{"id":370130,"date":"2025-08-24T16:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T16:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/370130\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T16:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T16:21:11","slug":"kate-middleton-is-a-modern-day-princess-diana-former-royal-butler-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/370130\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Middleton Is a \u201cModern Day Princess Diana,\u201d Former Royal Butler Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Though the two never had the opportunity to meet, Kate Middleton is a \u201cmodern day Princess Diana,\u201d former royal butler Grant Harrold said.<\/li>\n<li>Harrold interacted with a 20-something Kate numerous times, back before she was engaged to Prince William.<\/li>\n<li>The current Princess of Wales \u201cis everything you can imagine,\u201d he said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> According to a royal butler who knew <a class=\"recommendation-inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/kate-middleton-monochrome-blue-suit-8410895\" link-destination-recommendation=\"true\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kate Middleton<\/a> even before she married into the royal family in 2011, the current Princess of Wales has ample similarities to the Princess of Wales that came before her\u2014<a class=\"recommendation-inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/princess-diana-unexpected-mantra-when-marriage-prince-charles-became-difficult-11729099\" link-destination-recommendation=\"true\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Princess Diana<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Diana died in 1997, four years before Kate met <a class=\"recommendation-inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/prince-william-diana-award-kate-middleton-8609611\" link-destination-recommendation=\"true\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince William<\/a> as first-year students at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland in 2001. Grant Harrold\u2014who served as a royal butler from just after Diana\u2019s death to just after William and Kate\u2019s wedding\u2014told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/royals\/i-knew-prince-william-kate-35772464\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Mirror<\/a> that, when it comes to Kate, \u201cEverything about her\u2014the way she carried herself, the way she spoke, the way she interacted with people, her kindness, her beauty\u2014she was, if I can say, the modern day Princess Diana.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p> Kate Middleton.<\/p>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_7-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Harrold\u2019s book The Royal Butler: My Remarkable Life of Royal Service comes out in the U.S. in September, and even though he met Kate when she was in her 20s, \u201cThat girl was a queen-in-waiting in every aspect,\u201d he said. \u201cShe is the perfect queen material, and you can so obviously see that.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_9-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> This extends not just to public moments, but private moments, too: \u201cDiana used to do things at Sandringham to make the staff laugh by poking her head out the window and pulling faces, and Kate was doing the same kind of thing,\u201d Harrold said. \u201cShe is everything you can imagine\u2014she is a beautiful and intelligent woman.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p> Kate Middleton on May 22, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p> Princess Diana on January 27, 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_15-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> In addition to obviously being close with William, Kate got on well with William\u2019s younger brother, <a class=\"recommendation-inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/prince-william-envious-prince-harry-freedom-8641449\" link-destination-recommendation=\"true\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a>, Harrold said, telling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/royal-family\/2025\/08\/18\/royal-butler-grant-harrold-charles-william-harry\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Telegraph<\/a> that the two would \u201cgo shopping\u201d and \u201cgo to pubs\u201d together. Kate was also close to Harry\u2019s then-girlfriend, Chelsy Davy, who Harry dated off and on from 2004 to 2011. \u201cChelsy was always around,\u201d Harrold said. \u201cAnd Chelsy and Kate got on really well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though the two never had the opportunity to meet, Kate Middleton is a \u201cmodern day Princess Diana,\u201d former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-370130","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\/115084662175740691","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370130","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=370130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}