Kate in Wonderland

Buckingham Palace and its subsidiaries, Kensington Palace, Balmoral... 
I think they could qualify as a wonderland of sorts. There is a queen; and certainly there are many, many curious characters inhabiting it. 
(Silver stick-in-waiting... If that's not a Carrollian kind of name, I don't know what is.)
Heck, even Mustique, with its insidiously scratching-inducing name, is far removed from hell on Earth.

But this is not about Kate's lifestyle. If anything, it is, if you will, more about her "lifestyle" - the images inhabiting her world - as it would or could have been, had she decided to pursue her academic interests. Or as it might be is she does decide to pursue them.
OK, let's not strain this metaphor any further.

You will have noticed that we have mentioned Catherine Middleton (apparently that still is her legal name), or the Duchess of Cambridge, as she is now known, exactly once before in this blog.
There's no special reason for it, as there simply is no special reason for mentioning her.

But today a friend, an art historian (and a damned good one, too), wondered what was her fellow art historian Kate's diploma thesis or dissertation, as they are called in some places. 

That is an interesting question, so I tried to find out.
Thanks, mostly, to this site, it didn't take me long.

Catherine Middleton graduated with a dissertation on Lewis Carroll and his photographic interpretation of childhood.
The full title of her thesis, as it is listed on the Honours dissertations page of the University of St Andrew's website, is 'Angels from Heaven': Lewis Carroll's Photographic Interpretation of Childhood.

I'd love to read it, as photography - treacherous as it is -  can be contentious anyway, and Lewis Carrol's photographs of children even more so (especially in these ridiculously politically correct times).

I would also love to hear what it was that attracted her to this particular topic.

If you know more about Kate's penchant for Lewis Carroll's photography, do let us know.