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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
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Kate Middleton Had a Missed Encounter with Prince William Before She Eventually Met Him as a First-Year College Student in 2001

Prince William and Kate Middleton in 2008.

After over two decades together, there’s no doubt that the Prince and Princess of Wales are the right match for one another, but it seems as though William and Kate’s crossing paths was truly something that was meant to be.

Ultimately, of course, they met as first-year students at the University of St. Andrews back in 2001; according to Kate herself in her 2010 engagement interview alongside William, she went “bright red” and “scuttled off” when she first saw William on campus, per The Mirror.  

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