When William and Kate moved in together during their time in college, their landlady Charlotte Smith stated that she had a strict no-boys policy in the apartment, as she revealed in 2023.
“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 said.
“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,” the landlady added.
Prince William also talked about their time in college in their engagement video as, “We moved in together as friends because we were living together, we lived with a couple of others as well, it just sort of blossomed from there really. We just saw more of each other, hung out a bit more and did stuff.”
“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,” Prince William stated.
When he proposed to Middleton during their trip in Kenya, in 2010, as the reports are suggesting, William carried the ring in his pocket for three weeks as he waited for the perfect opportunity.
“It was very romantic,” Middleton recalled. “There’s a true romantic in there.”
When Middleton’s father James wrote in his memoir, Meet Ella: The Dog Who Saved My Life, “We sit in a corner, chattering quietly. Catherine whispers the news and says it will become public in the next day or so.”
“Pippa and I want to be visibly excited, but we have to tamp down our emotions so no one suspects a thing,” James added.
“We make a quiet acknowledgment that we’ll always be there for each other, look out for one another, support each other:”
The royal couple married in 2011, at Westminster Abbey in London. Each minute of the wedding had planned. Nonetheless, William was not happy with some things in his wedding.
Before the wedding, Buckingham Palace released a statement as, “Prince William has chosen to wear the uniform of Colonel of the Irish Guards on his Wedding Day. Prince William, who is commissioned in all three Armed Services, and who has served actively with the Army (The Household Cavalry Regiment) and with the Royal Air Force (Search and Rescue Force), chose to wear the uniform of his senior honorary appointment in the Army.”
Prince William will wear an Irish Guards Mounted Officer’s uniform in Guard of Honour Order with a Forage Cap. The Prince will wear a gold and crimson sash, and gold sword slings, both of which are worn in the presence of a Member of the Royal Family. The Prince will not wear a sword. The Prince will wear the Garter Sash with the Wings of the Royal Air Force, the Garter Star, and the Golden Jubilee Medal.”
“The tunic, in Guards’ Red, features the Irish Guards’ distinctive arrangement of buttons in groups of four. The buttons feature the Harp of Ireland surmounted by the Crown Imperial. The arrangement of buttons on the uniform denotes the Irish Guards’ position in the Order of Battle as the Fourth Regiment of Foot Guards.”
“The Insignia of the Irish Guards on the Forage Cap is the eight-pointed Star of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick and features the Regiment’s motto ‘Quis Separabit?’ (‘Who shall separate us?’).“
Royal expert Nikkhah stated in the BBC documentary, Royal Wedding: A Day to Remember, that William wanted to wear Household Cavalry uniform, but Queen Elizabeth wanted him to wear something else.
“The military is everything to William and to Harry. The Queen said, ‘No, you’re wearing your Irish Guards. You are the new Colonel of the Irish Guards.’ That’s the one thing he didn’t get his way on, and he deferred to Granny,” royal expert shared.
Prince Harry also talked about this in his book “Spare,” as, “He’d asked Granny if he could wear his Household Cavalry kit and she’d turned him down. As the Heir, he must wear the Number One Ceremonial, she decreed.”
“Willy was glum at having so little say in what he wore to get married, at having his autonomy taken from him on such an occasion. He’d told me several times that he felt frustrated.”
“I assured him that he looked bloody smart in the Harp of Ireland, with the Crown Imperial and the forage cap with the regimental motto: ‘Quis Separabit? Who shall separate us?’ It didn’t seem to make an impression.”
Queen Elizabeth II’s guest list was also something William had problem too. Roya Nikkhah also talked about that matter, and the royal expert stated, “When the guest list was drawn up [William] was very bemused and had a conversation with the Queen to say ‘I don’t know any of these people’. He wasn’t very happy about it. The Queen just said to him, rip that list up and start where you want to start from and invite who you want – and that’s what they did.”
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