Kate Middleton s very unroyal life before meeting Prince William - from living in the Middle East to working in Chile
She caught his eye at uni, where she was described as a bit of a party girl
Kate Middleton had a very different life before she married into The Firm (Image: Getty)
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Nearly a year after Fresno State postponed its commencement ceremony last spring, the university has announced it will hold virtual events to honor students from the Class of 2021 and those who graduated in 2020.
they were notal wealthy. solidly middle class. solidly middle class, hard working folks. carole goldsmith and michael milton met while working for a british airline. they married in 1980. kate was born in 1982. her early years were as ordinary as you can imagine. baptized at a picturesque chapel. she was a brownie and liked to perform in plays and musicals. a simple life in the quiet english countryside. friends say the closest the middletons got to the royals was watching stories of them on tv. a marriage that captivated. when charles married diana in 1981 like the rest of the planet earth, they were glued to the set and watching every minute of it. of course, carole dreamed someday of having her daughter enter that life, but it seemed an impossible dream, i m sure. impossible, that is, until
carol middleton, a stay-at-home mother stumbled on to a very lucrative career. she had a talent for making goody bags for children s parties, and she really spun it into this internet empire. the family quickly moved up the ladder and within a couple of years they were making millions of dollars a year. hence kate was sent to some of the most expensive and prestigious schools. kate was 13 years old when she arrived at this conclusive school in the english countryside called down house, a school that catered to nobility and aristocracy. when she stepped on campus she was an outgoing girl who loved sports and learning, but soon that all changed. she became the victim of the mean girls in the school. there was malicious gossip about her background because she was one of the very few girls from a working class background attending that school. many say kate became miserable, shy and withdrawn, much like diana when she first went to boarding school. she was very shy, so i didn t r
than a 2. of 10? 2 out of 10. carole middleton stepped in. her mother actually transformed her and she got her wearing makeup for the first time so when she reappeared in school it was a new person. kate became one of the most popular girls here at marlborough, a tremendous student, serious athlete and had the reputation of having a wild side. one friend said kate liked to frequently moon the boys from her dorm room window and it earned her the nickname, kate midd middlebum. it was a reasonably happy school. it was great fun and she was a very pretty girl. yet, kate didn t date much, and despite her denials, many who knew her then insist she set her sights higher than prep school classmates. i talked to too many friends who said, yes, she always had this picture over her bed in her dormitory, a picture of william so she did have her sights set on him. eerily reminiscent of another young girl decades earlier. she was always known to adore