The future of the crown weighs all on Kate Middleton’s shoulders

Smiles, always, unless the occasion is more severe, impeccable looks, whether they are fashion or beauty, a husband who adores her and three beautiful and nice children, at least from what little is known about them: if she were not human , Kate Middleton it would come very close to the idea of ​​utopian perfection. The downside, however, is not a fairy tale, but a whole other story.

The journalist and royal expert returned to the role of the duchess within the royal family Tina Brown, author of the volume The Palace Papers, Inside The House of Windsor – The Truth and the Turmoil, just published.

Between anecdotes and reflections, ranging from Queen Elizabeth to the results of the Megxit, the author dwells a lot on Kate and on future of the British monarchy that “Rests on the thin shoulders of the Duchess of Cambridge.” If it weren’t for her presence, according to Brown, The Firm it would literally fall apart. “If for any reason Kate thought like Meghan:” I’m leaving, I can do better “it would be a disaster,” said the journalist. The reason? “She is the only modern, beautiful and educated woman who really wants to commit herself to the rigors of this institution, not many young women could do that.”

A full-time commitment, in short, a real cause, that Kate Middleton married when she said “yes” to William. In front of the cameras of half the world the happy ending, in the control room the beginning of everything. “They were madly in love, but transforming from a loving fiancée to a future queen is an obstacle course”, Brown recalled. “It’s like in Snakes and Ladders (a board game in which if you find a ladder you go forward, if instead you run into a square where there is a snake you go back, ed). At any moment he could have stepped on the wrong square and returned to the starting point ». The role of the mother Carole is fundamental: “He helped her avoid the snakes on the board”, stressed the author.

That mother and daughter worked together to achieve a common goal is beyond doubt. The love between William and Kate was decisive, but it was not all, and this was already rumored on the eve of the royal wedding, in 2011. It was she who convinced her daughter to enroll at the University of St. Andrews, the same of the heir to the throne, and it was always she who spurred her on in 2007, when William left her. “Show him what he’s missing”he would tell her, inviting her to have fun, go out with friends and her sister Pippa.

The two, nicknamed “Wisteria sisters”, because they were able to climb and hold their grip like a wisteria, they didn’t miss a party. Winning strategy, that of mother Carole. William lasted a month and a half before returning to his Catherine, meanwhile labeled as “Waity Kate”, for her patience in waiting for his time, that he would have decided to ask her as a wife only three years later. A real training, unlike what happened to Meghan Markle, she suddenly catapulted into a completely different environment from what she was used to, with the results we know.

That patience has paid off and today, of course, the Duchess has learned to crush snakes as well as avoid them. With a smile, of course.

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