Over the years, royalists and biographers have desperately tried to rewrite, reimagine and reengineer the early days of Prince William & Kate Middleton’s acquaintance and relationship. No one even knows when they first met, although I think it’s been widely established that they met at least once before university. We know for a fact that Kate tried to follow William around during their gap year, and we also know that once William announced his plan to attend St. Andrews, Kate suddenly scrapped her plan to attend the University of Edinburgh and she quickly applied to St. Andrews. Even the most generous royal biographers struggle to describe Kate’s behavior as anything other than a sort of creepy fixation with William. She repeatedly threw herself into his path for years before they started dating. When The Crown tried to deal with this issue, they blamed the university switch on Carole Middleton trying to meddle on Kate’s behalf, like Carole was the one throwing Kate into William’s path. LMAO. Well, Russell Myers did his own spin on how Kate ended up at St. Andrews. Enjoy.
The Princess of Wales’s decision to attend the University of St Andrews raised her parents’ eyebrows when she first filled them in on the news following her ten-week trip to Chile. She was in South America on a volunteering expedition with the Raleigh International Programme and returned home to Berkshire with an idea. The young student revealed she intended to enrol in the Fife-based institution.
However, her news was supposedly not well-received by her parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, as they feared she was only keen to attend St Andrews to follow her love interest, Prince William, who announced he would be studying there in August 2000. Kate was originally due to start an Art History degree at the University of Edinburgh before her change of mind led her to graduate with an honours degree in History of Art from St Andrews in 2005.
In his tell-all book, William & Catherine: The Intimate Inside Story, about the royal couple, Russell Myers revealed why the princess’s parents were “dead set” against Kate attending William’s university initially.
He said: “At first, Carole and Michael were dead set against the idea, with Carole in particular worried about her daughter losing academic momentum, but after listening to Catherine explain that she believed she would be suited to the quieter surroundings of St Andrews rather than the city life that Edinburgh would provide, they agreed to her decision.”
The royal journalist revealed the real reason behind Kate’s change of heart, and explained: “The timing of Catherine’s announcement to her parents would, years later, result in accusations that she changed her mind about Edinburgh because she wanted to follow the dashing young Prince William to St Andrews, where in August 2000 he had announced he would be studying. But the truth is that during the trip she had met a fellow student, an 18-year-old girl from Somerset who was set to go to the University of St Andrews, in Fife on the east coast of Scotland, to study engineering. The two hit it off so well that Catherine decided to explore the option of changing her course while she was still away.”
This revisionist history is absolutely hilarious. For years, it was “so what, of course Kate stalked William, it worked, didn’t it?” Then it was “actually that’s sort of a creepy story, but whatever, it ended well.” Then it was “actually Carole Middleton masterminded everything and Kate was an innocent pawn!” And now, all of these years later, the story has morphed into “actually Carole was very concerned that Kate would lose academic momentum because Kate would be so focused on landing William, but Kate wasn’t even thinking about William!” It’s such a huge “tell” that everyone continues to rewrite this history too. At this point, I genuinely believe that Carole and Kate were always 100% in cahoots and this was all a joint plan. Kate wanted to go to St. Andrews specifically because William announced his plan to attend, and Carole completely backed her decision and facilitated as much as she could.
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- North/South America Rights-London, Britain – 11/12/2006 – Ket Middleton gets herself into a tight spot as she comes back home on Sunday morning. She realizes she’s forgotten her keys. She waits around 40 minutes until Prince William comes to her rescue. He was at the Remembrance Day Service nearby and rushed to her side. -PICTURED: Prince William and Kate Middleton -PHOTO by: Javier Mateo/startraksphoto.com -Startraks_KATE-MIDDLETON-PREGNANT-FILE-PHOTOS-31 Editorial – Rights Managed Image – Please contact www.startraksphoto.com for licensing fee Startraks Photo New York, NY For licensing please call 212-414-9464 or email sales@startraksphoto.com Featuring: Prince William and Kate Middleton Where: London, Britain, United Kingdom When: 12 Nov 2006 Credit: Javier Mateo/startraksphoto.com **North/South America Rights**
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- April 28, 2011: Kate Middleton arrivest at the Goring Hotel in London, UK today with her sister, Philippa Middleton, aka “Pippa,” and her mother Carole Middleton. Kate will marry HRH Prince William in a lavish ceremony tomorrow morning. Credit: INFphoto.com Ref: inffr-01/120603 Featuring: Kate Middleton, Catherine Middleton, Pippa Middleton, Philippa M Where: London, United Kingdom When: 28 Apr 2011 Credit: INFphoto.com **U.S. SALES ONLY.**
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- April 28, 2011: Kate Middleton arrivest at the Goring Hotel in London, UK today with her sister, Philippa Middleton, aka “Pippa,” and her mother Carole Middleton. Kate will marry HRH Prince William in a lavish ceremony tomorrow morning. Credit: INFphoto.com Ref: inffr-01/120603 Featuring: Kate Middleton, Catherine Middleton, Pippa Middleton, Philippa M Where: London, United Kingdom When: 28 Apr 2011 Credit: INFphoto.com **U.S. SALES ONLY.**
