Prince William and Kate Middleton announce they´re engaged

Prince William and Kate Middleton are gonna make it official! The royal couple — who have been together for eight years and have recently been spending much of their time in north Wales where William is a search and rescue pilot — are engaged and will marry next year, Clarence House announced Tuesday.

The announcement came after speculation reached fever pitch following a visit by Kate’s parents to the Queen’s Scottish estate last month.

Their wedding, scheduled for 2011, will be the biggest since William’s mother, Diana, married Prince Charles.

“Everyone is absolutely delighted. He has never had eyes for any other woman since Kate came on the scene,” says an old friend. “She is going to make a wonderful wife, a wonderful princess.”

They are said to have become engaged while on vacation in Kenya.