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It’s hard to imagine The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Prince William and Kate Middleton not being the loved up super parents they are today.
From adorable, candid family photos to the subtle public displays of affection, the couple who met in 2001 at the University of St Andrews and later married in 2011 appear to be enjoying doing life together.
But like all couples, their love story isn’t without ups and downs. Specifically, two ‘down’ periods during which the now parents-of-three separated.
According to the book The Duchess of Cambridge: How Kate Middleton Became A Future Queen, Prince William and Kate quietly took a break in 2004 during their university summer break.
While Prince William reportedly went on a ‘lads only’ sailing trip around Greence (ugh), Kate did what many of us have done after a breakup.
Drink all the wine.
‘Friends’ have gone on the record saying Kate got a bit tipsy with family and friends in Berkshire, which we all know leads to very deep and meaningful conversations about our emotions… and in some cases, drunk messages.
“She got quite drunk on white wine and really let her guard down… She was debating whether or not she should text or call him,” The Express reports a friend said.
“She said how sad she was and how much she was missing William but never mentioned it after that.”
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Snippets from the couple’s 2010 engagement interview with Express confirm the Duchess of Cambridge also adhered to another breakup ritual when they couple split briefly in 2007 – getting as far away from your ex as possible.
In the interview, Kate reveals that she hopped on a plane to Dublin just days after the split for some quality time with her mum, Carole Middleton. During their Kate’s stay in Dublin, she and her mum were pictured visiting the National Gallery of Ireland and were joined by some of Kate’s girlfriends.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge also opened up about their brief split in March of 2007 in the interview.
“I think I at the time wasn’t very happy about it, but actually it made me a stronger person,” Kate said of how she felt at the time.
“You find out things about yourself that maybe you hadn’t realised, or I think you can get quite consumed by a relationship when you are younger and I really valued that time for me as well although I didn’t think it at the time. Looking back on it.”
Prince William, who suggested the break, explained that he ‘needed space to find himself’.
“We were both very young,” he said.
“It was at university, we were sort of both finding ourselves as such and being different characters and stuff, it was very much trying to find our own way and we were growing up, and so it was just sort of a bit of space and a bit of things like that and it worked out for the better.”
If they’re anything like us, they probably had a few teary conversations over several bottles of wine (or pints of Guinness?).
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She escaped to confer with her mother to devise a plan to get the relationship back on track. That plan was Kate, dressed to the nines and being seen out with other men to get William jealous. As said a couple weeks ago he was easily manipulated and the Middletons pulled it off. I bet you, mother was planning this future from the cradle for Kate. It was not chance it was a manoeuvre.
So cynical! But I did hear Kate changed universities when she heard he was going to St. Andrew’s and not the one he was expected to go to.....
If that’s true... so what? He seems happy, she seems happy, they have three apparently happy kids, and a seemingly happy marriage. It’s not an easy life, not everyone is cut out for it. If Kate can manage it - however it came to be - then good for her. And let’s give William some credit too. He’s grown up in this family and this lifestyle, I’m sure he can spot people with ulterior motives a mile away.
Yes, that is correct, she also took a gap year she hadn’t originally planned on to coincide with his commencement. You are also right that I am cynical I have absolutely no time for all the royal rubbish it is a very wasted life. Take Charles, he has done nothing useful his whole life. He has been simply waiting for his mother to vacate his seat. It was due to his idleness that Diana’s life was ruined with the ongoing Camilla affair. Idleness always breeds trouble. He will be lucky to occupy the seat, if so, probably won’t be for long. Poor England, he is a goose. I just get fedup with the articles ‘fairytale ‘ nonsense when the whole scenario was orchestrated, by Mrs Middleton, she pulled it off, she would be laughing up her sleeve. Kinda funny.
In Charles' defence he did establish the Prince's Trust, which has done some really good things. But yes, it is an undeservedly privileged life. Having said that, I am a monarchist in terms of our Constitution - for the sole reason I simply don't trust the Australian federal parliament to fiddle with the Constitution in such a fundamental way and hate to think which syncophant (undoubtedly a conservative, rich, white male from the old boys school network) they'd put in as our head of state. At least Lizzie has the decorum and elegance to not make an a** of herself in the tabloids or with some scummy scandal.