How Kate Middleton 'strategically chased' Prince William in college: 未来 Queen 支持を得ようと努めるd Prince with 素晴らしい dress before pair finally got together - as they celebrate 13 years married

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The fairytale romance between the Prince and Princess of むちの跡s was one 'strategically' orchestrated by Kate, 明らかにする／漏らすs a source.

Prince William and Kate Middleton - who celebrated their 13th wedding 周年記念日 yesterday - met while 熟考する／考慮するing at St Andrew's university in Scotland in 2001, but that was no coincidence, 報告（する）／憶測s Elle magazine.

によれば Cambridge-educated 王室の historian Robert Lacey, Kate, 42, 制定するd an airtight 策略 to 逮捕（する） the 未来 king, one which 伴う／関わるd 溝へはまらせる／不時着するing her university in favour of one …に出席するd by William and even enticing him with a dress.

In Lacey's?2020 調書をとる／予約する 戦う／戦い of Brothers: William and Harry - The Inside Story of a Family in Tumult, he 描写するd a young Kate as a '戦略の lady' who made sacrifices to get what she 手配中の，お尋ね者.

He wrote: 'Kate was very stra tegic. She gave up her place at one of Britain’s 首相 universities, Edinburgh, and 選ぶd for another one [St. Andrews] that probably didn’t have the same academic 基準.?

A historian has 述べるd a then young Kate as 'very 戦略の' in her 追跡 of Prince William (pictured:?Kate Middleton and Prince William on their 卒業 day at St Andrew's in 2005)

王室の historian Robert Lacey told of the moment Kate stripped an extra 層 of 着せる／賦与するing while walking the 滑走路 (pictured:?Kate Middleton models on the catwalk at a student fashion show …に出席するd by Prince William at St. Andrew's)

'She had already been to Edinburgh to get her flat accommodations sorted out but switched universities and switched her courses to history of art because that was William’s. She 延期するd her own education by a year and even takes the chance she won’t get into St. Andrews'.

The historian also 株d how the 未来 王室の planned to dazzle William during a? student charity fashion show - one which William is thought to have paid £200 to enter.

It's no news that Kate - 19 at the time - stunned onlookers and later on the public with that now very famous risqu? see-through dress.?

However Lacey explained that it was an 追加するd racy touch that would 確実にする she 逮捕（する）d the 未来 king's attention.

In the 調書をとる／予約する, he 述べるd Kate as walking 負かす／撃墜する the 滑走路 at the student show - aptly 肩書を与えるd 'The Art of Seduction' - before stripping off an e xtra 層 of 着せる／賦与するing to 明らかにする／漏らす her svelte physique.

The move would 報道によれば lead William to comment to his friends 'Wow, Kate’s hot.’

The famous fashion 展示（する）?It is said to be the turning point in the couple's 関係, as they 結局 went from の近くに friends to developing romantic feelings for each other.

The dress itself, which cost £30 to make, is now so 重要な in the love story between the two students, who went on to marry and have three children, that it sold for a staggering £78,000 at auction に引き続いて the catwalk show and became one of Kate’s best-known fashion moments.

Prince William and Kate Middleton met while 熟考する／考慮するing at St Andrew's university in Scotland in 2001 (pictured: Kate on 卒業 day)

The dress 示すd a seminal moment in 固く結び付けるing Kate's 評判 as a style icon - but perhaps even more 意味ありげに, it turned Prince William's 長，率いる and, from then on, the two St Andrews students became romantically 伴う／関わるd.

Until that night, William thought of solid, dependable Kate only as a 同情的な and sensible friend. For it was her wise counsel which had helped him through his first-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 ‘wobble’ when he felt 哀れな and was 拷問ing himself about whether to やめる the university at the Scottish seaside town.

During her daily 決まりきった仕事, Kate rarely deviated from what one friend 述べるd as ‘a very public school look of Ralph Lauren shirts, V-neck jumpers and ジーンズs’.

Accounts of what happened at an after-show party 変化させる. It is 一般に agreed that, having had a bit to drink, William complimented Kate lavishly, then made a clumsy pass: a kiss on the 手渡す, によれば one account; a bolder move, in another 見解／翻訳／版, with him ‘leaning in’ for an amorous ‘smacker’.

Either way, Kate decorously rebuffed him.