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- September 5, 2007: Kate Middleton seen out and about in London today. Credit: N/C Ref: kguk-81 Featuring: Kate Middleton Where: London, United Kingdom When: 05 Sep 2007 Credit: N/C
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- April 14, 2007: It is being widely reported that Prince William has seperated from long-time girlfriend Kate Middleton. Pictured here: 3rd June, 2006: The Boodles Boxing Ball at The Royal Lancaster Hotel London. Spoonsored by Boodles and held in Aid of Sparks Sports Aiding Medical Research for Kids. One of the boxers, Hugh “Hunter” van Cutsem, had great royal support. Among those, Prince William’s girlfriend, Kate Middleton. Credit: Goff/INFphoto.com Ref: kguk-42 Featuring: Kate Middleton Where: London, United Kingdom When: 03 Jun 2006 Credit: Goff/INFphoto.com
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- April 14, 2007: It is being widely reported that Prince William has seperated from long-time girlfriend Kate Middleton. Pictured here: 23rd June, 2005: Kate Middleton girlfriend of Prince William graduated today at St. Andrew’s University, Scotland. Credit: Goff/INFphoto.com Ref: kguk-30 Featuring: Kate Middleton Graduation Where: Scotland When: 23 Jun 2005 Credit: Goff/INFphoto.com
You can tell it’s pure bullshit thanks to that bit at the end about Kate hitting it off with another girl. She’s never met a girl with whom she hasn’t immediately began a one-sided rivalry.
You can tell it’s pure bullshit based on the fact that we are supposed to believe Carole thought Kate was some intellectual who was going to squander her natural abilities to woo William. I feel sorry for anyone who believes this, as they are not even a functional human at this point.
There were multiple times post uni for Carole to move Kate away from the chase for the title and Carole did the opposite. The major breakup in early 2007 was enough humiliation for Kate to move on, but that did not happen.
Hear hear. Utter nonsense.
And Carole engineered Kate taking William back after the breakup
Exactly, Miranda! Kate’s new-found girl bestie – that we’re hearing about for the first time 25 years later – is about as real as Aaron Rogers’ “wife” Brittani.
Fake news. So why did keen wait all those years jobless. Supposedly scoot saw keen as a friend And with the see through dress she wore on runway it all changed
Even the other girl story is stupid. That’s the basis for picking a school? I suppose if school doesn’t really matter that’s fine…
LOL! It’s like they’re trying to make it seem that Kate was trying to reach out to another women to pursue a friendship with her. This from someone known to have no female friends as she sees them as competition. Too bad she couldn’t have honestly befriended her sister-in-law while she was in the UK. Funny that her SIL is known to have many close female friends and has maintained those friendships for years. Unlike Kate, who is famously friendless except for her Mommy! Hmmmm!
See, it’s not that she switched from Edinburgh to St. Andrew’s in order to chase a boy, no, it’s that she met a random girl while she was travelling and THAT’S why she completely changed her life path! She is just incredibly susceptible to a stranger’s influence!
Especially for the woman who doesn’t appear to have even one real friend, and she doesn’t even seem to be close to Pippa anymore. Kate’s life is so depressing, I really don’t know why she wanted any of this. Nameless BFF she met in Chile notwithstanding.
Carol please…
Wow !! Yep let’s re-write history so it doesn’t sound line Ma Midds and Can’t put forth a concerted effort to stalk and trap a prince. He cheated on her at every opportunity and wanted anyone but her. Unfortunately for him those that he really wanted didn’t want him so he settled for the stalker and gold digger mother. They all deserve each other!!!
This! That’s exactly it.
I mean……this new story is even stupider. She wanted to change schools because she met a girl who was going there? It makes it sound like Kate had no idea St. Andrew’s existed before going to Chile and meeting this person.
Everyone knows she changed schools because of William. Trying to pretend otherwise just makes Kate sound dumber than usual. Or maybe its that they think we’re all dumb.
She was accepted to Edinburgh right out of Malborough and was planning to attend with that Emilia person and some other girls The Crown writers did research this whole thing because they didn’t want to make it look like Kate dropped it all to chase William, but that’s what she did once they did their research. The Chile excursion only happened after she dropped Edinburgh to take a gap year, just as William did, and Kate knew what William was going to do before it hit the press because of who she befriended at Marlborough.
Also Mike and Carole could have said that they are only paying for her tuition at Edinburgh and the chase for William would have ended there had they had an actual problem with it. Kate didn’t get scholarships or have any money to attend university on her own.
This is all bs to make the Middletons and kate not look like the social climbers they have been, Kardashian style.
It was probably Uncle Garry’s money that financed all this, too. And we know how HE made his money, right? What a sleazy family.
Tuition at either university was negligible when Kate and William were at St. Andrews.
Tuition was negligible for adults who had jobs and income. Kate at age 18 did not have money or a job to pay for tuition herself. There is no way Kate could have paid her own way to St Andrews, plus pay for accommodation without her parents paying for her.
