If, today, no one would dare to doubt the capacities of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Cornwall, to fulfill her royal duties, this was not always the case.

Kate Middleton's early days in the royal family started smoothly… until her relationship with Prince William was revealed to the general public in 2004, after two years of romance within the walls of the University of St. Andrews.

The then 22-year-old girl had been vilified by part of the British media because of her status.

Traditions have a hard tooth: if his parents were millionaires, they were not from the nobility.

A disaster for critics, which referred to the history of the Windsor family.

Indeed, the "commoners" to have married a member of the royal family did not leave a very good impression.

King Edward VIII abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson, an American (and divorced moreover,

shockingly

in 1937), leaving his place on the throne to King George VI, father of Elizabeth II And then the affairs of Princess Margaret and the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones were not the best effect for the royal image until their divorce in 1978. Even the discreet Princess Anne had ended up divorcing in 1992 from Mark Phillips, emeritus horseman and Olympic champion, but he also commoner.

From “Waity Katie” to Duchess

Kate Middleton therefore suffered the jokes in the media, which also relied on the slowness of Prince William to ask for her hand.

As a result, after “commoner”, the tabloids nicknamed her “Waity Katie”, an inglorious term that was spread almost every week in the press.

Where others would have preferred to pack their bags, or (and?) throw all their resentment at the same so decried media, the young woman from Berkshire took advantage of it.

This wait for which she was reproached, she used it to learn the basics of her role to come.

She made no public faux pas and embraced her status as future queen with as much fervor as her husband on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on their wedding day on April 29, 2011.

Since then, the one who should now be called Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Cornwall since the Queen's death, has carried out all the missions entrusted to her, without ever losing her smile, even when certain rumors have evoked an infidelity of prince William with one of his best friends.

She has adopted the motto of the crown, "Never complain, never explain", and takes initiatives, at the risk of sometimes overshadowing her royal husband.

The British have adopted it and their enthusiasm for it should increase a little more in the weeks to come.

Kate Middleton should indeed inherit another title, that of Princess of Wales, William resuming, normally, the title of his father, brought to other functions by succeeding his mother on the throne.

Like what, you should never be more royalist than the (future) king.

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