When you're the future king of England, keeping a low profile is going to be pretty bloody difficult.
The entire family is under the near-constant watch of the media and the world love to know about every move they make.
However, when Prince William went off to St Andrews, the prying media agreed to give him a bit of a break, saying the teen should be allowed to carry on with his studies without being papped every time he was out and about. To be fair, it's hard enough having your campus mates know what you did at the uni bar the night before, let alone the whole world.
In a quest to keep himself out of the limelight, William gave himself a brand new moniker...Steve.
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I mean, he had the choice of literally anything but decided to settle on Steve. I feel like that tells us a lot about our future head of state.
Despite all his pals knowing that he was in fact Prince William - or William Wales, as he was officially enrolled as - they all went along with the nickname Steve, the Mirror reports. It's likely that even his now-wife Kate Middleton would have called him Steve during their time at university together.
William graduated aged 23 in 2005 with a degree in geography.
At his ceremony, William told the Telegraph: "Today is a very special day for me and I am delighted that I can share it with my family, and in particular with my grandmother, who has made such an effort to come, having been under the weather."
"I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at St Andrews and I shall be very sad to leave." Yeah, we were all sad to leave uni, Steve, it was even worse for those of us who didn't leave to go and live in an actual palace.
In a similar manner, William/Steve's son Prince George has the official title His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, with his actual full name being George Alexander Louis, however, since starting at school the little cutie is rocking about using the name George Cambridge.
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His surname follows the tradition of kings and princes historically taking their surnames from their father's titles. Prince William and Prince Harry used the surname Wales while they attended school, and university in Will's case.
This means that little George could also have been known as George Wales if his parents wished.
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