Kate Middleton’s popularity is ‘absolutely assured’, claims commentator

A royal commentator has said the Princess of Wales’s popularity among Brits is unlikely to ever decline.

Speaking on Sky News Australia, royal correspondent and author Nicholas Owen said: “[Kate’s] popularity is absolutely assured.

“She’s got new advisors around her, particularly one lady.

“A real toughy is, a sort of, of one of her main assistants.”

He went on to say: “Beyond the exterior that we all see, the smiling face, the easy way with crowds, the wonderful way Kate has with children, there is also some steel going on there.

“The determination to sort of set herself out a role, rather as you say, but is she seeing off Meghan in the process.

“Well, if that’s a byproduct of what’s going on, how jolly convenient, that would be nice wouldn’t it, pushing Meghan further and further into the background.”