It\u2019s the moment most men with a long-term girlfriend dread \u2013 the \u2018quiet word\u2019 with her mother about his future intentions.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s the moment most men with a long-term girlfriend dread \u2013 the \u2018quiet word\u2019 with her mother about his future intentions.<\/p>\n
And Carole Middleton certainly wasn\u2019t prepared to avoid the subject just because the man dating her daughter Kate was a future King.<\/p>\n
A new book by The Mail on Sunday\u2019s Royal Editor Katie Nicholl reveals how \u2018jittery\u2019 Carole, worried about the absence of a ring on Kate\u2019s finger, took Prince William aside to press him on his plans.<\/p>\n
The meeting took place when William visited the Middleton family just before Christmas 2009. In the book \u2013 Kate: The Future Queen \u2013 a family friend tells how Carole expressed her fears to William. <\/p>\n
But he assured her that not only would there be an engagement and subsequent marriage, the couple hoped to have children \u2013 and he promised Carole that she would be fully involved in their upbringing.<\/p>\n
William stayed true to his word. The couple were engaged the following November and since their son George was born on July 22, Carole has become the most famous grandmother in Britain.<\/p>\n
She and her husband, Michael, were the first family members to visit the new baby after his birth \u2013 ahead of Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall \u2013 while Kate and William have even set aside a \u2018granny flat\u2019 for the Middletons at their lavish Kensington Palace apartment.<\/p>\n
Another of the Middletons\u2019 friends, former neighbour George Brown, says: \u2018It was a condition when Kate and William got married that Carole and Michael would be a part of the grandchildren\u2019s lives.\u2019
\nKate paid tribute to \u2018Granny\u2019 Carole last week during her first public appearance since the birth.<\/p>\n
Carole looked after George when Kate and William attended the start of a marathon on Anglesey on Friday. Kate\u2019s presence at the event was a surprise \u2013 it was only revealed that morning that she would attend.<\/p>\n
It is thought it could be one of the couple\u2019s last engagements on Anglesey before they leave their home on the Welsh island next month to settle into a new life in London.<\/p>\n
The new book also untangles the tale of how Kate came to choose St Andrews for her university \u2013 starting at the same time as William and on the same course.<\/p>\n
It has previously been put down to mere coincidence, but it seems Kate deliberately plotted to be there at the same time as the prince.<\/p>\n
In a bold move, Kate turned down the place she had been offered at Edinburgh, decided to take a gap year, just as William was doing, and reapply for St Andrews \u2013 a risky strategy as there was no guarantee that she would get a place. Since then, of course, their relationship has flourished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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