Princess Kate has a huge amount of skills from sports to her effortless role at royal engagements. Yet, there’s one job the Princess undertook while at university that she herself has said she wasn’t any good at. According to People, like many other students, Kate juggled a job with her studies.
In 2019, she appeared on the BBC special of A Berry Royal Christmas and she revealed that she briefly worked as a waitress. In the show, she joked that she wasn’t very good at it! People reports that Princess Kate had served mocktails at a dry bar organized by the charity Action on Addiction, Kate told Mary Berry that “it reminded me of my university days when I did a bit of waitressing.”
When asked by the former The Great British Baking Show judge if she was good at the gig, Kate replied, “No, I was terrible.”
Kate studied at the University of St Andrews which is where she met Prince William – and her journey towards becoming part of the royal family began.
She had a few jobs before she officially joined the royal family in 2011, including working as an accessories buyer at Jigsaw.
At the time that she joined Jigsaw, a spokesperson for the company confirmed that Kate had joined the team.
Speaking to confirm the appointment, they said at the time: “We can confirm that Kate joined our staff two or three weeks ago as an accessory buyer for Jigsaw and Jigsaw Junior. We can’t comment any further.”
Much like others with family businesses, Kate has previously worked for her parents’ party supplies company, Party Pieces.
The now-mum-of-three – who was responsible for helping the family grow the business which sold everything from balloons to banners – left her parents’ company in 2011.
Speaking of her decision to depart, a royal aide at the time said that she was planning to “concentrate full-time on preparing to become a member of the Royal Family”.
Now married to Prince William, Kate’s job is to attend a variety of royal engagements – across the UK and abroad.
In her 2020 book True Royalty‘s Kate: The Making of a Future Queen, Katie Nicholl says: “There are two roles to a future Queen. One is to produce heirs, which she has done, and the other is to learn how to one day become Queen and that is very much what we are seeing. We are seeing a Queen-in-waiting.”