Carole Middleton

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Carole Middleton on the balcony of Buckingham Palace at the wedding of her daughter Catherine in 2011

Carole Middleton (* 31 January 1955 in London as Carole Elizabeth Goldsmith ) is a former flight attendant-turned businesswoman. She is the mother of Kate Middleton and her siblings Pippa Middleton and James Middleton.

Middleton's first grandson, Prince George of Cambridge , was born on July 22, 2013 and is third in line to the UK's throne . On May 2, 2015, their first granddaughter Princess Charlotte of Cambridge was born, fourth in line to the British throne. Her second grandson, Prince Louis of Cambridge , was born on April 23, 2018 and is fifth in line to the British throne.

Life

Carole Middleton was born on January 31, 1955 at Perivale Maternity Hospital in Perivale, London . The daughter of Dorothy Harrison and Ronald Goldsmith , she is the older sister of IT recruiting multi-millionaire Gary Goldsmith. She spent her young years in a small house in Southall , where she attended state school .

She met flight dispatcher Michael Francis Middleton while working as a flight attendant for British Airways . The couple were married on June 21, 1980 at the Church of St. James in Dorney, Buckinghamshire . Born in Leeds , Michael was the son of pilot Captain Peter Middleton, whose mother Olive was a member of the Lupton family known in the City of Leeds archives as the landed gentry ; a political and entrepreneurial dynasty ”.

Rise to multimillionaire

In 1987, she founded Party Pieces , a mail order company specializing in the sale of party accessories. The start-up capital for the establishment came from a family foundation of the Middletons, which had been established by Francis Martineau Lupton. According to its own information, the Berkshire-based company now has more than 40 employees and processes up to 4,000 orders per week. According to the Daily Mail newspaper , party pieces turned the family into multimillionaires.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Poppy Bradbury: Kate Middleton's mum's old school hosts Royal Wedding party . In: Ealing Gazette , May 3, 2011. Archived from the original on March 21, 2012. 
  2. ↑ Person Page 20097 . thePeerage.com. Retrieved May 4, 2011.
  3. ↑ Geoffrey Levy: For Kate Middleton's mother Carole being royal in-law will be no laughing matter | Mail online . In: Daily Mail , November 18, 2010. Retrieved May 4, 2011. 
  4. ↑ Camilla Tominey: Is Gary Goldsmith really the Black Sheep of the Middleton family? . In: UK Express , March 24, 2013. Retrieved November 29, 2014. 
  5. ↑ Sean Smith: Chapter 1 . In: Kate: A Biography of Kate Middleton . First Gallery Books, 2011, p. Page 2 (Retrieved November 29, 2014): “Eventually Dorothy and Ron moved into a council flat nearby before borrowing the deposit to buy a small house of their own in Southall, where they were living when Carole was born in 1955. "
  6. ^ Geoffrey Levy: Kate Middleton's character shaped by generations of social-climbing matriarchs . In: Daily Mail , April 17, 2011. Retrieved May 4, 2011. 
  7. ↑ News: Kate Middleton's Southall connections . brit-asian.com. Retrieved May 6, 2011.
  8. ↑ Camilla Tominey: Truth behind Prince George's love of aviation . In: Daily Express , February 14, 2016. Retrieved February 19, 2015. "It (the photograph) shows the Duchess of Cambridge's grandfather, Captain Peter Middleton, with Prince Philip in 1962 ..." 
  9. ↑ Leodis, City of Leeds Archives: Headingley Castle . In: Leodis - A Photographic Archive of Leeds . UK Government. Retrieved May 14, 2013.
  10. ^ Gordon Rayner: Middle-class Duchess of Cambridge's relative wore crown and attended George Vs coronation. . In: UK Daily Telegraph . Retrieved May 14, 2013. “News - page 7; "(Michael Middleton's) ancestors were very much landed gentry, and as we now know some of them were titled." (Page 7) Middle-class Duchess of Cambridge's relative wore crown and attended George Vs coronation " 
  11. ↑ Why the Middletons are really rich . ( kurier.at [accessed on April 26, 2018]).
  12. ↑ Self-description on the company website , accessed on April 25, 2018
  13. ↑ Article in the Daily Mail newspaper of January 10, 2017 (English), accessed April 25, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Middleton, Carole
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Middleton, Carole Elizabeth (full name); Goldsmith, Carole Elizabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British flight attendant and businesswoman
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH London