Claudia Joseph's "Kate: Princess in Waiting"
Amazon has details on an upcoming new book about Prince William’s girlfriend, Kate Middleton. The tome, written by Claudia Joseph, is scheduled for release by Mainstream Publishing on April 2, 2009.
It’s the second book written about Kate – the first was Robert Jobson’s William’s Princess, published in 2006. The synopsis on Amazon suggests that the book features “exclusive interviews” and “previously unpublished photographs,” and also notes that members of Kate’s family have apparently spoken to the author.
Joseph is a British journalist who has written for Tatler, The Times, and The Mail on Sunday. The Mail features a piece (“The making of the Middletons: How Kate’s family rose from a condemned flat to the verge of royalty“) written by Joseph almost a year ago which seems to be the basis for the upcoming book. The article features interviews with some distant family members, including Kate’s great-aunt and and her daughter. It’s more a history of the family than one of Kate herself, and it seems that’s possibly true of the book as well. Amazon notes that the book is “the extraordinary tale of an impoverished working-class family that overcame deprivation and adversity to rise to the upper echelons of society.”
If it is simply a family history rather than a book with new information on Kate, I probably won’t be reviewing it here, as it won’t be a book about anyone closely connected to the royal family. Others who may be interested can find more information about the book here: Kate: Princess in Waiting.
