For many, Prince William and Kate Middleton are the perfect couple, but they have had some struggles to get to where they are now.
According to royal writer and journalist Robert Jobson, William once broke up with Kate on the phone, then went to a London club to party with friends. Jobson claims that a drunken William told bar patrons he was “free,” but it didn’t take long for Kate to win him back.
In excerpts from Jobson’s new book, Catherine, Princess of Wales, Obtained by the United Kingdom daily MailThe author wrote that after several years of dating, William “unexpectedly cancelled his plans to attend a New Year’s Eve gathering in Dundee, organised by the Middleton family” in 2007.
“I felt something was wrong,” Jobson continued, referring to Kate. “The papers were certainly confidently predicting a royal engagement. Soon after, and out of the blue, William – now a second lieutenant in the Blues and Royals – called her to suggest a breakup.”
He told her that they each needed “a little space” to “find their own way,” and that he couldn’t promise to marry her. In an emotionally charged 30-minute conversation, they each admitted that “their perspectives were different.”
Jobson claimed the split was a “devastating blow to Catherine, who felt doubly disappointed after William dumped her over the phone. Although this was not the first time William had asked to end their relationship, she felt it was the end.”
Meanwhile, William is said to have “celebrated their split with an alcohol-fuelled night at Mahiki nightclub in Mayfair with close friends”.
“He shouted, ‘I’m free!’ while doing the robot dance drunk, and then told his friends that they should all ‘drink the menu,’ which they almost did in the end.”
The clip shows that Kate was not sad about the breakup, but rather continued her life despite the constant attention from the photographers. Pictures of her going out and enjoying the nightlife in London alone spread, and William, who was stuck in the army barracks for most of this time, noticed this and began to “seriously rethink it.”
Just a few months later, William and Kate received a separate invitation to attend a party thrown by a mutual friend – a “very naughty” costume party.
“She arrived dressed as a nurse, and William was quick to pick her up,” Jobson wrote. “They spent the first part of the evening in deep conversation before heading to the dance floor, where they ended up kissing. When friends joked that they should get a room, they went together.”
A spokesman for Kensington Palace, which holds the office of the Prince and Princess of Wales, as well as Buckingham Palace, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Fox News DigitalComment requests.
The couple spoke about the split in their 2010 engagement interview with ITV, with William explaining: “We were very young… we were kind of finding ourselves as different characters and things like that, we were very much trying to find our own way, and we were growing up.”
“It was just a little bit of space and stuff like that, and it worked out for the best,” he added.
Kate said that although she was “not very happy about it” at the time, “it made me a stronger person.”
“You discover things about yourself that you might not have realized, or I think you might get caught up in a relationship when you’re younger, and I really appreciate that time for me too, even though I didn’t think about it at the time,” she said.
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