Cameras Catch Kate Trying to Get ‘Comfortable’ Before Engagement Interview With Prince William
Today, the Princess of Wales (formerly known as Kate Middleton) always looks extremely confident and comfortable every time she’s seen in public. But several years back, before she married the future king, she appeared to deal with some nerves when being introduced on the international stage in her and Prince William‘s engagement interview.
The pair’s love story began in 2001 when they met while attending St. Andrews University in Scotland. And while Kate’s name and face became familiar all over the world, much of the public had never heard her speak until her joint interview with William following the prince’s proposal in 2010.
Now, a video is going viral of the two just before that interview began that shows what Kate did to get more “comfortable” and what William told her to do to relax.
Video shows Kate rearranging things before the interview gets underway
Prince William and Kate’s first joint interview following their engagement announcement was conducted on Nov. 16, 2010, by journalist Tom Bradby. The couple discussed their first meeting, falling in love, going through their brief breakup, and their future together. But before things got underway, William tried to calm his fiancée down a bit.
One short clip making the rounds shows Kate asking if she can move a cushion behind her out of the way to which the prince jokingly tells her: “Get comfortable, we could be here a while.”
Another video posted on TikTok has subtitles instead of the audio and reveals that the royal also told Kate to “Breathe.” She replied, “I’m not very good at that” and began giggling. The 12-second clip has hundreds of thousands of views and more than 5,800 likes.
Some of the comments include fans posting that they are “absolutely adorable together” and calling the pair a “nice beautiful couple.”
Others wrote: “Cute! Rarely see these kind of moments” and “He still looks at her in the same naughty way.”
Why William wanted his future bride to be comfortable during the interview
In the documentary William & Kate: In Their Own Words, Bradby talked about how William wanted his bride-to-be to get as comfortable as she could because he knew just how uncomfortable his parents’ engagement interview had been.
Footage from then-Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer‘s interview in 1981 shows that when the interviewer asked about being in love with each other Diana replied “Of course,” before Charles chimed in with “Whatever ‘in love’ means.”
The rest of the interview continued with the two still standing arm-in-arm, but there was no denying how uneasy Diana looked after her future husband’s “in love” comment. Years later, in her secretly recorded tapes to biographer Andrew Morton, the princess admitted: “When Charles turned round and said ‘Whatever in love means’ that threw me completely. I thought, what a strange answer. God, absolutely traumatized me.”
For William and Kate, their interview was free of any cringeworthy moments. And as Bradby noted, William is very mindful of “making sure the past is not a guide to the future.”
