Princess Kate once gave now husband Prince William an ultimatum after pictures threw their relationship into chaos.
The Prince and Princess of Wales have been happily married since 2011 and are set to celebrate their anniversary in a few months.
But while things have been smooth sailing since then, the couple had their fair share of ups and downs at the start of their relationship.
The couple met while both studying at the University of St Andrews and hit it off right away. But during that time, they took multiple breaks from their relationship as William navigated his new-found freedom at university.
In 2007 – during a period when the couple were broken up – pictures emerged of the Prince of Wales getting close with other women in clubs.
A report that appeared in the Daily Mail claimed that Kate had issued an ultimatum after she saw the pictures online.
It was the first time, Katie Nicholl reported, that Kate had ever issued a warning like this, and it was because she had been left utterly “humiliated” by the photographs of William clubbing, after years of having to brush off the fact other women so regularly made advances on her boyfriend.
Nicholl quoted one of Kate’s friends as anonymously saying: “She has coped for years with girls flinging themselves at her boyfriend and for a while she found it humorous and even flattering.
But after his recent behaviour she gave him an ultimatum and told him that every time he behaved like that in public he was cheapening her image as well as his own.
“She told him she wasn’t prepared to be treated like a doormat and that his carefree behaviour was affecting her image. She gave him quite a pasting. In the past she had always let go of things like that, but this really bothered her.”
The first incident had happened in the London nightclub Boujis – which was once one of William’s regular haunts – where he had been spotted in a “drunken embrace with a pretty blonde”.
The second time this happened, just a few days later, photographs of William dancing with another woman whilst he had been out drinking in Bournemouth were published widely in the press.
But the couple managed to make it through the hard times, announcing their engagement in 2010 before getting married the following year.
