Prince 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 marriage with Kate.
Kay explained: “Everything about William you can trace back to what happened to his parents.
“He lived through the bitter break up of their marriage.
“He knows that what happened to them destroyed their marriage and he is very careful not to make the same mistakes.”
Royal commentators have also recently claimed that William still enjoys a close relationship with his in-laws.
In an interview with Ok!, Rachael Andrew said that William "admires" Kate’s parents for the way they have brought up their three children.
Ms Andrews said: "We’ve seen over the past few years that he gets on really well with them. He admires the way that Carole and Michael brought up Catherine, Pippa and James and that seems to be reflected in the way William is a down-to-earth father now."
She continued: "He, of course, lost Diana when he was very young and probably looks up to Carole because he’s lacked a mother figure for so much of his life.
"With Carole and Michael, he’s got people to confide in who are removed from the monarchy."
After moving to Windsor in August 2022, William and Kate are now only just a short drive away from Bucklebury which is where the Middleton family currently live.
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