Though it's far from normal to have your wedding televised around the globe with two billion people watching, Will and Kate, or the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, as they are officially known, are refreshingly normal despite their royal status. From the way they met to their long road to the altar, the strangest things about Will and Kate's marriage are the things that most married couples deal with.
Obviously inspired by Princess Diana's openness on her marriage with Prince Charles, Will and Kate may have set the example for another thoroughly modern royal wedding: that of Will's little brother Prince Harry and American divorced actress Meghan Markle.
The dress that brought them together is now a collector's item
Though they had met once before through mutual friends, it was Kate's catwalk during a charity fashion show in 2002 at St. Andrew's that had Prince William scrambling to win a date with his future wife. The notorious sheer dress designed by Charlotte Todd sold at auction in 2011, the year of Will and Kate's wedding, for a whopping 78,000 pounds. The buyer, who remained anonymous, said it was an "iconic piece," and that he was "happy with the purchase."
Their epic break-up
You think your break-up was bad? Try being in a longterm relationship with the future King of England.
According to Marcia Moody's biography, Kate and William split in 2007, after the couple began spending more and more time apart and Kate had grown frustrated with William's bar-hopping ways. The breakup reportedly left Kate heartbroken and devastated; after all, according to Moody, there had been talk about a royal wedding.
However, as is often the case with young love, Moody writes that the couple got back together within a few months. In 2010, the couple reflected on their break-up in a high-profile interview, during which Middleton admitted she wasn't too thrilled about the split when it first happened. "I, at the time, wasn't very happy about it but actually it made me a stronger person, you find out things bout yourself that maybe you hadn't realized," she said.
She continued, "You can get quite consumed by a relationship when you are younger. I really valued that time, for me as well, although I didn't think it at the time, looking back on it."
William gave Kate a chance to escape the royal lifestyle
In an interview with the BBC right after their engagement, when asked about the pressures of public life, William said he wanted to give Kate a chance to back out if royal life wasn't for her. "I wanted to give her a chance to see in and to back out if she needed to before it all got too much. I'm trying to learn from lessons done in the past and I just wanted to give her the best chance to settle in and to see what happens on the other side," he said.
Kate is the first British royal wife to hold a college degree
Kate and William met at the University of St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland, where she was pursuing a degree in Art History. She graduated with honors in 2005, which would eventually make her the first royal wife in the history of the United Kingdom to hold a college degree. William, for his part, majored in geography. Recently, at her sister's Pippa's wedding, it was revealed that the Duchess of Cambridge is also a talented artist—she sketched the illustration of the church where Pippa was married on the couple's wedding programs.
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