Kate Middleton, was a mousy bookworm at age 16 in 1998 until she decided it was time to emerge from her mild-mannered cocoon.
Wanting to be noticed while attending Marlborough College, a boarding school in Marlborough, England, she opened her dorm window and flashed her nude bum to male students in view.
Cheers from the grateful crowd encouraged her mooning and it evolved into an obsession she took great pride in and earned her the moniker of 'Kate Middlebum'.
'She kind of got addicted to it,' a close schoolmate, Jessica Hay stated. Over the course of one year, she put her bare bum in the window for anyone to see no less than 90 times.
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| Kate modeled on catwalk at student fashion show with Fergus Boyd, both flatmates of the prince at St Andrews |
Kate met Prince William three years later in 2001. The encounter was 'awkward and mercifully brief' at their dormitory at St. Andrews, the oldest university in Scotland, which they both attended.
She 'turned bright red and sort of scuttled off, feeling very shy about meeting him', Kate recalled.
He was the very reason she was there: to meet, and with any luck, to marry the future monarch, Andersen writes.
