In Season 6 of “The Crown,” Kate Middleton is portrayed as going to school at St. Andrews at the behest of her mother, with the goal being for Kate to catch Prince William’s eye. The actor who played Kate in the 2011 Lifetime movie, “William & Kate,” Camilla Luddington, confessed that she tried a similar tactic herself. However, she missed the opportunity to enroll in the same university as William.
Instead, she hung out at haunts popular with students of William’s other alma mater, Eton College. “I’d put on eyeshadow and pray to see him, but I never did,” she told the Mirror. She did, however, get to promote the movie in England right before William and Kate’s wedding. “I felt like I was part of the wedding, and that I was getting married,” she said in a “BUILD” interview.
According to Luddington, her family members found it amusing that her take on Kate wasn’t well received. “They took great joy in sending me so many horrible reviews. … It was humiliating,” she recounted on “Conan.” At least the role wasn’t a career killer. A year after the TV movie aired, she began playing Jo Wilson on “Grey’s Anatomy,” and that gig has kept her employed for over a decade.
