Kate Middleton and Prince William: Why they almost didn’t marry

OHMYGOSSIP — Kate Middleton and Prince William almost never got married. The pair — who tied the knot in April 2011 — are expecting their first child together later this month, but their relationship was hanging by a thread before the Duke of Cambridge came to his senses.

The secrets of Kate and William’s split and subsequent reunion have now been exposed in a new book titled Kate by Marcia Moody.

Marcia breaks down the royal couple’s 2007 breakup in extreme detail, describing how Kate and William came to a serious crossroad after dating for four years.

“When his father Charles was wooing Diana and the relationship reached a crossroads, Prince Philip told him that he needed to take action one way or another. And Charles proposed. When William was faced with a similar dilemma he went the other way,” Marcia writes.

“Kate was devastated by the breakup, which only became worse when William went to a London nightclub, flirted with countless girls, and even stood on a table at one point and screamed, ‘I’m free!’

“But the future Duchess got her revenge. Kate started a campaign of going out more and doing her own share of flirting after the split. Her dresses grew shorter, her tops lower… Once inside a party she put on a pair of pink silk bunny ears and proceeded, as one partygoer put it, to ‘tease all the boys’.

“Kate’s tactics worked. Apparently compelled by his father’s realization too late that he had failed to marry his first true love, Camilla Shand, William realized that he’d had what he wanted all along with Kate, and began trying to prove himself worthy of her.”

Once back together, Marcia says, “Kate and William had a lot to discuss, and some lost time to make up for. In September [2007], they flew to the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. At night they relaxed over a candlelit supper on the beach. It was during this break that they made an agreement with each other. For the next few years, they would work and enjoy their lives, knowing that at some point when the time was right, they would be husband and wife – and perhaps parents too.”

Prince William and Kate were engaged in October 2010 and got married on April 29, 2011.