Long before Catherine Middleton became the Duchess of Cambridge, she was just a toddler with pigtails, playing with her friends and siblings. So, where did her exciting childhood first take flight? Well, it turns out, it was none other than the sands of Amman, Jordan!

Imagine little Catherine, barely out of diapers, packing her bags (okay, maybe her parents did the packing), and jetting off to Jordan, all thanks to her dad. Why, you ask? Well, he wasn't chasing hidden treasures in the desert (although that would've made for an epic story). Instead, he moved there to work for British Airways when Catherine was just two, and they lived there for three years. Catherine attended a very international nursery while living there, and according to her former teacher, Michael would sometimes pick her up while still wearing his uniform. Per the Daily Mail, she revealed, "'The kids used to get very excited and run to see him."

Catherine apparently has very fond memories of living in Jordan, according to Prince William. Also, per the Daily Mail, while he was on a royal tour of the country back in 2018, he told the chief executive of Save the Children, "She loved it here, she really did." Of course, one of the most famous pictures from Catherine's childhood depicts her as a toddler in front of the ruins in Jerash, Jordan, along with her father.