Kate Middleton was a girl with a plan – the now Duchess of Cambridge didn’t enlist fate after it was announced the young Prince William would attend St Andrews University.
Rather, British newspaper journalist Katie Nicholl claims in her book Kate: The Future Queen, Kate rejected her first choice, Edinburgh University, and took a gap year so she could enrol at the same university as Prince William.
Kate’s previous Marlborough College careers advisor, Jasper Selwyn, and house tutor, Joan Gall, confirmed Kate achieved the necessary marks and was accepted into her first choice, Edinburgh, but turned it down and instead applied for St Andrews after Prince William’s choice was made public.
Kate, 31, had no guarantee she would gain a place at St Andrews, or that she would attend the same lectures as the prince, but it was a gamble that paid off when the two found themselves in the same art history class in 2001 and, soon after, in love.
While the Duchess of Cambridge – now married to Prince William and mother of their first child, Prince George – was said to pursue the chance meeting in the beginning, it was Kate’s mother, Carole Middleton, who sealed the royal deal by pushing Wills to commit to an engagement with her daughter.
According Nicholl, Carole Middleton was said to have approached Wills about his intentions in 2009, encouraging him to “put a ring on it” – and just a year later Prince William proposed, followed by their royal wedding in April 2011.
The prince and his mother-in-law also agreed that he would always allow them to play a pivotal role as grandparents in their children’s lives.
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