Prince William and Kate Middleton are set to become the future King and Queen of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms. For Kate, becoming a royal was a whole different life, and at first, the intense media interest almost broke her. A new book reveals details of Kate’s distressing call to William in 2007, in which she said she ‘couldn’t do it anymore.’
Prince William and Kate Middleton met each other while studying at St Andrews University in Scotland. William had grown up with the press around him all the time, not least because of his mother, Princess Diana, but for Kate, it was a whole different thing.
She came from a quiet background, without famous parents or cameras. Therefore, William did everything he could to keep their relationship outside of the papers. However, that failed in April 2004 when news of William and Kate’s romance became public.
The now-Princess of Wales had joined her boyfriend on a family skiing holiday – and as they cozied up on the slopes, a camera caught them. The next day, pictures of the pair were all over the British newspapers, leaving Prince William enraged.
Prince William & Kate Middleton
Speaking on Channel 5’s documentary William & Kate: Too Good To Be True, royal expert Rebecca England explained, “Unfortunately for them, a paparazzi photographer took pictures of William and Kate clearly very close on the ski lift together. A red top tabloid newspaper slashed it all over their front page.”
“William was furious, and he was also genuinely worried for Kate and her family about what this would now mean for them,” she continued.
William and Kate’s relationship was made public. They graduated from St Andrews on the same day and moved to London. As months passed, people began wondering whether William would soon announce that he and Kate had gotten engaged. Public interest in the couple was high, but the fact that paparazzi wouldn’t leave Kate alone, just as they had with William’s mother, was almost unbearable. their relationship apart
In a new book, William and Catherine, The Monarchy’s New Era: The Inside Story, royal author Russell Myers has conducted about 100 interviews to get a sense of the couple’s private turning points.
One of these happened on Kate MIddleton’s 25th birthday, on January 9, 2007. In an excerpt of the book, obtained exclusively by People Magazine, Myers writes that William and Kate engaged in a “distressing” phone call.
Distressing call before 2007 split
“On the day of her 25th birthday, on Jan. 9, 2007, with speculation over an engagement announcement at fever pitch, Catherine emerged from her London flat to a scrum of more than 20 press photographers and five television crews,” Myers writes in his new book.
“Amid the dizzying flashes of photographers’ cameras, some sprinting across the road to get in front of her, some almost stumbling over each other, Catherine struggled to get to her navy Volkswagen Polo, before the media continued to take pictures through the windows of her car as it sped away. Shaken and deeply distressed by the incident, Catherine called William in floods of tears.“
The book continues, “A source close to the couple said the situation and resulting conversation was ‘incredibly distressing for both of them,’ adding, ‘She [Catherine] said, ‘I can’t do this anymore.’ The situation was intolerable and William felt entirely helpless.‘”
Russell Myers stated that sources told him William and Kate’s relationship “soured beyond repair” just months later.
“She was miserable”
A “long-standing friend who she confided in at the time” told the author, “Catherine was distressed. She was miserable, but she certainly wasn’t desperate. She felt as though she had nothing to lose and for the first time she probably relayed her true feelings to William.”
They added, “She wasn’t demanding an engagement, but she wanted a commitment, and if he couldn’t deliver that, well, then she left him in no doubt that it was best they go their separate ways.”
William and Kate split for a bit, but in the end, they made amends and found each other again. Today, they are deeply in love, raising their three children to become not only future members of the Royal Family, but also decent human beings.
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