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Evening Standard
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Luciana Bellini

Inside the Princess of Wales’ inner circle

If there’s anything the recent months of oversharing from the Sussex camp has confirmed, it’s that there’s never been any love lost between Meghan and Kate. From the duchess’s dig about the Princess of Wales not being “a hugger” (unlike herself) to Harry admitting they don’t get on – “very quickly it became Meghan versus Kate. And, when it plays out so publicly, you can’t hide from that” – it seems these two were never destined to be BFFs.

Luckily, Kate has her own fiercely loyal inner circle, a mix of schoolfriends, childhood pals, and family members who have stuck by her through thick and thin. Here, we reveal the key names in Kate’s gang.

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