Kate was the school smartie

 
30 April 2013

Next month’s Tatler contains a reminiscence by a mother whose daughter was in the same house as Kate Middleton, pictured, at Marlborough College.

“There was always something slightly galling about having your child at school with the Middletons. Every pristine item of their clothing would have a beautifully sewn-in name tape, for instance.

It was unthinkable that they would resort to marker pen on labels, like the rest of us. It made the other families feel rather hopeless.”

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