Mike and Carole were a ok with the chase of the Prince.
The “girl from Somerset” is as real as all the Canadian boyfriends/girlfriends people met at summer camp. And why would someone change their mind about university after briefly meeting someone who’s planning to study a completely different subject?
The timing is off because she took a gap year to go to Chile, where it was known William was going to go. She had already dropped Edinburgh by then.
Her parents were worried she would lose “academic momentum”? LOL. Is that what we’re calling stalking these days?
They’ve rewritten Kate’s backstory so many times how does Kate manage to keep up? It will be a shame that one day, after all the work the tabs put into whitewashing Kate, the tabs discover she actually despises them? Thinks she’s above them?
Haha, haha, hahahahahahahahahahaha
I agree the story is BS, but I suspect Kate is putting it out there because she loathes William now and doesn’t want him to have the satisfaction that she ever did anything to pursue him. I wouldn’t doubt he has lorded it over her that she changed her school plans for his sake.
Well I agree that Kate is putting this out there. Russel Meyers said in an interview that this book was a chance for William and Kate to get their side of the story out there. But I disagree that’s it’s about William. It’s about trying to make Kate look less like a stalker bc apparently all she wanted was a calmer and quieter school. And to make Carole look less like a manipulative mom from an Austen novel.
Lover – I’m not sure what good it would do at this point, if that were her reasoning. Scooter already knows the truth and has no doubt been lording it over her this entire time. Why would she suddenly be trying to change his perception of what they both know to be true?
It does make me wonder what is going on behind the scenes with them though.
She’s got all the academic momentum of a boulder at the bottom of the ocean.
LMAO
Do you think William accepts he was stalked and married his stalker? Or ignores it because it is so embarrassing?
He knows it and he’s embarrassed by it, that’s why he treats her the way he does and why he resents harry and Meghan and wants to destroy their relationship. Coz if Willie’s not happy, nobody else should be.
Yeah that makes sense. Harry married for love and he married UP. That must be a massive narcissistic wound for William.
I think he generally didn’t think about it until Harry showed up with Meghan. And he saw what he did not have.
That makes sense! The comparison was glaring!
Agreed. Once he knew Harry was going to live a meaningful life with someone he really loved, it was all over for William. He burned from the rage in that moment, and it hasn’t abated since. He is the brother who was likely the most in need of therapy, but alas, toxic men don’t think they need any.
I think you are right Christine. Seeing a woman who was independent and successful on her own CHOOSE Harry must have flared up something terrible in William. Kate stalked him for money and fame and the crown (plus never needing to work in her life)….Meghan was already a millionaire, a success, a humanitarian, a philanthropist, and highly intelligent. It showed pegs what he missed out on by settling.
Also Meghan CHOSE Harry for love….that *has* to burn William. Meghan didn’t choose Harry for money or the crown…she chose him despite the crown. All kate wanted of William *was* the crown…
I think Scooter resents being portrayed as a man who was stalked and manipulated. His brother, on the other hand, found a woman he wanted to be with and moved quickly to establish a relationship with her.
There’s been a recent uptick in the “Carole deserves a title, y’all” pieces. Those seem to be coming from the Middletons. So I’d wager this piece is, too, to try to make Carole look less like a conniving puppet master.
Anyway, the “Kate the academic go-getter” angle is hard to believe. One of her professors is on record as saying she had zero curiosity and was basically one of the students who was just there for the social life. And haven’t fellow students said she basically copied/cheated her way through St. Andrew’s? Once she got her degree she had zero interest in using it at a job.
Kaiser, I’m really struck for the first time of the resemblance between George and his father. In the picture above of college age Scooter and the picture you chose for the the Marlborough school article, you can see how he’s growing into his father’s looks.
The males. That family grow up to look like a Windsor. Harry looks like a mountbatten Spencer and got the good looks
There is a story about Keen and how she treated other women as competition. When she and Scooter were “just friends” Keen spotted another woman flirting with Scooter. She dashed across the room, grabbed Scooter and said she was “his girlfriend.” He wimped out and agreed and then later thanked Keen!!!! So much for having women friends.
I often wonder what would have happened if Kate had not landed Peg. What would Carole have done? Would Kate have done anything useful with her life and degree? Would she have ever given up and married someone else?
It seems to me like Pippa got the best deal out of the three kids – marriage to a wealthy man with seemingly stable finances so she does not have to work, freedom to do as she pleases, and no major public interest in her life. I have to wonder if Kate ever questions whether the possibility of being queen was worth all the years of scheming and stalking or if she fantasizes about a life like Pippa’s.
My guess is Pipa’s outcome was always what they wanted. Rich, unbothered, no pressure. She basically has that now – except she is married to Pegs and can’t hide forever.
Kate’s friends repeatedly told the press the only things she talked about wanting were having loads of kids and dogs, a Aga, a country house and skiing in the winter. No one ever thought she was going to have a career. Pippa’s high school teachers, on the other hand, thought she might go into baking, etc.
Wonder if given the time again she would choose to do what her sister did and choose an ordinary rich man.