10+ Facts About Prince William And Kate Middleton's Relationship Fans Didn't Know

If you're thinking that their love story is basically the plot of The Prince & Me, you'd be absolutely correct.

“When I first met Kate, I knew there was something very special about her," William said in their engagement interview.

Since they went to the same school and lived in the residence hall together, a friendship quickly blossomed.

"I do generally believe now that being friends with one another is a massive advantage. And it just went from there.”

The couple had a lot of factors against them at the time: William was completing his military pilot training while Kate was working in London.

“But that was just, we both were very young, it was at university, we were sort of both finding ourselves as such and being different characters and stuff," William said.

"It was very much trying to find our own way and we were growing up, and so it was just sort of a bit of space and a bit of things like that and it worked out for the better.”

Here's how the story goes:

William paid money for a front-row seat at the annual Don't Walk charity fashion show that Kate was modeling in. This took place back in 2002.

When this happened, William was stunned. Apparently, he couldn't take his eyes off her.

We don't blame him! I wonder if that's the story they'll tell their children.

We would be nervous about meeting the prince, too!

"I actually think I went bright red when I met you and sort of scuttled off, feeling very shy," she said in their engagement interview. "But we did become very close friends from quite early."

They rented a two-story top-floor apartment with their friends, Boyd and Olivia Bleasdale.

Since they were living so close, it was then that they started to develop feelings for each other and start dating casually.

A man who can cook AND he's a prince?? Kate is one lucky woman.

Only trouble was, these dinners never went smoothly. "What would happen was I would burn something," he shared.

Sounds super romantic.

"And she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation."

“It was about three weeks ago on holiday in Kenya,” he said in their engagement interview.

“We had a little private time away together with some friends, and I just decided that it was the right time really."

"We had been talking about marriage for a while so it wasn’t a massively big surprise," William said. "I took her up somewhere nice in Kenya and I proposed.”

Regardless, Kate found the whole thing incredibly romantic.

The sapphire-and-diamond engagement ring has a special meaning to William.

In their engagement interview, he shared that the ring was his way of "keeping her sort of close to it all.”

Kate understands how much Diana meant to her husband.

So, when Kate introduced her newborns to the world, she wore dresses that were similar to when Diana did the same thing many decades ago.

She then paid tribute to the late Diana once again when she wore a similar red dress after Prince Louis' birth.

Mary Berry revealed some of the sweet things William has said about Kate to the Mail on Sunday.

"He was keen to stress to me how none of his mental health charities would be what they were without Catherine, who puts so much time, effort and care into making sure everything works well.”

Sure, it's par for the course with being a royal.

But giving back is what this couple loves to do — and something that William learned from his mother.

When the coronavirus pandemic first started, it was revealed that William was secretly volunteering for a crisis text line.