Latest News: William look Furious After Harry and Meghan Still ‘Deliberately’ Call Catherine ‘Kate

Friends of Prince William and Kate Middleton have told the Daily Beast that William took offense at

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle publicly referring to his wife as Kate rather than Catherine, “even when they were sending her get-well-soon messages after her cancer diagnosis.”

The apparent reluctance on Harry and Meghan’s part to call the Princess of Wales by her preferred name was “an entirely unnecessary and deliberate irritation” the friend said, and may have contributed to William and Kate’s refusal to respond to Harry and Meghan’s expressions of sympathy, as revealed in a bombshell report in London’s Sunday Times this week, the friend said.

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William Furious That Harry and Meghan Still ‘Deliberately’ Call Catherine ‘Kate’
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Tom Sykes
Royalist Correspondent
Updated Aug. 20, 2024 7:07AM EDT Published Aug. 20, 2024 5:06AM EDT
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Friends of Prince William and Kate Middleton have told the Daily Beast that William took offense at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle publicly referring to his wife as Kate rather than Catherine, “even when they were sending her get-well-soon messages after her cancer diagnosis.”

The apparent reluctance on Harry and Meghan’s part to call the Princess of Wales by her preferred name was “an entirely unnecessary and deliberate irritation” the friend said, and may have contributed to William and Kate’s refusal to respond to Harry and Meghan’s expressions of sympathy, as revealed in a bombshell report in London’s Sunday Times this week, the friend said.

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Kate has long let it be known that she prefers to be called Catherine. It is the name her friends and family use, it is the name William uses in private, and it is how she introduces herself to others.

The Daily Beast, in common with many American media outlets, still uses Kate and Kate Middleton, which is how she is still universally known in the U.S. and around the world.

Although she was widely known as Kate at school and university, she made a deliberate switch to her full name, Catherine, shortly before marrying William.

In Harry’s book, Spare, he always refers to Catherine as Kate, apart from in one episode when he recalls Charles calling her Catherine and Harry says he “flinched” on hearing the name.