Kate Middleton receives special honour as Queen in waiting

Princess Kate reminds a former royal butler of Princess Diana as she is inches closer to becoming the Queen of England. 

The Princess of Wales has been showered with praise by the royal family's former butler Grant Harold, who dubbed her 'king, beautiful and intelligent', the future Queen. 

In conversation with the Mirror, he said that Princess Catherine reminds him of a key royal figure, her late mother-in-law, Princess Diana.

Grant shared, "That girl was a Queen in waiting in every aspect. She is the perfect Queen material, and you can so obviously see that."

He added, "Everything about her - the way she carried herself, the way she spoke, the way she interacted with people, her kindness, her beauty - she was, if I can say, the modern-day Princess Diana."

It is important to note that Grant, who served the late Queen Elizabeth and King Charles, had a chance to observe the Princess of Wales during her early years of romance with Prince William.

He recalled Princess Diana's heartfelt traits, saying, she "used to do things at Sandringham to make the staff laugh by poking her head out the window and pulling faces, and Kate was doing the same kind of thing. She is everything you can imagine; she is a beautiful and intelligent woman."