The truth about Prince William's 'ex-girlfriends' and that Lola Airdale-Cavendish-Kincaid rumour
The Crown even gave William a fake girlfriendThe future king and Kate Middleton is a love story that everyone swoons over. But before her, Prince William was rumoured to have a few other girlfriends, and one called ‘Lola’ featured on The Crown.
Kate and William tied the knot in a glamorous ceremony in 2011, after years of dating. The pair have gone on to have three children; Princes George and Louis, and Princess Charlotte. And most recently their family has been dealing with Kate’s cancer journey.
And while there have been plenty of books and documentaries that look at their lives before they got together, we’re looking at the truth behind Prince William’s former girlfriends, such as Lola Airdale-Cavendish-Kincaid from the Netflix series.
Prince William and ‘first girlfriend’ Davina Duckworth-Chad
Davina was a family friend of the royals. Prince William and her were rumoured to have dated in the 1990s, before heading to university.
The Daily Mail even reported that Davina joined William, King Charles and Queen Camilla on a cruise in the Aegean Sea the same year.
Not just a family friend, Davina is also a very distant cousin of the prince through his late mother, Princess Diana.
The pair’s breakup must have been mutual and friendly, as Davina was spotted at Kate and William’s royal wedding. And she, herself has been married since 2004.
Jecca Craig
It was claimed that William dated Jecca Craig when they were both teenagers. Reports had claimed that they were so close that he spent time on her family’s estate in Kenya during his gap year.
With rumours circulating about their relationship at the time, Jecca was said to be William’s first love. It was said that Jecca travelled to the UK to attend William’s 21st birthday party. And Kate was also there.
However, the Daily Mail reported in 2003 that William and Jecca had never dated and the rumours were shut down in a statement from St James’s Palace. It insisted the pair were just good friends.
William’s ‘brief romance’ with Rose Farquhar
Around the time that William graduated from Eton College, it’s reported that he briefly dated Rose Farquhar.
The pair are believed to have met at Beaufort Polo Club in Gloucestershire. And while it’s said that their relationship was intense, it did not last into their university days.
They have since both attended each other’s weddings after remaining friends.
‘Passionate romance’ with Arabella Musgrave
Royal biographer and expert Katie Nicholl revealed William’s reported romance with Arabella Musgrave in her 2010 book, William and Harry: Behind the Palace Walls.
And it seems just before William met Kate at university, he was with Arabella.
Nicholl described Arabella as being part of the “Glosse Posse,” a nickname for Harry and William’s inner circle of friends.
In the book, Nicholl said the pair had a “passionate romance”. However, it fizzled out when William began university.
Carly Massy-Birch had ‘regular university romance’ with Prince of Wales
Prince William had another girlfriend at the early stages of his university life, Carly Massy-Birch.
Carly actually spoke about her relationship with William during an interview in 2010 with Vanity Fair.
She said: “We got on well. But I think we would have got on well even if nothing had been going on romantically. It was very much a university thing. Just a regular university romance.”
Isabella Calthorpe ‘made Kate jealous’
During a very brief separation from Kate, William is believed to have had a short romance with Isabella Calthorpe, a socialite he had always had a thing for.
In a 2007 Daily Mail article by royal author Katie Nicholl, Kate was “was incredibly threatened by” Isabella.
A source said at the time: “William was madly in love with her but when he knew there was no chance of them getting together he went back to Kate.
“Kate was very aware of his obsession with Isabella and she was incredibly threatened by her. Isabella is drop-dead beautiful and would leave any girl in the shade.”
Did Prince William have a girlfriend called Lola Airdale-Cavendish-Kincaid?
In the final season of Netflix drama series The Crown, Prince William arrives at St Andrews and begins seeing a student named Lola Airdale-Cavendish-Kincaid – even when he has feelings for Kate.
But in reality, none of that happened. And Lola is actually completely fictional, she was not Prince William’s ex.
Perhaps the show took inspiration from Prince William’s former girlfriends., but Lola is someone the Prince of Wales never dated.
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