Katrina Darling, Kate Middleton’s cousin, covers the September 2012 issue of Playboy. The 22-year-old is a burlesque dancer … and a beautiful one at that!
She and Kate are not close; in fact, their connection was only revealed last year.
Darling first learned of her royal relation shortly before Kate’s April ’11 wedding to Prince William via a phone call from a member of the UK press.
“It was the most ridiculous thing I ever heard,” the club and cabaret dancer says, with a laugh. “It’s not every day something like that happens.”
Last year, lines began forming outside the underground venues where Katrina had been performing her own burlesque show, God Save the Queen.
Yes … however random and distant her Kate Middleton ties might be, the name of her routine suddenly took on a wonderful (and sexy!) irony.
“Burlesque is a platform for me to explore these kinds of things. The more into it the audience is,” says Katrina Darling, “the more into it I am.”
Katrina has upcoming U.S. shows, entitled “A Royal Dream,” at the Dream Hotel in South Beach August 31 and Dream New York September 6.