she s not an aristocrat, she s not somebody who has grown up in a castle or palace. she s sort of pretty normal really. kate brought william home to spend weekends with her parents in bucklebury. he loves going for dinner around the house and loves being part of something which is actually standard. and behind the walls of st. andrews, william could live like an ordinary student. i d do my own shopping. i d take away and rent videos, go to cinema, basically anything i wanted to really i can go to. i remember we walked out of the pub called ma bell s, which is where we went a lot. and we were quite drunk. and i think i saw a pellet gun on the floor, someone had discarded this sort of toy gun. so i picked it up and i start waving it around and he grabbed it out of my jacket pocket and he was like holding it in the
it s the place kate middleton calls home. wherever you go, it s just fabulous around here. there s two pubs in the village and there s a church and that s all. john haley owns one of those pubs. what is the community like? would you say people keep to themselves or is it tight-knit and kind of everybody knows everybody s business? it s a good mix. no, nobody know s everybody s business but they do look after each other. he s known the middletons for 16 years. they re part of the community and they mix well because they ve been here for many, many years. they re just like any other family. they re a great family. carol goldsmith and michael middleton met while working for a british airline. they married in 1980. the oldest of three children, kate was born in 1982. i heard she was as normal as normal can be. she came from a normal
if the breakup made kate stronger, it made william certain. he never wanted to be without her again. back together and vacationing, kate and william made a deal. william had a military program and training to complete. he knew he had to do that before he got married. the pledge was if you wait, there will be a ring at the end of the day. quietly, the palace began planning. you could see how much work was being done behind the scene. she was being trained, she was being groomed and prepared for a far more important role, which is queen in waiting. there was also the matter of kate getting to know her future in-laws. the palace and the queen were acutely aware of mistakes made with diana, that she felt isolated and ostracized and they
air and suddenly, even in my drunk state i was like this is probably not a good idea. if william was wild, jules says kate was always in control. and by the spring of 2004, william was ready to introduce his girl friend to the world. if you take somebody to cloisters skiing, which is the place that your family had been going for the the last many years, it s a pretty clear sign that he s saying to everybody this is the girl in my life. coming up, the perfect romance abruptly ends. prince charles says you can t keep stringing this girl along. if you re not ready to ask her to marry you, break it off.
teach english and even clean toilets in the same small town in chile. kate s tough. she s a sporty, fit lady. she knew what she was about. she knew how to look after herself. while case missed william that winter, chris anderson says carol middleton made sure that wouldn t happen again. originally kate wanted to go to edinburgh university. when it was announced by the palace that william would be attending st. andrews university, enrollment among woman in st. andrews jumped overnight by over 40%. so many believed that kate was among one of those women, thanks to her mother s gentle nudge. in kate s case, did she nudge her toward a relationship with the future king of england? yes and why not? because by putting her in proximity to william, magic happened. when we come back, william falls in love at a lingerie