Much has been made of Kate Middleton’s “common” background but her lack of blue blood couldn’t matter less to the Queen.
A new book, The Queen’s Speech, claims the monarch adores her new granddaughter and has high hopes for her marriage to Prince William.
“She thoroughly approves of the Duchess of Cambridge and doesn’t give a fig for her being from an ordinary, middle-class background,” the book’s author Ingrid Seward writes.
“She has high hopes that the Cambridges’ marriage will be as successful as her own.”
Seward ever goes so far as to claim the Queen admires Kate for how well she is handling her transition to life as a princess.
“The Middletons and the Windsors might seem at first glance to be worlds apart,” she writes. “Kate certainly shows no sign of adopting the horsey, doggy lifestyle beloved of her grandmother-in-law.
“But the Queen admires how well Kate has embraced royal life, combining it cheerfully with duty and motherhood. Nothing could matter more.”
