Prince William’s fictional girlfriend Lola Kincaid in The Crown is based on real romance
The Crown’s latest episodes show Prince William romancing a fictional woman named Lola Kincaid, who is based on his real-life college girlfriend Carley Massy-Birch. The Netflix show...The Crown’s latest episodes show Prince William romancing a fictional woman named Lola Kincaid, who is based on his real-life college girlfriend Carley Massy-Birch.
The Netflix show is putting Prince William and Kate Middleton’s romance in the spotlight this season. However, the royals weren’t each other’s first. The Crown season 6 shows Prince William dating Lola Kincaid, a fictional character based on the royal’s real-life college girlfriend who was an aspiring actress.
Lola Kincaid in The Crown is based on Prince William’s flame Carley Massy-Birch
For those wondering if Lola Kincaid is real. No, she’s a fictional character based on a girl whom Prince William dated in college. Lola Airdale-Cavendish-Kincaid is depicted as an aspiring actress.
However, as per Vanity Fair, she’s inspired by the future King’s real-life romance with Carley Massy-Birch, 39. As per the Daily Mail, Carley was William’s first girlfriend at St Andrew’s. She was an English language and creative writing student who reportedly met him when he auditioned for a play based on JD Salinger’s Franny And Zooey. Their romance was very short-lived, as William and Kate’s relationship began soon after.
Carley even spoke about the relationship with royal expert Katie Nicholl years later. She called their short-lived relationship “a regular university romance.”
“William was in the year below, and we just happened to meet through the general St. Andrews mêlée,” she said. “It’s such a small place that it was impossible not to bump into William…. It was very much a university thing, just a regular university romance.”
She told the royal reporter that she was a “real country bumpkin” which helped her form a connection with William, who had also been brought up in the Gloucestershire countryside.
William’s other linkups and relationships
Jecca Craig
The Prince of Wales reportedly dated Jecca Craig, 41, in 1998. He also got to know the Craig family better after he traveled to their wildlife conservancy near Mount Kenya in 2001. The two reportedly dated after William left Eton, but went their separate ways when he attended St Andrew’s. But they have remained friends as, in 2016, the father of three flew to Kenya to attend Jecca’s wedding to conservationist Professor Jonathan Baillie.
Davina Duckworth-Chad
A year after his romance with Jecca, the crowned prince was linked to Davina Duckworth-Chad, 45. The Daily Mail notes, that he dated Davina in the summer of 1999 after William boarded a yacht filled with beauties and sailed to the Aegean Sea.
Davina is the daughter of a Norfolk landowner named Anthony Duckworth-Chad. Her brother, James, served as an equerry to the late Queen Elizabeth II. What’s more? Davina’s mother was Diana’s cousin.
Rose Farquhar
Singer Rose Farquhar and Prince William dated in 2000, after meeting at the Beaufort Polo Club in Gloucestershire. Not much is known about their relationship except many consider her William’s “first love.”
Olivia Hunt
As per the Daily Mail, Olivia Hunt, 38, was William’s last girlfriend at St Andrew’s before his romance with Kate Middleton began. The two reportedly lived in the student house together with other friends. Their relationship reportedly began in Christmas 2003.
Arabella Musgrave
Arabella, 41, is the daughter of Major Nicholas Musgrave who was the former manager of Cirencester Park Polo Club. She dated William for nearly a year in 2001 after they met at a party. King Charles was apparently on board with their romance.
However, things fizzled out after William’s time at university and they both decided against long distance.
