KATE'S FURY OVER CRUEL NEW BOOK

After a rough year for Catherine, Princess of Wales, the last thing she needs is to be worrying about her split from Prince William being rehashed in the media.

But with the release of a revealing new biography, unflattering stories from the couple's past are resurfacing, causing embarrassment.

"William is doing what he can to shelter Kate from the headlines," an insider tells New Idea. "They're trying to put a wall up, but it's stressing them both out and dragging up old wounds that haven't fully healed. The timing couldn't be worse."

Robert Jobson exposes new details of the pair's brief split while studying at St Andrews University in Catherine, the Princess of Wales.