Prince Louis's birthday has just passed, and the British royal family, which has finally taken a breath, will usher in a big test again: tomorrow, April 29, is the 13th wedding anniversary of Prince William and Princess Kate.
Frame photo of the 12th wedding anniversary
After all, since Princess Kate publicly admitted that she had cancer, she has only lived in press releases and has never shown her face. Especially after the royal family released a video that seemed to be full of flaws, William's reputation took a sharp turn for the worse, and more and more people realized that where there is a quiet time when marrying into the royal family, it is clearly riding the wind and waves.
Looking at the timeline, in fact, Kate's ex-boyfriends are also either rich or expensive, and she finally chose to marry William, is it really just because of his royal halo?...
Born in a middle-class family and beautiful and tall, Kate has had no shortage of suitors since she was a child.
According to a number of British media reports, Kate's "first love" is named Harry Blakelock, and he is also the person she talks about the most.
Both were high school classmates and both attended Marlborough College, a prestigious boarding school in Wiltshire, with a tuition fee of £46,995 per year.
Harry is a year older than Kate, and the two had a romantic campus love affair during school, but unfortunately, like all first loves, the relationship ended before Kate went to college.
Kate in high school
Although they were only in a relationship for a year, Kate reportedly had a crush on the Harry, hoping to get back together with him even after the breakup, and gave up her degree at the University of Edinburgh in 2000.
In 2001, Kate and her friends went on a three-month pre-university trip to Florence, where Harry was also there.
In 2020, a source told the Daily Mail: "When Kate arrived in Florence, she really missed Harry. ”
"She kept talking about him, and he seemed to make a mess of her. ”
"At school, he seemed to be hot and cold to her, and she was always talking about how she could get him back. He was also in Florence at the time, but as far as I know, nothing happened. ”
"Even though Kate easily attracts the attention of boys, she is always shy in front of boys," said the friend. "A lot of boys find her attractive, but when they approach her, she always gets very embarrassed. ”
Perhaps too much of a blow from her breakup with Harry, Kate rejected other people's pursuits during her time in Florence.
According to The Mirror, in 2022, Harry ended up marrying one of Kate's classmates, who is now a partner at the world's largest independent insurance broker.
During her high school years at Marlborough College, Kate also dated a boy named Willem Marx, and the two ended their relationship on a friendly relationship, and in 2011 Willem came to Kate's wedding, and he was the only male friend invited to the ceremony when Kate was a student at High School.
The two were photographed leaving the Boujis nightclub in South Kensington on a date
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Willem Marx is handsome and charismatic, and has dated Ingrid Bergman's granddaughter, Lancôme model Ellet Rossellini.
Today, Willem still lives in London and works as a special correspondent for PBS NewsHour. Previously, he worked as a reporter for news organizations such as CNBC and Bloomberg, and he is happily married to Italian TV presenter Johanna Botta.
During Kate's gap year before college, she was working on the BT Global Challenge yacht in Southampton and met her colleague Ian Henry, starting a brief summer romance.
A fellow crew member said, "Everyone calls her 'Fit Kate' and when she and Ian are together, the lads are all very jealous. It was a summer romance, nothing serious, and it ended when they parted ways for college.
In 2001, Kate enrolled at the University of St. Andrews, where she and William officially began to intersect.
Many people believe in the theory that Kate's mom, Carol, convinced William to transfer from Edinburgh after finding out that she had applied to St Andrews. It is also said that Kate also postponed the enrollment time in order to wait for William to enroll.
But a friend at the time said, "She just changed her mind." ”
"A lot of her friends are going to St Andrews. Traditionally, it attracts a large number of students from Marburg. For anyone who really knows Kate, it's ridiculous to think that this is her deliberate design. ”
However, it is not unfounded to say that Kate is counting her studies, as the number of applications to the university increased by 44% after William announced his intention to study at St Andrews.
They met in their freshman year, and they both studied art history, and William later switched to geography.
Kate caught William's attention at a charity fashion show in the spring of her freshman year of college, and the two became very good friends.
The dress was designed by Charlotte Todd and later sold at auction for $125,000.
However, the encounter with William was not an instant hit, as Kate had a brief date at school in her freshman year with an aristocratic boy named Rupert Finch, who was a senior at the time, and the two decided to become friends after dating for less than a year.
Rupert is a lawyer, and in 2012, a year after Kate's marriage, Rupert Finch got engaged to designer Natasha Rufus Isaacs, who was also in aristocratic circles and had a father who was a marquis.
Both husband and wife are close to the British royal family, and Princess Eugene and Kate both attended their wedding. William and Kate were also present at their wedding.
In their sophomore year, Kate and William moved into a four-bedroom, two-story townhouse off-campus with friends Fergus Boyd and Olivia Blysdale, and their relationship quickly warmed.
