Princess Kate’s regal style transformation from quintessential girl next door to glamorous future queen has won praise online after images captured throughout the royal’s two decades in the public eye went viral.
After the 2004 publication of images showing William and Kate embracing during a skiing vacation, the future princess became an object of fascination for the press, public and paparazzi.
Regularly throughout the 2000s, Kate would have photographers stationed outside her London home. By 2005, her family lawyers had sent warnings to newspaper editors, asking them to cease publication of intrusive reports into her private life; and in 2007, on the day of her 25th birthday, over 20 photographers descended on the future royal as she walked to her car, resulting in a frenzy of camera flashes and obstruction.
Later that same year, a government report on press regulation contained an entire section on the “hounding” of Kate by the media, using the 25th-birthday incident as an example of the failure of guidelines that were in place.
