The Kate Middleton Effect: 6 Years After They Tied the Knot, How Prince William's Wife Has Transformed the Royal Family Forever
Little could we have known when 28-year-old Prince William proposed to an ordinary girl from Berkshire, his future bride would be responsible for changing the royal family forever. It's been almost seven years since that day and in that time there has been a revolutionary shift in the way the House of Windsor does business. Traditional pomp and circumstance still abound, of course, but alongside it, with equal importance, there is now an unprecedented amount of soul bearing and emotional confessionals—the kind of thing the royal family has always publicly shied away from. And there is no doubt that Kate is at the root of this fundamental change. The evidence was especially clear a few weeks ago when William and Harry admitted during a candid video shoot the real inspiration behind the launch of their most ambitious project yet, the mental health charity Heads Together. "It was your idea, I think," William said, nodding to Kate, as the camera rolled. ...