A photo from 2005 resurfaces, showing a young and casual Kate Middleton, raising the question of whether princesses are born or made.
She’s one of the most famous women in the world but in 2005 she was wearing low-slung jeans and over-plucking her eyebrows like the rest of us.: They are mononyms, women for whom we do not need their actual titles or descriptions or identifying details to know exactly who they are.For hundreds of years, the lifeblood of the British monarchy has been women agreeing to cede their autonomy, identity and freedom for the good of the institution.
Kate Middleton cuts a casual figure watching Prince William playing in a Rugby Sevens tournament at St Andrew’s, Scotland on April 25, 2005. Picture: Brendan Beirne/Shutterstock/Media Mode, the future Queen Catherine and high street icon destined to be commemorated in bronze statuary outside Zara branches the world over.
And therein lies a fundamental truth: That, of the women who marry into the royal family, none turn up on day one outside the Buckingham Palace gates for eager admittance with any idea in the least how to do the job.followed nearly exactly the same trajectory: They would be outed as a prince’s girlfriend by the press, triggering a media and public frenzy.
It is so easy to forget all this now when 2023 Kate is adored by the British public and could probably get away with mowing down her kids’ school’s lollipop man these days in her Audi station wagon. Too, too, too: Royal women are always ‘too’ something. Too hot, too cold; too fat, too thin; too loud, too quiet. They are never, ever enough as they are.
When it comes to princesses or duchesses, how can anyone do a perfect job from the word ‘go’ when it’s a gig that no one can truly ever be properly prepared for? Where there is no apprenticeship? Where each new recruit is existing at the epicentre of a firestorm of attention and obsession and Union Jack-bleeding hysteria?
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