Well, this is not an ideal breakup! In 2007, Prince William reportedly broke up with Kate Middleton over the phone. According to royal historian Robert Lacey's new book, Battle of Brothers, William was "uncertain" about his relationship with Kate, whom he had been dating for nearly six years at the time, and made the fateful call on April 11, 2007.

"Kate left a meeting at Jigsaw, a fashion store she had recently started working at, to take a call from William in a room where the other buyers could not hear," Lacey wrote, as reported by Us Weekly (opens in new tab). 'She kept the door closed for over an hour. When she came out, she was single". Ouch!

This was the second separation for William and Kate, who separated in 2004. The future Duchess of Cambridge "was seen having fun at a party in London," Lacey wrote. Ms. Middleton was not seen as losing it. And it worked: William "got the message before he or anyone else."

William reportedly missed not only Kate but also her family.

"A pillar of William's year at Sandhurst [Military Academy] was to run away to [the Middletons'] house in Bucklebury on Friday nights.

Ten and a half weeks after the breakup, Kate and William were seen kissing at a party at the latter's barracks in Dorset, and three years later they were engaged. Doesn't this illustrate that even a little mid-job abandonment can't change the course of true love?