Kate Middleton may be known as the Duchess of Cambridge these days, a working royal with an impressive title who lives at Kensington Palace, but she certainly didn't always have a life like this. After finishing school, Kate began studying History of Art at the University of St Andrews, where she met Prince William.
Before she started studying for her degree, the future Duchess decided to get a summer job, as many students do, to help fund some of the nights out she would be going on once she was in Scotland. But while many students preparing to go off to university take relatively predictable jobs, such as working behind the bar in a pub or stacking shelves in a supermarket, Kate opted for slightly unusual employment, The Mirror reports.
According to royal biographer Katie Nicholl, Kate spent the summer before she left for university in Southampton, where she worked as a deckhand on a fleet of Challenger yachts. Cal Tomlinson, one of the skippers Kate worked under, said that the future Kensington Palace resident's job entailed 'back-breaking' work, although he said she 'mucked in', was 'very professional', and was 'confident but very assuming'.
