Princess Catherine Debated Refusing Princess of Wales Title to Avoid ‘Stressful’ Comparisons to Princess Diana
Princess Catherine Debated Refusing Princess of Wales Title to Avoid ‘Stressful’ Comparisons to Princess Diana
Robert Jobson says in his new book on Princess Kate that she could have followed in Queen Camilla’s footsteps and gone by a different royal title
Kate Middleton considered not using the Princess of Wales title that was so closely associated with her late mother-in-law, Princess Diana.
According to an excerpt from Robert Jobson’s new book Catherine, The Princess of Wales: A Biography of the Future Queen, the author writes that Princess Kate considered “refusing” the royal title synonymous with her late mother-in-law when the time came one day. Jobson writes that Prince William’s wife mulled the weight of comparisons to the beloved “People’s Princess,” who died following a car accident in Paris in 1997 at age 36.
Robert Jobson writes in his new book Catherine, The Princess of Wales: A Biography of the Future Queen that after her wedding to Prince William, Kate was hesitant to take on the royal title synonymous with Diana, who died following a car accident in Paris in 1997 at age 36, when her husband became the heir to the throne.
“She knew she’d inevitably be compared with Diana, whose untimely death had provoked such a tsunami of anger and grief. And she was right,” Jobson says, per an excerpt published in the Daily Mail on July 26. The author adds the subject was even discussed among the royal household.
“Kate found all such talk stressful. Indeed, it got to the point where she felt she might follow Camilla (who opted to become Duchess of Cornwall) in refusing — when the time came — to be known as HRH Princess of Wales,” Jobson writes.