Kate Middleton: will she be Princess of Wales like Diana?

KATE MIDDLETON. Kate Middleton will inherit new titles after the death of Queen Elizabeth. Will the wife of the future King William also have the honor and the weight of taking over the title of Princess of Wales, which is closely linked to Diana?

[Mis à jour le 9 septembre 2022 à 15h38] What role will Kate Middleton play in the coming days? After the announcement of the death of Queen Elizabeth II Thursday, September 8, the royal family and the order of succession to the throne is upset. Kate Middleton’s husband, Prince William, logically becomes the heir to the throne and the successor of Charles III, the new king of England. This upheaval also leads to a waltz of titles within the royal family. Kate and William inherited the titles of Duke and Duchess of Cornwall on Thursday evening. As the eldest son of the monarch, William should also soon inherit the title of Prince of Wales carried until then by his father and vacant since the accession to the throne of the latter.

Will Kate inherit the title of Princess of Wales? Not sure as he remains intimately linked to Diana, William’s mother who died in 1997 in a car accident in Paris. Camilla, Charles’s second wife, did not carry this title after their marriage in 2005 but it was as much because of the personal history and the love triangle between Camilla, Charles and Diana as the attachment of the British to the personality of Lady Di. Will it be different for Kate, more appreciated and whose popularity rating remains at the highest since her marriage to William? The next few weeks and months should make it possible to see more clearly about the new organization of the royal family.

As a reminder, Thursday, September 8, after the publication of a disturbing medical statement, relatives of Queen Elizabeth rushed to Balmoral. This was the case of William, as confirmed by royalty in the minutes following Buckingham Palace’s press release on the state of health of Elizabeth II but not of Kate Middleton, an absence that quickly raised questions. It would rather seem that Kate stayed in England, simply to welcome her children back from their new school where they started school on Wednesday September 7, 2022. George, Charlotte and Louis, the couple’s three children, are now educated near from Windsor, where Kate and William have settled this summer, near Elizabeth’s favorite home. However, the latter finally remained throughout the summer in her Scottish home in Balmoral.

An unpublished photo, the beginnings of a concern

For several weeks, the state of health of Queen Elizabeth II worried the British and observers of the monarchy. Sign of a more fragile health of the queen, her relatives were more present at her side. As a reminder, Kate Middleton and Prince William had already announced this summer their decision to leave their Kensington Palace residence in London for a cottage located on the Windsor estate where the Queen has taken up residence.. Wednesday, September 7, the British press had thus made its cabbage of the return to school of the children of William and Kate, George, Charlotte and Louis in their new school of Lambrook School.

If the photo was widely published in the British press, it had not been the subject of a post on the royal couple’s social networks, unlike in recent years. Thursday, the English tabloids were quick to see a message and a sign that the couple formed by William and Kate Middleton did not want to appear all smiles when the health of Queen Elizabeth II was probably already worrying…

Biography of Kate Middleton

Catherine “Kate” Middleton was born on January 9, 1982 in Berkshire. Daughter of Michael and Carole Middleton, a couple who made their fortune with a company selling party accessories, “Kate” is the eldest and has a sister Philippa, known as “Pippa” born in 1983 and a brother, James born in 1987. Her destiny turns at the turn of the 2000s when she meets Prince William, heir to the British crown, at the Scottish University of Saint Andrews. Married since 2010, the couple have had three children and embody both the tradition of the monarchy and a certain dose of modernity, which make Kate and William very popular personalities with the British despite the conflict between them and the Harry couple ( William’s younger brother) and Meghan Markle.

His meeting with Prince William

Kate Middleton joined the prestigious University of Saint Andrews in Scotland in the early 2000s. It is there that she meets Prince William, whom she quickly dates with living together in a roommate with three other friends. Their relationship was revealed by the English tabloids in 2003 and they lived together in Saint-Andrews until 2006, when their university course ended. After a brief separation in 2007, the couple’s engagement was officially announced on November 16, 2010, a month after a vacation in Kenya. The engagement of the future king of England according to the protocol made the front page of the English press, especially as Kate displayed in the following days the engagement ring of Diana, the mother of William who died in Paris in 1997.

The wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William

It was in front of 2 billion viewers that the couple married on April 29, 2011 at Westminster Abbey. Images of a jubilant crowd outside the balcony of Buckingham Palace and in the streets of London have gone around the world. At the same time, the couple received the titles of Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

The children of Kate Middleton and Prince William

Kate Middleton and Prince William had three children, George born on July 22, 2013, Charlotte born on May 2, 2015 and Louis born on April 23, 2018. In the order of succession to the throne, it is George who is logically called to reign one day, after his grandfather Charles and his father William. The couple and their children settled in Kensington Palace in London, a residence which they left in 2022 for a cottage located on the Windsor estate, near the privileged residence of Queen Elizabeth II.