Is Kate Middleton Still Haunted By Her ‘Commoner’ Status?

Kate Middleton may be married to the future King of England, but is the girl from Berkshire — who was nominated by Time magazine in 2012 as one of the most influential people in the world — still haunted by that fact in the eyes of many of Britain’s blue-blooded aristocrats, she will always be regarded as the common little daughter of an air hostess?

When Kate Middleton married Prince William back in the heady days of 2011, it was not just an extra burden on the much put-upon British tax-payer, it was also a fairytale wedding for “common” women everywhere who always dreamed of marrying a Prince charming.

Kate Middleton may have been marrying the heir to the throne, but she was no blue-blooded aristocrat. Kate was one of their own, a commoner made good.

To put it into perspective, Kate was not exactly a working-class factory girl who had stormed the gates of Buckingham Palace and captured the heart of a prince, but she did show what a typical middle class and aspirational go-getter can achieve if they put their mind to it — an entire kingdom!

Kate’s great-great-grandfather may have been a coal miner, but Middleton was taking the family name from the pits to the palace. A jump in Britain’s antiquated class system which delighted some and put the fear of god into others.

The Washington Post reported that staunch royalist James Whitaker wrote, “I’m not against the middle class as such, but I do query whether Kate Middleton has the background and breeding to be queen one day.”

TV pundits and columnists everywhere appeared to take some sort of perverse delight dubbing Middleton as a “commoner.” They described Kate as beautiful, graceful, and rich, but still a lowly little commoner who lacked noble blood.

Yet, this didn’t stop commoner Kate, who friends at Marlborough boarding school nicknamed the “princess in waiting” because of her long cherished dream to wear the glass slipper, from finally bagging herself a prince.

Even after Kate Middleton became engaged to Prince William, cruel rumors abounded that whenever the Duchess entered the room, friends of the Prince would whisper “doors to manual,” a mocking jibe in relation to Carole Middleton’s previous career as an air hostess.

All things being equal, and the British class system to this day is notoriously unequal, it’s possible that such singing and shocking upper-crust dismissal of commoner blood goes on to this day behind Kate’s back in the “elite” circles she is now forced to spend so much of her time.

Kate’s parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, are self-made millionaires, but to the landed gentry and those who view riches as their birthright, the Middleton parents are probably viewed as cash-hungry, grasping little tykes who have exploited their daughter’s royal connections to turn a buck through their online Party Pieces company. The blue-blooded, toffee-nosed elitists probably regard Kate’s brother James as a foppish failure and Pippa as no better than euro trash. As for Kate’s uncle Gary Goldsmith, they probably cannot even begin to contemplate the king’s future wife being related to a tattooed, shaven-headed, cocaine-snorting lout.

Undoubtedly, to this day, Kate probably still suffers from the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and subtle insults about her common roots. It’s a good job she’s got Prince William to protect her. The future king of England apparently has no time for such prejudices and expressed his distaste when it came to remarks about Middleton’s common roots in no uncertain terms.

“What are they still doing using these terms? I am against letting them off the hook… What I prefer about America is that when people are snobbish, it’s a bit more about money. But here, it’s still about a signet ring, a family line.”