Overview
- New reports cite Russell Myers’s book, which recounts that Carole and Michael Middleton initially resisted Kate changing her university plans.
- Kate had been set to study Art History at the University of Edinburgh before reconsidering during a ten‑week Raleigh International volunteering trip in Chile.
- Myers says a friendship formed on that trip with a prospective St Andrews student prompted Kate to explore applying to the smaller coastal university.
- The timing overlapped with Prince William’s 2000 announcement that he would attend St Andrews, a coincidence that later fueled public speculation about her motives.
- Kate ultimately enrolled at St Andrews, where she and William lived in St Salvator’s Hall, studied the same course, and she graduated with an honours degree in History of Art in 2005.