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Carly Massy-Birch had been dating Prince William – posing here on the pier at St Andrews ahead of his 21st birthday – before he started seeing Kate Middleton
David Cheskin/Getty ImagesIt was a dinner party like any other for the high society St Andrews set. You can picture the candles round the table in the student flat, wax dripping on the wine bottles, the early sunset shrouding the room in darkness. For a young Catherine Middleton and Prince William, though, a drinking game was about to get a little out of hand. The couple had been seeing each other, secretly, for a while by this point, but a round of Never Have I Ever was about to reveal the royal relationship to the whole university – and the world.
The game requires players to list something scandalous that they themselves have never done. When it was the turn of William’s ex-girlfriend, fellow student Carly Massy-Birch, she came up with a statement that would send shockwaves around the party: ‘Never have I ever dated two people in this room.’
At least, so the story goes in Katie Nicholl's 2002 book The Making of a Royal Romance, and it's just been backed up in royal biographer Robert Jobson’s new book, Catherine, the Princess of Wales. ‘Perhaps unwittingly, Carly exposed William’s secret love affair
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Created: 00:18 GMT, 9 January 2011