Kate Middleton has been given a new royal title by King Charles III. Other members of the royal family were given new titles, but the Princess of Wales’s is unique in that it is the first in the history of the British royal family.
The new titles were declared on April 23, 2024, Prince Louis’ sixth birthday. Kate was made a Royal Companion of the Order of the Companions of Honour. King George V established the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1917 to acknowledge extraordinary contributions to the arts, sciences, medicine, and public service.
There can only be 65 members at one time. Currently, they include David Attenborough, Elton John, Anna Wintour, Judi Dench, and Maggie Smith. Kate’s new appointment comes as she and King Charles III battle cancer.
“He has always had a very good bond with her. I don’t think it is presumptuous to say that she is like the daughter he never had,” royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith recently told People in an interview. “He shares with William an impulse to protect her. They are in this together, Kate and the King.”
