If he sometimes sends her flying kisses, relations between King Charles III and Kate Middleton would not always have been in good shape.
In her book
The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown
,
published
on Tuesday, October 4, the royalty expert Katie Nicholl returns to the tensions that would have damaged the relationship between the sovereign and the Princess of Wales for a time.
The latter would in reality have little appreciated to see the attention paid to the outfits of the wife of prince William, to the detriment of his good deeds.
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Kate Middleton's dresses
A situation that would have reminded him of the time when Lady Diana's aura eclipsed his own.
“Charles was sometimes irritated that Kate's dresses attracted more media attention than her good works,” explains Katie Nicholl.
A frustration that would be added to that of not seeing enough of her grandchildren George, 9, Charlotte, 6, and Louis, 4.
"He was also hurt not to see his grandchildren on the Cambridge side as much as he would have liked," said the author.
Since then, the climate seems to have calmed down.
In video, King Charles III sends a flying kiss to Kate Middleton
"Tungsten"
The same cannot be said for the relationship between the monarch and her other daughter-in-law, Meghan Markle.
The sovereign would however have found in the latter a nickname of the most flattering, at the beginning of his relationship with prince Harry.
King Charles III would have called it "tungsten", echoing the metal of the same name, which is one of the strongest natural materials on the planet.
A way of saluting the “endurance” and “resilience” of the Duchess of Sussex, underlined Katie Nicholl.