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WARNING: This article contains spoilers from The Crown.
The Crown has made a comeback and fans are wondering how big of a part did Carole Middleton pay in her daughter Kate Middleton getting together with Prince William?
In episode seven, Alma Mater, Kate (played by Meg Bellamy) brings home a new boyfriend who her mum seems less than impressed with.
When he leaves, Kate has it out with Carole (Eve Best) stating: “You’ve always loved the idea of me and William together.
“I was all set to go to Edinburgh University straight after school with all my friends.
“Then you suggested I change it to St. Andrews after a gap year with none of my friends. That was no coincidence.”
To which Carole then replied: “You said you liked him!”
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The Crown: Did Carole Middleton really plot for Kate to marry William?
The Middleton family is known for keeping quiet when it comes to personal matters so it’s not entirely clear how much influence Carole Middleton did have in real life.
But there have been various reports over the years that when Prince William announced he was going to St Andrew’s University, Kate no longer opted in for her first choice.
In The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor – The Truth and The Turmoil, Tina Brown wrote: “When the news was announced in 2000 that Prince William would be spending his university years at the small Scottish university of St. Andrews, Kate suddenly bailed out of Edinburgh University fifty miles away and reapplied at St. Andrews.”
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Katie Nicholl’s wrote about the sudden turn around in Kate: The Future Queen, stating that her house mistress at Marlborough College said: “After she left school, Catherine made some different decisions, but why she made those decisions I don’t know.”
Matthew Bell also wrote in The Spectator back in 2005: “Although at the time of making her application to universities it was unknown where the Prince was intending to go, it has been suggested that her mother persuaded Kate to reject her first choice [Edinburgh] on hearing the news and take up her offer at St. Andrews instead.”
And rather than go to university straight away, Kate, much like William, took a gap year to study art history in Florence before going to Chile.
The Prince of Wales was also attending the same programme in South America but just a few weeks earlier.
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Even though it has been suggested that Carole had been pushing Kate to follow her now-husband’s experiences, the royal couple has privately disliked this narrative.
Nicholls wrote in a 2011 Vanity Fair article: “Kate and William were equally mortified by the attacks on her family, to whom she is exceptionally close and of whom she is fiercely protective.”
So, for now at least, it remains unclear just how much involvement Carole did have in the early days of their relationship.
The Crown is available to watch on Netflix.
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