Aspirational upbringing
When flight dispatcher Michael Middleton and his wife Carole, whom he’d met when she was working as a British Airways flight attendant, welcomed their first child on 9 January 1982, they never could have predicted that their new baby daughter would one day become one of the most famous women in the world.
The Middleton family returned to their Victorian semi-detached house in the village of Bradfield Southend in Berkshire. Their baby girl was christened Catherine Elizabeth in the local church on 20 June 1982 at six months old. On 6 September 1983, Kate was joined by a sister, Philippa, better known as Pippa. While Kate’s mother came from an
