As a pair, Phoebe Gates and Arthur Donald made positive to help each other’s greatest moments earlier than they broke up in 2025.
“My boyfriend, Arthur, giving me a carry post-ceremony,” Gates captioned a June 2024 photograph essay for Nylon from her faculty commencement from Stanford College.
Within the snap, Donald gave Phoebe a candy piggyback trip after the ceremony.
“I can’t consider a greater ending,” she gushed to the journal of her graduation. “It’s the tip of 1 chapter, and starting of one other, and it was such a privilege to have this time with our household and buddies to have fun this.”
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Phoebe is the youngest baby of Invoice Gates and Melinda French Gates, who cut up in 2021 after 27 years of marriage. The Microsoft founder and Melinda additionally share daughter Jennifer and son Rory.
Arthur has an equally well-known household as he’s the eldest son of exes Mary McCartney and Alistair Donald, who additionally share son Eliot. Mary is one in all Paul McCartney’s 5 kids. The Beatles legend shares Heather, Mary, Stella and James with late spouse Linda Eastman and daughter Beatrice with ex Heather Mills.
Phoebe and Arthur’s paths crossed lengthy earlier than they began relationship in 2023.
“[Stella McCartney] and my mother are literally good buddies,” Phoebe instructed Girls’s Put on Day by day in October 2022, referring to one in all Arthur’s maternal aunts. “Even once I was little she would ship me stuff and little notes and I’d be so excited. I’ve been asking my mother without end and ever if I may meet along with her.”
Hold scrolling for Phoebe and Arthur’s full relationship timeline:
October 2022
Earlier than Phoebe and Arthur began relationship, she publicly gushed about his aunt Stella.
“I felt very linked to her, I really feel like as a result of she’s been ready to make use of the platform she had, due to who her dad is after which she took that and as an alternative of being like, ‘Oh, individuals outline me by this,’ she took it and he or she was like, ‘OK, I’ve this immense privilege, now I’m going to make use of it to leverage one thing,’” Phoebe recalled to WWD, noting she met the style designer the earlier summer time.
She added, “What [Stella] selected to leverage is to launch a model that’s utterly sustainable. I believe we’re actually deeply linked as a result of that’s a whole lot of what I take into consideration: ‘OK, I’m my mother and father’ daughter, that offers me immense privilege, nevertheless it’s not what I’m outlined by. I wish to have my very own identification, I wish to be my very own particular person, I wish to department away from that, however how do I do this in a method the place I can yield some type of change?’”
October 2023
One yr later, Phoebe and Arthur — who has a personal social media profile —made their Instagram debut on her account.
“Paris on movie 💙,” she captioned a pic of the pair in France.
Fellow activist Sophia Kianni referred to as the couple “Mother and Dad” in an Instagram remark.
Invoice Gates and Melinda French Gates introduced their plans to divorce in Might 2021, which got here as a shock to many after 27 years of marriage. “After a substantial amount of thought and a whole lot of work on our relationship, we’ve got made the choice to finish our marriage,” they shared in a press release on […]
March 2024
Whereas talking with Bustle, Phoebe declined to touch upon her romance with Arthur however did supply just a few particulars about her relationship dealbreakers.
“If I had a associate who didn’t respect my private freedoms or the non-public freedoms of girls across the nation to decide on what’s proper for ourselves and our households, I positively assume that might be a deal-breaker,” she mentioned.
April 2024
In an Instagram photograph dump of the spring, Arthur made just a few cameos. In a single snap, Phoebe walked behind him in a backyard. She additionally took a candid shot of Arthur cooking in a white bathrobe.
June 2024
“Graduated,” Phoebe wrote through Instagram, alongside a pic of Arthur giving her a piggyback trip.
September 2025
Information broke that Phoebe and Arthur cut up after two years of relationship. On the time, she hinted on her “Burnouts” podcast that she moved on.
“I’m relationship a man who actually doesn’t have Instagram,” Phoebe mentioned. “He deletes it, and it’s wonderful. It’s the perfect factor ever, and that is utterly new for me. I’ve by no means been with somebody like this.”
