A friend of Prince William does not think he will be pleased by the final season of Netflix’s The Crown, which will reportedly feature the ghost of his mother Princess Diana.
01.10.2023 - 17:01 / dailyrecord.co.uk
It's now been over 20 years since Prince William and Kate Middleton first laid eyes on one another at St Andrews University where they both studied together.
The couple both met at the prestigious university in Scotland and they quickly became close friends as they threw themselves into student life, the Mirror reports.
During their typical student lives, they started visiting some of the town's famous night out spots where the Princess of Wales reportedly saw her future husband being hit on by other girls while they were out partying together.
Although they weren't an item at the time, Kate was still very close to the prince and even came up with a sneaky trick to help him out when things got a little awkward when it came to unwanted attention from the opposite sex.
Speaking to royal expert Katie Nicholl for her book Kate: The Future Queen, their friend Laura Warshauer said: "Will was getting really hit on by this girl at a party and it was getting quite uncomfortable because he couldn't shake her off.
"He was being really polite, but this girl just didn't get the hint. All of a sudden Kate came up behind him and put her arms around him. He said 'Oh, sorry, but I've got a girlfriend', and he and Kate went off giggling."
According to Laura, William was very grateful for Kate's improvisation and mouthed "thanks so much" to her afterwards.
She said: "Kate was the only girl in the room who could have done that. And that was just a month after we started university."
However, William and Kate did not stay close pals for long as their friendship blossomed into a passionate romance.
The royal couple dated throughout their university days and after their graduation before briefly splitting in 2007 which the late Queen was said to be
A friend of Prince William does not think he will be pleased by the final season of Netflix’s The Crown, which will reportedly feature the ghost of his mother Princess Diana.
Like lots of children across the UK this week, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have left the classroom behind them to enjoy their school half-term holiday. And there’s another familiar scenario playing out too as their parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales, juggle the young royals’ very different focuses.
The wedding of the decade saw Prince William marry his university girlfriend, Catherine Middleton, in front of a global TV audience of more than 60 million people. While few fans need reminding that their romance started ten years earlier when they were both studying at St Andrews University in Scotland, the couple had a very near miss the year before as they both undertook gap years.
King Charles is keen for Prince William and Kate Middleton to increase the number of royal engagements they undertake next year, according to a source. They say the idea would be to lighten the load on more senior members of the Royal Family. Royal insiders have said that in response to a growing interest in the Royal Family among a younger generation, the King is keen to bring William and Kate to the forefront to help build a future the monarch can sustain.
Prince William and Kate Middleton have opened up about their emoji-sending habits, and their answers have gone down a treat with social media users. The pair, who recently took part in a netball game as part of a mental fitness workshop, joined BBC Radio 1 presenters Vick Hope and Jordan North as they gave royal fans a glimpse inside their phone use. In an Instagram video posted by Radio 1 on Thursday, 12 October, the pair were asked by the presenting duo whether they’d be willing to share what emojis they use the most on their phones as part of their Access All Apps feature.
Prince William is getting cheeky, as the heir to the British throne recently revealed in a new interview that his most-used emoji is, well, very NSFW.“Is this a clean thing or is this a family one?” William, 41, joked during a Tuesday, October 10, appearance on the BBC Radio 1 show Going Home. “I’ve been told not to say the aubergine, so I’ve got to pick something else.”Aubergine is the British version of an eggplant.“It would have been the aubergine, but I’m saying now — because I’ve got to be all grown up — it’s the one where the eyes go up and down and the mouth’s out,” William added of its frequent use of the purple eggplant emoji.
Over the years, mental wellbeing has emerged as a subject close to the hearts of the Prince and Princess of Wales, with Prince William using World Mental Health Day on Tuesday, 10 October to speak about his mental health “toolbox”. During an engagement at the Exploring our Emotional Worlds event, William opened up about how he maintains his mental wellbeing and explained how “things, like walking, fresh air [and] getting away from screens” help him on a day-to-day basis.
All eyes were on Kate Middleton as she hosted a series of youth workshops in Birmingham on World Mental Health Day. Prince William joined his wife in the West Midlands on Tuesday, 10 October for a series of sessions that discussed the mental health issues faced by young people today.The event was in partnership with UK-based digital charity the Mix and BBC Radio 1.The mum-of-three, who is reportedly seen as an "asset" to the family by her fellow royals, was spotted smiling and chatting to the public as she stood out from the crowd in a bright yellow LK Bennett suit jacket.
