Prince William and Kate Middleton’s love story is one for the ages. The pair studied at St Andrews University together, and though they started as friends, their feelings grew stronger until the day they decided to call themselves a couple. The Prince and Princess of Wales had many things in common, with one being a great sense of humor. Not long ago, an old friend of the couple from their university days shared quite the story about the period in time after they had just met – and Kate pretended to have been his girlfriend.
Prince William and Kate Middleton will become king and queen in the future. For William, the throne has always been his destiny, but such a grand and glorious position can’t have been in Kate’s plans when she was a little girl. Things changed at the beginning of this millennium when she and William began studying at St Andrews University together. They initially forged a relationship as friends, until a fashion show in 2002 changed everything.
William had bought a front-row ticket to a charity fashion show that Kate was to feature in, reportedly splashing around £200 for the seat. In the now-legendary see-through dress, Kate took to the catwalk, revealing her underwear underneath. By that point, William felt she wasn’t just a friend anymore but someone he had developed feelings for. In the fall of 2002, William and Kate moved into 13A Hope Street, an off-campus apartment, with friends Fergus Boyd and Olivia Bleasdale. However, it wasn’t a given that the prince would even be allowed to move into the apartment.
In 2023, landlady Charlotte Smith recalled when William was to move in, the apartment had a strict no-boys policy. “We’d had an unfortunate experience with some boys in the flat once before, and we were determined not to have young men there again. Broken furniture, broken windows – there was a lot of damage, so that put us off, really. I said to this young lady we’d really rather not have more boys and she said, ‘What if I were to tell you that it was Prince William?’” Smith told the Daily Mail.
Prince William & Kate Middleton’s love story
Smith’s husband convinced her that the future king could move into the flat. It turned out that William and Kate were “ideal tenants.” “We arranged to meet Kate Middleton, Fergus, and Olivia before they moved in, but we thought we’d better not ask to see Prince William because we thought his credit rating must be quite good. But he insisted on meeting us,” she continued.
“When I was trying to impress Kate, I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners, and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time,” William recalled.
Kate Middleton ‘lied’ about being Prince William’s girlfriend, a former friend says
William and Kate started as great friends, but it appeared they were destined to be together from the very start. In an interview with Fox News, Laura Warshauer, who met William and Kate when she arrived at the Scottish school in 2001, revealed that the now-Prince and Princess of Wales had a connection long before the famous fashion show, which always has been seen as the starting point of William and Kate’s relationship.
Warshauer claimed the couple’s chemistry was evident long before that and explained how, at a “Harry Potter-themed party” at a castle, Kate was part of a charity where people could bid to win a date. According to their former friend, William bid 200 pounds to make sure it was he who had the chance to take Kate out. Although she can’t recall details about the date, Warshauer recalled how calm Kate was when she understood that the future king had won the bidding. Also, another time, Kate helped William escape an awkward conversation by faking that she was his girlfriend.
“I remember someone was chatting Will up… [It was] this girl at a birthday party,” Kate’s former dormmate, Laura Warshauer, told Fox. “He was being very polite, but it was obvious he was trying to figure out how to get out of the situation. And Kate just walks across the room and puts her arms around him. It enabled him to turn to this girl, and he was just like, ‘Oh, I’m sorry, I have a girlfriend.’ And then he turns to Kate, and he’s like, ‘Thank you!’”
Prince William was furious when relationship with Kate became public
Speaking on Channel 5’s documentary William & Kate: Too Good To Be True, royal expert Rebecca England said: “Unfortunately for them, a paparazzi photographer took pictures of William and Kate clearly very close on the ski lift together. A red top tabloid newspaper slashed it all over their front page.” She continued: “William was furious, and he was also genuinely worried for Kate and her family about what this would now mean for them.”
Prince William and Kate Middleton seemed as if they were meant for each other. As their relationship grew more serious, they, of course, met each other’s families. For Kate, that meant heading to Buckingham Palace, but although that might sound very cool, for William, visiting Kate’s parents in a house that wasn’t one of the biggest and most prestigious castles in the world was very refreshing. Sadly, in 2007, it appeared as if their love story had reached its end, as the couple split for a while. Luckily, it wasn’t long before their romance was back on.
As the couple had been dating for quite some time, Kate’s mom, Carole, started worrying that William wouldn’t propose to her daughter. According to royal expert Katie Nicholl’s book Kate: The Future Queen, Carole decided to have a secret meeting with William to learn his intentions. “Perhaps it was the constant references to Waity Katie which got to William,” Nicholl wrote. “Possibly it was the words of his soon-to-be mother-in-law which rang in the prince’s ears. Before Christmas 2009, Carole Middleton had anxiously asked him when he planned to make an honest woman of her daughter.”
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