Kate by Claudia Joseph

Author:Claudia Joseph
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HarperCollins US
Published: 2011-10-29T21:10:18+00:00

Chapter 15

A Catwalk Queen

Wearing a sheer black lace dress over a black bandeau bra and black knickers, Kate Middleton sashayed down the catwalk in the university town of St Andrews in Fife, revealing her lissom figure.

Under the watchful gaze of Prince William, who paid £200 for a front-row VIP seat, the 20-year-old brunette, towards the end of her first year at university, was taking part in a charity fashion show sponsored by the designer yves St Laurent. The annual Don’t Walk show proved to be a turning point in the life of the English rose, who had arrived at Scotland’s oldest seat of learning the previous autumn. Now, just seven months later, she found herself in the prince’s inner circle and had attracted the attention of the most eligible bachelor in the Western world.

‘I was over the moon when Kate first wore my dress on the catwalk because she has got a fabulous figure and she looked absolutely brilliant in it,’ said designer Charlotte Todd, a fashion and textiles graduate. Speaking after it had been confirmed that Kate and William were an item, she added: ‘It is fantastic to think that one of my designs has been modelled by a woman who might one day become the Queen.’

Set in the tiny seaside town of St Andrews on the east coast of Scotland, once the ecclesiastical capital of Scotland and now renowned as the home of golf, the University of St Andrews is overlooked by the ruins of an eleventh-century cathedral tower and of St Andrews Castle. Founded in 1413, it is the oldest university in Scotland and one of the most prestigious in the British Isles, consistently achieving high rankings in the Sunday Times university guide. Boasting alumni such as King James II of Scotland, Nobel Prize winner Sir James Black, Edward Jenner, who discovered the smallpox vaccine, First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond and novelist Fay Weldon, it is a university favoured by bright, affluent students.

The town is overrun by students, who make up a third of its population, wandering around the town on foot, cycling between lectures or frequenting its many pubs and bars, often wearing the distinctive red undergraduate gowns. Prominent in the town’s newsagents is the student paper The Saint, one of only four in Britain to retain its independence from both the students’ union and the university. The Saint had contributed to the university’s growing reputation for a wild social life when it conducted a survey, picked up by the national press, revealing that students had very active sex lives and had been known to make love in the laundry rooms in their halls of residence and even in the ruined cathedral.

Kate almost certainly went up to St Andrews before the start of the Martinmas Semester on 24 September 2001 for freshers’ week. She moved into St Salvator’s Hall – deemed by most students to be the best hall of residence because it is set on the quadrangle in the heart of the old university buildings – for which she paid £2,000 for a year’s rent.

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