Prince William and Kate Middleton met for the first time in late September in the hallway of their 2001 St Andrews University dormitory. This is not a long interaction. (“When I met you, I blushed, I was kind of scared off, and I was very shy to meet you,” Middleton confessed to William in an interview nine years later.) But it was a memorable one. Experience: Within a few weeks, the young prince invited his roommates to join him and his friends for breakfast in the dining hall. According to Vanity Fair, the two were drawn to the same meal: cereal and fruit.
She studies art history, he, geography. He played water polo, and she modeled in a student fashion show (with a memorable sheer dress that caught the young prince’s attention). By fall, they moved into a house they shared with off-campus friends. Their rooms are only one floor apart. Sometimes, to impress his beautiful roommate, William would try to cook for Kate: “I had to walk around and save some of what was going on,” she recalls.
It was in that house in St Andrews that the two became more important: “It just bloomed from there, really. We just saw more, and you Know more,” William said.
in his On his birthday in June 2003, Prince William opened up about his love life: “If I like a girl, I really like her and so does she Me, it’s rare, I would ask her out,” he told reporters. “But at the same time, I don’t want to put them in an embarrassing situation, because a lot of people don’t quite understand what it takes to know me. “
However, Middleton is increasingly showing that she does know. In March 2004, the two were in Switzerland together Photographed while skiing – their relationship was blown up by the British tabloids. (“Finally… Wells has a girl,” the headline reads. “Prince and Kate so close to Klosters.”) Coming soon In 2003 graduation, William and Kate are the subjects of photographers’ lenses.
Below, nostalgic photos of their college days— —Feature from William studious Polket in her grand graduation gown. Go out and revel in academia.
