Kate Middleton Facts

In honor of Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge's 40th birthday which was a few weeks ago, I am sharing some less known facts about her.

Kate Middleton modeled for catalogs by Party Pieces, which is her parents party supplies company.

Kate is a huge fan of TV shows including Homeland, Downtown Abbey and Game of Thrones.

Royals don't take paid jobs but one day in 2016, the Duchess worked as the editor of Huffington Post UK for a day. She edited the website and also published her own blog post titled, "Let's Make a Real Difference for an Entire Generation of Young Children."

Just like the rest of us, Kate had crushes when she was a teenager. In her engagement interview in 2010, she revealed that she had a poster of a Levi's model on her bedroom wall.

Kate dated Prince William for five years before being officially introduced to the Queen. William introduced his girlfriend to his grandmother in 2003 at his 21st birthday party.

When Kate was a child, she actually met Prince William in passing, Her school welcomed William's school for a hockey game. He was nine-years-old at the time and when he arrived, all the girls, including Kate, were eager to catch a glimpse of him.

She sent an email to her friends asking them to call her Catherine.

Before she became a royal, she had some interesting nicknames. Her nickname at school was Squeak and her sister Pippa was called Pip. Those nicknamses were inspired by the school guinea pigs.

Kate is distantly related to the first president of the United States, George Washington. They are eighth cousins.

At 13 years of age, she was in a school play that predicted her future. Kate played a young woman visiting a fortune teller who said, "Soon you will meet a handsome man, a rich gentleman who will fall in love and marry you and whisk you off to London. The fortune teller told Kate's character that the man is named WIlliam.

The Duchess of Cambridge likes red wine.

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