The University of St Andrews in Scotland has something of a mythical reputation for matchmaking – even more so after Kate Middleton and Prince William met there. In a 2011 BBC report, Daniela Relph, a former royal corespondent, said: “There is just something in the air at St Andrews. “A mood of romance around the place. It seems students here cannot stop themselves from marrying one another.”

Ms Relph explains that William and Kate’s love story has been “repeated many times”.

It was rumoured that the Duke and Duchess’ romance “flourished on the St Andrew’s dinner party circuit”.

In an interview at the time, a student told Ms Relph: “I definitely heard of girls who come here to find their husband.”

Helping the future King find his future Queen fuelled St Andrews’ reputation as a “match-making university”

In a 2010 article in The Scotsman, it is revealed that former St Andrews university principal Dr Brian Lang told William, Kate and other graduates in 2005 that they might have already met their future husband or wife.

He said: “You will have made lifelong friends. I say this every year to all new graduates, you may have met your husband or wife.

“Our title as the top matchmaking university in Britain signifies so much that is good about St Andrews so we rely on you to go forth from St Andrews and multiply – but in the positive sense that I earlier urged you to adopt.”

The royal pair graduated from the university in 2005, Prince William with an honours degree in Geography and Kate Middleton with an honours degree in History of Art.

The future King and Queen married in a ceremony seen around the world by millions of TV viewers on April 29, 2011.

In 2014, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attended a fundraising dinner at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the university’s 600th anniversary where William made a speech on his time there. 

He said: ”It’s often said by the undergraduates of St Andrews that you leave the university in either one of two states: either married or an alcoholic.

“Fortunately for Catherine and I, we ended up married.”

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