Her Majesty the Queen was reportedly so keen to welcome Kate Middleton into the royal family that she apparently let her break protocol during her first visit to Balmoral.
With Meghan being accused of breaking royal protocol on a number of occasions, it seems the monarch is more than happy to relax the rules for her eldest grandson’s wife.
In a bid to make Kate feel more relaxed as she visited the royal residence before she married Prince William, Her claims that the Queen let Kate take pictures inside Balmoral – something that was previously forbidden.
Author and royal commentator Katie Nicholl explained that the sweet gesture reflected Kate’s love of photography.
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The Duchess of Cambridge is a keen photographer and has taken pictures of her children – Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis – to celebrate their birthdays.
She is also patron of the Royal Photographic Society.
Nicholl explained in her book, Kate: The Future Queen, that, up until that point, Kate had only met the Queen “fleetingly” at the wedding of Peter and Autumn Phillips.
The monarch made the gesture to make Kate feel “welcome”, she said.
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Nicholl revealed of the Queen: “She went out of her way to make her feel welcome, giving her permission to take pictures at Balmoral.”
Relaxing the long-standing rule was a big deal to the monarch, too, the author explained.
She said: “As a woman who has lived her entire life in the public eye, the Queen rarely lets her guard down, and very few apart from her family and closest friends get to see the real Elizabeth.”
Previously described as “the most beautiful place on earth” by Princess Eugenie, Balmoral is the Queen’s summer residence.
Set in the Scottish Highlands, it is where she goes to relax, away from her public duties, with her husband Prince Philip.
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