Kate Middleton as a child. Copyright: The Middleton Family

It has emerged that Kate Middleton was once a victim of bullying as a teenager. While snippets of this has come out years ago, News of the World digs deeper by interview Kate’s roommate at Marlborough, Jessica Hay.

At posh girls-only Downe House school, a 13-year-old Kate was allegedly bullied so bad her parents had to pull her out midterm and transfer her to co-ed Marlborough College, where she blossomed into a sports star and one of the most popular girls in school. Why bully her? Because she was “too nice for her own good. And it didn’t help that she was so tall and self-conscious about her eczema.”

“She hated it, absolutely hated it,” says Jessica Hay. “The girls there were horrible. They used to put faeces in her bed and she was very, very badly bullied. She was picked on because she was perfect – well turned out and a lovely person. She was not the type of person to stick up for herself.”

A new book to be released after the Royal Wedding will reveal more details about Kate’s childhood and the torments of bullying.

Article: News of the World (paid site)

On the other hand, Downe House’s headmistress speaks out, saying that as far as she knows, no serious bullying took place.

“‘If Kate had been really badly bullied I don’t think she would be the girl she is today. That’s my take on the girl she is. But at the time, she may well have felt a fish out of water, or unhappily not in the right place. Certainly I have no knowledge of any serious bullying at all. But there’s what everyone calls bullying, and there’s actual real, miserable bullying where someone has a dreadful time. Yes, there would be teasing. It’s all part of the normal competition of growing up, of establishing a pecking order. Girls are cliquey by nature and they can be rather cruel. If you’re attractive, too, that can be seen as rather a threat.

I think it’s fair to say she was unsettled and not particularly happy. Maybe in Kate’s case she just kind of went quiet and didn’t say anything. It’s good she’s chosen a charity that will help people who get beyond that.”

Article: Daily Mail

William & Kate have chosen the charity Beatbullying as one of the recipients of their Wedding Charitable Gift Fund.  They ask people to donate to charity in lieu of sending wedding gifts.


Prince William’s Stag Do Details Revealed!

There’s no one better than royal reporter Duncan Larcombe in giving us the goods.  Just when the world thought Prince William has “outfoxed” the media by keeping his stag weekend absolutely secret, the Sun reveals the details.

It was a relatively tame stag weekend in a secluded North Devon mansion, the historic Hartland Abbey.  Clay pigeon shooting, surfing, drinking games… The lads played the Name Game, with the Queen’s name on the post-it stuck on William’s head.  Oh, and William was forced to wear a chest wig and hairpiece.

Article: The Sun

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