When she was seven she was enrolled at St. They now had the money to send Catherine to a private school - where there might be a prince in residence. With luck and hard work, the Middletons mail-order business, Party Pieces, that created anything one would need for a proper children's party, gave them the income to move even closer to fulfilling that princely fantasy for their daughter.
Lest those princely fantasies evaporate, she transferred them to her daughter, Catherine who was born on January 9, 1982, six months before Prince William's birth on June 21 that same year. She met Mike Middleton, head of ground operations at Heathrow Airport, and they married in 1980. She had neither the means nor the desire to attend college and joined the British Airlines flight attendant program right out of high school in 1974. Jealous? Kate and William had split when this picture of Kate with an unknown friend was taken at a performance at Wembley stadium in 2007 Growing up, Carole's family moved from a cramped, unheated flat in London's downscale Southall to a larger house in the nearby area of Ealing, decidedly more affluent but not any closer to her fantasy Prince.
Like mother, like daughter: Kate's mother, Carole Goldsmith was six years older than Diana, and her youthful fixation was on William's father, Charles, the Prince of Wales.īut there wasn't even a remote chance their paths would ever cross. 'You cannot tell me anything about Prince William that I don't already know,' she told a schoolmate. She tracked Will's royal schedule, read every newspaper and magazine story including every gossip item. Kate had harbored a crush on Princess Diana's oldest son for years and displayed a color photo of him with his father, Prince Charles, in her bedroom at Marlborough College, says the author. He was the very reason she was there: to meet, and with any luck, to marry the future monarch, Andersen writes. She 'turned bright red and sort of scuttled off, feeling very shy about meeting him', Kate recalled.
Andrews, the oldest university in Scotland, which they both attended. The encounter was 'awkward and mercifully brief' at their dormitory at St. Kate met Prince William three years later in 2001. Steamy: Williams was watching when Kate modeled on catwalk at student fashion show with Fergus Boyd, both flatmates of the prince at St Andrews