On Kate’s 38th birthday earlier this month, she was hit with a devastating blow when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced they would be stepping down as senior members of the Royal Family. Both are now expected to pursue their own careers as they said they want to be financially independent – reports claim even Netflix is interested, and the couple may continue to expand their brand Sussex Royal. Kate on the other hand is a full-time royal and will gradually take on greater responsibilities, as her husband William moves further up the line of succession.

Although she has been part of the Royal Family since 2011, Kate did have her own career ambitions before becoming the Duchess of Cambridge – but she had to give them up for her life besides William.

Writing in The Daily Mail in February 2010, royal commentator Katie Nicholl revealed how Kate tried to pursue a surprise career in baking.

Ms Nicholl explained: “Stung by criticism that she doesn’t have a full-time job – and fed up with the nickname ‘Waity Katie’ – Kate Middleton has been working on secret plans to start a new business with her brother, James.

“They want to open a posh cake shop on the King’s Road in Chelsea and Kate, 28, long-term girlfriend of Prince William, has been checking out the opposition and looking for the perfect location.”

A source told the Daily Mail: “Kate has been doing some research for James and just before Christmas she went to the Love Bakery on the King’s Road, where she ordered one of every cake.

“She joked she was trying out the competition, which actually, she was.

“James thinks there’s a market for an upmarket cake shop which also sells all the bits and bobs you need to make cakes at homes.

“Kate’s been helping him with market research and they are hoping to make an announcement this summer – although she’s keen not to be front-of-house.”

During this time, Kate was working with her parents on their online company called Party Pieces, overseeing the new stock and the website’s products. William was training at RAF Anglesey at the time, so their relationship had turned long distance. 

She was reportedly keen to move out of Berkshire and into London to pursue a cake business.

However, the plans with her brother never came to fruition – instead, William proposed to her in October of the same year, meaning she had to prepare for life as a frontline royal.

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A decade later, her passion for cakes was still evident during the BBC Christmas show, ‘A Berry Royal Christmas’. She and William competed in the one-off programme to make the best cakes in front of celebrated baker Mary Berry.

Discussing the royal couple’s baking skills on Lorraine earlier this month, Ms Berry said: “[Kate] is good at piping and she makes her own children’s birthday cakes, just like a normal mum.”

On the show, Kate said: “I love making the cake. It’s become a bit of a tradition that I stay up ’till midnight with ridiculous amounts of cake mix and icing and I make far too much. But I love it.”

Additionally, the baker from Kate’s 2011 wedding said she had a key part in making their wedding cake.

In an interview with Town & Country magazine in 2018, Fiona Cairns explained: “In many ways, I would say that Kate designed her wedding cake, because she knew very clearly what she wanted and did not want.

“The ideas came from her, and the brief was from Kate.

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