A royal biographer has made the bold claim that one of the royal family members initially objected to Prince William marrying Kate Middleton because she was ‘too common’.
The Prince, 43, and Princess of Wales, 44, tied the knot at a stunning ceremony on Friday, 29 April 2011, at Westminster Abbey in London.
The royal couple had been together on-and-off since 2003 after meeting while they were both studying at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, after being allocated rooms near to each other in St. Salvator’s Hall of Residence, becoming friends before things turned romantic.
However, royal author Christopher Andersen, who published his new Kate! biography this month, alleges that there was one senior member of the royal family who wasn’t the biggest fan of the union.
Kate Middleton married Prince William in 2011 (Dominic Lipinski – WPA Pool/Getty Images)
The author told Fox News: “In the beginning, Camilla was one of Kate’s fiercest critics. She did not think she was up to snuff, as it were.
“She was below the salt. She had no aristocratic blood.”
Anderson further claimed: “Camilla always saw herself as the mistress of a king, not a queen. And she picked [Princess] Diana to be [King] Charles’ bride.
“So, she was very cognizant of the fact that a future king of England should have, she believed, a marriage to a royal personage, or at least a British aristocrat.”
Anderson alleged that ‘the palace didn’t really want’ Kate, and Camilla was against William wedding ‘a descendant of coal miners whose mother had grown up in public housing and once worked as a flight attendant’, as per news.com.au.
A royal author has made wild claims about Queen Camilla’s initial thoughts on Kate (Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)
For context, Kate’s parents were British Airways employees before they founded their party supplies business, Party Pieces.
He added: “Kate was none of those things, but she quickly became popular.”
Before she got married to William and became a working royal, Kate had a series of normal jobs she worked every summer until she left university.
As reported by PEOPLE Magazine, according to Katie Nicholl’s book Kate: The Future Queen, she spent four months working as a deckhand at the Ocean Village Marina in Southampton.
Other jobs included working as a waitress and as an accessories buyer at the British fashion brand Jigsaw.
Kate and William met at the University of St Andrews in Scotland (WPA Pool/Getty Images)
The publication reports that in 2007, Kate left Jigsaw to work for her family’s company, Party Pieces, which her mum Carole started.
As per CBS News, she joined the business as a project manager in charge of marketing and was responsible for arranging photo shoots, attending trade fairs, and putting together the Christmas catalog.
Following William’s proposal in 2010, Kate left her job to prepare for her exciting new life as a royal – and the rest is history!
