Kate didn’t sit around moping after William dumped her (Image: Getty Images/Tim Rooke/REX/Shutterstock)
After ending his relationship with Kate Middleton on the phone, Prince William hit the town with his mates and marked the end of their union by “humiliating” her.
The version of Prince William we know today is a man of loyalty and dedication to his family and country. He always appears to be measured, polite and reliable. But like any other person on the planet, William has reportedly had his daft ‘moments’, or at least one. That, according to a royal biographer, came immediately after he dumped his long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton, who he had been dating for around four years after hooking up at St Andrews University, in Edinburgh, where they both studied. After leaving uni, their relationship appeared to the outside world to be going from strength to strength.
William had introduced her parents, Carole and Micheal Middleton to the Queen at their graduation ceremony. The Middleton’s had also attended his military graduation in 2006 and there were endless newspaper and magazine column inches filled with speculation about Kate being his future wife and eventually Queen.
The couple on their graduation day in 2005 ( Image: PA)
Despite this, Wills, according to a royal biographer, was in no hurry to propose. In fact, he was reportedly having doubts about settling down with his teenage sweetheart at all. In his new book, Catherine, the Princess of Wales : The Biography, Robert Jobson claims Kate realised he was getting cold feet and “sensed something was wrong” when he unexpectedly bailed on a 2006 New Year’s Eve party her parents had organised.
Shortly after his no-show at the event, he called Catherine on the phone and dumped her in “an emotionally charged 30-minute conversation” in which they both are said to have agreed they wanted different things. This was when his questionable moment is said to have occurred.
According to the Daily Mail, Jobson writes: “He celebrated their break-up with an alcohol-fuelled night at the Mahiki nightclub in Mayfair with his close pals. ”’m free!’ he shouted as he slipped into a drunken version of the robot dance. He then told his friends that they should all ‘drink the menu’, which they more or less ended up doing.”
Kate, Jobson says, found out about his “juvenile antics” which “seemed to mark a humiliating end to the romance”, but she reportedly decided to keep her composure. “Although she was distraught, Catherine resolved to hide her pain from the outside world,” he says. “Carole Middleton acted swiftly, taking her heartbroken daughter for a break in Dublin – a welcome respite from media scrutiny. William, of course, simply got drunk at Mahiki and started yelling about being ‘free’.”
When she got home she decided to play him at his own game. “On Catherine’s return, she decided she wasn’t going to sit around moping; what was good for the goose was good for the gander,” Jobson writes. After a girls’ holiday to Ibiza with a friend, in which they partied into the night, Kate was regularly pictured wearing more daring outfits than she ever had before at nightclubs and events with her sister Pippa Middleton. She was even spotted with Sir Henry Ropner, who she was rumoured to be dating for a while.
It was perhaps seeing his ex being so “vibrant and sociable” that made William realise what he had given up. After William’s initial post-split “wave of drunken nights”, he was holed up in barracks because of his role as an army officer. He soon set about wooing her back, which eventually happened at a ‘Freakin Naughty’ fancy dress party a mutual friend had invited them to. Kate went dressed as a nurse, which certainly seemed to do the trick for her former lover.
