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Privacy NoticePrince William is reportedly “furious” with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for “deliberately” referring to his wife as Kate instead of Catherine. Before marrying into the Royal Family, the Princess of Wales asked her friends to call her Catherine, which is her preferred name. However, a friend of the couple has said that the Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan have upset the Prince of Wales by publicly calling his wife Kate, “even when they were sending her get-well-soon messages after her cancer diagnosis”. A close pal of William and Catherine told The Daily Beast: “William takes offence at people calling Catherine ‘Kate’, because she has asked to be known as Catherine.”
Kate’s request for her name to be used came in 2008, two years before William proposed.
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“It’s a fairly simple wish to respect. I’m sure Meghan wouldn’t like it if William started publicly calling her ‘Meghan Markle,'” they continued. “Of course it’s an utterly trivial thing, but those of us who know William know that it is one of the things that pushes his buttons. Pushing his buttons while he was going through his wife’s cancer seemed an entirely unnecessary and deliberate irritation.” Another friend of the couple said it was “bloody rude” of Harry and Meghan to refer to the Princess of Wales as Kate. “No one’s saying it’s responsible for all the trouble, but deliberately calling someone by a name they don’t like is just bloody rude,” the friend added. “If Harry and Meghan were serious about healing their issue, a good first step would be to call her Catherine.”
The Prince and Princess of Wales pictured with their three children
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Harry and Meghan’s apparent reluctance to use the Princess of Wales’ preferred name has been described as “an entirely unnecessary and deliberate irritation”. This may have played a part in William and Kate’s decision not to respond to Harry and Meghan’s expressions of sympathy following her cancer diagnosis. Kate’s request for her name to be used came in 2008, two years before William proposed. In his explosive memoir Spare, Prince Harry claimed that the now-King had asked his daughter-in-law to alter the spelling of her first name. The ex-working royal alleged that his father wanted his sister-in-law to change the spelling of her name from a C to a K. The Duke of Sussex wrote that he discussed his father’s suggestion with his brother at the time: “I turned to Willy, gave him a look that said: ‘You listening to this?’ His face was blank.” OK! has contacted Kensington Palace for a response.Story SavedYou can find this story in  My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Follow OK! MagazineFacebookTwitterCommentMore OnPrince HarryPrince WilliamRoyal Family
