Prince William and Kate’s secret travel trick revealed

LifestylePrince William and Kate’s secret travel trick revealedBy Maria Lopez-Aug 19, 2026Add ARY News on GoogleAAResizelong before they became the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall (and eventually, the Prince and Princess of Wales), Prince William and Kate Middleton devised a unique plan to navigate romance away from a global magnifying glass. They adopted cleverly concealed names, from pretending to be Holly wood A-listers checking in to a hotel to using covert secret service names, but the royals had multiple ways of disappearing when they needed space. “The Smith’s” hotel room get away “Mr. & Mrs. Smith were not known to me during William’s younger days and I had always been so sure the couple were too distinctive to escape being caught if the alias didn’t disguise them,” royal author Robert Jobson wrote in his book, Catherine, Princess of Wales (2024), referencing secret trips to Balmoral and Sandringham where they took a ” romantic escapade for weekend away to Highgrove.” When checking into hotel rooms across the United Kingdom to stay under the radar while having an affair on April’s Day from university: “The couple regularly stayed together incognito, where William registered with hotels under the name M and Mrs. Smith. The reason behind the pair’s selection of that alias remains a mystery, however it is clear that such choice certainly did little to help the couple blend in,” Jobson continued in the biography. “They just chose such a ridiculous one,” he added, joking about their tendency to do so. During William’s second and final year at St. Andrews (while he was dating Catherine) and through much of William’s time as Duke and Duchess, it was fairly simple for the pair to elude reporters, but in recent years, it became increasingly difficult and there are many instances reported of royal bodyguard details trying to throw press hounds off the scent of Will and Kate on a clandestine journey. University Days As “Steve.” It appears Prince William was attempting...