WILLIAM AND KATE IN IBIZA

HEIR to the throne Prince William is currently enjoying a long weekend with a group of friends, including girlfriend Kate Middleton, in Ibiza before returning to Sandhurst next week. The Prince and friends are understood to have arrived on the island on Thursday night and have spent the past two days enjoying the fine weather and crystal clear waters from the privacy, and security, of a luxury yacht. The group, which also includes Kate's youngest sister Pippa, are said to be thoroughly enjoying themselves despite the island being packed with holidaying Britons. Hidden under baseball caps, behind sunglasses and dressed for the beach, no one has apparently recognised the Prince on their trips round the island including to a spa where the group, which has also rented a villa, enjoyed a relaxing mud bath. The 24-year-old Prince, and his younger brother Harry, first came to the Balearics some 20 years ago when his father, Prince Charles and mother, the late Princess Diana of Wales, came to Majorca on an official visit as guests of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain. This time around, there are no parents, just close friends with Kate and the Prince making the most of the last few days of their summer holiday together before Officer Cadet Wales returns to Sandhurst for his final term at the military academy. The Prince and his travel companions are expected to visit some of the island's world-famous clubs before they return to London.