{"id":142895,"date":"2025-05-30T01:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T01:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/142895\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T01:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T01:53:12","slug":"prince-harry-described-kate-middleton-in-3-words-when-he-first-met-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/142895\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry Described Kate Middleton in 3 Words When He First Met Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Prince Harry and Kate Middleton used to be extraordinarily close, with the Duke of Sussex describing the Princess of Wales as \u201cthe big sister he never had.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In Spare\u2014Harry\u2019s 2023 memoir\u2014he describes the three words that first came to mind when he met Kate in the early 2000s.<\/li>\n<li>Harry and Kate\u2019s once close relationship has cooled amid the ongoing rift between Harry and his older brother, Prince William.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> In the past, <a class=\"recommendation-inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/king-charles-checking-on-prince-harry-princess-eugenie-8735587\" link-destination-recommendation=\"true\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a> referred to sister-in-law <a class=\"recommendation-inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/kate-middleton-rare-casual-outfit-prince-william-birthday-tribute-8771807\" link-destination-recommendation=\"true\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kate Middleton<\/a> as \u201cthe big sister he never had,\u201d and the two were extraordinarily close.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cThere was no filling the hole left by [Princess] Diana\u2019s death, and Harry seemed to be growing up without someone emotionally available he could lean on,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2017\/06\/30\/prince-harry-depression-diana-death-why-world-needs-magic-627833.html\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsweek<\/a> reported of the late Princess of Wales\u2019 death in a Paris car accident on August 31, 1997, when Harry was just 12 years old. \u201cKate has helped fill some of that gap.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p> Kate Middleton and Prince Harry on June 5, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_7-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Now, though, as the relationship between Harry and his older brother <a class=\"recommendation-inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/prince-william-kate-middleton-generational-pressure-8775106\" link-destination-recommendation=\"true\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince William<\/a> has cooled to the point of a nonexistent relationship between brothers, his relationship with Kate has become strained, as well. But let\u2019s think back, shall we, to a different time\u2014when Harry first met Kate, when both William and Kate were college sweethearts at the University of St. Andrews. Upon meeting the woman who would one day marry his brother, Harry described her in three words: carefree, sweet, and kind.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_9-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> That\u2019s how the Duke of Sussex put it in his 2023 memoir Spare, recalling that he \u201cliked his new girlfriend\u201d when he met her. Harry noted in the book that she\u2019d done a gap year in Florence, Italy, \u201cand had an interest in photography, art, and clothes,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/royalty\/834395\/prince-harry-3-word-verdict-meeting-kate-middleton\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hello!<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p> Prince Harry and Kate Middleton on May 13, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_14-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> To the clothes end, Kate helped William and Harry pick out outfits for a \u201cfancy-dress birthday party\u201d with a \u201ccringy\u201d theme: \u201cNatives and Colonials.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_16-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cHarry, who admitted to disliking both fancy-dress parties and themes, was particularly unenthusiastic about this one,\u201d according to Hello!. \u201cHowever, William\u2019s new girlfriend, Kate, offered to help them find outfits.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_18-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Harry also wrote about how he enjoyed making Kate laugh and how he connected with her \u201cheavily disguised silly side.\u201d When speaking about William and Kate\u2019s wedding on April 29, 2011, Harry wrote about how much he loved Kate and how he found in her the sister he\u2019d never had and always wanted. \u201cHe added that he was pleased that she\u2019d forever be by William\u2019s side and how she was a good match for his older brother,\u201d Hello! reported.\n<\/p>\n<p> Kate Middleton and Prince William on their April 29, 2011 wedding day.<\/p>\n<p>Georges De Keerle\/ GP\u00a0\/\u00a0Contributor \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_21-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Royal biographer Christopher Andersen said of the two that \u201cHarry was always close to Kate, and he always said she was the sister he never had.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_23-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cThey always had this banter,\u201d he added, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/1533522\/kate-middleton-prince-harry-relationship-royal-family-vn\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Express<\/a>. \u201cThey had similar senses of humor.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p> Kate Middleton and Prince Harry on April 23, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_26-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> It\u2019s unclear the last time that the formerly close Harry and Kate have spoken, but Harry said recently in a BBC interview earlier this month that \u201cThere have been so many disagreements, differences between me and some of my family.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_28-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Of Spare, he continued, \u201cOf course, some members of my family will never forgive me for writing a book. Of course, they will never forgive me for lots of things. But I would love reconciliation with my family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry and Kate Middleton used to be extraordinarily close, with the Duke of Sussex describing the Princess&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-142895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-royal","9":"tag-royal-families","10":"tag-royal-family","11":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114594290525580127","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}