Katie Nicholl, royal expert and biographer told of the weeks after the couple's breakup in Kate: The Future Queen. Although being apart from William was difficult, Middleton's friends and family had her back. Gradually, the press backed off and stopped trailing her every move. Unfortunately, though, this meant her relationship with William was truly over. Her future, as she had always pictured it, was now no more than a fading dream.
After returning from her mother-daughter trip to Ireland, Middleton decided to continue to keep busy and avoid wallowing. "I first spoke to her in April on the phone after she and William had broken up," Emma Sayle, Middleton's friend, told Nicholl, "She said she wanted to be involved with something, and I told her about [a charity boating] race and she signed up in May."
Not long after she joined the competition, rowing became a sort of therapy for her. While she may have hoped she'd eventually reconcile with her Prince Charming, she was making the best of her situation. Regarding her breakup from William, Middleton later remarked, "I think at the time I wasn't very happy about it, but actually it made me a stronger person, you find out things about yourself that maybe you hadn't realised" (via The Telegraph).
