The Prince and Princess of Wales' love story is incredibly well-known and famously began at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, with the couple celebrating their 12th wedding anniversary earlier this year.
Their tight and stable bond is something that former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond feels is the key to the couple's success, especially when contrasted with the emotionally fraught home that Prince William grew up in with King Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales.
As Catherine has been in Prince William's life for longer than his late mother, Jennie explains how the princess, as well as the rest of the Middleton family, have given him everything that he lacked growing up.
The expert told OK!, "There is no doubt that Kate has given William everything that was lacking in his own family life: a loving, deep partnership, founded on friendship, passion, and mutual respect, plus a broader, settled and happy relationship with his in-laws.
"Michael and Carole Middleton welcomed William into their home and treated him like one of the family. He can relax with them, trust them, and be himself in a way he can do with only a very few others."
Jennie added: "William is much closer to his father these days, but I think it’s the women in his life who have helped make him the man he is. His grandmother, the late Queen, was there for him – as he said – through the happiest and saddest times of his life.
"His mother’s influence is still very much evidence in the relaxed and informal way he interacts with people, and in his determination to help people less well off than himself, in particular, the homeless.
"It was, of course, Diana, who first showed her sons the plight of homeless people. Now, William has said that he wants his own children to be fully aware of how privileged they are and how other people may sometimes need a little help.
"And then there is Catherine’s influence: they have known one another now for more than 20 years – longer than William knew his own mother – and she has won not only his deep love, but his respect.
"He might feel a little aggrieved when he is cut out of pictures at events they both attend, but he is proud of his wife for the way she has made such a success of the role that came with marrying him."
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