The Unsettling Medical Exam Kate Middleton Took to Marry

Biographers may write about Kate's middling high school hockey career, her boathand work, and her charity roller disco.

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Biographer Tom Quinn's new book Gilded Youth offers a view that Kate's parenting is not as flawless as it seems.

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Quinn writes that the Wales family's life is less middle-class and more aristocratic than portrayed by Kensington Palace.

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According to a former royal staffer, Kate and William hire paid staff for most child-rearing tasks.

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William's childhood nanny Jessie Webb and Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo were rehired after the couple became too exhausted to do everything alone.

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Kate's reproduction ability was checked before marriage to ensure a future queen could have children.

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William and Kate have four nurseries for three children in their vast home and Norfolk estate.

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