Queen Camilla didnt always think Kate Middleton was suited to be with a future king.
The claim comes from author Christopher Andersen, whose new book “Kate!” explores the Princess of Wales rise from commoner to the heirs wife and mother of the next in line. Andersens account is based on his reporting and sources and has not been independently confirmed by the palace.
“In the beginning, Camilla was one of Kates fiercest critics,” Andersen told Fox News Digital. “She did not think she was up to snuff, as it were. She was below the salt. She had no aristocratic blood.”
“Camilla always saw herself as the mistress of a king, not a queen,” Andersen claimed. “And she picked [ to be [King] Charles bride. So, she 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.”
“Kate was none of those things, but she quickly became popular,” Andersen added.
He noted that Camillas early skepticism stemmed from concerns about royal tradition and social class.
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Kate grew up in a quiet village near Berkshire, England, the daughter of a commercial airline pilot and a former flight attendant who later built a successful party supplies business. She went on to study art history at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where she met in 2001. After years of an on-and-off relationship, the couple got engaged in 2010 and married the following year.
According to Andersens book, Camilla “did object” to for a reason. Camilla is the granddaughter of a baron and a descendant of the Stuart bloodline, which ruled England from 1603 to 1714.
Her great-grandmother, Alice Keppel, was also King Edward VIIs mistress, “an intimate connection to the royal family that Camilla had always taken immense pride in,” Andersen wrote. Unlike Kate, Camilla moved in royal circles throughout her life.
“Camilla had long lobbied on behalf of the highborn beauties with hyphenated names who swarmed around the heir,” wrote Andersen.
“It was she, after all, who, along with another of Charles mistresses, Baroness Tryon, handpicked Lady Diana Spencer to become Charles bride,” Andersen wrote.Â
He also claimed that an aristocrat with “homegrown blue blood” would be preferable than “a descendant of coal miners whose mother had grown up in public housing and once worked as a flight attendant.”
Camilla wasnt the only one who questioned whether Kate could handle life behind palace doors.
“[Kate] has been with William for 25 years,” said Andersen. “People forget that. Dont forget the Waity Katie 10-year period there, where she put up with the slings and arrows of outrageous [comments] coming from every angle.
“The palace didnt really want her. People like Camilla didnt want her because they felt that she was too common to be the wife of a future king. And, of course, the press was vicious in England, portraying her family as a bunch of louts and criticizing [her mother] Carole Middleton for doing such horrible things as chewing gum while she was .”
According to Andersens book, Camilla was also wary of Carole, who was portrayed in the pr
