Prince William and Kate Middleton have been happily married since 2011, and they have three beautiful children together. While all seems to be going well in their relationship these days, it hasn’t always been smooth sailing for them, as new details have just come out about their breakup back in 2007.

In his new book “Battle of the Brothers,” royal author Robert Lacey recounted how William and Kate’s 2007 separation went down. In an excerpt from the book that was obtained by Daily Mail, Lacey stated that William called Kate on the phone on April 11, 2007 while she was at work as an accessories buyer for the luxe women’s clothing store Jigsaw.

Lacey alleged that William, who was 25 at the time, was feeling “uncertain” about his future with Kate.

“Kate excused herself from a meeting … to take a call from William in a room out of earshot of the other buyers,” Lacey wrote. “She shut the door for more than an hour. When she came out, she was single.”

Thankfully, the separation only lasted a few months, and William and Kate soon got back together. Page Six reported that William and Kate addressed the split during their engagement interview in 2010.

“We were sort of both finding ourselves as such and being different characters and stuff, it was very much trying to find our own way and we were growing up,” William said.

Kate confessed that while she was not happy about the breakup, it did make her stronger.

“You find out things about yourself that maybe you hadn’t realized, or I think you can get quite consumed by a relationship when you are younger and I really valued that time for me as well, although I didn’t think it at the time,” she said.

William and Kate were college sweethearts, meeting while they were both attending the University of St. Andrews back in 2001. As the future king of England, it was made clear to William that he could pick whoever he wanted to be his Queen consort, and he went with love.

“There’s genuine love,” royal expert Nick Bullen recently told Fox News. “I think Kate and William are genuinely in love and have a really great partnership. If you look at those photographs that we’ve got in the documentary of them in the early years up in Anglesey, this very remote part of the U.K. — they were walking on the beach and laughing a lot. They are [simply] a young married couple.”

This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.

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