Once it was a love affair between a royal prince and a comely commoner that simply reached what many took to be its natural end. But today, Kate Middleton is formally back in the royal fold, her wide, open-mouthed smile as unrevealing as ever about what she’s really feeling.

The Queen is exasperated by what she sees as future difficulties for her grandson, William and the former air stewardess’s dark-haired daughter whom he met at St Andrews University. Her private dream is that her grandchildren do not make the same mistakes that wrecked the domestic happiness of three of her children.

She has told close friends that William and Kate, having split up once, could do so again. Even though she is fond of Kate, she feels William could be making the wrong decision, especially as he confided to her and Prince Philip in the spring that he did not think he loved Kate enough.

As for Kate, let us not kid ourselves: throughout this confusing episode, she has slipped in the public’s regard because of the way she has sometimes appeared to grab all the attention that she could get while, at other times, she has had her lawyers issue formal warnings and complaints about the attentions of the paparazzi.

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