King Charles' skills with a brush and watercolours have made him a top-selling artist, and other family members have also shown they are quick on the draw. Not only does Charles reign over the country, but he has proven himself to be a king in the art world too, as one of the UK’s most successful living painters.The King’s love of using watercolours first began at Gordonstoun school in Scotland, and signed copies of his work now sell at auction for four-figure sums.
Kate Middleton was once "left in tears" after Prince William "disappointed" her by cancelling their "big plans" at the last minute.
The Royal Family has a number of properties at their disposal which stretch as far north as the Castle of Mey in Scotland and as far south as Tamarisk House on the Isles of Scilly. While the King has access to many royal residences up and down the country, did you know that the Prince and Princess of Wales can call four royal residences their own? Thought to be their favourite property, Anmer Hall was a wedding gift to the couple from the late Queen and is located on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk.
There are very few people who don’t enjoy a good boogie from time to time, and members of the Royal Family are no exception. From an early age, the late Queen Elizabeth and her sister Princess Margaret had ballet lessons provided by London’s renowned Vacani School of Dance, which also taught a young Prince Charles years later.
While they have travelled the world together, the Prince and Princess of Wales often prefer to spend their time off closer to home with their young family. One favourite destination is the Isles of Scilly, off the coast of Cornwall, where William can recreate happy memories of holidays spent there as a boy.
on TikTok, as William was heard giggling: “Who’s pinching my bottom?” as he posed with Middleton, 41, and the rest of the attendees.The group then burst into laughter.The Prince and Princess of Wales traveled to Cardiff fro commemorate the 75th anniversary of the HMT Empire Windrush’s arrival in London and the beginning of Black History Month in the United Kingdom.William will next be heading out to Singapore next month for the 2023 Earthshot Prize Awards Ceremony.However, Middleton will not be joining him as she has to stay home with their three kids — Prince George, 10, Prince Louis, 5, and Princess Charlotte, 8 — so they can continue with their schoolwork.Things have also been rocky with the couple, as well as with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.The Fab Four have been at odds ever since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex moved to California in 2020. A source told Us Weekly recently that Middleton is less open than her husband to reconnect with Harry, 39, and Markle, 42.“Kate has no desire to communicate with Harry nor Meghan,” the insider said.
The Prince and Princess of Wales are well-known for their light-hearted jokes when it comes to a competition. Whether it is a boat race against survival expert Bear Grylls or a game of table tennis, the couple are always trying to better one another during their public engagements.This competitive spirit has extended to cheeky comments about each other in public before, such as when William jokes with crowds about not encouraging Kate's love of babies.
The Prince and Princess of Wales have now been married for over 12 years but their relationship did not always run as smoothly in the early days of their romance.
Kate Middleton and Prince William's love story is one that is very well known and it's not hard to tell they are just as captivated by one another now as they were when they first met all those years ago.
Members of the Royal Family have hugely important official titles and styles that date back centuries, and it is no different today. But what you may not realise is that royals such as the King or the Prince of Wales don't just have one title - but several. While the Princess of Wales has several titles of her own, you may not realise that her sister, Pippa Matthews, also has a title.
Mirror, “Kate does not want to disturb the youngsters’ schooling and works hard to ensure the trio have a stable home life in preparation for their royal careers later down the line.”One insider close to Middleton noted to the Daily Beast on Friday that she “is tirelessly working on behalf of the monarchy.” “The fact is that her youngest child is 5, so I don’t think she should be expected to hop on a plane every two minutes,” the source added of the royal’s absence.Middleton previously attended the ceremony in 2021 and 2022. William created the Earthshot Prize in 2020 to spread awareness abut environmental changes.
Hot on the heels of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex at the Invictus Games in Germany, it was the Prince of and Princess of Wales’ turn to shine. While Kate stepped out for important engagements in the UK, William jetted across ‘the pond’ for the Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit in New York, armed with his ambitious goal to save the planet via the ten-year project. But there was heartache behind William’s heroism, arriving on Prince Harry’s adopted US ‘home turf’ amid no sign of a reconciliation between the two brothers.