In the couple's engagement interview, Kate reflected on their time apart. A month after the couple were spotted vacationing together at Klosters once again, the Duchess-to-be joined Prince William when he received his wings from the Royal Air Force.
Kate was photographed alongside William, and the pair attended a private reception with Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall after the ceremony, before joining other RAF Cranwell graduates and staff for a lunchtime celebration, per the Telegraph.
Prince William proposed while the pair were vacationing in Kenya, using Princess Diana's ring "my way of keeping [my mother] sort of close to it all," he told the press in their engagement interview. They announced their engagement publicly the following month. Millions of people around the world watched the couple say their vows in a ceremony at Westminster Abbey. Celebrities, foreign royals, politicians, and diplomats from across the Commonwealth, and members of the British armed forces were all in attendance.
Upon their marriage, the Queen granted the couple the titles the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. William and Kate took part in the now-famous "Lindo Walk"—a relatively recent tradition, in which members of the royal family introduce their newborns to the public outside the maternity ward at St.
Mary's Hospital Paddington, known as the Lindo Wing —and let the public get a first look at George, the third in line to the throne. Both Charlotte and Louis were also delivered at the Lindo Wing. The young royals are fourth and fifth in line to the throne, respectively. Kate and Will were first outed as a couple when they were photographed on a ski trip during their college years.
After confirming their relationship in , Kate joined Prince William's family on a ski trip, and in March , Kate and William took Princess Charlotte on her first family vacation: a ski trip in the French Alps. It's royal tradition to let the sex be a surprise for even the parents, a tradition that the couple chose to follow for all three of their children's births.
Princess Charlotte became fourth in line to the throne at her birth, behind her grandfather Prince Charles, her father Prince William, and her older brother Prince George. Historically, the birth of her baby brother Prince Louis would have knocked her to fifth in line, but the palace amended its outdated policy prior to George's birth, making Princess Charlotte the first female royal to trump a younger, male sibling in line for the throne.
Mary's hospital, as was Prince William. Shop Elle. United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. Shelf Life: Louise Erdrich. Women Voted. Handout Getty Images. Getty Images. They met in college. They shared a house together with two other friends in their younger years. They were long distance during the early years of their relationship. They broke up for a period of time in Kate escaped to Ireland to deal with her breakup from Prince William.
Mark Cuthbert Getty Images. Prince William proposed to Kate Middleton while on safari in Kenya. Their first official royal engagement as a couple was a boat christening in Wales. Paul Gilham. Kate Middleton's wedding bouquet paid homage to her new husband.
George Pimentel Getty Images. Prince William wore sweat pads to the royal wedding. Ferdaus Shamim. Kate Middleton did her own wedding makeup. WPA Pool. During their second year at school, William, Kate, and two other friends move into a house together, though they are still just friends.
Kate and William continue dating after graduation and are often spotted out together at various London hotspots and charity events—and the paparazzi is definitely on high alert for Kate sightings. The couple break up briefly in early , during which time William was completing his military pilot training and Kate was working in London.
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. Looking back on it. You can see her in the upper righthand corner of the photo below, where she sat with her family.
After a few more years of dating and the British tabloids giving Kate the very unkind moniker of Waity Katie , the couple announce their engagement on November 16, I took her up somewhere nice in Kenya and I proposed. View Iframe URL. After a royal engagement comes a royal wedding, of course. The ceremony at Westminster Abbey is broadcast around the world, with the British royal family, various other royals from around the world, and celebrities like Sir Elton John, David and Victoria Beckham, Guy Ritchie, and Joss Stone in attendance.
Middleton looks stunning in her Alexander McQueen lace gown designed by Sarah Burton —and her sister, Pippa Middleton, also makes headlines for her own gorgeous white dress.
Shortly before the ceremony, the queen bestows the title of Duke of Cambridge upon William, which makes his bride Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, upon the marriage. Just a few months after their royal wedding, the newly minted Duke and Duchess of Cambridge set off for their first royal tour. In the couple travels through both the United States and Canada on an official royal tour of North America.
At the time people marveled at her fashion diplomacy, choosing to wear only Canadian designers while visiting the commonwealth nation.
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