{"id":394651,"date":"2025-09-03T13:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/394651\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T13:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:36:11","slug":"prince-william-and-kate-middleton-breakup-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/394651\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William and Kate Middleton Breakup Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">Aside from those &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/entertainment\/a27164598\/who-is-kate-middleton-rural-rival-rose-hanbury\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/entertainment\/a27164598\/who-is-kate-middleton-rural-rival-rose-hanbury\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"rural rival\" data-node-id=\"0.1\" class=\"body-link css-103hk4r emevuu60\" rel=\"noopener\">rural rival<\/a>&#8221; rumors, Kate Middleton and Prince William have been happily married for years. But reminder that the pair actually broke up back in Spring 2007\u2014and now William&#8217;s former butler, Grant Harrold, is spilling everything he saw go down behind the scenes when they got back together.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">Apparently Grant served Kate and William a private Valentine&#8217;s dinner in 2008 when they were rekindling their relationship. &#8220;It was just the two of them. It was really nice, quite special actually,&#8221; he said, per <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/kate-middleton-prince-william-romantic-dinner-after-2007-split-says-former-royal-butler-11801326\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/people.com\/kate-middleton-prince-william-romantic-dinner-after-2007-split-says-former-royal-butler-11801326\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"People\" data-node-id=\"1.1.0\" class=\"body-link css-103hk4r emevuu60\" rel=\"noopener\">People<\/a>, adding that it was &#8220;a romantic dinner for them, they very much interacted with me throughout.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"2\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">Grant noted that before that dinner &#8220;they weren\u2019t [really] holding hands \u2014 it was very much William\u2019s friend. After that, when they got back together, it absolutely changed, and it was very much them as a couple. Something changed, and you knew they were a couple, and from then on, it was very much a waiting game&#8230; After they got back together, I was convinced they would get married. We didn\u2019t know how long it would take.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"4\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">In case you need a reminder of just how DRAMATIC William and Kate&#8217;s breakup was, there was a lot of speculation at the time. Ranging from Kate <a data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/features\/3632127\/Was-it-Toiletgate-that-done-for-Kate.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/features\/3632127\/Was-it-Toiletgate-that-done-for-Kate.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"accidentally\" data-node-id=\"4.1\" class=\"body-link css-103hk4r emevuu60\" rel=\"noopener\">accidentally<\/a> using the word &#8220;toilet&#8221; in front of the queen (known as Toiletgate) to William <a data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/6554841.stm\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/6554841.stm\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"moved to an army camp\" data-node-id=\"4.3\" class=\"body-link css-103hk4r emevuu60\" rel=\"noopener\">moving to an army camp<\/a> and putting long distance pressure on their relationship. Plus, there were reports that William <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/royals\/article-13681337\/William-dumped-Kate-phone-call-dressed-nurses-uniform.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/royals\/article-13681337\/William-dumped-Kate-phone-call-dressed-nurses-uniform.html\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Daily Mail\" data-node-id=\"4.5\" class=\"body-link css-103hk4r emevuu60\" rel=\"noopener\">allegedly<\/a> ended it with Kate during an &#8220;emotionally charged 30-minute conversation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"5\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">Obviously everything worked out in the end, but take a look back at their relationship below.<\/p>\n<p>Related Story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aside from those &#8220;rural rival&#8221; rumors, Kate Middleton and Prince William have been happily married for years. 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