According to the timeline in "The Crown," Prince William and Princess Catherine had a brief encounter as teenagers before formally meeting each other while both attended the University of St Andrews. While it's been established that the teen experience was fictional, it also isn't entirely true that the future spouses met for the first time in Scotland.
In fact, Katie Nicholl, author of "Kate: The Future Queen," has insisted that they met prior to college — although they didn't know each other particularly well at that point. "Kate was at Marlborough school in Wiltshire, and was mixing in those sorts of very high society country circles," Nicholl told Time. "During one of those meetings, I was told by a very reliable source that she was introduced to William in a very casual and informal setting."
Nicholl explained that, given the nature of the upper-crust groups in which they both moved, it would have been unlikely that the prince and his future bride wouldn't have brushed shoulders at some point along the way. "They had friends in common, they went to neighboring schools that played sports against each other, they grew up in the home counties," she said, referring to the various counties that surround London, in which the posh country estates of British aristocrats are typically situated. In fact, Catherine grew up in Chapel Row, a village in Berkshire — the same county in which Windsor Castle resides.
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