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Camilla Parker-Bowles Gave Kate Middleton Advice on “How to Hang Onto a Prince”—But Kate Struggled to Follow It

Queen Camilla and Princess Kate.

I mean, in all fairness, she would know: Queen Camilla apparently once gave Princess Kate advice on “how to hang onto a prince”—but Kate struggled to follow it, The Mirror reports.

The outlet writes that Kate once relied on her stepmother-in-law “for advice on how to make sure her relationship with Prince William stayed on track.” William and Kate met as freshmen at the University of St. Andrews in 2001; by 2003, they were a couple. (The official start of their 20-year plus relationship remains ambiguous, but by 2003, they were together.) Camilla met then Prince Charles in the early 1970s and, after both married, had an extramarital affair with him throughout the 1980s and 1990s. By 1996, both Charles and Camilla were divorced, and they eventually married in 2005, after William and Kate had been together for a couple of years.

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