If she is today a safe bet for the royal family, embodying the next generation with her husband, Prince William, it is because Kate Middleton has long prepared for the role that will be hers. For the moment Duchess of Cambridge, she is promised a royal future. And already in 2008, when her romance with the future monarch took a serious turn, the ambitious commoner would have anticipated her future …
Don’t call her Kate anymore
This is what the journalist Adam Helliker reports, quoted by the Mirror on November 21, 2021. He says that Kate Middleton would have sent an e-mail to her friends which would have surprised them a lot. The expert revealed in 2008: “In the last few weeks“,”the former accessory buyer quietly informed her friends that she wanted to ditch the informal ‘Kate’ name. ”
Instead, the young student would have asked her relatives to call her by her birth name, Catherine (more chic, more adult). A friend would have even balanced: “Everyone knows what will happen to Kate and William (the media coverage of their love story, editor’s note), but we were a little surprised by the request to call her Catherine”.
“Very aware of her position”
And to add: “There is a distinct feeling that she has started to become very aware of her position. And according to the royal expert Daniela Elser, this prerogative would therefore be “a little disconcerted” his entourage, despite the turn “gentle” and “pleasant” of it …
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