Harrold says he was devastated when William and Middleton shockingly broke up three years later. I was absolutely gutted, but it wasn’t my place or business to say anything to him about it," Harrold writes, referring to William. The butler-turned-royal commentator believes the pressures of being a young couple in the spotlight might have gotten to Middleton and the prince. When they got back together eight months later, I did tell them how happy I was for them and what an amazing couple they were," Harrold reveals. "As far as I was concerned, for the time they were apart, there was no sign of anyone else.