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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Kristin Contino

Princess Kate Once Revealed Queen Elizabeth's Most "Fantastic" Quality and How It Brought "Joy" to Everyone

Princess Kate sitting next to Queen Elizabeth wearing a pink suit and smiling.

Queen Elizabeth would have turned 100 on April 21, and although the late monarch died in 2022, her family did get to celebrate her landmark 90th birthday back in 2016. Princess Kate, in particular, reflected on her grandmother-in-law's best qualities while participating in a documentary titled Our Queen at Ninety.

The Princess of Wales, who was then known as the Duchess of Cambridge, shared one of the things she loved best about the late Queen while speaking on camera. "I think she’s so, so engaging," Kate said. "She has got the most fantastic smile and I think if the Queen says nothing but she smiles, I think it gives everybody such a huge amount of joy and a huge amount of pleasure."

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