Prince William 'admires' Middleton family's 'stability' after coming from 'a broken home'
dailyrecord.co.ukPrince William and Kate Middleton, who are known worldwide as being one of the most picture-perfect couples, celebrated their 12th wedding anniversary in April this year.The Prince and Princess of Wales, who met during their university days, had a beautiful fairy tale wedding in Westminster Abbey before going on to have their three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
However, like any normal couple, their relationship has not come without its challenges with the couple previously splitting up in 2007, just three years before their eventual engagement.
This is likely to have been a difficult period for both of them with it also being well documented in the media, the Express reports.Eventually in the end they found their way back to one another and one royal expert has claimed that it wasn't only Kate, but also her close-knit family, who helped reconnect their bond.
Speaking in the Amazon Prime documentary William and Kate, Into The Future which was released to celebrate their marriage in 2011, Princess Diana's biographer Andrew Morton claimed that William "yearned" for the stability the Middleton's offered after his own parents' divorce.He said: “For a kid from a broken home which is, after all, what William is, he has always yearned towards the stable and towards the steady.“It’s not just Kate he’s in love with — it’s the family.”William's parents, the former Prince and Princess of Wales, had a very public separation in 1992 amidst rumours of affairs and they eventually finalised their divorce in 1996 just one year before Diana's tragic death.In the documentary, royal author and journalist Richard Kay spoke of how William is seeking to avoid repeating the mistakes his parents made in his own
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