Kate Middleton and Prince William's ban over living together - until she made huge move

The Prince and Princess of Wales famously began their narration astatine the University of St Andrews wherever they some lived successful St Salvator's Halls of Residence successful their archetypal year

The emotion communicative of The Prince and Princess of Wales met astatine university, famously began astatine the University of St Andrews successful Scotland. The brace archetypal crossed paths during their archetypal twelvemonth portion residing astatine St Salvator's Halls of Residence and yet moved successful together.

Now joined for 13 years and parents to 3 children, their aboriginal pupil beingness sounds similar a dream. In their 2nd year, Prince William and Kate opted to stock a location with 2 different housemates, but by their 3rd and 4th years, they had a backstage off-campus location to themselves, owned by 1 of William's distant relatives.

However, it appears that the mates astir didn't negociate to unrecorded unneurotic successful their 2nd twelvemonth owed to issues their landlord had with erstwhile antheral tenants. Upon proceeding astir imaginable problems, Kate took matters into her ain hands to unafraid the location for herself, William, and 2 adjacent friends.

During their archetypal twelvemonth of studies, some Prince William and Kate were residents of St Salvator's Halls of Residence and rapidly formed a friendship. This budding narration led them to rent a location unneurotic with 2 different students successful their 2nd year.

The aboriginal Prince and Princess of Wales chose to reside astatine 13A Hope Street adjacent the assemblage with friends Fergus Boyd and Olivia Bleasdale. However, during the viewings, Kate discovered determination mightiness beryllium a hurdle preventing her from surviving with William.

The landlord, Charlotte Smith, antecedently told ivillage.co.uk: "We'd had an unfortunate acquisition with immoderate boys successful the level erstwhile earlier and we were determined not to person young men determination again. Broken furniture, breached windows – determination was a batch of damage, truthful that enactment america disconnected really."

"I said to this young woman we'd truly alternatively not person much boys and she said, 'What if I were to archer you that it was Prince William? '" After immoderate thought, Smith and her hubby gave successful and fto William and Fergus determination in. She aboriginal described the prince arsenic a "very friendly, precise charming...thoroughly bully man."

For their 3rd and 4th years astatine university, the mates decided to determination to Balgove House astatine Strathtyrum, a sprawling backstage property conscionable extracurricular St Andrews. The property is owned by affluent landowner Henry Cheape, William's distant relative and a adjacent person of the Royal Family.

The agrarian location was made harmless for the young mates with unmarked constabulary cars patrolling the property and the location itself acceptable down a ample partition with bomb-proof doors and windows. Despite the assorted information measures, Kate and William reportedly loved hosting their galore friends astatine the spot – truthful overmuch truthful that they installed a champagne fridge.

The household of 5 relocated to Adelaide Cottage connected the Windsor Estate astatine the extremity of summertime 2022, with Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis each enrolling astatine the adjacent Lambrook School. Tucked distant successful the bosom of the Crown Estate's backstage 655-acre Royal park, Adelaide Cottage was primitively built successful 1831 arsenic a sanctuary for Queen Adelaide, woman of William IV.

It besides held a peculiar spot successful Queen Victoria's heart, arsenic she often took her meal there. The cottage underwent important refurbishment successful 2015 and boasts immoderate genuinely extravagant decor. Reports suggest that the maestro chamber features a ceiling adorned with gilded dolphins and enactment detailing.