The Family and Background of the Duchess of Cambridge, the Middletons 1, Until 2022


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Aaaah, Ella is the dog! I thought you were talking about Lady Gabriella Windsor.:lol:
 
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The Middletons have always been big tennis fans. Michael Middleton gained his tennis colours while boarding at Clifton College.
 
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As for the Middletons- they certainly have a love of tennis in the blood. We see the entire family out for it. Nice seeing Michael.
 
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When Francis Martineau Lupton died in 1921 the minister at Mill Hill chapel, Leeds said he was "a member of a family which for generations has been associated with the commercial, municipal, educational and religious life of Leeds"

Francis was Catherine’s great-great grandfather
 
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As long ago as 1926 the Duchess’s relatives played host to Princess Mary, the aunt, while another relative was a friend of Queen Victoria’s son Prince Arthur and of the future George V before the First World War.

Mike Middleton comes from a line of wealthy Yorkshire wool merchants, whose trust fund enabled him to send his three children to public school. His grandfather was a solicitor, his father a pilot. All three generations boarded at Clifton College in Bristol.

In 1962 the Duchess’s grandfather Peter Middleton, an airline pilot, acted as first officer to the Duke of Edinburgh on a two-month flying tour of South America.

The Duke piloted 49 of the tour’s 62 flights, often with Middleton by his side, and later sent him a letter of thanks and a pair of gold cufflinks. Peter Middleton died in 2010, days before the Duke and Duchess announced their engagement.“
 
#royal #flashback Francis Martineau Lupton, the great-great grandfather of the Duchess of Cambridge, lost his three sons in WWI:

Captain Maurice Lupton killed in action 1915, Lt Lionel Martineau Lupton killed during battle 1916, Missing Major Francis Ashford Lupton found dead in 1917

From whizzing around Cambridge in a Rolls Royce, studying at Trinity College, to losing their lives a mere four years later – the spoils of war altered family life forever.

“He never recovered from his triple blow,” Peter Middleton – Catherine’s late grandfather – wrote in a family biography. “He never broke down. But the light had gone out of his life.”

In their memory, their father transformed the family home, Rockland, to an institution for the children of sailors and soldiers. He also contributed financially to many causes and institutions.

Via Royal Vision Twitter
 
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Referring to Simon, Nicholas, Richard and Michael Middleton, a neighbour of the family says: “The boys all went to boarding school, and clearly the family was well off. They were never showy, but they were what you might describe as refined.”

The archives at Clifton College, the private boarding school in Bristol, record that Michael Middleton was a praepostor, the title for a college prefect.

Michael Middleton represented Clifton College at rugby and also gained his tennis colours.

Via Royal Vision Twitter
 
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The Duchess of Cambridge’s grandmother, Valerie Glassborow, was born and raised in Marseille France, where her father, Frederick, was the managing financial advisor for London County and Westminster Bank.

The family moved back to Britain when she was in her teens and settled in Leeds, where she met Peter Middleton. They married in 1946 and had four sons including the Duchess’s father, Michael.

During the Second World War, Valerie Glassborow was formally employed at the top secret ‘Government Code and Cypher School’, Bletchley Park. There she was tasked with monitoring and intercepting diplomatic messages and checking that the listening stations were doing their job.

Miss Glassborow was one of the first people to learn that the war had come to an end.

During Catherine’s official visit to Bletchley Park in 2014, a friend and work colleague of Miss Glassborow, Lady Marion Body, shared a story with the Duchess -

“It was 15 August 1945, I think it was in the afternoon, and Valerie, Mary and I happened to be on that shift. Our superior officer, Commander Williams, came into the room smiling and he said, ‘Well done, girls. A signal has been intercepted from Tokyo to Geneva and it’s the signal that the Japanese are surrendering.

“We just sat there in complete silence. Commander Williams shuffled about and then he said, ‘Well, you bloody well get on with your work now,” which broke the ice. We all laughed.

“He did say a message has gone to the King and the Prime Minister but it cannot be announced until Geneva has sent on the message to London.”

Valerie Middleton died in 2006
 
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Very interesting and so nice of you to share with us this story......
 
Thanks for sharing Rudolph. Very interesting story indeed. I didn't realise that Catherine's grandmother worked at Bletchley.
 
The former head of Marlborough College, Edward Gould, who was a guest at the nuptials of Catherine and William, told the BBC in an interview before the royal wedding, The Duchess of Cambridge was a "very popular girl" when she was a pupil at the private school in Wiltshire.

