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The two were going strong for quite a while after that.

However, it wasn’t too long after when things fizzled.

Queen Camilla talking to Princess Kate

In April 2007, news broke that William and Kate had split.

At least, that’s according to royal expert Christopher Andersen.

“She did not look at Kate as someone who was worthy of joining the royal family.

Queen Camilla, Prince William and Kate Middleton

Kate is the first working-class woman to be accepted into the royal family.

She is descended from coal miners and her mother was a flight attendant,” he said.

Both advised him not to hurry into anything," she wrote.

Kate Middleton looking at Prince William

Whoever or whatever instigated the breakup, it sounds like even Kate agrees it had to happen.

William too, for that matter.