Queen Camilla allegedly had issues with Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding. The pair, who began dating in 2003, tied the knot at Westminster Abbey on April 29, 2011. Now, according to an author, King Charles III’s wife was against the union.
Queen Camilla thought Kate Middleton was ‘too common’, says author
As per the “Kate!” biography by Christopher Andersen, Queen Camilla did not want Prince William to marry Kate Middleton. The queen was allegedly one of Middleton’s “fiercest critics” and “did object” to her marrying her elder stepson. Camilla allegedly believed she was “too common” to marry William. “She did not think she was up to snuff, as it were,” the book read. The author further added, “She was below the salt. She had no aristocratic blood.”
Moreover, the biography mentioned that “the palace didn’t really want” the now Princess of Wales. “People like Camilla didn’t want her because they felt that she was too common to be the wife of a future king,” Anderson claimed. The author added that the queen was against Middleton’s “working-class roots.” He continued, “[Camilla] was very cognizant of the fact that a future king of England should have, she believed, a marriage to a royal personage, or at least a British aristocrat.”
She allegedly didn’t want William to be with “a descendant of coal miners whose mother had grown up in public housing and once worked as a flight attendant.” Additionally, Anderson claimed Camilla had a negative opinion of Kate’s mother, Carole Middleton. Before the wedding, the king and queen allegedly “offended” the bride by asking her to change the first letter of her name, Catherine, from a C to a K.
This is reportedly because they felt another C representing the family would be an “overkill.” However, the matter was allegedly dropped once William got upset. Anderson explained that the Prince and Princess of Wales’s early days had “a lot of sniping from the sidelines, much of it coming from Camilla’s camp.” However, Middleton reportedly “never put a foot wrong.”
