The Middletons' business was successful, and along with trust funds inherited by Michael from his aristocrat grandmother, Olive Christiana Middleton (née Lupton), enabled the family to continue the Middleton family tradition of sending their children to board at independent schools. By 2012, the Middletons had moved to Bucklebury Manor, a Georgian mansion with an 18-acre estate where their grandson Prince George spent his first few weeks. Carole and Michael Middleton are also the owners of a racehorse. In 2002, the Middletons bought a flat in Chelsea, in which their children lived. At this time the Middletons purchased Oak Acre, a Tudor-style manor house in Bucklebury, Berkshire. It branched into party supplies and decorations by mail order and by 1995 was managed by both Michael and Carole Middleton and had moved into farm buildings at Ashampstead Common. Later career and inherited wealth Ĭarole Middleton established Party Pieces, a company making party bags in 1987. Their youngest child, James William, was born in 1987. Following the birth of Catherine Elizabeth (born 1982) and Philippa Charlotte (born 1983), the family moved to Amman, Jordan, where Michael worked as a manager for BA from 1984 to 1987. The Middletons have three children, two daughters and a son. They married on 21 June 1980 at St James's Parish Church in Dorney, Buckinghamshire, and later bought a Victorian house in Bradfield Southend near Reading, Berkshire. By 1979, he was promoted to aircraft dispatcher, one of British Airways' Red Caps, at London Heathrow Airport. Middleton met his future wife Carole when they worked for British Airways (BA) as ground crew. He then worked for British Airways as a flight dispatcher. Middleton then commenced studies for six months at British European Airways' flight school to become a pilot before switching to ground crew where he graduated from the company's own internal course. įollowing Clifton, Middleton attended the University of Surrey which conferred the degree of B.Sc (Hons) on him in 1973 according to the entry in the Clifton College Register 1962–1978, published by Clifton College Council in October 1979. Middleton represented Clifton at rugby in the 1st XV and also gained his tennis colours. The archives at Clifton record that Middleton was a praepostor, the title for a college prefect. At Clifton, all three generations of Middleton men boarded at Brown's House. Like his father and grandfather, Middleton was educated at Clifton College, a public school in Bristol. Adam's sister Lucy Middleton – a lawyer who, like her brother attended Bedales School – is godmother to Michael's grandson, Prince Louis. Richard's son, Adam Middleton, is godfather to Michael's granddaughter, Princess Charlotte. Middleton has three brothers: Richard (b.1947), Simon (b.1952) and Nicholas (b.1956). British Pathé newsreel film shows Middleton alongside the prince during the tour. He flew alongside Prince Philip as co-pilot on a two-month flying tour of South America in 1962. His father, Captain Peter Middleton (1920–2010), was a pilot who served as a RAF fighter pilot during the Second World War. Middleton's mother was Valerie Middleton (née Glassborow, 1924–2006), who served as a VAD nurse and code-breaker during the Second World War. The Middleton family, including Michael's grandfather Richard Noël Middleton and his wife Olive, had played host to members of the British royal family in Leeds from the 1920s. Royal historian Robert Lacey describes the Middleton family as having aristocratic kinship with Baroness Airedale (1868–1942) being Middleton's distant relative. He spent his early years in Moortown, Leeds. Michael Francis Middleton was born in Leeds on 23 June 1949 into a wealthy family. 1 Early life, education, and early careerĮarly life, education, and early career.
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