Kate Middleton has been spending the last couple weeks minding her own business and dressing up like a tennis ball for Wimbledon, but royal author Valentine Low is out here saying she’s actually playing ~the long game~.
Speaking to Page Six, Low said “Interestingly, behind the scenes, she’s a lot more steely, a lot tougher than we give her credit. She’s this nice-looking woman, dresses nicely, smiles nicely, adopts sort of fairly uncontroversial charities. You know, they think she’s slightly bland.”
He pointed to the Queen’s memorable “recollections may vary” line following Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s interview with Oprah, saying that while a private secretary technically came up with it, Kate pushed it through.
“There were some people in other [royal] households, who felt it would antagonize Harry and Meghan and would go down badly and just keep the whole unpleasantness going,” Low said. “But it was Kate who really strongly made the argument.”
Low also noted that Kate knows “she’s one day going to be Queen” and “thinks very carefully about the long-term security and strength and stability of the royal family as an institution.”
“She’s good,” he mused. “She has a good eye on the big picture, the long game.”
I mean…fair enough!
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