Prince William, to his eternal credit, was having none of it.This Monday will mark 13 years since he wed middle-class university graduate Kate Middleton, officially marking her transition from Bucklebury convenience store regular (Haribo sweets were a particular favorite) to future Queen. (Haribo sweets, I’m assuming, are still a particular favorite.
In fact, that shop’s owners Hash and Chan Shingadia were invited to the wedding.)But have we fundamentally misunderstood, mislabeled and mistaken what Kate is really about?
And not just us but Prince Harry the Duke of Sussex too?Harry spent the royal wedding day in 2011 seeming totally enamored with his incoming sister-in-law, grinning and looking like a man with a generous hip flask concealed somewhere on his person.A decade and a bit later and he was singing a very different tune.In December 2022 the Duke popped up on TV screens to suggest to the world that the Waleses’ rose-tinted romance and all the “happily ever after” froth wasn’t a case of love conquering all but of weak-kneed capitulation and of pragmatism winning out.“I think for so many people in the family, especially obviously the men, there can be a temptation or an urge to marry someone who would fit the mold as opposed to somebody who you perhaps are destined to be with,” Harry told the Netflix cameras.“The difference between making decisions with your head or your heart.
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