A new book is about to be released later this month. Claudia Joseph, the author of recently-published Kate Middleton: Princess in Waiting, no doubt updated the book after her engagement to Prince William. The new title — Kate: the Making of a Princess.  Below is a condensed excerpt published from The Globe and Mail.

Wearing a sheer black lace dress over a black bandeau bra and black knickers, Kate Middleton sashayed down the catwalk in the university town of St Andrews in Fife, revealing her lissome figure.

Under the watchful gaze of Prince William, who paid £200 for a front-row VIP seat, the 20-year-old brunette, towards the end of her first year at university, was taking part in a charity fashion show sponsored by the designer Yves Saint Laurent. The English rose had arrived at Scotland’s oldest seat of learning the previous autumn. Now, just seven months later, she found herself in the Prince’s inner circle and had attracted the attention of the most eligible bachelor in the Western world.

William Wales, as the student Prince styled himself, arrived at the university after freshers’ week. Ever mindful of his role in life, the prudent Prince decided that the best way to avoid adverse publicity was to create a barrier between himself and the other students, closeting himself in his room or the university library, spurning invitations to join clubs and societies, and avoiding student parties. It was a decision that blighted his first term at St Andrews, as his self-imposed exile made it impossible for him to integrate into normal student life. “I thought I would probably end up in a gutter completely wrecked,” he admitted in a candid moment, when asked in an interview why he had not attended freshers’ week, “and the people I had met that week wouldn’t end up being my friends anyway.”

Read the rest: The Globe & Mail

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