AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - Prince William rejected King Charles and Camilla's request for Kate to change her name, new biography claims
A new royal biography alleges that King Charles III and Queen Camilla asked Catherine, Princess of Wales, to change the spelling of her first name to avoid a clash of royal monograms, and that Prince William refused on her behalf, calling the request "insulting." The claim comes from author Christopher Andersen's biography "Kate! The Courage, […] The post Prince William rejected King Charles and Camilla's request for Kate to change her name, new biography claims appeared first on American Almanac .
A new royal biography alleges that King Charles III and Queen Camilla asked Catherine, Princess of Wales, to change the spelling of her first name to avoid a clash of royal monograms, and that Prince William refused on her behalf, calling the request "insulting." The claim comes from author Christopher Andersen's biography "Kate! The Courage, Grace, and Power of the Woman Who Will Be Queen," published by Gallery Books and now available. Andersen writes that Charles and Camilla each had a royal monogram consisting of interlocking C's beneath a crown, and they told Kate that a third royal cypher starting with "C" amounted to "overkill." Their suggestion: would she mind spelling her formal name "Katherine" instead of "Catherine"? She would…Open