She is known by many names. Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Rothesay, the Countess of Chester. But to her family and friends and the people who love her, Kate Middleton has a few choice nicknames she answers to.

 We should go ahead and keep calling her Your Royal Highness if we happen to meet her out in the wild, but her family and friends have a few other, less formal options.

While the world knows her as Kate Middleton, this is not actually her name. Her parents Carole and Michael Middleton named her Catherine, and that was always the name she used. She’s not even a Middleton anymore and has not been since she married Prince William in 2011, but for some reason she is almost always referred to as Kate Middleton by the media.

 Despite the fact that her name is now Catherine, Princess of Wales. It looks as though the British media initially started to refer to her as Kate Middleton in the decade she was dating Prince William before they married.

 In fact, she was often cruelly referred to as “Waity Katie” in the tabloids because they dated for so long. Fortunately, that unkind nickname died off, but Kate has stuck.

When Middleton was still a child, long before she became an HRH, her school friends gave her a nickname. A nickname based on some guinea pigs, in fact. “There was one called Pip and one called Squeak, so my sister was called Pip and I was Squeak,” she told friends at St. Andrew’s University, per OK magazine.

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