before their engagement Prince William and Kate Middleton took a significant and rather unconventional step especially by Royal standards they decided to live together the year was 2010 and William had just been posted to RAF Valley in Angley Wales where he was training as a search and rescue helicopter pilot for many couples long-distance relationships are a normal part of life especially when one partner's career takes them far from home but Kate Middleton wasn't having any of that in a move that spoke volumes about the depth of their relationship okay