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Princess diana grew up in the shadows of a royal family. her grandmother a confidant of the queen. diana was an aristocrat through and through. kate is what the british called a commoner. she grew up away from estates and buckingham palace. >> it's in an area of outstanding natural beauty. >> reporter: john hailey is an innkeeper near kate's hometown, bucklebury berkshire. a small sleepy village 55 miles west of london. he met the middletons 14 years ago when they first came into his pub, the old boot inn. >> they are very nice, a very nice family, down to earth. very easy going, relaxed, a lo...

William would travel to kate's home in the english countryside often. >> he started visiting the middleton's home in bucklebury and he saw indeed it was possible to have a happy family and a happy marriage in the middletons, and i think that's a big reason that kate is the one. >> she's not an aristocrat. she's not somebody who has grown up in a castle or a palace. she's sort of pretty normal really, and i think that he loves going for dinner around the house in berkshire, and he loves being part of something which is actually standard. >> reporter: local pub owner and middleton friend john ha...

Chapel. she was a brownie and liked to perform in plays and musicals. a simple life in the quiet english countryside. friends say the closest the middletons got to the royals was watching stories of them on tv. >> a marriage that captivated. >> when charles married diana in 1981 like the rest of the planet earth, they were glued to the set and watching every minute of it. of course, carol dreamed some day of having her daughter enter that life, but it seemed an impossible dreernlgs i'm sure him. >> possible, that is, until carol middleton, a stay-at-home mother stumbled on to a very lucrative ...

There's a party for kate at their favorite nightclub. they come out and they are descended on by hundreds of paparazzi. huge response of bodyguards that shove into the land overs as they speed away, but it was a moment that it became quite obvious that it was just history repeating itself. >> reporter: lawyers for william, the palace and the midd middletons lashed out. two newspapers stopped publishing paparazzi photo, but the pressure on william and kate was still mounting. according to biographer christopher anderson, everything came to a head on valentine's day 2007. >> she thought she woul...