Phoebe Gates, the youngest daughter of Bill Gates with his ex-wife Melinda French Gates, confirmed his relationship with Arthur Donald, Paul McCartney’s eldest grandson, as revealed by the former Microsoft director’s own family to the magazine Nylon as part of the publication of a photo album about his graduation at the Stanford University last June 15.
Phoebe Gates, 21, recently graduated with a degree in human biology, so she decided to share her happiness with a carousel of photos published by Nylon where she is seen very smiling and happy with her friends and parents: Bill Gates and Melinda French.
However, what caught the most attention were two photos where he appears next to Arthur Donald, son of Mary McCartney and her ex-partner Alistair Donald. In the first snapshot, Arthur is seen carrying Phoebe on his back in the middle of a garden. Finally, another photo shows the couple hugging and looking very elegant.
“It’s no surprise that Phoebe Gates is a great performer. The daughter of Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates “He recently graduated from Stanford University after only three years in school, but he has also been hard at work on his next company,” Nylon magazine noted in the Instagram post.
“Here, the budding tech and fashion entrepreneur shares her exclusive graduation diary with Nylon and what’s in store for her mysterious new fashion project,” she added.
Phoebe Adele Gates is the daughter of former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates.Source: Instagram
Phoebe Gates and Arthur Donald have been dating for months
This is not the first time Phoebe Gates and Arthur Donald They appear in a photograph together. In October of last year, Bill Gates’ daughter shared a photo where she and Arthur look very smiling with the message: “Paris in the movie.” Various media such as Hello! and People There was already speculation about a romance between the two, but there was no confirmation until today.
“In September of last year, the two were photographed together attending the premiere of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City,” highlights Peoplea medium that said that Phoebe decided to publish the story with Arthur in Nylon with a caption saying that he is her “boyfriend” and saying in another photo that “he cleans very well.”
The American magazine also noted that Phoebe Gates was previously linked to Robert Ross, a student at the Stanford University. While Arthur Donald was linked to Ava Phillippe, daughter of Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe.
Arthur Alistair Donald is the son of Mary McCartney, Paul McCartney’s eldest daughter. | Source: AFP
Phoebe Gates is close to Stella McCartney, aunt of her boyfriend Arthur Donald
Phoebe Gates He has more close friends in the McCartney family. This is Stella McCartney, another of Paul McCartney’s daughters, who works as a fashion designer and is a good friend of Melinda French Gates.
It was Phoebe herself who revealed that the daughter of the former member of The Beatles and her mother have been “good friends” since she was very little. “I was asking my mother forever if she could meet me with Stella,” Phoebe Gates said in 2022 in an interview with Women’s Wear Daily.
In that sense, she stressed that she felt “very connected” to her partner’s aunt because she had a “similar background” to her.
“I feel like she was able to use the platform that she had, because of who her father is, and then take that and instead of saying, ‘oh, people define me by this.’ “She took it and said, ‘Okay, I have this immense privilege, now I’m going to use it to leverage something,’ and what she chose to leverage is to launch a brand that is completely sustainable,” Phoebe maintained about Stella.
