As many know, William and Kate met back in 2001 at St. Andrews University<\/a>, and struck a friendship. In 2002, they moved in together with some friends, and that same year, they started dating.<\/p>\n However, they split up in 2003 and again in 2007, but they got back together quickly after each time. In 2010, William finally proposed to Kate, and they married in an iconic ceremony held on April 29, 2011. Since then, they\u2019ve welcomed three children, and have risen in the ranks in the royal family.<\/p>\n Ever since they got together, though, there has been controversy, such as their breakups, the affair rumors<\/a>, PDA<\/a>, and more.<\/p>\n Below, see all of those romance controversies between the two, and how they were handled.<\/p>\n \tThe Rose Hanbury Affair Rumors<\/p>\n \t\t As many know, Rose Hanbury and Kate were friends for years, and in 2019, the Sun published a piece saying the two had a falling out (which, according to Richard Kay, nearly left both getting legal action in response). Then, writers Giles Coren and Nicole Cliffe both claimed that there was an alleged affair between William and Hanbury in 2019, per IBTimes<\/a>. Rumors swirled that the affair had been going on since 2017.<\/p>\n Despite the persistent rumors about secret dates and the fallout, there has been no physical or tangible proof of an affair besides deleted tweets and hearsay.<\/p>\n In fact, the rumors became so severe that Hanbury herself had to speak out about them. In details obtained by Business Insider<\/a>, her team said, \u201cthe rumours are completely false.\u201d<\/p>\n But even though it was all false, it still threw all of them into controversy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \tTheir Breakups & William\u2019s Dating<\/p>\n \t\t So, William and Kate reportedly broke up for the first time in 2004 for a \u201ctrial separation,\u201d and during that time, according to Katie Nicholl\u2019s 2010 book William and Harry<\/a>,\u00a0via Express UK,<\/a> he pursued millionaire heiress Isabella Calthorpe and American heiress Anna Sloan.<\/p>\n Then, in 2007, William dumped Kate over the phone in a 30-minute call, soon after cancelling their New Year\u2019s Eve plans, according to Robert Jobson\u2019s biography, Catherine, the Princess of Wales<\/a>. Soon after, he was seen out partying with a woman named Ana Ferreira, per Daily Mail<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n However, Will and Kate ended up reuniting for good in June 2007.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \tWilliam\u2019s Wedding Ring Debacle<\/p>\n \t\t Have you noticed this? While Kate wears a wedding ring all the time, William never does; and fans aren\u2019t too thrilled about that revelation. Royal commentator Eloise Parker said to Marie Claire<\/a>: \u201cAlthough it\u2019s traditional for royal women to wear both an engagement ring and a wedding ring after they get married, it\u2019s never been traditional for royal men to wear one. That\u2019s why Prince Philip and Prince William don\u2019t wear them. I think when you have a wedding watched by millions, everyone knows you\u2019re married!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \tTheir Scary Fights Behind Closed Doors<\/p>\n \t\t In Tom Quinn\u2019s book Gilded Youth: An Intimate History of Growing Up in the Royal Family<\/a>, royal insiders and palace staff told him that Kate and William allegedly have some blowout-level fights. \u201cIt\u2019s not all sweetness. They have terrible rows where they throw things at each other. Kate might seem to be a very calm person, and William also,. But it\u2019s not always true. Because the big stress for William and Kate is that they\u2019re constantly surrounded by [palace aides]. It\u2019s like a Jane Austen novel.\u201d<\/p>\n So, obviously, that didn\u2019t please royal fans and they started speculating like crazy.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \tHoneymoon Photo Leak<\/p>\n \t\t During Kate and William\u2019s honeymoon, a photographer leaked topless photos of Kate.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen news broke in September 2012 that a French magazine had published intimate holiday pictures of the then Duchess of Cambridge, I had never seen her husband, Prince William, so angry,\u201d Royal expert, Rebecca English wrote to DailyMail<\/a>. \u201cJaw clenched, he could barely contain his fury as they stoically continued to undertake a day of engagements in Malaysia as part of a hugely high-profile foreign tour to mark his grandmother Queen Elizabeth\u2019s Diamond Jubilee.\u201d<\/p>\n There was so much controversy about this, and luckily, William and Kate fought back. According to The Cut<\/a>, Kate got $120,000 in damages, with the editor and publisher getting fined 45,000 euros each.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \tWilliam Was Absent From Kate\u2019s Cancer Video<\/p>\n \t\t Kate announced her cancer diagnosis on March 22, 2024 with a heartbreaking video of herself on a bench. Many were immediately upset that William wasn\u2019t by her side, saying he should\u2019ve been there. However, UK body language expert Judi James told Page Six<\/a> that Kate being alone in the video was probably her choice.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe fact she sits alone is a testament to her strength and courage. Despite her obvious frailty, there are many signs of ongoing strength, determination, and firmness in her non-verbal signals,\u201d she said, adding it was \u201cone of the bravest solo speeches of any royal in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \tToo Much PDA<\/p>\n \t\t This was truly a can\u2019t-win situation, because any time Kate and William kissed or had flirty interaction, many picked it apart or called it fake\u2026<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \tOr Not Enough PDA<\/p>\n \t\t \u2026then on the inverse, they get hate for now showing enough PDA and being dubbed \u201cnot in love.\u201d In fact, royal expert Richard Palmer had to shut that notion<\/a> down, saying to The Sun\u2019s<\/a> Royal Editor Matt Wilkinson: \u201cI read stuff online about the state of their marriage and I just don\u2019t recognise it at all. Because whenever I\u2019ve seen them up close \u2013 I mean, it\u2019s very difficult to know what goes on in anybody\u2019s marriage, whether they\u2019re public figures or close friends or whatever, things go on behind closed doors \u2013 but everything I\u2019ve seen of that couple suggests to me that they are really close.\u201d<\/p>\n He added, \u201cThe body language, everything, you can just tell that they, I think anyway, that they\u2019re really into each other and the marriage has worked. There\u2019s a meeting of minds there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \tHow William Handled the Photoshop Fail<\/p>\n \t\t According to an excerpt from Catherine, the Princess of Wales: A Biography of the Future Queen<\/a> by Robert Jobson, he claims William \u201crefused to budge\u201d in taking one for the team with Kate when that infamous photoshop fail happened on Mother\u2019s Day 2024.<\/p>\n \u201cHis PR team suggested he and Catherine issue a joint statement<\/a> to help deflect the blame from her. The initial prepared statement used the words \u2018we\u2019 and \u2018our\u2019, but the prince decided not to release it,\u201d wrote Jobson. \u201cAfter all, it was his wife who\u2019d manipulated the snap and nothing to do with him, and if the press found out that he was covering for the princess, the speculation would only grow. When the statement was finally issued, it came from Catherine alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \tWhen William Went on a Bros Trip<\/p>\n \t\t Kate and William did skip the 2017 Westminster Abbey Commonwealth Day celebration, but they were absent for different reasons. In fact, William went on a ski trip with his bros to Verbier, Switzerland, without Kate. And to make matters worse, it wasn\u2019t entirely a bros trip because he was pictured with Australian model Sophie Taylor at a ski lodge, according to Grazia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \t\u201cWaity Katie\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t It\u2019s probably been a minute since you heard that but back in the 2000s, tabloids dubbed Kate\u00a0\u201cWaity Katy\u201d because she waited nearly a decade for a proposal. But can we say: who cares?! Wait one year, ten years, or 40; every relationship is different.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,2832,532,2831,7710,519,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-237675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-prince-of-wales","13":"tag-prince-william","14":"tag-princess-of-wales","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-uk-royal-family","18":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114795562522690895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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