DP and I had married friends we superficially appeared to be great friends with, lived near each other, spent lots of time together etc.
I increasingly couldn’t stand the woman, who would often put me down as she got to know me and my insecurities better, and she sometimes excluded me from events to which my DP was invited, which made me feel embarrassed and confused - did she dislike me? Was she signalling to DP that I wasn’t posh enough for him or for their friendship group? Did she fancy him?
I was anxious to like her for DP’s sake, because she was an old university friend of his, but one day I told DP how she made me feel. Without any encouragement from me he stopped socialising with her immediately, and when we moved (unconnected) lost contact altogether.
You could make this story out to be a lot grubbier and sexier than it really is, but for us it was just calling time on a problematic friend. I hope the same is true for William and Kate, and for the six young kids in this story who have done nothing wrong at all.