How an ordinary bourgeois girl became the perfect British royal (except for that one topless photo)

In primary school she played the workman’s girl who became a noblewoman, in secondary school she dreamed of a real prince on a real white horse, at university she met that prince – exclusive horse. And ten years ago she stepped out of Westminster Abbey as the wife of the future King William. Catherine Elizabeth Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, is now 40 years old. The daughter of industrious merchants who became everything a British Royal should be. Dutiful, a little stiff, and always discreet. Except for that one topless photo, then.

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