Prince William Used to ‘Whisk’ Kate Middleton Off for Hotel Getaways Under These Fake Names

Kate Middleton and Prince William reportedly chose interesting pseudonyms in an attempt to stay under the radar while traveling.

In his new book Catherine, the Princess of Wales, Robert Jobson details how, while students at the University of St. Andrews, Prince William used to “whisk Catherine off” for nights alone and check into hotels under an alias.

As the two fell in love in the early 2000s, they were roommates living off-campus with two other classmates. When the couple wanted to get away from it all, “he’d often whisk Catherine off to Highgrove or Sandringham or to a cottage on the Balmoral estate,” Jobson wrote in the new book, out Aug. 6. “Occasionally they checked into hotels, using the names Mr. and Mrs. Smith — which doubtless fooled no one.”

Roughly around the same time, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were starring in the 2005 hit movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the film set on which they met and fell in love. However, it’s unlikely that the pair used the film as inspiration — they graduated from St. Andrews in 2005, so this was likely occurring before the movie came out and, as The Mirror reports, Mr. and Mrs. Smith are very common names in the U.K.