For a couple whose relationship had been so very public, Prince William and Princess Kate Middleton were able to keep their October 20, 2010, engagement private — for nearly a month. It helped that it happened on another continent.

While holidaying with friends for a few weeks at Kenya’s Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, he took his love up to a log cabin on Mount Kenya, where he got down on one knee and presented her with his late mother Princess Diana’s engagement ring.

“There’s a true romantic in there,” Kate later said.

Who Was Involved

Only the most recognizable couple in the world. William and Kate, each now 43, met in 2001 at Scotland’s University of St Andrews — “not the norm,” royal historian Marlene Koenig told Us Weekly exclusively, but it ended up being “a more natural way to get

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