{"id":327948,"date":"2025-12-04T20:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327948\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T20:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:43:13","slug":"prince-william-unexpectedly-reunites-with-his-teenage-crush-30-years-after-they-first-met-through-princess-diana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327948\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William Unexpectedly Reunites With His Teenage Crush 30 Years After They First Met Through Princess Diana"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gist<\/p>\n

Both Prince William and Claudia Schiffer were in attendance at December 3\u2019s German state banquet at Windsor Castle.<\/p>\n

The supermodel wore a black velvet Balmain gown to Wednesday\u2019s event.<\/p>\n

It had been 30 years since the two originally met after Princess Diana arranged for Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, and Christy Turlington to surprise a teenage William for his birthday at her home at Kensington Palace.<\/p>\n

Princess Diana<\/a> was hands down the coolest mom ever. Thirty years ago, when her eldest son Prince William<\/a> was a newly-minted teenager, the late Princess of Wales surprised the future king for his birthday by having supermodels Claudia Schiffer<\/a>, Naomi Campbell<\/a>, and Christy Turlington<\/a> come over to her home, Kensington Palace.<\/p>\n

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Prince William and Princess Diana on July 21, 1997<\/p>\n

The Prince of Wales and Schiffer reunited again on December 3, when Schiffer was in attendance at the German state banquet at Windsor Castle alongside William and other members of the royal family. Schiffer, who is from Germany, sat next to U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the event and wore a black velvet Balmain gown<\/a> with beading and jewels along its sleeves and midsection. Also in attendance was Schiffer\u2019s husband Matthew Vaughn, who was recently knighted by King Charles<\/a> this past July\u2014making the supermodel a Lady.<\/p>\n

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Claudia Schiffer at the German state banquet on December 3, 2025\"Getty<\/p>\n

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Claudia Schiffer and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the German state banquet on December 3, 2025<\/p>\n

Many moons before Wednesday\u2019s banquet, though, Schiffer was part of Diana\u2019s epic surprise for her son, which Campbell recalled in 2020 No Filter with Naomi<\/a> live chat on YouTube.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was coming home from school,\u201d she remembered while speaking with fellow supermodel Cindy Crawford<\/a>. \u201cAnd we had gotten there before he had gotten home from school. We were just like, \u2018What do we do?\u2019 I mean, it was so sweet.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Prince William and Claudia Schiffer at Highgrove on August 3, 2001<\/p>\n

In the 2017 documentary Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy, William said he turned \u201cbright red\u201d during the meetup, adding, \u201cI was probably a 12- or 13-year-old boy who had posters of them on his wall. I went bright red and didn\u2019t quite know what to say and sort of fumbled. I think I pretty much fell down the stairs on the way up. I was completely and utterly sort of awestruck.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though embarrassed at the time, he continued, \u201cThat\u2019s lived with me forever, about her loving and embarrassing and sort of, you know, being\u2014being sort of the joker.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Prince William and Claudia Schiffer on June 27, 2002<\/p>\n

William and Schiffer met up again at least two other times\u2014in 2001 at a party at Highgrove, King Charles\u2019s country home, and in 2002 at a polo match, where they shared a kiss on the cheek. It was right around this time that William met his future wife Kate Middleton<\/a> when both were students at the University of St. Andrews\u2014and the rest, as they say, is history.<\/p>\n

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