With
regular assertions that a royal wedding is just around the corner, Kate
Middleton’s suffered almost as many false starts as the best Olympic athletes.
Now, though, Prince William's girlfriend has decreed ‘on your marks,
get set...go!’ inside Clarence House, where she's apparently proving
that it’s not only in the royal romance stakes that she’s content to
step up and stay in it to win it.
Over six years since the death of the previous occupant, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, the gin has been swapped for a gym at the behest of the 26-year-old woman who looks almost certain to win the race to get the future king down the aisle.
A source tells the Mail on Sunday’s diary columnist Katie
Nicholl: "Kate has all her things there and asked William and Harry if they
would allow her to build her own gym”.
"She works out for at least an hour a day and loves to stay slim and toned. She
and Pippa use the gym all the time because it has great equipment and it’s
completely private."
As if the princes don’t receive enough of the sergeant major treatment during
their ongoing attachments with the armed forces, it would seem even at
home they come under some intense scrutiny, the source concluding in reference to Kate: "She
has even had William and Harry doing crunches and press-ups".
Considering the scenes he's witnessed in the past, it's perhaps not
surprising that William has encouraged his girlfriend to step up and
enjoy her gym routine inside his father's London residence.