Princess Beatrice to jet off to the Caribbean for her EIGHTEENTH holiday in 12 months as she plans to ring in the New Year at Roman Abramovich's £59m St Barts home

Surely globetrotting Princess Beatrice can’t squeeze in an 18th holiday of the year before the end of 2015? Oh yes she can! 

The 27-year-old and boyfriend Dave Clark are jetting off to the Caribbean island of St Barts to spend New Year’s Eve with Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich at his £59million home.

Bea has been friends with the Chelsea owner after spending time on this super-yacht Eclipse off Ibiza in August. St Barts is something of a favourite for Bea and Clark – they saw in the New Year there last year, too.

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Princess Beatrice and boyfriend Dave Clark are jetting off to the Caribbean island of St Barts to spend New Year’s Eve with Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. She is pictured aboard the yacht in Ibiza in August

Beatrice and Dave were guests of Bahrain's royal family as they attended the Grand Prix in April

The winter sun break will come barely three months after her most recent jaunt off to New York to see little sister Eugenie and enjoy the September social whirl.

Beatrice showed up at Flushing Meadow to support Andy Murray and socialised with the style set at New York Fashion week. 

But for this truly international royal, few events aren't worth jumping on a plane for. 

In the last year alone she has sunned herself in the Caribbean, skied in Verbier and, most recently, was spotted hobnobbing with Oprah on Roman Abramovich's yacht in Ibiza. 

The 27-year-old, who moved to New York at the start of July to begin a new job in equities trading, has enjoyed a record 17 holidays since December, 2014. 

The royal holidays began shortly after the princess quit her £19,500-a-year job at Sony amid claims that her details had been exposed by the North Korean cyber attack.

St Barts is something of a favourite for Bea, pictured shopping at Hermes (left); but the princess also lends her fame and position to good causes including the Charity Water Ball in New York in 2013 (right)

In February, Beatrice was back on the slopes in Verbier, which was one of several trips to the slopes

Her first stop was in Abu Dhabi where she took in the Grand Prix before flying onto Beijing where she attended a wedding with her mother, the Duchess of York.

Next came a brief trip to Verbier, with the princess flying out to Switzerland on Boxing Day shortly after celebrating Christmas Day with the Queen at Sandringham.

Having spent just three days in the country, she jetted off again - this time to St. Barts in the Caribbean where she celebrated New Year aboard steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal's yacht.

After a brief trip back to London to hand in her resignation to Sony, Beatrice then returned to the Caribbean for another week before flying onto New York to visit Princess Eugenie.

Chilling out: Beatrice with boyfriend Dave Clark (right) during one of her many trips to St Barts

Beatrice is a keen skier who jets out to Verbier and to Switzerland to see her mother Fergie

Next came a romantic Valentine's trip to Verbier, again staying at her parents' £15m chalet, with boyfriend Dave Clark.

Days later, Mr Clark and Beatrice flew to Colorado for a third skiing break at Aspen and returned just in time for the princess to squeeze in another trip - a weekend in Greece with friends at the start of March.

Two weeks later, Beatrice returned to New York to celebrate sister Eugenie's birthday before flying back to Verbier at the start of April.

Beatrice glammed up to attend the Conde Nast International Luxury Conference in Florence in April (left); in May she sampled the life at Bahamas' paradise Grand Guana Quay (right)

On the 12th came another trip to the US, this time to Florida, before flying to the Middle East on the 19th in time to attend the Bahrain Grand Prix.

A couple of days later, Beatrice was in Florence for the Conde Nast Fashion conference where she was seen rubbing shoulders with Karl Lagerfeld and Tory Burch among others.

Although she carried out a number of charity engagements after jetting back to the UK from Italy, it wasn't long before she was on her travels again - this time a Bahamas break with Mr Clark.

The princess, who was seen enjoying several days of racing during Royal Ascot in June, made her move across the Atlantic to New York at the start of July but less than four weeks after starting the new role, was pictured aboard Mr Abramovich's yacht in Ibiza.

I don't want to spoil the surprise for Prince George, two, and his seven-month-old sister Charlotte but they might just find that Santa has left a cute hot water bottle under the tree this Christmas. 

Their grandmother Carole Middleton has been out buying the £33 worm-shaped bed buddies by Yuyu that come in stylish cashmere. 

I also hear that Carole has been spotted in the aptly named luxury goods firm William & Son in Mayfair to tick off a few more items from her Christmas gift list.

Carole Middleton has been out buying £33 worm-shaped bed buddies by Yuyu that come in stylish cashmere

Veteran actor James Fox is bringing down the curtain on his illustrious theatre career. 

The 76-year-old, from one of the country’s great acting dynasties, says that following his stint in Dear Lupin in the West End, he has decided not to accept any more stage roles.

He won praise for the production in which he co-starred with his son Jack, 30, but the demands of appearing on stage every night proved too taxing. 

‘It’s knackering,’ James told me at the Whatsonstage.com Awards. ‘Dear Lupin was wonderful but I don’t see myself repeating it.’ However, the star may still be seen on TV and film.