While normies around the globe are charged with acclimating to modern dating rituals (swipe right, swipe left, add guacamole to your dating profile) in the hopes of meeting the one, there's solace in the knowledge that celebrity couples have to put in significant work to find their better halves, too.
From Michelle and Barack Obama's lawful beginnings to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's first blind date, read below to learn the origin stories behind some of the world's favorite famous pairs.
Prince William and Kate Middleton went to college together, but that's not where they met.
Kate and William both enrolled at St. Andrews University in 2001 — and lived in the same residence hall— but according to royal biographer Katie Nicholl, the two met before college.
"This was really fascinating for me," Nicholl told Katie Couric in 2013. "I was speaking to some of her friends at Marlborough School, which was where she went before St. Andrews, and they said, 'Uh uh, she didn't meet him at St. Andrews. She met him before she got there... through some of her friends. They knew Prince William and Prince Harry.' So there was an early meeting, and that for me changed everything."
Prince William and Kate married in April 2011. They have two kids and a third on the way.
Beyoncé and Jay Z don't really agree on when they first met.
While the actual date of Beyoncés first fateful meeting with Jay Z is in dispute — she claims they met when she was 18, in 1999/2000, while he said he met her 10 years ago in a 2007 interview— we can safely allege that they hit it off somewhere between 1997 and 2000.
Bey and Jay spent years solidifying a friendship over the phone before beginning to date in 2001.
The two married in 2008 and have three children together.
Michelle Obama was Barack's mentor at a law firm.
The former first lady met the former president when the two were working at a law firm together. Michelle Robinson, then 25, was assigned to be then-28-year-old Barack Obama's mentor.
"Because I went to Harvard and he went to Harvard, and the firm thought, 'Oh, we'll hook these two people up,'" Michelle told ABC News.
When Michelle brought Obama home to meet the Robinson's, they initially thought that even though he was "not a bad-looking guy," he didn't stand a chance.
"She'll eat him alive," Michelle's father, Fraser Robinson, guessed.
The two married in 1992 and have two daughters.
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