Netflix cameras were recently seen rolling near the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where the future Prince and Princess of Wales met and fell in love as college students.
As the streamer’s hit drama inspired by the lives of the British royal family films its sixth and final season, actor Ed McVey, who plays Prince William, was photographed doing a double-take over Meg Bellamy, who has been cast as Kate.
The pictures depict a sweatshirt-clad William passing Kate on a run by the coast, looking back over his shoulder as she jogs along unfazed in a zip-up jacket, leggings, sneakers, and headphones.
Prince William, 40, and Princess Kate, 41, have stayed mum about the exact moment that they met. In their 2010 engagement interview with ITV, Kate said it took time for them to get to know each other, in part due to her bashfulness.
“I think you said I actually went bright red when I met you and sort of scuttled off,” she told William at the time. “[I was] feeling very shy about meeting you.”
From there, however, the two became “very close friends.”
“We were friends for over a year first,” Prince William said in the same conversation. “It just sort of blossomed from then on.”
The moment marks the first time that McVey and Bellamy have been seen filming together. Both actors are newcomers to The Crown, which has continuously replaced its cast through the seasons to reflect the royals aging through the decades.