The next development went according to plan, and a year after dating, The Sun exclusively published photos of the two enjoying a ski trip in the Swiss Alps, and the relationship was revealed.
Charles is said to have been so angry that he once threatened to cut ties with The Sun
In June 2005, they graduated.
On April 1, 2007, they broke up.
It is said that William called the office where Kate worked and called her directly to inform her of the separation.
In a 2010 engagement interview, William recalls his brief time apart from Kate. "We were both very young, still in college at the time, and we were all defining ourselves and being different roles in a way," he said. "We're working very hard to find our own path, and we're growing. ”
Kate added: "I wasn't very happy about it at the time, but it actually made me a stronger person. You will discover things that you may not have realized on your own. I think when you're young you can be swallowed up by a relationship, and I cherish that time very much. ”
During their breakup, Kate and William's friend Henry Ropner went on a brief date.
Henry has a long history, and his family owns a £33.7 million shipping management company. He and William are alumni of Eton College, graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a First Class Degree in Civil Engineering and a Master of Finance and Investment from the School of Management, qualified as a Chartered Accountant from PricewaterhouseCoopers, serves as a Director of eviFile, and chairs of SFG20 for Construction Engineering Services.
A source told The Sun at the time, "Henry has been delighted to be by her side since Kate broke up with William. They were partying all the time and having a great time. There's a lot of flirting. Now that she's single, she enjoys Henry's company. Henry was very wealthy. He had been in William's circle for many years. ”
The catch is that Henry had dated an aristocratic girl named Jecca Craig at the University of Edinburgh, and when Jaica broke up with Henry, William comforted her and dated her for a while... Friends say, "Now it's the other way around..." ）
This boyfriend is also the biggest threat to William in Kate's tenure, and many media reported that William was quite jealous at that time.
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However, it is clear that King Xiang intends to be ruthless, and this short-lived relationship comes to an end with William and Kate getting back together two months later.
In 2011, Henry married Natasha Sinclair, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, and the couple now live in Somerset.
Regarding William and Kate's reunion, royal journalist Katie Nicol described their reunion in detail in her book Kate: Queen of the Future. William, who proposed to break up, obviously needs to take the initiative to catch up with Kate.
Kate has since gone on holiday to Ibiza with family and friends, and the family noticed that Kate was spending a lot of time on the phone and suspected that it was for William.
"Kate doesn't want to rush it. She was seriously injured and told William she needed some time," Nicol wrote.
Later, a mutual friend of the two invites them both to a masquerade party, where Kate dresses up as a "sexy" nurse and "wears a fishnet tights and a short skirt." Subsequently, the prince "followed her all night like a lost puppy."
They spent hours that night having an in-depth conversation, and William wanted her to give him another chance.
A few days later, she attended another party in his barracks to celebrate the end of his training. She had already made up her mind.
Next, we entered the familiar plot, there was no other man's position around Kate, and the two got back together, got engaged, got married, and had children.
In 2010, Kate and William officially gave an interview to the media after getting engaged, sharing with the public the bits and pieces since they met.
"When I first met Kate, I knew there was something very special about her. ”
"We just spent more time together, giggling, having a good time and realising that we had the same interests and had a really good time.
"She has a very naughty sense of humor. ”
"[The proposal scene] is really romantic" "It really is"
The two talked about interesting stories when they lived in the same dormitory, joked about William's bad cooking skills and bad temper, shared a romantic marriage proposal, and the reporter couldn't help but ask Kate a gossip that had been circulating for a long time: "There is a rumor that you have had a picture of him on the wall since you were a girl?"
William laughed: "Not just one, about 20!"
Kate smiled and replied, "He hopes so!" No, I have a picture of a man wearing Levi's on the wall, not William." Sorry!"
"Well, apparently I'm wearing Levi!" William retorted.
The royal family's every move can't be out of line, but many unintentional loving moments between the two have been talked about:
Members of the royal family do not promote physical contact in public, and are caught touching their arms and shoulders when no one is in private:
Quietly holding hands while attending a royal wedding:
Complain about each other's pronunciation before filming:
After Kate disappeared, conspiracy theories gradually emerged, and there were more and more rumors about William's temper and cheating, and many fans of the former royal family only realized that there was a trace of unusualness from the clues, such as William's temper has long been traced, and he guessed whether the real aristocratic daughter might know the true appearance of the royal family, so he was unwilling to jump into the fire pit.
There is also a discussion on the Internet: Kate's ex is either rich or expensive, and now they have formed a family, and they have children and daughters away from the spotlight, if she had married any of her predecessors, would she be happier than she is now?
It is true that from God's point of view, it is meaningless to criticize your past self, don't beautify the road you haven't taken, the current choice is the best choice. But some people commented, after all, the road that has not been traveled, there is still room for beautification...