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"She has had media training, knows how handle the Press and even has private audiences with the Queen. "Kate is very much part of The Firm and she’s in the system," one source told the Mail. Indeed, she has been, so far, gaffe-free. She is, seemingly, planning for her domestic future - perhaps kitting out the interior of her much vaunted new home as Princess, the 900-acre estate of Harewood End.īought by Charles more than a year ago and currently being overhauled by craftsmen, it would make a perfect home for a prince and princess.Īny girl would be bubbling over with excitement at the prospect.īut Kate’s lips remain shut tight about her hopes for the future. Rather than sleeping off the excesses of the night before - a la Chelsy Davy - she has been spending mornings looking at fabric and wallpaper samples in every Sloane’s preferred store, Peter Jones - a favourite of Diana in her day. Regularly pictured shopping on the fashionable King’s Road, Kate cuts a striking figure in the designer shops of SW3.īut down-to-earth Kate has not lost touch with ordinary life - still seen hopping on and off buses, and dressed in jeans as well as sparkly frocks, her head does not appear to have been utterly turned by the glamour of royal circles. Though critics may protest, courtiers do sometimes learn by their mistakes - and having a bright, ambitious and opinionated woman around with nothing to do will be recognised as a recipe for disaster. The couple have been together for four years, and with their relationship as strong as ever those with a heart in royal circles will have seen the benefits in cementing the relationship before it starts to drift. For though there’s no indication when there’ll be an official announcement, it is clear that Kate will marry Prince William, possibly as soon as next summer. So in these doldrum days Kate might seek inspiration from her illustrious, revolutionary forbear. Nonetheless, if Kate returned to the dry and dusty pages of this neglected tome, The Peasant And The Prince, she may find inspiration where others may not - for Harriet Martineau, the book’s author and one of the leading thinkers of the 19th century, turns out to be Kate’s ancestor.Īnd of all the people who could stiffen the young woman’s resolve as she faces the imminent prospect of betrothal - with a lifetime under the spotlight - it is Martineau.Ī woman of immense strength of character, a friend not only of Charles Darwin and Charlotte Bronte but also of Florence Nightingale and George Eliot, Miss Martineau travelled to the United States when such trips for single women were unheard-of and brought back a best-selling book of her observations, Society In America.Īnd although she created allegorical novels such as The Peasant And The Prince, she reserved her sharpest writing for the subjects of social reform and political polemic. It does not require an elephantine memory to recall the dilemma of the then Lady Diana Spencer, hauled inside the royal compound then left alone, in the days after her relationship with Prince Charles was formalised. With nothing to do it would be very easy, at this stage, for the seeds of disillusion to flourish into something serious. William is at Sandhurst, enduring the officer training college’s hair-shirt leadership course, with not a minute to himself. Kate has become a bird in a gilded cage - much admired, but with her freedom and her privacy severely curtailed. With the collapse of her plans to start a clothing company, Kate has found that despite her determination to forge a career, there is too much interest in her private life for her to move unfettered in the commercial world - just as Sophie, Countess of Wessex discovered. Not so very different from the fate of Miss Catherine Elizabeth Middleton.Įxcept that this tale is set in 18th-century France and its conclusion not necessarily one she would wish for.īut it is true that Kate has already faced some of the problems that go with being a Royal. She is joyous the future ahead is golden. The whole country, looking forward to her arrival, drops what they are doing to prepare a triumphal route for her. Its opening scene has a young bride, wife of the future king, riding in her carriage, accompanied by a splendid retinue of nobles and gentry. She could do worse than start with a little-known work, The Peasant And The Prince, published in 1841. Should ever a girl need a good book to while away the time, that girl has to be Kate Middleton.Īnd perhaps, as she continues to wait month after long month, in the hope she can finally be announced as the official fiancee of our future King, there’s something worthwhile she can find to read.