{"id":445991,"date":"2026-05-13T02:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/445991\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T02:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:39:11","slug":"queen-camilla-objected-to-prince-william-marrying-common-kate-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/445991\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Camilla objected to Prince William marrying \u2018common\u2019 Kate: author"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queen Camilla used to be one of Kate\u2019s \u201cfiercest critics\u201d \u2014 and \u201cdid object\u201d to her marrying Prince William.<\/p>\n

King Charles\u2019 wife believed the now-Princess of Wales, 44, was \u201ctoo common\u201d to wed William in 2011, according to Christopher Andersen\u2019s Kate! biography, out last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe did not think she was up to snuff, as it were,\u201d the new book reads. \u201cShe was below the salt. She had no aristocratic blood\u201d.<\/p>\n

He claimed Camilla \u201calways saw herself as the mistress of a king, not a queen\u201d and \u201cpicked [Princess] Diana to be Charles\u2019 bride\u201d in 1981, reports Page Six<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mr Anderson noted that \u201cthe palace didn\u2019t really want\u201d Kate, whom William met attending the University of St Andrews in Scotland.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople like Camilla didn\u2019t want her because they felt that she was too common to be the wife of a future king,\u201d the biographer wrote, alleging the 78-year-old \u201cdid object\u201d to her daughter-in-law\u2019s \u201cworking-class roots\u201d.<\/p>\n

MORE: Kate\u2019s bombshell move from \u2018prison\u2019 palace<\/a><\/p>\n

Kate\u2019s parents, Carole Middleton and Michael Middleton, are former British Airways employees who founded a successful party supply business.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Camilla] was very cognisant 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,\u201d Mr Anderson wrote \u2014 not \u201ca descendant of coal miners whose mother had grown up in public housing and once worked as a flight attendant\u201d.<\/p>\n

As for Camilla\u2019s thoughts on Kate\u2019s mum, she allegedly believed Carole to be a \u201cgauche opportunist\u201d and \u201cknew a schemer when she saw one\u201d.<\/p>\n

MORE: \u2018Messy\u2019: Charles, Camilla \u2018time apart\u2019 exposed<\/a><\/p>\n

Spokespeople for Queen Camilla and Princess Kate did not immediately respond to Page Six\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

Kate and William, 43, got engaged in October 2010 and tied the knot in April of the following year.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the 2011 nuptials, Camilla and King Charles, 77, reportedly \u201coffended\u201d the bride by requesting she change the letter of her first name, Catherine, from a C to a K.<\/p>\n

They believed another C royal cipher \u2014 a personalised monogram or emblem representing a royal family member \u2014 would be \u201coverkill,\u201d Mr Anderson wrote.<\/p>\n

When William was left allegedly \u201cfuming\u201d over the \u201cinsult,\u201d the subject was dropped.<\/p>\n

The author claimed Kate and William\u2019s early days included \u201ca lot of sniping from the sidelines, much of it coming from Camilla\u2019s camp\u201d \u2014 but the Princess \u201cnever put a foot wrong\u201d.<\/p>\n

Kate and the Prince of Wales have since welcomed three children \u2014 Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, 11, and Prince Louis, 8.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared in Page Six<\/a> and was reproduced with permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen Camilla used to be one of Kate\u2019s \u201cfiercest critics\u201d \u2014 and \u201cdid object\u201d to her marrying Prince…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[193947,193938,165888,147626,321,193948,33376,152719,191978,193939,5072,185878,5040,93,1813,193945,161327,61,60,102,93129,7428,80368,185874,193940,193943,102171,193937,624,4638,111963,4639,193946,193941,9036,151547,9039,193942,193944],"class_list":["post-445991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-british-airways-plc","tag-cancer-diagnosiskensington","tag-carole-middleton","tag-catherine","tag-celebrities","tag-central-theme","tag-charlotte","tag-childhood-development","tag-christopher-andersen","tag-coal-miners","tag-diana","tag-duke-of-cambridge","tag-england","tag-entertainment","tag-europe","tag-flight-attendant","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-italy","tag-kate","tag-king-charles","tag-louis","tag-mahmoud-abdul-rauf","tag-michael-middleton","tag-milestone-announcement","tag-northern-europe","tag-places-relationships","tag-prince-william","tag-princess-of-wales","tag-reggio-emilia","tag-royal-family","tag-royal-family-member","tag-royal-personage","tag-scotland","tag-southern-europe","tag-university-of-st-andrews","tag-work-focusing","tag-working-class-roots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}