Happy birthday Catherine: as the Princess of Wales turns 43, how Kate Middleton found true confidence in her royal role after a year of strife

That difference is exemplified most in Kate’s quiet determination to do things her own way from now on. Sources close to the Princess say she won’t be returning to the life she used to live for a long time – perhaps ever. ‘We are being encouraged not to look at this as a chapter that’s over and then it’s back to normal, because cancer doesn’t work like that,’ Robert Hardman, author of The Making of a King: Charles III and the Modern Monarchy told People, adding that the…