Kate Middleton is the most famous person to have attended Marlborough College, but she’s not the only star to have graced its halls.

The Princess of Wales enrolled at the elite co-ed boarding school in 1996, after reportedly being bullied at her previous school. She left the school in 2000 with 11 GCSEs and impressive A-level results, with As in Maths and Art and a B in English.

A few years behind Kate was the comedian Jack Whitehall. At the Royal Variety Performance in 2014, Jack reminisced about their shared education and took the opportunity to disclose an “inappropriate” secret.

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As he stepped onto the stage to huge cheers from the crowd, Jack recounted his connection to Kate. “I’m very excited to be here. I’m especially excited to be here performing in front of the Duchess of Cambridge,” he said.

He continued: “We were actually at school together. This is true. We were at the same school. I was a bit younger than you, but this is the first time I’ve seen you since school, so hello.”

The audience watched as Kate laughed from her seat. Jack then cheekily confessed: “I don’t whether it’s appropriate given the circumstances, but you were probably my first ever crush… Okay, definitely inappropriate. Your Highness is giving me a very sharp look,” he added in reference to Prince William.

Jack later opened up about William’s reaction. He told Jonathan Ross: “William came over and he was very funny, he was very nice but very passive aggressive [and said] ‘Oh, so you were flirting with my missus? Oh no, that was very funny’.”

It’s not the first time Jack has made a joke about Kate. Speculating on the reason behind his snub from King Charles’ Coronation, Jack mused he may have gone too far during a past performance at Kensington Palace.

Jack has been hired by the monarch to perform at a Christmas party for staff at Kensington Palace. “I went out and they were sat, him and Camilla, in the front row in thrones, literally in thrones,” he told James Corden on The Late Late Show. “And I had no microphone so I was literally the court jester for half an hour. I did a load of jokes about Kate Middleton because she’d been at my school, and I was referring to her as ‘the one that got away’ which he didn’t like at all.”

He added: “I literally bombed so hard and afterwards I had to meet him and I had to bow and he said, ‘Yes, well, I think next year we might try a magician’.”

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