{"id":2339680,"date":"2026-03-21T07:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2339680"},"modified":"2026-03-21T07:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:14:13","slug":"princess-kates-brilliant-reply-when-friend-said-she-was-lucky-to-have-william-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/princess-kates-brilliant-reply-when-friend-said-she-was-lucky-to-have-william-royal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Kate’s brilliant reply when friend said she was ‘lucky to have William’ | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The young Prince William truly appeared to possess everything one could wish for.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Beyond being the future monarch, he was attractive, bright and compassionate – so it’s scarcely surprising that numerous women pursued him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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His soulmate proved to be Catherine, a university housemate and companion, and observers believed she was an exceptionally fortunate woman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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However, when one of the now-Princess of Wales’ friends made this observation to her, she delivered a superb retort.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Throughout their university years at St Andrews, a friend mentioned to Catherine how fortunate she was to be dating Prince William<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Grinning, she simply responded: “He’s lucky to have me.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Following a temporary separation William eventually proposed in 2010, to which Charles famously remarked: “They have been practising long enough.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In her book The Making of a Royal Romance, royal expert Katie Nicholl claims William pledged he would never be coerced into marriage before he felt prepared.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She claims he drew lessons from his parents’ doomed relationship and was resolute he wouldn’t repeat the pattern.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She writes: “He was aware his father had been pressured into marrying Diana because she was deemed the suitable bride.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“He was reluctant to bow to similar pressure and vowed not to be hurried at the altar. He made his feelings clear, telling a journalist in an off-guard moment that he had no plans of getting married any time soon.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The couple exchanged vows at Westminster Abbey in April 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The now Princess of Wales appeared to adjust to life within the Royal Family quickly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The young Prince William truly appeared to possess everything one could wish for. Beyond being the future monarch, he was attractive, bright and compassionate – so it’s scarcely surprising that numerous women pursued him. His soulmate proved to be Catherine, a university housemate and companion, and observers believed she was an exceptionally fortunate woman. However, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2339681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[23068,374233,37936,22769],"class_list":["post-2339680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-prince-william","tag-princess-catherine","tag-princess-of-wales","tag-royal-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Princess-Kates-brilliant-reply-when-friend-said-she-was-lucky.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339682,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339680\/revisions\/2339682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2339681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}