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A young Prince William shouted “I’m free!” as he drunkenly celebrated dumping Catherine Middleton after ending their relationship in a brutal 30-minute phone call, a royal insider has revealed.

In his new biography titled Catherine, the Princess of Wales, Robert Jobson lifts the lid on the circumstances behind Catherine and William’s brief breakup in January 2007, just four years before their marriage in 2011.

A 25-year-old William reportedly decided he was too young to tie the knot with Catherine after the couple graduated from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where their romance initially blossomed as students.

A young Prince William shouted “I’m free!” as he drunkenly celebrated dumping Catherine Middleton after ending their relationship in a brutal 30-minute phone call, a royal insider has revealed. Picture: Samir Hussein – Pool/WireImage

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“He unexpectedly cancelled plans to attend a New Year gathering in Dundee, arranged by the Middletons,” Jobson noted.

Kate, who was approaching her 25th birthday, “sensed something was wrong” and it “certainty wasn’t helping” that global newspapers were “confidently predicting a royal engagement”.

“Soon afterwards, seemingly out of the blue, William — now a 2nd Lieutenant in the Blues and Royals — telephoned her to suggest that they split up,” Jobson wrote.

“He told her they both needed ‘a bit of space’ to ‘find our own way’, and he was unable to promise her marriage.

“In an emotionally charged 30-minute conversation, they both acknowledged they were on ‘different pages’.”

The Prince of Wales firmly declared to Kensington Palace not to provide updates on Princess Catherine’s health.

Kate was “devastated” by the “blow” and felt her separation from England’s future King was “final”.

Her mother Carole Middleton took her “heartbroken daughter” on a trip to Dublin in Ireland which was described as “a welcome respite from media scrutiny”.

However, William had other plans and simply got drunk at Mahiki nightclub in Mayfair where he resorted to yelling about being “free” among his closest pals.

“’I’m free!’ he shouted as he slipped into a drunken version of the robot dance. He then told his friends that they should all ‘drink the menu’, which they more or less ended up doing,” Jobson wrote.

Gossip columns reported William “had his head turned” by “the beautiful socialite” Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, who he had met years before on a holiday in Greece.

But Isabella, who was reportedly single at the time of William and Catherine’s breakup, was “unkeen” on dating the Prince for fears it would jeopardise her acting career.

It is understood he nonetheless tried to win the young socialite over, visiting her several times in her family home, but the Prince’s “evident crush” was quashed and she “rebuffed his advances”.

The Prince and Princess of Wales live with their three children Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, nine, and Prince Louis, six, in Norfolk. Picture: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images
Jobson noted few predicted William would return to Catherine or that she would agree to take him back.

But the couple rekindled their romance when a mutual friend invited the pair to a ‘Freakin Naughty’ themed fancy-dress party at a 17th-century manor house .

Kate “arrived dressed as a nurse and William had made a beeline for her,” Jobson recounted.

“They then spent the first part of the evening deep in conversation before hitting the dance floor, where they ended up kissing. When friends joked, they should get a room, they sloped off together,” he wrote.

William and Kate were engaged at a remote alpine cabin on Mount Kenya in 2010 during a 10-day trip to the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy to celebrate William’s passing the RAF helicopter search and rescue course.

The Prince proposed to Catherine with his late mother Princess Diana’s engagement ring.

Royalists worldwide watched in awe as the couple married in Westminster Abbey on 29 April 2011.

The global audience attracted about 300 million people, and 26 million watched the event live in Britain.

The Prince and Princess of Wales live with their three children Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, nine, and Prince Louis, six, as well as two English Cocker Spaniels Lupo and Orla in Anmer Hall, Norfolk.

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