In June 2008, selected Catherine as its monthly beauty icon. Catherine was named as one of Richard Blackwell's ten "Fabulous Fashion Independents" of 2007. She was featured in People magazine's 20 best-dressed lists. Tatler placed her at number 8 on its yearly listing of the top ten style icons in 2007. She was selected by The Daily Telegraph as the "Most Promising Newcomer" in its 2006 list of style winners and losers. Testino later denied that Catherine was going to be working for him.Ĭatherine is admired for her fashion sense and has been placed on numerous "best dressed" lists. In 2008, it was reported that she had quit her job at Jigsaw to become a professional photographer, intending to take private classes with photographer Mario Testino, who had taken several well-known photographs of Diana, Princess of Wales and her sons. She also worked part-time until January 2011 as a catalogue photographer, webpage designer and marketing officer for her parents' firm "Party Pieces". In November 2006, Catherine accepted a position as an accessory buyer with the clothing chain Jigsaw. She graduated with an MA (2:1 Hons) in the History of Art. She continued her studies at Marlborough College, a co-educational independent boarding school in Wiltshire, followed by the University of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland where she met William. After her return from Amman, Catherine was educated at St Andrew's School near the village of Pangbourne in Berkshire, then briefly at Downe House. Carole Middleton's maternal family, the Harrisons, were working class labourers and miners from Sunderland and County Durham.Ĭatherine's parents were based in Amman, Jordan, working for British Airways from May 1984, to September 1986, where Catherine went to an English language nursery school, before returning to their home in Berkshire.
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The family has complained about press harassment of Pippa and their mother since Catherine's engagement.Ĭatherine's paternal family came from Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, and her great-grandmother Olivia was a member of the Lupton family, who were active for generations in Leeds in commercial and municipal work. Her siblings are Philippa "Pippa" Charlotte and James Middleton.
Her parents married on 21 June 1980, at the Parish Church of Dorney, Buckinghamshire, and in 1987, founded Party Pieces, a mail order company that sells party supplies and decorations. She is the eldest of three children born to Carole (née Goldsmith), a former flight attendant and now part-owner of Party Pieces, a private company with an estimated worth of £30 million, and Michael Francis Middleton, who also worked as a flight attendant prior to becoming a flight dispatcher for British Airways, currently also an owner of Party Pieces. Catherine was born at Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading on 9 January 1982 and christened at St Andrew's Bradfield, Berkshire on 20 June 1982.
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