These days, Prince William is rarely talked about without mentioning his wife, Catherine.
The Prince and Princess of Wales will celebrate their 13th wedding anniversary next month, after more than 20 years together.
But shortly before meeting Kate, while studying at St. Andrews, William dated socialite beauty Rose Farquhar.
Now in her 40s, singer-songwriter Rose She is generally considered the Prince’s first serious girlfriend.
The couple dated in 2000, after meeting at the Beaufort Polo Club in Gloucestershire after the future King finished his A-levels at Eton.
Mrs Farquhar stunned in a white dress with fur details on the shoulders as she married George Gemmell at St Mary the Virgin Church in Gloucestershire. In December, William attended the wedding (left).
In 2016, Rose, who studied Musical Theater and Acting in New York City, failed to make it through the audition stage of ITV’s The Voice.
Rose is the youngest daughter of Captain Ian Farquhar, former captain of the Beaufort Hunt, who died aged 78.
Mr. Farquhar was a renowned hunter and an old friend of King Charles. He died at Highgove Estate.
He was also an equerry to the Queen Mother and even served in the Queen’s Own Hussars, a cavalry regiment of the British Army.
Farquhar was also close to Queen Camilla and lived on the king’s estate for many years in a rented farm. He is said to have died there on Wednesday morning.
Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles, Camilla’s first husband and friend, told the Mail’s Richard Eden that the situation was “very sad” and that she had been in poor health for the past few months.
He described his friend as “wild as a hawk in his youth, but always very funny.” Parker Bowles added that ‘The Captain’, as Farquhar was known, will be ‘judged by history as one of the great Dog Masters’.
William will likely now be around to support his father and his old friend Rose.
Although their romance falters, Rose and William have always remained on good terms and have often seen each other at society weddings over the years due to their mutual friends.
In 2022, William attended Rose’s wedding to George Gemmel, the stepson of Barbadian construction magnate Sir Charles Williams and an aspiring veterinarian.
Captain Ian Farquhar’s youngest daughter, Rose, a 39-year-old singer, briefly dated William in 2000.
Rose Farquhar remains friends with Prince William and attended his wedding to George Gemmell in 2022
After dating William, Rose headed to New York, where she studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute.
He appeared on The Voice in the UK in 2016 singing for Boy George and will.iam, and took part in the reality show ‘How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?’ in 2006, who was looking for an actress to play Maria Von Trapp in the West End production of The Sound of Music.
After the show, he received a BBC Fame Academy Award to study Musical Theater and Acting in New York City.
He is currently working for the Duchess of Rutland’s Belvoir Castle in a business development role in December 2022.
Still in social circles, she attended William and Kate’s wedding in 2011, but also Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan’s in 2018.
Farquhar and Charles became further intertwined when Prince William briefly dated Rose Farquhar in 2000 after finishing his A levels at Eton.
The couple met at the Beaufort Polo Club in Gloucestershire and she was described as the Prince of Wales’s “first love” at the time.
William and Rose went on romantic picnics together in the Gloucestershire countryside before he met Kate at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
Rose is generally considered the first serious girlfriend of the Prince, who dated several women at university before meeting his now wife Catherine, Princess of Wales, in 2003.
Farquhar lived on the King’s Highgrove estate in Gloucestershire, where, for many years, he rented a farm.
When the singer got married last December, Prince William was among the guests toasting the happy couple’s nuptials.
He discreetly entered the back door of St Mary the Virgin Church in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, to witness her wedding to her new Prince Charming: aspiring vet George Gemmell, stepson of the late Barbadian construction magnate Sir Charles Williams.
At the time, his father told DailyMail. from his daughter’s future boyfriend: ‘He couldn’t be a more charming son-in-law for the future.
The Gemmells have been friends of ours for years. We are absolutely delighted.’