Queen Camilla reportedly wasn’t thrilled when Prince William decided Kate Middleton was the woman he wanted to marry. A new royal biography claimed the now-queen once viewed the future Princess of Wales as “too common” for the royal family.
The allegations appeared in royal author Christopher Andersen’s latest book, “Kate!”, which revisited William and Kate’s early years together before their 2011 wedding.
Christopher Andersen’s book Kate! details Queen Camilla’s alleged critiques of Prince William’s marriage
According to Andersen, Camilla was one of Kate’s “fiercest critics” during the early stages of her relationship with William. The author claimed Camilla believed a future king should marry someone with aristocratic ties rather than a woman from a middle-class background.
“She did not think she was up to snuff, as it were,” the new book reads. It continued: “She was below the salt. She had no aristocratic blood.”
Kate’s parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, famously built a successful party supply business after previously working for British Airways. However, Andersen claimed some royal insiders viewed Kate’s upbringing as too ordinary for someone expected to become queen one day.
“People like Camilla didn’t want her because they felt that she was too common to be the wife of a future king,” the author wrote.
The biography also alleged Queen Camilla held strong opinions about Kate’s mother, reportedly viewing Carole as a “gauche opportunist.” Andersen claimed the queen consort believed she “knew a schemer when she saw one.”
Prince William and Kate Middleton first met while attending the University of St Andrews in Scotland before becoming engaged in 2010. They married at Westminster Abbey the following year in one of the decade’s biggest royal events.
According to the book, tensions allegedly surfaced again ahead of the wedding when Camilla and King Charles reportedly suggested Kate alter the spelling used for her royal cypher. Andersen claimed they believed another royal monogram beginning with the letter “C” would be “overkill.”
The suggestion reportedly left William upset enough that the issue was ultimately dropped.
Despite the alleged criticism behind palace walls, Andersen wrote that Kate “never put a foot wrong” during her early years within the royal family. The author also claimed much of the “sniping from the sidelines” came from Camilla’s camp during that period.
Representatives for both Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace did not publicly comment on the claims surrounding the biography.
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