Queen Camilla allegedly objected to Prince William marrying “common” Kate Middleton, a royal expert claims.
In his new biography, Kate! The Courage, Grace, and Power of the Woman Who Will Be Queen, Christopher Andersen alleged that Camilla, 78, had some fierce issues with the now-Princess of Wales, 44, joining the British Royal Family in 2011.
Before Kate officially became a member of the Royal Family, Camilla, then the Duchess of Cornwall, was one of her “fiercest critics” and “did object” to her marrying Prince William, as she believed Kate was “too common.” This comes amid claims that the Royal Family “offended” Kate with a strange request before she wed William.
“She did not think she was up to snuff, as it were,” Andersen wrote. “She was below the salt. She had no aristocratic blood.”
The royal expert went on to claim that Camilla “always saw herself as the mistress of a king, not a queen” and “picked [Princess] Diana to be Charles’ bride” in 1981.
Anderson noted that “the palace didn’t really want” Middleton to enter the family after she met William while attending the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
“People like Camilla didn’t want her because they felt that she was too common to be the wife of a future king,” the biographer wrote, alleging that Camilla “did object” to her daughter-in-law’s “working-class roots.”
Kate’s parents, Carole Middleton and Michael Middleton, are former British Airways employees who went on to start a successful party supply business.
“[Camilla] 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 wrote.
Camilla didn’t think William should marry “a descendant of coal miners whose mother had grown up in public housing and once worked as a flight attendant.”
The now-Queen allegedly believed Carole to be a “gauche opportunist” and “knew a schemer when she saw one.”
Kate and William, 43, got engaged in October 2010 and married in April of the following year.
Before the wedding, Camilla and Charles, 77, reportedly “offended” Kate by requesting she change the letter of her first name, Catherine, from a C to a K.
They allegedly claimed that having three “C” names in the family felt like “overkill.”
Andersen claims Camilla felt the change was a “logical progression” because the world already knew her future daughter-in-law as Kate.
However, the bride was “offended” by the suggestion, and William was left “fuming.”
According to Andersen, William found the idea “insulting, not only to Kate but to her entire family,” the Middletons, with whom he is famously close.
However, the idea of Kate changing her name was obviously dropped. After Charles ascended the throne upon the death of Queen Elizabeth II on September 8, 2022, Kate became known as Catherine, Princess of Wales, alongside her husband, the new Prince of Wales.
Andersen is not the first royal insider to highlight the name-change incident. Prince Harry also recalled Charles and Camilla’s unusual request in his 2023 bombshell memoir, Spare.
“I remembered the time [Charles] and Camilla wanted Kate to change the spelling of her name, because there were already two royal cyphers with a C and a crown above,” he wrote.
“Charles and Camilla. It would be too confusing to have another. Make it Katherine with a K, they suggested. I wondered now what came of that suggestion.”
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