Two days before Prince William married Kate Middleton on April 29, 2011, John Berlau published an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal hailing Middleton as “The Entrepreneur’s Princess.” In Berlau’s words at the time, “This week's wedding can be seen as the culmination of a long process of elevating the social status of entrepreneurship itself.”
As was well-known at the time, Middleton was a “commoner,” which meant her wedding to Prince William was something of a story beyond the world’s theoretically most eligible bachelor getting married. Middleton’s bloodline wasn’t of the Windsor/Mountbatten kind, but thanks to her parents’ impressive entrepreneurial achievements, Middleton grew up very well-to-do, only to become part of Prince William’s crowd at the University of St. Andrews. Berlau was celebrating the very American ascendance of Middleton. In the U.S., it’s thankfully very much the norm for people to rise from relatively humble origins, while England is quite a bit more class conscious.
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