Kate Middleton Thinks This Child Is the Only One Who “Actually Looks Like Her,” a Friend Says.

 

Kate Middleton Thinks This Child Is the Only One Who “Actually Looks Like Her,” a Friend Says.

Kate Middleton is a mom of three, and while she doesn’t play favorites with Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, she does admit that one of her children looks just like her, as opposed to Prince William.

It’s Louis, who turned 8 years old on April 23. A friend of the Princess of Wales previously told People that “Everyone always comments on how Louis is the spitting image of Kate. She loves it and thinks it’s very sweet.”

“She often jokes that he’s the only one of her kids who actually looks like her!” the friend added.

Speaking of the future queen, in addition to oftentimes taking birthday portraits of George, Charlotte, and Louis, the Princess of Wales has a sweet birthday tradition: She stays up late taking part in the night before each of their birthdays.

“I love making the cake,” Kate said in 2019. “It’s become a bit of a tradition that I stay up ‘til midnight with ridiculous amounts of cake mix and icing, and I make far too much. But I love it.”

Louis is William and Kate’s youngest child, and as she met a baby boy in 2022, she remarked of Louis, “I keep thinking Louis is a baby, but he’s a big boy now.”

“It just feels like yesterday,” she added of Louis’s 2018 birth.

Being a member of the royal family is a tricky proposition. By taking part, in exchange for access to vast wealth and history that affords comfort and luxury, royals essentially give up any expectation of privacy. Their every move — their fashion sense, expressions, tone of voice — gets picked over by the press. And royals can't refute every unflattering story; responding too directly to the media is seen as unbecoming. For proof, look at the reaction to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle going public with the damaging effect of the media on their mental health.

One way that the royals respond without responding is by letting anonymous sources speak for them. The strategy is an open secret, alluded to by Prince Harry in an ITV interview (via Reuters) in 2023. "There comes a point where, going back to the relationship between certain members of the family and the tabloid press, those certain members have decided to get in the bed with the devil ... to rehabilitate their image," he said.

One beneficiary of anonymous sources: Prince Harry's sister-in-law, Princess Catherine, a frequent target of ire in his memoir. While the future queen herself has remained relatively guarded ever since she married Prince William in 2011, numerous friends have spoken freely with the press about what she's really like behind closed doors. Read on for a peek at what Princess Catherine's friends have said about her.

Nowadays, Princess Catherine is one of the most well-liked people in all of the United Kingdom. According to Newsweek, a poll found that the Princess of Wales is tied with her husband, Prince William, as the most popular living royal. However, it wasn't always that way.

In 2011, a former friend of the future queen told biographer Sean Smith that Princess Catherine was bullied at prep school. According to excerpts from the book "Kate" quoted in the Boston Herald, former roommate Jessica Hay revealed that Princess Catherine was extremely unhappy when she attended Downe House. "The girls there were horrible. She was picked on because she was perfect, well turned out and a lovely person," Hay said. "She was not the type of person to stick up for herself. They saw something that they could pick on and gangs of girls can be very nasty."

Princess Catherine was ultimately pulled from the school over the treatment she received from her classmates. She later attended Marlborough College instead, which is where she dormed with Hay. Her former roommate went a step further while talking with The Daily Mail, describing a specific bullying incident that the princess had relayed to her. "When she used to go to lunch she would sit down with people and they all used to get up and sit on another table," she recalled the future royal telling her. We can't imagine Princess Catherine is hurting for lunch companions these days.

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