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Kate Middleton shared a candid admission about the challenges of royal life during a Buckingham Palace reception<\/a> on Tuesday. The event was held to mark the 100th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth\u2019s birth<\/a> on April 21.<\/p>\n Speaking to a small group of women at the event, the Princess of Wales acknowledged that large gatherings present a particular difficulty. \u201cI find these environments are really hard. I\u2019ve also got a very soft voice, so I always get told, \u2018Speak up a bit louder!\u2019\u201d Kate told a guest in a video shared to social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n The comment was consistent with remarks she has made about shyness over the years. Kate became a working royal following her marriage to Prince William in 2011. But during her engagement interview<\/a> in November 2010, she recalled their first meeting and told him, \u201cI actually think I went bright red when I met you and sort of scuttled off, feeling very shy about meeting you.\u201d In 2019, at the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show, the then-Duchess of Cambridge reportedly pulled aside a timid young girl for a quiet chat in a small tent, telling her that she goes there herself when she is feeling shy. The girl\u2019s mother later told Hello<\/em><\/a> that her daughter is also shy and \u201cdoesn\u2019t talk too much to people\u2014and [Kate] took her over to speak to her. She was really nice with her.\u201d<\/p>\n Along with Prince William, Kate attended the centenary reception<\/a>, hosted by King Charles and Queen Camilla<\/a> in Marble Hall, with all of the senior working members of the royal family<\/a>, a very rare gathering. Among the attendees were Princess Anne<\/a>, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh<\/a>, the Duke of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and Princess Alexandra<\/a>. Reception guests included representatives from a selection of Queen Elizabeth\u2019s patronages, such as the British Red Cross and Cancer Research UK, as well as centenarians born on April 21, 1926, who therefore shared a 100th birthday with the late monarch.<\/p>\n You Might Also Like<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kate Middleton shared a candid admission about the challenges of royal life during a Buckingham Palace reception on Tuesday. The event was held to mark the 100th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth\u2019s birth on April 21. Speaking to a small group of women at the event, the Princess of Wales acknowledged that large gatherings present a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2384380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[26597,23651,23068],"class_list":["post-2384379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-buckingham-palace","tag-kate-middleton","tag-prince-william"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Kate-Middleton-Makes-a-Surprising-Admission-About-What-She-Finds.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384379","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=2384379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384381,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384379\/revisions\/2384381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2384380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2384379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2384379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2384379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}