Prince William Secret 3-Week 'Military Tour': MH370-Diego Garcia?

by Deborah Dupré

Prince William, a Search and Rescue Captain in the Royal Air Force, might have disappeared for three weeks from public view but not from those at Diego Garcia from the time his secretive, impromptu, romantic vacation in the Maldives ended and the time he reappeared in New Zealand Monday.

The three-week whereabouts reported for William are not only fuzzy, they are contradictory and surprised even reporters whose beat is the royal family. William unexctadly left the UK for a so-called ”romantic holiday” in the Maldives, a vacation that began the same day MH370 went missing. From the time that “four day” or “one week” vacation eneded through one month to the day later, when he arrived in Wellington, it is speculated the mystery time was spent at the UK’s island that it leases to the United States, Diego Garcia.  

Wikipedia says Prince William attended four schools in the UK; graduated from the University of St Andrews; and spent parts of a “gap year“ in Chile, Belize, Tanzania, and Kenya. William has also taken Kiswahili studies at Kenya and Tanzania universities. He completed officer training (eventually commissioned as a lieutenant in the Blues and Royals Regiment), and became a pilot at Royal Air Force College Cranwell in the British military. He then trained in helicopter flying to “become a full-time pilot with the Search and Rescue Force.” Flight Lieutenant Wales, as Prince William is known in the military, qualified in 2012 as an operational search and rescue captain for the Royal Air Force. 

By all accounts, William and Kate Middleton took an unexpected, one-week, luxury, “romantic” vacation in the Maldives last month. They arrived the exact same day MH370 went missing, March 8. That 4-day or one-week (depending on the news source) getaway was reportedly possible due to a one-week break from William’s 10-week training program. That training program, however, became less important once William was in the Indian Ocean.

[See: Royal Couple’s MH370-Crisis-Diego Garcia-Area Luxury Holiday]

“Prince William and Kate jetted off to the Maldives for a ‘week-long holiday‘ just a month out from their three-week tour of New Zealand and Australia,” SBS reported.

“But it has surprised many royal watchers,” the Daily Express said. (Emphasis added.) “William, 31, is just nearing the end of an intensive 10-week course in agricultural management at Cambridge University, intended to prepare him for a future role managing the Duchy of Cornwall estate when he is heir to the throne.”

SBS  reported, ”Prince William is meant to be completing an intensive 10-week agricultural management course at Cambridge University in preparation for managing the Duchy of Cornwall estate. Reports suggest there’s a short break in classes. 

“The Queen has given special permission for William and baby George to travel to Australia on the same plane in April. Multiple heirs are not normally allowed on the same flight in case of an accident.”

Then, however, William played hooky from his classes. As unexpectely as his romantic vacation just north of Diego Garcia, he unexpectedly began his ”Asia Pacific tour” three weeks early, according to an ABC News report 

“The first month of their tour was without their baby George, who joined them once their Asia Pacific tour ended, ABC News reported. 

Information on that “Asia-Pacific tour” seems to be as sealed as MH370 data.

“The couple briefly touched down at Brisbane airport in 2012 on the way back from a tour of the Asia-Pacific region,” ABC News reported, while SBS said, “The Royal family made a brief stop in Sydneybefore boarding a New Zealand Air Force plane, to travel across the ditch.”

Again, the NY Post sreported this differently: ”The family and their entourage left London Saturday night for the Down Under jaunt, taking up the First Class section of a scheduled Qantas flight via Dubai,” 

Prince George is on his first foreign holiday. Credit: APTN

Royal family arrive in Wellington, New Zealand today. Credit: APTN

The schedule, according to various reports, was for the royal family to touch down in New Zealand in its city, Wellington. Hollywood Life reported that the royal couple, with baby George, arrived in New Zealand on their private jet: “The 8-month-old Royal Baby made his third public appearance while in his mom Kate’s arms as the family stepped off their private plane in Wellington, New Zealand.”

According to Hello magazine, however, the family flew to the Military Terminal in Wellington. ”Unfortunately, the family’s flight was delayed,” says Hollywood Life.

The Daily Mirror called the couple’s journey a ”whistle-stop” tour of Australia and New Zealand. “William and Kate will cover the length and breadth of both countries in just 18 jam-packed days.”

A spokesman for the Royals said they will be based in Wellington, Canberra and Sydney. “The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will arrive in Australia on April 16 for the 18 day trip, which marks the couple’s first official tour of the region with Prince George,” reports International Business Times.

In December, three months before the missing MH370 operation, BBC reported  that Kensington Palace had confirmed the April tour, but released no further details about the itinerary or how long it would last: “The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are to visit New Zealand and Australia next April, Kensington Palace has said.” (BBC).

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived Monday in Wellington to begin their three week tour of New Zealand and Australia with their baby Prince George.  It is speculated that the SSAR Captain spent at least some of the mystery time off radar where 239 MH370 passengers are also off radar - at Diego Garcia.

Editor’s Note: Want to know where 369 MH370 passengers are? Anyone ask SAR Captain Prince William? His SAR training seems to have paid off.  knows how to go off radar and go back on radar undetected, how to find missing persons, and how to be in the right place at the right time, so to speak.