We’ve done stranger things for lads, TBH.
It’s been well-documented that Prince William and Kate Middleton’s romance began at college – but was their both being in the same university at the same time planned?
A newly resurfaced report is claiming that Kate turned down a place at Edinburgh University, her first choice, to follow the prince to Saint Andrews in Scotland.
Royal correspondent Matthew Bell quoted a source close to the future Duchess who said that her mum Carole orchestrated the whole thing.
“Some insiders wonder whether her university meeting with Prince William can really be ascribed to coincidence,” he wrote in a 2005 article in The Spectator.
“Although at the time of making her application to universities it was unknown where the Prince was intending to go, it has been suggested that her mother persuaded Kate to reject her first choice on hearing the news and take up her offer at Saint Andrews instead.”
Another royal correspondent, Kate Nicholl, has made a similar claim.
In her 2013 book ‘Kate: The Future Queen’, Nicholl wrote that Kate took a gap year so that she and William would be in the same year.
We’re not sure how much of this to believe but we do know that the pair ended up living in the same halls at Saint Andrews.
When they first met, Kate is said to have curtsied to her future husband (the appropriate greeting for a woman meeting a royal) and William responded by spilling a drink on himself. Smooth.
“I actually went bright red when I met you and scuttled off feeling very shy about meeting you,” Kate later said in their engagement interview in 2010.
