{"id":155521,"date":"2025-06-03T18:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T18:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155521\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T18:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T18:59:10","slug":"kates-reply-to-pal-who-called-her-lucky-to-marry-william-proves-shes-not-like-diana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155521\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate\u2019s Reply to Pal Who Called Her ‘Lucky’ to Marry William Proves She\u2019s Not Like Diana"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prince William and Kate Middleton attend the naming ceremony for HMS Glasgow; (Inset) Princess Diana during an official overseas visit. <\/p>\n

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Prince William and Kate Middleton\u2019s love story<\/a> began as teenagers at St. Andrews University in 2001. Royal author Claudia Joseph quoted a friend of the Princess who once told Middleton she was lucky to have landed a future King. In response, the Princess of Wales allegedly had a bold response, which showed early on that she was no timid royal, unlike the late Princess Diana, who remained undeterred in her love for King Charles despite his infidelity.<\/p>\n

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#otd<\/a> in 2005, our Prince William and his then girlfriend Catherine Middleton graduated from St. Andrews University\ud83d\udc68\ud83c\udffc\u200d\ud83c\udf93\ud83d\udc69\ud83c\udffb\u200d\ud83c\udf93 they were already dating for some years back then! They know each other for half their lives now since they met in 2001… They really are soulmates \ud83e\udd7a\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f pic.twitter.com\/LzwJWolPsA<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Wales Family (fan account) (@lovefamilywales) June 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As per Woman & Home<\/a>, Middleton was known as the \u2018prettiest girl\u2019 in her hall and had many admirers. Despite her killer looks, Joseph, in her book Kate Middleton: The Making Of A Princess, claimed that one of the Princess’s university friends had expressed surprise and excitement about Middleton bagging a Prince. In response, the Princess smiled and allegedly said, \u201cHe’s lucky to have me.\u201d In their 2001 engagement interview, William, too, felt it was he who was lucky. He gushed, \u201cI knew there was something very special about her\u2026She’s got a really naughty sense of humor, which kind of helps me because I’ve got a really dry sense of humor, so it was good fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Princess of Wales\u2019s confident reply comes as a stark contrast to that of her mother-in-law, Diana<\/a>. For her part, the late Princess kept professing her love for then-Prince Charles, despite his affair with Camilla Parker Bowles. As reported by the Daily Express<\/a>, in the documentary \u2018Royalty Close Up: The Photography of Kent Gavin, photographer Kent Gavin revealed, \u201cShe said to me after all the rumors of the marriage and everything, she said on a flight somewhere: \u2018Kent, you won\u2019t believe it, but I still love him.\u201d As per InStyle<\/a>, in a separate incident, she allegedly told her dance teacher, Anne Allen, \u201cI just can\u2019t seem to do anything right\u2026I do love him so much and want him to be proud of me, but I don\u2019t think he feels the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, it was once widely reported that when William had brutally broken up with Middleton<\/a> in 2007, over the phone, Middleton didn’t waste time wallowing. Instead, she lived it up. According to royal author Rob Jobson, Middleton decided to take a vacation to Ibiza with some of her friends and hit the nightclubs with her sister, Pippa Middleton. As per Marie Claire,<\/a> the author spilled, \u201cHe [William] soon began having serious second thoughts, though he realized that after the way he’d treated Catherine, it wasn’t going to be easy to woo her back.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Royal expert Edward White has also claimed that Middleton isn’t anything like Diana. He told Fox News<\/a>, \u201cThe big lesson that she probably learned from Diana\u2019s life is don\u2019t rush into becoming a royal.\u201d Middleton also learnt from the late royal not to divulge too much information to the press. The expert added that Middleton \u201chandles the press scrutiny really well, but she\u2026had to switch herself off and only focus on duty,\u201d unlike Diana, who would allegedly edit stories of herself and fax them back before they went live.<\/p>\n