{"id":245080,"date":"2025-07-07T11:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T11:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245080\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T11:02:12","slug":"why-the-royals-were-initially-concerned-by-prince-william-and-kate-middletons-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245080\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Royals Were Initially Concerned by Prince William and Kate Middleton\u2019s Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Princess of Wales<\/a> is widely regarded as the most popular member of the Mountbatten-Windsors. And with Princess Kate officially returning to duty<\/a> in 2025, following her cancer recovery<\/a>, the 43-year-old has been front and centre.<\/p>\n

As the mother of three scales up her duties and public appearances, insiders have credited her as “the royal family’s secret weapon<\/a>” and “a real asset to King Charles,”<\/a> with the Prince and Princess of Wales considered leaders within the fold.<\/p>\n

This was not always the case however, particularly in the early days of their relationship, with reports resurfacing that the royal family initially had concerns over their courtship.<\/p>\n

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The concerns in question were reportedly in their pre-engagement days, with the late Queen Elizabeth allegedly concerned over Kate’s lack of career.<\/p>\n

“If Kate was not with William at Balmoral then the couple were skiing or holidaying on Mustique,” royal expert Katie Nicholl explained in William and Harry: Behind the Palace Walls. “Kate was there so often the press dubbed her Queen of Mustique, a title that had previously belonged to Princess Margaret.”<\/p>\n

This was reportedly a concern for the late monarch, with Nicholl reporting: “Such frivolous displays of wealth were unpalatable to [Queen Elizabeth].”<\/p>\n

And according to reports, the late Queen initially thought that Princess Kate was “a nice enough girl,” but had “no idea what [she] actually does.”<\/p>\n

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According to a senior royal aide, via the Mail on Sunday, multiple discussions were had behind closed doors, reporting: “The Queen has had conversations with a few trusted friends about how to tackle what is being called the Kate problem.”<\/p>\n

This is even said to have affected their engagement timeline, with the royals allegedly believing that Kate should be “in a stable job” by the time she and Prince William<\/a> got engaged.<\/p>\n

“The Queen believed an announcement should be postponed until Kate was settled in a career,” Nicholl stated, with one insider telling her: “It is Her Majesty’s opinion that if Kate is one day going to be William’s consort, then she needs a proper job.”<\/p>\n

The now Princess of Wales famously worked as a part time accessories buyer at Jigsaw, as well as for her family’s business, Party Pieces, before the couple’s 2010 engagement.<\/p>\n

Well, that’s that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Princess of Wales is widely regarded as the most popular member of the Mountbatten-Windsors. And with Princess…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,2832,532,2831,7710,519,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-245080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-prince-of-wales","13":"tag-prince-william","14":"tag-princess-of-wales","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-uk-royal-family","18":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114811617344149614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245080","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=245080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}