Kate Middleton’s Perfect Response to Being Told She Was Lucky to Be Dating Prince William

‎May we all be so self-assured.When Kate Middleton was told by a friend how lucky she was to then be dating Prince William, her response is indicative of the confidence the future queen has at her core.In Katie Nicholl’s 2022 book The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth’s Legacy and the Future of the Crown, the veteran royal biographer rehashed how William “had seen Kate in a different light when she’d sashayed down the catwalk in a see-through dress for a charity fashion show at the start of their second year” at the University of St. Andrews, where they’d met as first-year students in 2001. William famously remarked to a male friend, “Wow, Kate’s hot,” and “later that night he made a pass at her during the after-party,” Nicholl wrote.Kate, who was dating someone else at the time, rejected William’s advances, but several months later she found herself single and willing to give the prince a second chance.”William loved her breezy confidence as much as her looks, and the fact that she treated him just like anyone else,” she continued. “Indeed, when a friend told Kate she was lucky to be dating the prince, she retorted: ‘He’s lucky to be going out with me!’”William and Kate met in 2001, eventually became friends, then roommates, then a couple. They continued dating after their mutual college graduation in 2005 and, despite a brief breakup in 2007, were together ever since. William proposed in October 2010, and they married six months later on April 29, 2011—almost exactly 15 years ago. They now share three children: Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, 10, and Prince Louis, 7.A similar anecdote about Kate’s confident reply when told William was lucky to be dating her also ended up in Claudia Joseph’s book Kate Middleton: Princess in Waiting. “He’s lucky to have me,” Kate said with a smile (per Marie Claire).In a 2008 Vanity Fair article, a relative of William’s is quoted as saying—over five years after William and Kate became a couple—that “In all these years, without any training, quite simply she has never put a foot wrong.