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Words: Daniela Elser 
Kate Middleton's secret double life exposed 
When Kate Middleton, second-class art history graduate and charity roller-disco organiser walked down the aisle of Westminster Abbey in 2011, one of the many things she was sacrificing in the name of future Queendom was much of her privacy.
Her life might have been about to become one of unthinkable privilege and sorties to happily raid her late grandmother-in-law’s jewellery vault but that all came at a very steep price.
Much of Kate’s life now belongs to the British people, who expect an intrusive degree of access to her marriage, children and daily life. But… what if Kate has been living something of a double life?
What if the Kate the world sees – measured, eternally coiffured and smiling, a perpetual exercise in regal perfectionism – is something of a construct and removed from the woman she really is when history is not watching?
The level of unprecedented detail about her private life that has come out is extraordinary and the person who emerges is a serious departure from the Kate we normally see.
Despite being one of the most famous people in the world, she manages to go on holidays, wander around on the beach in a two-piece cossie and the world is none the wiser.
Vassi Chamberlain from British Vogue recounts the story of someone who sat next to Kate’s father Michael Middleton at a dinner party: “When he got up to leave, he turned to my friend and said: ‘I’ve got to go home, Kate is coming to collect us, it’s her turn.’”
It’s a beguiling image: That despite her position, despite her access to an endless supply of drivers to do her bidding, Kate was still willing to do her daughterly bit.
At the heart of things seems to lie one simple fact: Her relationship with Prince William and now royal status has not affected who she is as a person.
So, how has Kate managed to cope? Especially with the incredible turbulence of the last few years and the dramatic exit of Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex?
“She has focused on personal support for William in what has been a really sad time in his life. She never predicted the degree of falling out between [the princes],” a close friend told the Times.
As it is, Kate has come in for nearly two decades of scrutiny and censure which was, and will always be, a facet of her life.
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