in a care home in the city. Donna’s mother Marie tells me: ‘Let’s just say he has lots o contact with myself and the family.’

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