Kate and Wills: A Royal Courtship

Royal Romance
Middleton Family / Clarence House / Getty Images

College Sweethearts
Their university days were over, but William and Kate knew their relationship wasn't. Taken on June 23, 2005, the day of their graduation ceremony at St. Andrew's University, this Middleton family snapshot captures the prince in a tender moment, caressing Kate, whom he met four years earlier. During their time at St. Andrew's the couple enjoyed relative privacy from photographers under an agreement brokered between Clarence House (Prince Charles' official residence), Britain's Press Complaints Commission and newspaper editors.

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