St Andrews is famous for its' golf course, but will now be as famous for introducing Prince William to Kate Middleton, on the first day that William started at university. Both assigned to St Salvator's Hall of residence, a grand building set in the oldest part of the university, the pair got on from the very first meeting.
It was Kate who hellped William through a terrible bout of homesickness in the first term, with Kate convincing him to stay in Scotland rather than heading back to Highgrove every weekend, and the two subsequently became very close friends and confidants.After William joined the University Water Polo team, William's demeanour picked up and he started socialising and behaving like a normal student (well, maybe he stopped short of rioting at Millbank...).
The local "Dolls House Restaurant", owned by TV presenter Carol Smillie, would see William, Kate and friends whiling away the evenings, with William rarely drinking alcohol and always paying his share of the bill. When Kate, William and a friend shared a Georgian flat in the second year they would pop out for takeaways, with both Kate and William favouring a mild korma!
In the third year they opted to rent somewhere more remote to keep as low a profile as possible, and so lived in a rural farmhouse overlooking the golf course, and stayed there until June 2005 when they started packing up for graduation. Kate describes the period at university with William as "the happiest of times", and not withstanding a short break-up after they left university, it seems that there is a fairytale ending to their time in Scotland.
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