As she strode confidently down the catwalk in a daring transparent lace dress, few could have predicted that Kate Middleton was going to be Queen one day.
Yet her appearance at a charity fashion show at the University of St Andrews in 2002, when she was 19, sowed the seeds of her romance with fellow student Prince William, who paid £200 for a front-row ticket.
Kate’s effortless flair was evident as she modelled the dress, which was created by fashion and textiles student Charlotte Todd and originally designed as a skirt. William reportedly exclaimed: “Wow, Kate’s hot!” when he caught sight of her and the pair, who had just been friends, soon became a couple.
The dress, which cost £30 to make, sold at auction for £78,000 in 2011, the…
