How Kate Middleton's mother orchestrated the meeting with William and her obsession with the social elevator, according to The Crown

The final stretch arrives The Crown. The last episodes of the sixth season show us how William and Kate Middleton's relationship was forged, how they met and how they fell in love. It also shows us a profile of Kate's mother, Carole Middleton, marked by the obsession with social advancement for her children. Above all, for Kate herself, for whom she paved the way to facilitate a meeting with the heir to the Throne.

Some intentions of the Middletons, which when put under the magnifying glass, convey an intentionality and a desire to be related to the Royal House. This theory of fixation on the social elevator of marriage, already told in some books about the princess, has returned to the fore with The Crown. The acclaimed Netflix fiction has been synchronized in time with the launch of the sound Endgame, the new literary nightmare for the Windsors. Its author, Omid Scobie, slips that the Middleton couple worked “very hard” to make their children progress. Hopes were pinned on Kate, who was prepared “to take the family name to the top.”

This sixth season of the streaming giant's fiction focuses on the heirs: Carlos and Guillermo. Guillermo's case monopolizes one of the most powerful plots of the premiere episodes. Photo below, actors Ed McVey (as the Prince of Wales); and Meg Bellamy (the princess).

We find the love story that united the prince with a young student. The two met in the classrooms at St Andrews. But it was not a chance meeting, but a propitiated one. This is how the series tells it. Carole persuaded her daughter to give up her place at the University of Edinburgh, which had been her first choice, and take a gap year. After that parenthesis, young Kate enrolled at St Andrews. With some symbolic words making a simile of a boxing fight, the royal chronicler Tina Brown in her book The palace papers talks about Carole as Kate's coach, whom healed the wounds and advised her on the steps to follow in her relationship with Guillermo. “His traces of him are present on the real chess board.”