Kate has become a bird in a gilded cage - much admired, but with her freedom and her privacy severely curtailed. With the collapse of her plans to start a clothing company, Kate has found that despite her determination to forge a career, there is too much interest in her private life for her to move unfettered in the commercial world - just as Sophie, Countess of Wessex discovered. Not so very different from the fate of Miss Catherine Elizabeth Middleton.Įxcept that this tale is set in 18th-century France and its conclusion not necessarily one she would wish for.īut it is true that Kate has already faced some of the problems that go with being a Royal. She is joyous the future ahead is golden. The whole country, looking forward to her arrival, drops what they are doing to prepare a triumphal route for her. Its opening scene has a young bride, wife of the future king, riding in her carriage, accompanied by a splendid retinue of nobles and gentry. She could do worse than start with a little-known work, The Peasant And The Prince, published in 1841. Should ever a girl need a good book to while away the time, that girl has to be Kate Middleton.Īnd perhaps, as she continues to wait month after long month, in the hope she can finally be announced as the official fiancee of our future King, there’s something worthwhile she can find to read.
