The Gist
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Prince William visited North Wales on November 25, a special spot for his love story with Kate Middleton.
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The couple lived there in the early years of their marriage, as did Prince George in his earliest months of life.
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On Tuesday, the Prince of Wales made a romantic comment about the Princess of Wales during one of his many stops in the area.
Prince William will be king someday, but he knows where the true power lies.
The Prince of Wales visited North Wales on November 25, close to a poignant spot for his love story with wife Kate Middleton. On Tuesday, William started his day in Colwyn Bay, about 40 miles away from Anglesey, where the couple spent their earliest years married, and where they were living when they welcomed their eldest child, Prince George, in 2013.
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Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29, 2025
Particularly since the Princess of Wales’s cancer diagnosis in 2024, the two—married 14 years now—have been more tactile and touchy-feely. In an effort to make their appearances about the work and not about the relationship, the pair don’t always gush over one another—but William made a sweet, romantic comment about his wife yesterday that was impossible not to swoon over.
During an engagement on Tuesday, William was speaking with a man who was once homeless and struggling with addiction, and who credited his wife with helping him turn his life around. Per Rebecca English of The Daily Mail, the gentleman said he was able to make changes “With my wife behind me. You know that.” To this, William responded, “This is it. Behind every average man there is an even better wife.”
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Kate Middleton and Prince William on March 10, 2025
William and Kate have known one another for nearly 25 years, and have been a couple almost as long after meeting as first-year students at the University of St. Andrews in 2001. A longtime friend told Vanity Fair, “It’s very clear that William is deeply in love with his wife, more than ever, and she is eternally grateful to him for the support he has given her this past year and how he has been with the children. He has shouldered a lot.”
After announcing her cancer diagnosis publicly in March 2024, the Princess of Wales shared in January of this year that she is in remission. “Getting cancer changed her, it changed William, and it changed everything between them,” a family friend told Vanity Fair. “They were both shocked to their core, but they knew they would get through it together.”
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Prince William and Kate Middleton on September 8, 2023
“William stepped up,” the friend added. “He made Catherine front and center of everything and will continue to do so. It’s made them both prioritize family and each other over everything else.”
As for their elevated public romantic side, “They are happy for people to see them be touchy-feely,” royal biographer Ingrid Seward told People. “They’re in a different phase of their life now. William is very protective and very proud of her for coming through this and carrying on with her life.”
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