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This Is Why Kate Middleton Was Reportedly Forced To Change High Schools

It's heartbreaking - by Nikki Black
  • 03 Jan 2019
This Is Why Kate Middleton Was Reportedly Forced To Change High Schools

Former classmates have revealed that Kate Middleton was forced to change high schools as a teenager because of relentless bullying.

 

 

The Sun reports that Kate's parents pulled her out of the prestigious all-girls boarding school Downe House after the 13-year-old became an “emotional wreck”. 

“She was picked on because she was perfect, well turned-out and lovely," school friend Jessica Hay told the publication, adding that the Duchess of Cambridge was left so traumatised by years of teasing she developed eczema due to stress. 

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Kate Middleton when she attended St Andrew's School

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After starting at Marlborough College, Kate “had very little confidence” ex-classmate Gemma Williamson, told the Daily Mail.

But evidently, the move was a successful one as Kate went on to become a prefect, head of house and voted by her peers as “most likely to be loved by all”.

In a touching gesture, Kate and William went on the request that guests at their 2011 wedding donate to charity Beatbullying in lieu of gifts. 

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