Marlborough College is the alma mater of Samantha Cameron, wife of former Prime Minister David Cameron. Frances Osborne, wife of former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne. Princess Eugenie, as well as Mark Phillips, Olympic horseman and former husband of Princess Anne.

Via princesspleats Twitter
 
The Duchess of Cambridge’s great-grandmother Olive Middleton, nee Lupton.

City of Leeds archives describes the family thusly, “The Luptons of Leeds were landed gentry; a political and business dynasty. The family has been landowners in the Leeds area since the 18th century”

Olive Middleton

Via princesspleats Twitter
 
Referring to Michael Middleton’s trust fund, a legal source in Leeds, who wishes to remain anonymous, told the Telegraph: “The Lupton property holdings were huge, and generated large amounts of rent. I believe most of this has now been put into stocks, shares and so on, and generates an income. Of course it will be shared among descendants, but the amounts involved are believed to be substantial.”

Via princesspleats Twitter
 
Surely James won't be doing this job through the winter months? Jan, Feb in the Scottish Highlands, brrrr! I know it looks very romantic, especially when there's a snowfall, but there is a limit!
 
Perhaps a consultant management could help boomf. Many businesses need a revision.
 
Carole Middleton's maiden surname was Goldsmith. Are she and her brother related to Jamima Goldsmith and her family? Or it's just coincidence
 
No relation at all, or the biography I have of Kate which goes through about seven generations of her family on both sides would have mentioned it.
 
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowb...mes-31-working-tour-guide-Scottish-hotel.html
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I don't click on The Mail so I'm not sure what the article says, but I thought I remember that James Matthews loaned James Middleton some money for his boomf company. If James Middleton was unable to repay the loan, maybe this is his way of reimbursing his brother-in-law. Or maybe it has nothing to so with that and James just wanted a quirky job with beautiful scenery. Either way it's an interesting James update.
 
“WITH a steely stare and those slender cheekbones, it is not difficult to see the similarities between these two remarkable women

And as Kate continues to ready herself for the onerous duties of a future Queen, the tale of her remarkable great grandmother shows how public service truly runs in the family.

The extraordinary story of Olive Middleton - and the tragedy that beset her family - can be revealed today as Britain remembers the fallen heroes of the Somme

Born Olive Lupton, she, her three brothers and sister enjoyed the life of aristocratic luxury before Britain was ravaged by the outbreak of the Great War.

She grew up in opulent surroundings at the family's ancestral seat of Potternewton Hall Estate, near Leeds in Yorkshire, after being born into one of the pre-eminent families of her time

Her father Francis Martineau Lupton was a wealthy businessman, running the family merchant and cloth making operation, and was also an influential Liberal member of parliament.

Like many of the great families of Britain at the time, they lived the ultimate high life.

Olive's three brothers - Maurice, Lionel and Francis - reputedly drove around Cambridge in a Rolls Royce whilst studying their at Trinity College like their father before them.

They were set to follow him into the family business too, before the First World War broke out and all three signed up for service.”

Read more: PICTURED: Kate's great grandmother and her own extraordinary contribution to Britain's war
 
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There is a likeness between Catherine, James, George and Pippa with their ancestors.
Thanks for the historical pictures.
It's an interesting story and is a reminder of the sacrifice many families made.
So glad there are places that preserve these things.
 
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There is a likeness between Catherine, James, George and Pippa with their ancestors.
Thanks for the historical pictures.
It's an interesting story and is a reminder of the sacrifice many families made.
So glad there are places that preserve these things.
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Catherine's great-grandfather Charles Goldsmith also served during WWI, in France with the Royal Fusiliers. His brother John enlisted too but died of meningitis at Stockwell Hospital in 1915.
 
Last week, ahead of #Armistice100, The Duchess of Cambridge visited #IWMLondon to view letters from our Documents Archive relating to the three brothers of her great-grandmother, all of whom fought and died in the First World War.

Who will you remember? Discover @LivesOfWW1.

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Apparently James Middleton has given an interview to a german newspaper to say that he's looking forward to a full family Christmas as Bucklebury this year. Some have taken this to assume that Catherine and William will not be at Sandringham.
 
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Apparently James Middleton has given an interview to a german newspaper to say that he's looking forward to a full family Christmas as Bucklebury this year. Some have taken this to assume that Catherine and William will not be at Windsor.
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You mean Sandringham.

We never know. They might spend Christmas at the Catherine’s family home and join the royals later at Sandringham.
 
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