Like most royal interviews, it is innocuous and designed to promote a cause close to the interviewee’s heart but when that wedding announcement is finally made, expect features writers to hark back to this landmark event for some crumbs of background information on this woman about whom we know so little.
Kate Middleton and her siblings, Pippa, 26, and James, 22, have also given interviews in which they talk about their memories of early parties they attended. Kate, 28, recalls wearing her favourite spotty clown dungarees, eating bowls of jelly and playing games of musical statues.