Kate's risqu? dress would 報道によれば lead William to comment to his friends 'Wow, Kate’s hot' (pictured: The Prince 卒業生（する）s from St Andrew's)

にもかかわらず a 報道によれば clumsy beginning to their romance; something certainly appeared to 転換 - and within a few weeks, both had 捨てるd their 各々の partners.

They had both started at the university six months earlier, and the Prince had already identified Kate as a possible flatmate for the house-株 he was putting together for his second year.

They got on 井戸／弁護士席 and 株d an 利益／興味 in sport and the outdoors, 同様に as a ‘naughty’ sense of humour.

William also felt he could 信用 Kate - something incredibly important to him given his public profile.

It is more than likely they would have got together anyway but their 相互の friends ? 重要な bit-part players in the 王室の romance and all 現在の at the fashion show ? 譲歩する that the dress stirred William’s 利益／興味 and made him see the Berkshire-born beauty ‘in a different light’.

Designer Charlotte, who later decided against a career in fashion and worked at Bristol 水槽, 解任するd: ‘I didn’t know who Kate Middleton was and I didn’t put her in it. It was just pure chance.

The couple celebrated their 13th wedding 周年記念日 yesterday, April 28 (the Prince and Princess are pictured?along the Processional 大勝する to Buckingham Palace on their wedding day in 2011)

‘I made it as a skirt, but others pulled it up on Kate and she wore it as a dress. Maybe if it hadn’t been see-through, William might not have noticed her.’

For years afterwards, the dress remained at the 支援する of a wardrobe at Charlotte’s mother’s home. Charlotte said she realised its significance only when the couple 発表するd their 約束／交戦 in November 2010.

The dress is a part of fashion history ? the moment William could first have fallen in love with Kate ? and that makes me really proud,’ she said. ‘That picture has been used so much over the years. I always wonder whether Kate is embarrassed about it, or liked it.’

Kate had a place at Edinburgh University in 2000 but gave it up and took a gap year in Italy, reapplying to St Andrews for 2001 after William’s place became public.

In Kate: The 未来 Queen, by Mail on Sunday 王室の Editor Katie Nicholl, it （人命などを）奪う，主張するs Kate's mum, Carole Middleton held a secret 首脳会議 with William to ask whether he planned to 提案する to her daughter.

Kate 達成するd two As and a B in her A Levels ? the grades she needed for Edinburgh ? and the university was her first choice. William 達成するd an A in 地理学, a B in history of art and a C in biol ogy and won a place to 熟考する／考慮する history of art after a year out.?

In Kate: The 未来 Queen, by Mail on Sunday 王室の Editor Katie Nicholl, it （人命などを）奪う，主張するs Kate's mum, Carole Middleton held a secret 首脳会議 with William to ask whether he planned to 提案する to her daughter.?(pictured:?Carole Middleton …に出席するs 'Ladies Day' at Ascot Racecourse on June 16, 2011)

使用／適用s to St Andrews rose by 44 per cent after the news 現れるd, meaning Kate’s 決定／判定勝ち（する） was risky as there was no 保証（人） she would get a place.

Jasper Selwyn, a careers 助言者 at Kate’s former school, Marlborough College, and house 教える Joan Gall both 確認するd her f irst choice was Edinburgh.

Mr Selwyn said: ‘Kate’s 会社／堅い choice was Edinburgh and that was 確認するd.’

によれば her house mistress, Ann Patching, the change of heart （機の）カム as a surprise.?

She said: ‘After she left school, Catherine made some different 決定／判定勝ち（する）s, but why she made those 決定／判定勝ち（する）s I don’t know.’

In 2007 William and Kate 分裂（する） まっただ中に rumours she disapproved of his party lifestyle and his 不本意 to 提案する.

A make-or-break holiday followed and Kate 報道によれば gave William an 最終提案. によれば the 調書をとる／予約する, the pair then made a 協定／条約 to marry and have children.

However in Christmas 2009 Kate’s mother, Carole Middleton, 報道によれば took William aside to discuss a possible 約束／交戦.

A friend said: ‘She put some 圧力 on William to let the family know where it was all 主要な.

William 安心させるd her the 関係 was very much on 跡をつける and that there would be an 約束／交戦 soon. Carole 信用d William and put her 約束 in him.’