Video footage of the moment that a fortune teller told Kate Middleton she would marry Prince William during a school play has emerged.
The prophetic moment sees the Duchess of Cambridge, currently pregnant with the couple’s third child, performing in a school play – and being told she was certain to wed the future king.
Rare footage from the production, which stars Miss Middleton when she was 13 and attending St Andrew’s Preparatory School in Buckhold, sees Kate playing the lead in the Victorian melodrama Murder in the Red Barn, during which William the caddish Squire proposes to her.
A video clip showing a young Kate Middleton, just 13, acting on stage in a school play has gone viral after a seen was unearthed in which her character was told she would marry ‘a rich gentleman’
And Kate looks clearly delighted by the news that a royal union might be on the cards
Turned out she was right! The royal wedding in April 2011 saw Kate walk down the aisle with William, who she met at St Andrew’s University
Earlier in the play, a fortune-teller studies her palm and tells her: ‘Soon you will meet a handsome man, a rich gentleman…’
An excited Miss Middleton, wearing a flowing white gown with black lace detail for the part, says: ‘It is all I have ever hoped for. Will he fall in love with me?’
The fortune-teller replies: ‘Indeed he will.’
Miss Middleton asks ‘And marry me?’
He confirms ‘And marry you.’
She then asks, ‘Will he take me away from here?’
The young thespian Kate was a student at St Andrew’s Preparatory School in Buckhold when the footage was filmed
‘oh how my heart flutters!’ Kate is taken a back by the prediction
The footage first surfaced in 2009 when it featured in a German documentary
The fortune-teller replies ‘Yes, to London.’
Thenews prompts Miss Middleton to clasp her hands to her chest and, to thedelight of the audience, declare: ‘oh how my heart flutters!’
TheVictorian melodrama Murder in the Red Barn was staged by pupils at StAndrews prep school in the village of Buckhold near Pangbourne, Reading.
Thefootage was posted on the internet after being used in a Germandocumentary about the real-life romance between Miss Middleton andPrince William.
Former classmate Kingsley Glover, 27, who starred as William in the play, said when the video first surfaced nine years ago: ‘It was great fun to do.’