William and Kate in September
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It was like watching the trailer for a really, really big movie. The scene: St. Mary's Hospital in London on Sept. 20. The star: Prince William, handsome future King, gently cradling – and making goo-goo eyes at – a tiny infant swathed in a T-shirt that read, "Little Princess." The twist: it wasn't his baby – she was 3-week-old Sina Nuru – and Will was merely opening the refurbished Winnicott Baby Unit at the hospital where he was born 24 years ago. Still, it was captivating enough for someone to ask if it all made the prince "feel broody." That's when he put a screeching stop to the sappy stuff. "I don't know about that," he said. "Not yet."
Fine, don't mean to pressure you, guy – but, seriously, when? The top sport in England these days isn't football or polo, it's guessing when the prince will finally get engaged to his longtime girlfriend Kate Middleton and start the countdown to what would be the wedding of the century. Now into their fifth year as an absurdly attractive couple, Will and Kate, 24, have lately seemed so snuggly – and Kate so seamlessly ingrained into Will's inner circle of friends and family – that the engagement gossip is getting as hot as a pot of Earl Grey.
