A recent magazine article focused on the Princess’s future role as Queen – but experts have suggested it could have caused some upset behind palace walls with Charles and Camilla
‘Tensions’ are said to be brewing in the Royal Family after Kate’s friends gave an unprecedented interview.
A magazine article recently shone a light on the Princess of Wales with a focus on her future role as Queen. But it might have caused some upset behind closed doors, according to some royal commentators.
The written piece appeared both in print and online for The Times Magazine; the print cover was headlined “Arise, Queen Kate: The princess’ friends and palace insiders on how she will change the royal family ” while the online headline read: “‘Kate will be a queen who really listens’ – by palace insiders.”
And while the Princess has no control over the headlines, it could have been seen as a “slight against Camilla”, experts have warned. They have further pointed to the fact that the King is still battling cancer, compounding sensitivities about the length of his reign.
As newsweek.com noted, the article could risk “making the Waleses look a little too eager to sell their advantages over Charles and Queen Camilla. In short, there is every chance the cover story went down like a lead balloon among the King and Queen’s staff”.
Daily Mail columnist Amanda Platell was also among those to question the article. “Did those ‘close long-term friends’ of William and Kate have their approval to talk?” Platell wrote. “Did Kate and William, in fact, sanction this article in The Times Magazine about her intentions when she becomes Queen? We may never know, but even if they did not, it is surely ill-advised of their close circle to talk about her future in this way.
“Kate would never have intended any slight against Camilla, of course. But I can’t be the only person to think that this emphasis on her queenly qualities is a slap in the face for the present Queen.”
It comes after a new poll confirmed that William and Kate are the most popular members of the Royal Family amongst the public, with 74-77 per cent having a positive opinion of them. William beat his wife to the poll’s top spot, with 77 percent of respondents having a positive opinion of the future King. Somewhat unsurprisingly, perhaps, the Princess came in second, with 74 percent of voters sharing a positive view of the royal.
In third place is Princess Anne, with 70 percent of voters viewing her positively, while King Charles took fourth place. Prince Edward and Duchess Sophie followed The King, with 51 percent and 50 percent, respectively, while Queen Camilla is in seventh.
It’s bad news for Duchess Meghan, however. As speculation mounts that she might return to the UK this summer for the first time in four years, it has emerged that just 19 per cent of people have a positive view of the Duchess. It is the lowest figure recorded by the pollsters for her, ever; with a whopping 66 per cent saying they have a negative view of Prince Harry’s wife.
Opinion towards the Duke of Sussex remains similarly negative, with just 31 per cent seeing Harry positively and twice as many seeing him negatively at 60 per cent.
Only one person ranks lower than Meghan in the January poll and that, unsurprisingly, is Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, who was stripped by the King of his remaining titles last year over the continuing fall-out from the Epstein scandal.
