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Kate, 28, met Prince William, also 28, while they were students at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland in 2001. The two roomed on the same floor in the school's dorm and in 2002 moved off campus to a private house with two close friends. The couple has been together for seven years.


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Unlike Hollywood starlets, who can't help but get caught in inappropriate situations, Kate has never been seen in a compromising position. She has never given an interview to the press or been caught stumbling out of a nightclub, and, in fact, she has been known to refresh her makeup before leaving a club in the middle of the night.


Queen Catherine the Great Britian

Kate is also the first royal bride to model lingerie. William's future bride was wearing a sheer dress with black underwear. At the Don't Walk charity fashion show in March 2002, Prince William was overheard telling his friend Fergus Boyd, "Wow, Fergus, Kate's hot!"

After the show the two spent a few minutes alone at a party and toasted Kate's success. The two were talking and a friend who witnessed the encounter recalls, "There was definitely chemistry between them and Kate had really made an impression on William, but she played it very cool. She didn't want to give off the wrong impression or make it too easy for him."

The term "commoner," which has been used to describe the future princess, simply means that she has no relatives or any connection to nobility or royalty. The last time a future British king married a commoner was in 1660 when the future King James II secretly wed Anne Hyde in the middle of the night. The country was outraged, but the future Queen Anne gave birth to two queens subsequently, Mary and Anne.

After the world watched the fairy-tale wedding of Prince Charles to Lady Diana in 1981 that imploded in the 1990s, royal watchers agree that the royal family has shifted its attitudes as to who would make a good spouse for the future king of England.

Lady Diana was a 20-year-old kindergarten teacher with a blueblood past, a virgin who seemed to know her place when she got engaged to Prince Charles, who was 32 at the time. Looking back at video footage of the engaged couple, it's obvious that she was in love with her prince, while Charles was not in love with her. He was in love with Camilla Parker Bowles, his current wife, whom the palace deemed an unsuitable wife for the future king in the 1970s.

Royal watchers have assumed that Prince William's parents' divorce in 1996 accounts for his reluctance to say "I do" at a young age. He once said in an interview that he thinks 28 is a good age to get married. He turned 28 on June 21.

Kate Middleton is sure to garner the same attention Princess Diana did when she became Her Royal Highness Princess Charles of Wales (royal women take their husband's full title), and some are speculating that the marriage will increase the popularity of the royal family, which has been in decline since the untimely death of Princess Diana in 1997.

While William waits to become king of England, which may not happen until he is in his fifties -- most royal experts believe that Prince Charles still wants the "top job," as it is called. Kate will become Queen Catherine when William is crowned king.

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