Kate, Princess of Wales is set to pay a visit to Nottingham Trent University today (October 11), 18 years after she graduated from the University of St Andrews in 2005.
It was here that she met her husband Prince William, with them both initially studying History of Art before William switched courses to study Geography instead.
Kate graduated with a 2:1 on a glorious summer day in 2005, with her and her husband’s university days set to be re-created in the latest series of The Crown, which will be released next month.
The couple first met while living together in the St Salvator’s Halls of Residence and would later go on to live with one another in a house share.
Here Express.co.uk takes a look back at the key moments of Kate’s university life before her official royal duties began.
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Although they had been friends for a while, Kate supposedly turned William’s head when she wore a see-through dress at the university’s charity fashion show.
Fashion expert and auctioneer Kerry Taylor told US Weekly: “It was meant to be a skirt actually and she kind of yanked it up and wore it as a dress.
“She had a great figure, so yeah, she definitely caught Prince William’s eye that night of the rest is history.”
The dress then sold at auction in 2011 for a whooping £78,000.
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According to Kate, she was “very shy” when she first met the Prince and would “go bright red and scuttle off”.
Their friendship eventually blossomed into romance, however their first date did not go entirely as planned.
According to Heart Radio, Kate attempted to curtsey to William while out to dinner as a joke, but she ended up falling over and making William spill a drink all over himself.
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Kate’s antic clearly did not put William off, as he revealed he attempted to recreate fancy dinners for her himself, but as he told the Press Association: “I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners. [But] what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire.”
However he also said about his future wife: “When I first met Kate, I knew there was something very special about her. I knew there was possibly something that I wanted to explore there.”
The pair were still dating when they graduated in 2005, with Kate even getting papped at the ceremony as William’s girlfriend
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