Nate Archibald is a
lacrosse player at the elite St. Jude's School for Boys. His mother, Anne Archibald, is a
French socialite, and his father, Captain Archibald, is a former
Navy captain and a wealthy
banker. His closest friends are
Chuck Bass,
Serena van der Woodsen and
Blair Waldorf. He has been dating Blair since middle school. However, Nate is shown to have deep, unresolved feelings for Serena. They have
sex during the summer at a wedding. He reveals this to Blair in the first novel after Serena returns, and right before they were supposed to lose their
virginity to each other, which causes their first breakup. He gets together with freshman
Jenny Humphrey, but later dumps her for Blair for being too clingy. He and Blair have an on-again-off-again relationship throughout most of the novels. Nate's family resides in a stately townhouse off
Park Avenue on the exclusive
Upper East Side of
Manhattan in
New York City, and his mother's French
socialite family owns a summer chateau in
Nice. He is a fan of sailing like his father, and wished to do that instead of attending
Yale with Blair, although he expressed interest in attending
Brown University. At the end of the series he sails around the world with a friend of his father's, Captain Charles "Chips" White to avoid getting in between Blair and Serena again. In
I Will Aways Love You, on break from
Deep Springs College, Nate chooses Blair in part I and then Serena in part II. ==TV series==