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WILLIAM & KATE: FACING THE FUTURE WITH JOY AND RESOLVE William, Prince of Wales, has known since his boyhood that the duties of the monarch someday would fall to him. In his wife, the former Kate Middleton, he anticipated having a strong and loving partner at his side when that day arrived. So it was “brutal,” said William, when last year he had to step in for the King solo, as both his father and his wife underwent cancer treatment. Happily, King Charles returned to his schedule, as did the Princess of Wales. Now, with gratitude and new priorities, William and Kate have plunged back into public life. That includes, says biographer Sally Bedell Smith, “preparing for their future roles sooner than they would have expected.” In this special…

ALL EYES WERE ON PRINCESS KATE as she stepped into the 755-year-old Westminster Abbey on March 10 with her husband, Prince William, by her side. The occasion—the annual Commonwealth Day service—marked a significant return for Kate, who missed last year’s event while undergoing cancer treatment, unknown to the public at the time. Though the couple are known for keeping public displays of affection to a minimum, this moment—leaning in close, exchanging glances and laughing together—offered a rare glimpse into their private connection. Kate, 43, and William, 42, appeared more in sync than ever, even in the grandeur of the Abbey where they wed in 2011. For many royal watchers it was a striking contrast to the Kate seen nearly a year ago, when she bravely shared her cancer diagnosis on…

BACK WHEN PRINCE GEORGE WAS still perching on stacks of foam blocks for a height boost in royal portraits and charming the public with his pinchable cheeks, his father spoke candidly about the duty of preparing the toddler for his future role as King of England. “There’ll be a time and a place to bring George up and understand how he fits in the world,” Prince William told the BBC in 2016. “But right now it’s just a case of keeping a secure, stable environment around him and showing him as much love as I can as a father.” Mission deftly accomplished thus far. With William’s steady devotion, the grounding influence of mom Princess Kate and plenty of love from both, George has grown into a sweet and self-assured…

BORN INTO ROYAL SPLENDOR, William also landed in a fractured fairy tale, as Charles and Diana’s spiraling marriage played out under an unsparing media microscope. Despite all the drama, the Prince and Princess of Wales were doting, indulgent parents. Diana was a devotee of childcare theorist Dr. Benjamin Spock, who believed in cutting kids plenty of slack. Charles, too, was something of a softie, unlike his own aloof and domineering father, Prince Philip. As a result, perhaps, “William became a law unto himself, loud and boisterous and earning the nickname ‘His Royal Naughtiness,’ ” wrote historian Robert Lacey in his 2020 book Battle of Brothers: William and Harry, the Inside Story of a Family in Tumult. The prince soon grew out of that stage, however, and seemed to acquire…

SAME GORGEOUS SPECTACLE. MUCH different world. When hundreds of millions of online and TV viewers—2 billion, by some estimates—tuned in on April 29, 2011, to watch Prince William wed his college sweetheart Kate Middleton, they knew what to expect. There would be the grandeur, age-old traditions and pomp and circumstance that have held the world rapt since Queen Elizabeth’s 1947 wedding to Prince Philip of Greece was broadcast live over the radio to 200 million listeners. And for sure, it was all there: the jaw-dropping dress, gleaming horse-drawn carriages, a flyover by the Royal Air Force and cheers for newlywed kisses on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. But there were also plenty of signs that this was not your nan’s royal wedding. The most obvious update to the House of…

DEAFENING CHEERS SURROUNDED the Buckingham Palace balcony as Queen Elizabeth marked the end of her Jubilee weekend in June 2022 alongside the generations that would carry the monarchy forward. Nearby was her oldest son, Charles, who would ascend the throne later that year, making his wife, Camilla, then Duchess of Cornwall, a Queen. But a few paces to the monarch’s left that day was the woman on whom most eyes were fixed: Princess Kate, with her three children gathered in front of her. Along with her husband, next-in-line Prince William, Kate is poised to enjoy a long reign in which she and William will carve their own path while honoring the traditions of the past. As she prepared for that future moment of history, she had the best role model…

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WHEN CATHERINE MIDDLETON entered the world on a snowy winter morning in the small Berkshire village of Reading, there was little to portend her royal destiny. Her parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, who met as British Airways employees (she a flight attendant; he a flight dispatcher), lived modestly but comfortably in a four-bedroom brick home. They were neither royal nor aristocratic, though Michael’s father, Peter, a pilot and flight instructor, flew in the cockpit alongside Prince Philip on the Duke of Edinburgh’s 1962 tour of South America. Carole’s roots were working-class: Her father drove a truck, and her mother was a London shop assistant. Their firstborn arrived on Jan. 9, 1982, five months before her future husband. But while Prince William was born into a world of pomp, splendor and…