{"id":18881,"date":"2012-03-06T10:57:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T15:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=18881"},"modified":"2012-03-06T10:58:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T15:58:02","slug":"miss-bahamas-smitten-with-prince-harry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/03\/miss-bahamas-smitten-with-prince-harry","title":{"rendered":"Miss Bahamas Smitten With Prince Harry"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18884\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18884\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18884\" title=\"anastagia-pierre\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/anastagia-pierre.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/anastagia-pierre.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/anastagia-pierre-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/anastagia-pierre-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18884\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anastagia Pierre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Anastagia Pierre, 23, declared she was in town to fall in love with the 27-year-old prince and was obviously enamoured with Harry keeping a fixed gaze on him during their meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The two met at a reception for youth leaders, held at the Sheraton Hotel, as part of his Diamond Jubilee ten-day tour.<\/p>\n<p>Anastagia wore a slinky red dress for their meeting, which also involved another beauty queen (and possible rival), Sasha Joyce, the island&#8217;s Miss Bahamas World entrant.<\/p>\n<p>Anastagia was declared Miss Bahamas Universe in the same competition as Miss Joyce, in April 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Anastagia declared: &#8216;I came here to fall in love with Prince Harry&#8230;.he&#8217;s hot! He is single now, so would I marry him, yes!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Miss Pierre, a model and broadcaster who recently competed in the Miss Universe competition, added: &#8216;I am fascinated by the Royal Family, I have watched every interview Princess Diana has ever done.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There is great respect here for the Royal Family and we are hugely excited that Prince Harry has come here to see us. It is all over the television.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Prince Harry arrived in the Bahamas March 3 to represent his grandmother for the first time &#8211; and left with a new legion of female followers.<\/p>\n<p>He was greeted by cheers and screams as he conducted his first engagement wearing the No. 1 Tropical Dress of The Blues and Royals, the first time that he has worn the uniform in public.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech delivered later in the day, Harry delivered a message from the Queen to the people of the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;I stand before you with a deep sense of pride at being asked to convey to you a message of good wishes from The Queen on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee.<\/p>\n<p>\u202a &#8216;The Bahamas holds a special place in Her Majesty\u2019s heart. Her love for this realm and you, the Bahamian people, stretches back over the decades, right to that first visit in 1966.\u202a&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anastagia Pierre, 23, declared she was in town to fall in love with the 27-year-old prince and was obviously enamoured with Harry keeping a fixed gaze on him during their meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[48,46],"class_list":["post-18881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-beauty","tag-celebrities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}