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Kate Middleton is feeling incredible pressure as the future Queen, reports reveal.
According to a royal expert who spoke to People magazine last week, the Duchess of Cambridge is facing “mounting public expectation” in the role. We can’t blame her!
"The future Queen is a role model to the U.K. but also to the world, which means all eyes are on you," royal etiquette expert Myka Meier told the magazine.
The news comes after Kate stepped out for her first official duties since the novel coronavirus outbreak on June 18. The future Queen had been self-quarantining with husband Prince William and their three young children George, Charlotte and Louis.
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Prior to the worldwide health pandemic, the royal family faced the royal exit of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle earlier this year.
Sources revealed that Harry and Meghan's "Megxit" had put extra pressure on William and Kate to lift the spirits of Brits during the crisis. Indeed!
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As the 38-year-old steps back into the spotlight, she is finding herself facing new expectations and mounting pressures, the magazine reports.
“Those who know her say there is a real core of strength, and she did set her mind to the job,” Sarah Gristwood, author of Elizabeth: The Queen and the Crown, told the magazine in last week’s cover story. “But at the same time, she’d have to be superhuman not to feel the pressure.” So true!