Overview

• Several tabloid outlets this week republished a Daily Mail story, bringing renewed attention to William’s early romance without revealing new details.
• In summer 2001, William met 18-year-old Arabella Musgrave, daughter of a polo-club manager and member of his ‘Glosse Posse,’ at a mutual friend’s party in Scotland.
• King Charles III reportedly approved the courtship, although Musgrave’s father was less enthusiastic about their public displays of affection.
• The pair separated on good terms at the end of 2001 when William enrolled at the University of St Andrews and soon began a new relationship.
• William and Arabella maintained a lasting friendship—she attended his 2011 wedding—and later married into the Galliers-Pratt family and raised a daughter.