‘I’d love to come and study’: Kate Middleton says she wants to enroll at prestigious university
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The Princess of Wales hinted she is ready to go back to school and admitted she would “love” to enroll in university courses at Harvard University, as she visited the prestigious Ivy League school today.
Kate, 40, visited Harvard for her first and only solo engagement as part of the Prince and Princess of Wales’ whirlwind three-day trip to Boston. And, apparently, the on-again-off-again college tour had quite an impact on the mother-of-three.
Sitting down for a meeting with researchers at the university’s Center for the Developing Child, the princess confessed she was in love with the school, saying: “It’s very exciting to be here.” I would love to come to study but I don’t know what to choose as there are many specialized courses available.
Kate, who graduated from the University of St Andrews in Scotland in 2005, noted that “it’s never too late” to go back to school, adding: “Apparently they say it’s never too late, there’s always time.”
Upon arrival at Harvard University, Kate was invited to sign the official guest book, before joining a meeting with researchers “on the scientific advances that can be harnessed to achieve a bright future for all children.”
The royal seemed delighted to add her name to the guest book, which she did using a Harvard pen.
Kate had a notebook and pen ready for their meeting, which a spokesperson said was “part of her ongoing work to elevate the importance of early years to lifelong results.”
‘It’s great to be here. Very grateful for this association. I really want to learn more. I have a lot to know.
Kate arrived at her meeting armed with a notepad and pen, ready to take notes during the session, in which she discussed “the scientific advances that can be harnessed to achieve a bright future for all children.”
Kate spent half an hour with the experts and at the end, she smiled and said, ‘I need all day.’
Before addressing the gathering, the Princess of Wales signed the guest book, echoing her father-in-law King Charles’s visit to Harvard in 1986, 36 years after the king signed his name.
In recent years, the mother of three has focused on early childhood development and searched for ways to give children the best life possible.
Last year, he launched the Royal Foundation Early Childhood Center to ‘raise awareness of why the first five years of life are so important to our future life outcomes, and what we can do as a society to seize this opportunity for I pray to create a happier, mentally healthier and more enriching society.’
The Harvard Center and the Royal Foundation came together to support each other and emphasize the importance of research on child development in recent years.
After Kate’s visit, Jack Shonkoff, Director of Harvard’s Center for the Developing Child, said: “I was very inspired by the seriousness with which she wants to lean into an early childhood agenda.”
‘He was remarkably relaxed and informative. It was a lovely hour we spent with her.
“I see her very motivated to have an impact in the world. She is personally a low key person, she had no sense of ego in the room.
The Princess of Wales smiled when she visited Harvard University and even teased that she was ready to study books, as she claimed that she wanted to “study” at school.
Kate was seen laughing and joking as she added her name to the guest book.
She chose not to use her actual title in the book, but simply sign it ‘Catherine’, before adding today’s date.
“You really get the sense that she understands the power of her platform and has a desire to do good and make a difference.”
The visit may have marked the next chapter of the princesses’ upbringing, but it was also a trip down memory lane, seemingly reminding Kate of her own college days, where her and his love story began. William.
Before becoming Prince and Princess of Wales, the royal couple started out as friends while studying at the University of St. Andrews and sparks flew from the first time they met.
The same Harvard University guestbook was signed by King Carlos III in 1986.
“When I met Kate, I knew there was something very special about her, and then I knew there was possibly something I wanted to explore there, but we ended up being friends for a while,” Prince William said during the famous 2010 engagement interview with Tom Bradby from ITV News.
Kate recalled: “I turned bright red and kind of scurried away, feeling really shy to meet him.”
The couple became closer friends while living in the same residence, St. Salvator’s, known as Sallies and began spending every day together, from swimming together in the college pool to becoming running mates and confiding in each other. another, their friendship began. blossom into something more and it did not go unnoticed by his peers.
Her classmates joked with her, “I bet you’ll be wearing a tiara soon.”
In early 2002, Kate caught William’s eye when she strutted around in a see-through sheer dress with visible black underwear underneath at a university charity fashion show, prompting the Prince of Wales to exclaim, “Wow, Kate is hot!”
Unsurprisingly, the fashion show was the same night their relationship blossomed from friendship to romance and the two were even reportedly spotted kissing later that night.
Over the next three years of college, their relationship grew deeper and deeper.
Prince William and Kate Middleton on the day of their graduation ceremony at the University of St Andrews in June 2005. The couple had met four years earlier.
It was in 2002 when Kate reportedly caught William’s eye when she was strutting a see-through sheer dress with visible black undergarments down the runway at a college charity fashion show, prompting Wills’s much-quoted comment. : “Wow, Kate is hot!”
Kate Middleton at her graduation in 2005, at which time her relationship with Prince William became public. She proposed to me five years later
A friend of his, Michael Choong, who played rugby with William and now works as a property developer in Scotland, recalls: ‘They never showed any affection in public. Kate was good to him.
‘She was very loyal and didn’t gossip. William was naturally sociable, he always had a round of beers in the pub, but Kate was less so and she hated having her picture taken.
The couple tried to keep their relationship private, but the world soon learned that Diana’s son was in love.
While skiing at the Swiss resort of Klosters with his father, he agreed to a photo shoot with the understanding that the photographers would leave him alone for the rest of the trip.
Once the photo shoot was over, Kate joined him on the chairlift and with just a click of the camera, the photographers revealed their romance to the world.
After their relationship became more serious, William began to show discomfort at being tied up so young and the couple decided to spend the summer holidays apart.
But at the end of the summer, they were together again. The lovebirds graduated from university in 2005 and five years later, William proposed to Kate while on vacation in Kenya.
They announced their engagement in November 2010 and married the following April.
After 11 years of marriage and three children, Prince George, born in 2013, Princess Charlotte, born in 2015, and Prince Louis, born in 2018, the royal couple are as in love as ever and their love story remains one for the centuries.