英國準王妃低調舉辦婚前單身派對

Kate Middleton has followed the example of her fiancé, Prince William, by opting for a distinctly low-key hen night.

凱特 米德爾頓日前效法未婚夫威廉王子，低調舉辦了“婚前單身派對”。

Miss Middleton secretly celebrated her final weeks as a single woman with a handful of her closest friends several days ago. And, like her future husband, she stayed well away from the public eye by shunning the traditional night on the town.

幾天前，米德爾頓與一幫好友祕密慶祝了婚前最後的單身時光。跟她的未婚夫一樣，米德爾頓在小鎮舉辦了傳統的婚前派對，成功躲過了公衆的目光。

Organised by her younger sister, Pippa, who will be maid of honourat the royal wedding, Miss Middleton’s private party was understood to have taken place at the home of a friend.

這場派對由米德爾頓的妹妹皮帕組織。皮帕也是威廉與凱特王室婚禮的伴娘。據稱，米德爾頓的私人派對在一位友人的家中舉行。

A source close to Miss Middleton said: “She has already had her hen night, but it was certainly very low-key. There isn’t such a tradition attached to hen nights as there is to stag parties. It was done privately. Not all of Kate’s friends were there, and she will be catching up with other friends over the coming weeks.”

米德爾頓的一位親友透露說：“她已經舉辦過婚前派對了，但非常低調。女士婚前派對不像男士婚前派對一樣有那麼多講究。派對是私下舉辦的。凱特的好友也沒有全部出席，接下來的幾周裏凱特還要與其他好友會面。”

Miss Middleton, 29, was thought to have been joined by friends including Olivia Bleasdale, who shared a flat with her and the Prince at St Andrews University, and Astrid Harbord, who was once romantically linked to Prince Harry.

米德爾頓現年29歲。參加此次派對的有她和威廉在聖安德魯斯大學讀書時的室友奧利維亞 布利斯代爾、以及哈里王子的前女友亞絲塔瑞德 哈伯德。

Exactly what they got up to was likely to remain a closely-guarded secret, but Miss Middleton had never been known to take things to excess. Former schoolfriends had described how Miss Middleton would never join in when they had drinking games in their dormitories, and was never seen drunk.

派對的具體內容仍將是個迷，但米德爾頓從來不是放縱自己的人。據前校友描述，米德爾頓從不參與她們在寢室的飲酒遊戲，也從沒喝醉過。

Gemma Williamson, a classmate at Marlborough, said that when groups of girls sneaked out of school to go to pubs in Reading, Miss Middleton preferred to stay in, because “it wasn’t her thing”.

米德爾頓就讀莫爾伯勒學院時期的同學吉瑪 威廉森表示，在讀書會上，有時一幫女友會一起溜出學校泡吧，但米德爾頓卻會留在學校，因爲“她不喜歡這些”。

Even at university, Miss Middleton was only an occasional drinker. “Kate would like a glass of wine, but she couldn’t really handle her drink,” one contemporary said. “She would get giggly after a few glasses, and then she would stop.”

就算在大學裏，米德爾頓也只是偶爾喝一口。一位校友說：“凱特有時也喝一口，但酒量不大。幾杯下肚，就有醉意了，然後她就不會再喝了。”

Miss Middleton’s hen night was understood to have happened several days before Prince William’s stag party, which was held on Saturday. While the Prince was partying with his friends, Miss Middleton spent the weekend with her parents at their home in Bucklebury, Berks.

米德爾頓的婚前單身派對在威廉王子單身派對之前的幾天舉辦。在威廉王子與好友在某週六辦派對時，米德爾頓正和父母在位於伯克郡巴柯爾伯裏的家中共度週末。

One possibility is that she took the opportunity to meet her friends while the Prince was visiting Australia and New Zealand earlier this month. A spokesman for St James’s Palace said: “This is not something we would comment on. It is a private matter.”

有猜測認爲她趁威廉王子本月初出訪澳大利亞和新西蘭時藉機與好友聚會。聖詹姆士宮（譯者注：威廉王子所在宮邸）的一位發言人說：“我們不會對此發表評論，這是私人事務。”