A royal love story for the ages! Kate Middleton and Prince William are going strong and celebrating 13 years of wedded bliss. The couple's wedding anniversary was on Monday, April 29, just weeks after the shocking announcement that the Princess of Wales has been diagnosed with cancer . After months of speculation, Kate went public with the news in March 2024, opening up about her private battle and how she and William have handled the situation with their three young children.
And after six months away from the public eye, Kate made her triumphant return at the 2024 Trooping of the Colour looking radiant as ever. The couple has more than a decade of marriage under their regal belts, share three kids -- Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis -- and are next in line to the British royal throne after King Charles III and Queen Camilla. But when the Prince and Princess of Wales first met, they were two lovesick college students at the University of St.
Andrews in Scotland. They went from friends and roommates to longtime loves in a matter of years. In the wake of Kate's recent diagnosis, look back at a timeline of their real-life romance: 2001: College Freshmen Though they'd go on to have a happy life together, when William and Kate met at the University of St.
Andrews in Scotland as college freshmen, they were simply friends at first. "We were friends for over a year first and it just sort of blossomed from then on," William shared in the couple's engagement intervie.
