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My Fair Lady: Kate Middleton, 11, shows off accent in school play

Footage of an 11-year-old Duchess of Cambridge playing Eliza Doolittle in her school's production of My Fair Lady has emerged.
The Duchess played Eliza Doolittle in a school play when she was 11

Kate had the lead role in the 1993 musical about a poor flower girl who is taught to pass herself off as a duchess.

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She took the role incredibly seriously, committing to the accent so completely she had the audience in stitches.

Kate took part in the play while studying at the $25,000-a-year St Andrew’s School in Berkshire.

Friends at the time say she struggled with the Cockney accent but “took to being a lady like a duck to water”.

Kate’s love interest in the production was played by Andrew Alexander, who went on to become a famous actor starring in Downton Abbey. He is believed to be one of Kate’s first crushes.

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“Kate was very shy around him because she had a huge crush on him,” a source told The Sun.

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