Happy Birthday Princess Catherine! 7 Things You Didn’t Know About the Royal!

Updated On March 18, 2024 | Published By: Denise | In Birthday , Interesting Facts

Princess Catherine turns 42. source: People

Princess Catherine recently celebrated her 42nd birthday privately with her family.
The princess was born at the Royal Berkshire Hospital on January 9, 1982.
She is the eldest child of Michael and Carol Middleton.

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Princess Catherine is fit for a Future Queen

From doing her makeup to baking cakes for her kids’ birthdays, there isn’t anything Princess Catherine can not do.

Let’s find out some interesting facts about the commoner who married into royalty.

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Catherine lived in Jordan during her childhood

Catherine Middleton was born in Reading, England, in 1982. Her family moved to Amman, Jordan when she was only 2, for her dad Michael Middleton’s job at British Airways.

Princess Catherine — Kate during her childhood. source: People

The family lived there for two and a half years and Middleton attended nursery school there.

She and sister Pippa had matching nicknames

Catherine and her sister Pippa Middleton once had complementary nicknames!

During her visit to her old school, St. Andrew’s School in Pangbourne, years ago, Catherine asked young students if they had class pets. She then told the pupils,

“There was one called Pip and one called Squeak, because my sister was called Pippa and I was Squeak,”

Catherine earned a Duke of Edinburgh Award

Catherine had a special connection to Prince Philip even before she married into the royal family. While a Marlborough College student, she participated in the Duke of Edinburgh Award. It was a youth development program founded by Prince Philip, the grandfather of her then-boyfriend Prince William.

Kate later said,

“The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award is such a great way for young people to grow in confidence, learn new skills, work as part of a team and have great fun along the way,”
“While getting my Gold Award was challenging at times, it is one of my most memorable experiences from growing up, and I could not recommend it more highly.”

She took a gap year before university

After graduating from Marlborough in 2000 with flying colors, young Kate took a gap year during which she did many interesting things.

She studied at the British Institute in Florence, traveled to Chile for charity work with Raleigh International, and rowed crew with Round the World Challenge in the Solent strait.

A year later, she enrolled at the University of St. Andrews in Edinburgh, Scotland where she met Prince William for the first time.

What did Kate work as during her student days?

Like many college students, Catherine also worked part-time. During her appearance on the BBC special A Berry Royal Christmas in 2019, the future Queen revealed that she briefly worked as a waitress and joked that she was not so good at it.

After serving mocktails at a dry bar, Catherine told Mary Berry that “it reminded me of my university days when I did a bit of waitressing,” the BBC reported.

Catherine did her makeup at her royal wedding

Many don’t know that Kate did her makeup during her wedding to Prince William in April 2011.

Before the historic event, Kate took a few private lessons with London makeup artist Arabella Preston to develop her skills to do her makeup for the wedding which was watched by billions of people around the world.

Catherine bakes cakes for her kids’ birthdays

The future Queen revealed that she bakes birthday cakes for her three kids: Prince George, 9, Princess Charlotte, 7, and Prince Louis, 5.

According to Hello, Kate said,

“I love making the cake. It’s become a bit of a tradition that I stay up ’til midnight with ridiculous amounts of cake mix and icing and I make far too much,”

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