Princess Kate is “holding together” the Royal Family as questions over the monarchy’s future role in the UK ramp up, according to an ex-royal butler.
It comes as anti-monarchy group Republic announced plans to stage the largest protest action in its history on the King’s Coronation day.
The group is calling on people to sign a pledge to protest and add their voices to calls for the UK to become a republic and have an elected head of state.
According to Paul Burrell, the Princess of Wales will play the most important role in mitigating any possible future threat posed to the royal establishment, dubbing her “the future” of the monarchy.
Speaking to Dan Wootton on GB News, he said: “She has never put a foot wrong and in many ways, the future of the Royal Family rests on Kate’s shoulders, not William’s.
“Kate is the one who is holding it all together. She is going to be the People’s Princess, in the footsteps of Diana.
“I absolutely endorse that too. She is following her mother-in-law’s plan. One day, William will be King, Diana’s son will be King.
“That will make me very happy. We’ve got to cross this bridge with Charles and Camilla because I’m a monarchist, we’ve got to.
King Charles is stepping up Coronation preparationsReuters“It’s a short bridge, but on the other side, it’s King William and Queen Catherine.”
Kate is set to be reunited with her brother-in-law, Prince Harry, at the King’s Coronation, despite troubled relationships coming to the fore in the Duke’s recent memoir, Spare.
The Princess of Wales was not free from claims made by Harry in the controversial autobiography, who confirmed rumours of a fractious relationship between his wife, Meghan Markle, and Kate.
Harry’s previous royal trip saw the Duke in Windsor following the Queen’s death where he and Meghan conducted a joint walkabout with Kate and Prince William.
According to royal author Robert Jobson, the Princess of Wales found the exercise “almost unbearable”.
In his book Our King, Jobson said Kate told a senior royal the public show of unity “was one of the hardest things she had ever had to do” because of the depth of ill-feeling between the Waleses and the Sussexes.
William, Kate, Meghan and Harry greeted well-wishers outside Windsor Castle two days after the monarch’s death in September last year.
The rift between Harry and William, and the Sussexes’ bombshell Oprah interview with its allegations of racism against an unnamed royal, and accusations the institution failed to help a suicidal Meghan, and that Kate made the duchess cry, left the Windsors in turmoil in the months and years before the Queen’s death.