Prince William dated a few other St. Andrews students besides Kate Middleton, but Olivia Hunt was the classmate who caught his eye right before Kate's little sartorial scheme left him totally smitten. Hunt ran in the same social circles as William and reportedly enjoyed kicking back and relaxing with him at a local pub, per the Daily Mail.
But once intimi-Kate set her sights on William, Hunt reportedly decided not to fight her for the prince. "William was seeing Olivia when he met Kate and when Kate came on the scene Olivia moved off pretty quickly," an insider told the Daily Mail. Hunt then moved on as well — with William's best friend, William van Cutsem. In a move straight out of a sitcom about hip 20-somethings, the group remained pals, with Hunt and van Cutsem even joining William and Kate on a 2005 ski trip in Klosters. At the time, the Daily Mail reported that there was a good chance van Cutsem would ask William to be his best man when he and Hunt tied the knot. However, the couple didn't last. Hunt sorta shaded Wills when she told Tatler (via Female First), "Prince William is just a friend of my ex-boyfriend."
Hunt received an invite to Will and Kate's 2011 wedding, however, and when Hunt married barrister Nicholas Wilkinson in 2016, she extended the same courtesy to the royal couple. However, they did not attend, per the Daily Mail.
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