How Princess Kate and Duchess Sophie’s Sisterly Relationship Is “One of the Most Important Partnerships” for the Royals
Few situations could be more daunting than becoming an in-law to the British Royal Family, but there’s one person who always has Princess Kate’s back. Prince William’s aunt Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, shares a lot in common with the Princess of Wales, and their “unbreakable bond” has been explored in a new YouTube show.
In the latest episode of Daily Mail columnist Richard Eden’s Reading the Royals series on YouTube, the journalist called the friendship between Kate and Sophie “one of the most important partnerships in the Royal Family.”
While examining photos of the two women through the years, Eden explained how Sophie—who is married to Prince Edward—”had been the nervous new girl before” and helped ease Kate’s nerves.
Of course, Kate hailed from “a middle class background” instead of a royal-adjacent one, and as Eden noted, she was teased by William’s friends for her mother having worked as a flight attendant.
“This experience was something that Sophie knew only too well,” Eden said in the episode, sharing that the duchess “was the daughter of a tire salesman.”
“Her lineage was far less noble than other incomers such as Lady Diana Spencer or Sarah Ferguson,” he noted, adding, “If young Catherine was looking for someone who ‘got it,’ so to speak, she had found that person in Sophie.”
