The definitive portrait of Kate Middleton, the beloved and private Princess of Wales, tracing her rise from “English commoner” to queen-in-waiting, with all the scandals and challenges along the way, from preeminent royal biographer Christopher Andersen, author of Brothers and Wives and Game of Crowns.
Kate Middleton, Princess Catherine of Wales: She is one of the most photographed, most talked-about, most written-about women in the world. She is the heiress to Princess Diana’s glamour and mystique, and she occupies a unique position as the wife of a future king and the mother of another. But as the daughter of an airline attendant who grew up in public housing, Kate was not destined for this fate from birth. She had to fight for it, and fall in love for it.
In this illuminating portrait, master biographer Christopher Andersen chronicles Kate’s life, beginning with her humble upbringing, her love story with William, and her catapult into worldwide fame at the couple’s royal wedding. Over the course of their marriage, Kate has proven that she is more than just the wife to a prince—she is a selfless humanitarian and childhood-development advocate, she is a devoted mother to three children in the unforgiving public eye, and she has gracefully become the world’s most adored representative of the British royal family through her rise from Duchess of Cambridge to Princess of Wales, and eventually, to queen.
But her story is more complex behind the glittering façade, and with new details from his inside sources, Andersen reveals the full picture—including Kate’s fight to repair the rift between Prince William and Prince Harry, the disintegration of her relationship with Meghan Markle, and her work to refute charges of racism leveled at the monarchy. And, most recently, the conspiracy theories that arose around her disappearance from public and her bravery through cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Kate! is the definitive, all-encompassing account of the tireless advocate, style icon, wife, mother, and future queen. Her story is an against-all-odds romance, a glittering fairy tale, and a heart-tugging family drama—but most of all, an inspiring saga of one woman’s grace and grit in the face of adversity.
