The Duchess of Cambridge appears to the reigning matriarch for timeless knowledge — whilst inserting her own modern-day spin on the role.
As Kate Middleton prepares for her future position as Queen Consort, she's doing so with the quality mannequin available: the record-breaking monarch, 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth.
"Catherine has realized by way of observing," the Queen's biographer Sally Bedell Smith tells PEOPLE in this week's cover story. "She is aware of what resonates. She will have absorbed a lot from this Queen."
Although they are separated in age with the aid of fifty six years, the Queen and Kate share key skills for the job: quiet stoicism, unerring discretion and company loyalty. Their opinions on contentious political problems are in no way heard; their dedication to the throne is unwavering, and their public pictures are tightly controlled. Kate additionally embodies the Queen's unofficial motto for public life: "Never complain, never explain."
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Not one to hand down explicit "lessons," it is not likely the Queen has ever formally tutored Kate, insiders say. Instead, historian Sarah Gristwood tells PEOPLE that the Queen may also have approached her relationship with Kate the way she does with high ministers.
"The Queen has always desired to do instead than to say," says the creator of Elizabeth: Queen and Crown. "With her audiences with her top ministers, if there has been proper advice, it would be a discreet 'I suppose that went as a substitute well' alternatively than authentic instruction."
For extra on the bond between Kate and the Queen, pick up the modern-day trouble of PEOPLE on newsstands on Friday.
Kate is additionally a contemporary female who is on the other hand amenable to the centuries-old electricity structure of the household enterprise — otherwise regarded as the "the firm."
"It's a personal willingness to conform to the necessities of the institution," says Gristwood. "That sounds like an unappealing, unglamorous virtue, but it is an essential one if you're going to be a successful cog in the royal wheel."
Kate has even been inspired by the Queen's fashion and normally wears jewels on mortgage from the monarch. On royal outings, the Queen constantly wears brilliant colorings so followers can spot her in a crowd — and Kate has accompanied suit.
The Queen "has this definitive style, nearly like a uniform, which also works for Kate," a pal tells PEOPLE.
As the Queen starts offevolved her summer time holiday at Balmoral Castle in Scotland this week — two months after her 70 years on the throne used to be celebrated throughout the U.K. and the world — she's doing so with self assurance in the fact that Kate and her husband Prince William are geared up for their royal duties in the months and years ahead.
They "are representing the Queen impeccably," provides Bedell Smith. "They're displaying a kind of dedication she would be proud of. And that probably offers her hope."
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