When the Duchess of Cambridge wed Prince William in 2011 and officially joined the royal family, it finally marked the end of a long struggle with Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.
Indeed, palace insiders say that when Kate was still just William’s ‘university girlfriend’, Beatrice, 33, and Eugenie, 31, were “frightfully snobbish” about her middle-class background – and rather jealous of all the attention a ‘commoner’ was getting.
Thanks to plenty of patience from Kate, she eventually got on side with her cousins-in-law. In fact, they became rather friendly.
Now, the duchess is starting to suspect she’s had the wrong end of the stick all along, especially with Eugenie publicly palling around with the Duchess of Sussex, despite Meghan’s many attacks on the Cambridges.
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