“She’d arrived dressed as a nurse, and William had made a beeline for her,” Jobson writes. “They then spent the first part of the evening deep in conversation before hitting the dance floor, where they ended up kissing.”

Prince William kisses Kate Middleton, after playing the Field Game in an old boys match at Eton College
Prince William and Kate Middleton share a kiss at Eton College on March 18, 2006. Indigo/Getty Images
Their romance continued from there, eventually moving in together before their engagement in 2010 and wedding the following year.

During their engagement interview, the future Prince and Princess of Wales spoke briefly after their break.

Prince William said, “We both were very young, it was at university, we were sort of both finding ourselves as such and being different characters and stuff. It was very much trying to find our own way and we were growing up, and so it was just sort of a bit of space and a bit of things like that and it worked out for the better.”

Kate added, “And I think I, at the time, wasn’t very happy about it, but actually, it made me a stronger person. You find out things about yourself that maybe you hadn’t realized, or I think you can get quite consumed by a relationship when you are younger, and I really valued that time for me as well although I didn’t think it at the time. Looking back on it.”

Prince William and Princess Kate are now parents to three children: Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, 9, and Prince Louis, 6.

Elsewhere in Catherine, The Princess of Wales, Jobson says Kate has been a “calming influence” on the royal family.

Through her role as an “instinctive peace-maker,” she has “smoothed the way for William and his father to have a better relationship than they had in the past,” Jobson says in an excerpt published by The Daily Mail over the weekend.