Before becoming a member of the royal family, Kate Middleton had many normal jobs, which helped shape her into the woman she is today.
The Princess of Wales started her work life the summer before her admission to the University of St. Andrews; she worked for four months as a deckhand at the Ocean Village Marina in Southampton to earn money for college.
Kate Middleton worked in days of up to 11 hours, working on boats and earning $75 per day, and according to her co-workers, she was “very professional… She was competent and confident but very unassuming.”
During her appearance on the 2019 BBC special A Berry Royal Christmas, she mixed herself a mocktail and revealed that in college, she worked as a waitress to earn money and joked about her skill for that job: “I was terrible.”
A year after Kate graduated with an art history degree, she began her first post-college job at the British fashion brand Jigsaw, where she worked part-time as an accessories buyer and was described by the brand founder as “very mature for a 26-year-old.”
In 2007, the princess left the fashion world to work for her family’s business, Party Pieces, a party supply company founded by her mother, Carole Middleton, where she joined as a project manager in charge of marketing.
The next year she got engaged to Prince William in 2010, she stepped down from her role at her parents’ company to “concentrate full-time on preparing to become a member of the royal family,” according to Daily Mail sources.
