The year was 2007, and Kate Middleton—who at the time, was Prince William's ex-girlfriend—joined her sister Pippa at a book launch party in London. The photos reveal a smiling 25-year-old Kate dressed in a cream-colored lace dress and black slingback heels, looking like any twenty-some society girl at the time. But nearly two decades later, the Daily Mail's Richard Eden has revealed the telling conversation he had with Middleton during the event and what it revealed about her "tough" character.
Eden first met Kate on May 14, 2007 when they were both attending the launch party for Simon Sebag Montefiore’s biography Young Stalin at London's Asprey store (ironically, a brand Middleton would go on to wear many times as a princess).
