Kate Middleton turns down a personal invitation from the Queen

Prince William’s 26-year-old girlfriend has said she ‘doesn’t want to be standing in for Prince William again and using her Royal status’.

Middleton was personally invited by the Queen to host a table for ten friends at the private hospitality tent in the Royal Enclosure.

Kate, has told friends she will not take up the offer to host a complimentary table courtesy of the Queen.

A friend of the Middleton family said yesterday: ‘Kate was all set to take the table after having been personally invited by the Queen. She then had second thoughts and politely declined the offer.

‘Princes William and Harry were both invited to Ascot, but neither of them can go, and so Kate was invited to take William’s table.

‘She loves the races and would have so enjoyed to host her own table, but she said she doesn’t want to be standing in for William again and using her so-called Royal status.

‘She knows that if she goes in William’s place as a guest of the Queen the engagement rumors will gather momentum and it’s not what she or William want.’

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