When The Middletons Met The Monarchy | Life Before Royalty

[Applause] this is the inside story of when the middletons met the monarchy when Suburbia met the Royal firm told by Palace insiders I was on duty it was a girl standing on her own this lady was Kate midon happy birthday and family friends there was intense press pressure some of the tabloids had come in and said Is it true Carol drives through the village at 50 mph middle class commoners thrust Into the Heart of the royal family you're not filming this are you what really happened behind closed doors when the party planners went to the Palace I'd heard that Camila wasn't very keen on Catherine navigating the frictions within the Royal Family itself I suppose there is a little tension sometimes between who gets to see the grandkids most you know what I'm jealous how about me does he look like you or Catherine he's got her looks thankfully how did the middletons adapt when they met the house of Windsor she's realized that she is going to have to listen to those that have come before her in order to win and she gets it and how will they help shape the future of the royal family it will be the middletons who have the influence because the royal family is stuck in its ways one day Prince George will be King George II descended from a family of miners [Music] the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are one of the most famous couples on the planet despite their very different family backgrounds Kate started dating William while studying art history at the University of St Andrews little did she know this relationship would change her family's life forever they are incredibly popular as young members of the RO family on whom an awful lot of responsibility has been placed as a commoner born into a middle class home Count's English family Kate's integration into the royal family hasn't been easy they started DED but very quietly no one knew very much about it only their closest Circle of Friends there's talk that when Prince Charles was younger that his girlfriends used to call him sir I can't imagine though William that that' be anything like that here we have the monarchy it has its own peculiar rules and protocol which stretch back hundreds of years now can you imagine stepping into that world and trying to integrate yourself that is a very steep learning [Music] curve when Kate's parents Michael and Carol Middleton were invited to an intimate lunch to meet the queen for the first time or all eyes were on Windsor Castle it must have been quite awesome to be going through those doors of the ancient medieval castle these huge buildings that you know are steeped in history where terribly important people live it was a personal invite from the Monarch and a momentous moment for the middletons people act really weird sometimes when they're meeting the queen the hands get fidgety or they start sweating or start mumbling in meeting the Monarch the middletons needed to navigate the Royal rules very carefully Grant Harold spent 7 years as a butler in the Royal household one of my jobs was when people came to meet the Royals was to make sure that they were um relaxed calm um if they wanted any advice or guidance and that's everything from uh the gentleman do a neck bow not a waist bow and ladies do a cutsy not too low down because otherwise you might not come back up I can just imagine Carl going through her wardrobe and trying to choose the perfect go I would say that always are on the side of grecee and elegance preferably a long sleeve for a gentleman not too many stripes not too much fuss the purpose of the meeting was really to put them at their ease but must be quite an intimidating moment for Carol Middleton whose great great grandfather had been a a coal miner in darham Carol apparently said pleased to meet you when she'd been told to say how' you do in the tension of the moment you forget I'm told that the lunch at Windsor Castle went very well it went on for an hour and a half which is quite long actually by by Queen [Music] standards John Haley has known the middletons for over 20 years they struck up a friendship when and the family became regulars at his Pub not far from their home in the Barsha Village of bucklebury we socialized with them got invited to their house which was very nice Mike and Carol got strong personalities they can get on with anybody they're so natural so relaxed very family orientated they just were liked by everybody historically the in-laws have pretty much become Outlaws but I think Kate made it very clear to William she wasn't going to lose that close connection that she enjoyed with her own family they're so isolated from ordinary family life so there's an enormous Gulf we've seen in the past with with people joining the royal family it can be devastating the backgrounds of Carol and Michael Middleton are worlds apart from the Windsor Carol was brought up in the early part of her life in in a council flat in an impecunious part of West London you don't have to go back too far in the generations and you reach the Durham connection for many generations her family were coal miners there have been lots of reports about Carol's very humble upbringings she was kind of a a grafter who moved up the ranks and became a flight attendant at British Airways Michael comes from rather slightly grander stop his family Hail from Yorkshire and they had made a fair bit of money he became flight dispatcher for Bri Airways and do you know what they ran into one another and love Blossom the Middleton moved to bucklebury in 1995 Kate and her younger siblings Pippa and James enjoyed an adelic childhood Buckle bre is a very quaint little village as you imagine in an Agatha Christie story there's a Village Green a little butchers a news agents little local pub Buckle bre is quite a mixture of people you got some fabulously wealthy people lovely big houses they're very close-knit community and they all stand by each other the Middleton family are incredibly close pipper Middleton is Kate's best friend they were brought up together there's only a year or two gap between them Kate piiper and James were were bought up impeccably Kate is very similar to her father she is more thoughtful and more discreet perhaps than pipper and and quieter personally I think that the pipper is is more like her mother she's she's very outgoing very sociable loves parting Mike and Carol they're strong people very loyal downto Earth hardworking couple the kids would come in and play in the garden just like any other family carol set up her her party pieces Enterprise on the kitchen table Michael then came into the business with her and they turned it into a very successful party paraphernalia business they're very ambitious Carol has been said to be a perfectionist then it's certainly paid off for the Middleton family a wealth of opportunities opened up for the Middleton children and all three were privately educated at the age of 14 Kate was sent to the prestigious malor College where fees can hit almost £40,000 a year Carol was determined that they would go to very good private schools she wanted her daughters to make the sort of connections with the right sort of people pipper followed Kate to malor college the two of them were very competitive with one another I think if anything pipper became the better sportswoman she went to Edinburgh where she read English at St Andrews University Kate and William kept their burgeoning relationship very quiet the Press was sniffing around and saying is there something going on here but they would always say no no we're just all housemates you know how it is at University load of students and the rest of the middletons treated the news with the utmost discretion I've interviewed several members of the family over the years and when William and Kate began dating Carol actually fed members of the family to to tell them to be on the God I mean they must been dying to tell people do you know our daughter is dating Prince William but I think they kept it a very tight Circle as William and Kate's relationship blossomed William visited the Middleton family home in bucklebury I think that there people that would say you take us as as we are this is our house our home and you're invited into it but I don't think they would necessarily then think they've got to put on a show William and Carol struck a very close Bond very early on he would definitely have been happy to have a mother figure like Carol who was very nurturing and reliable and trustworthy the bucklebury locals made William feel very much at home the very first time actually Prince William came in the first thing he was looking for was a mint viata uh so we then made sure that we were always cover in stock and the family made a visit to the local pub two tables were booked this particular evening by Carol the second table was for his security Kate walked straight in she said hi John how are you I said I'm fine thank you she said oh this is William William John on the shook ass nice to meet you and it was just so relaxed they were in the conservatory having a meal and the Press came in the front but they didn't even know they were there a world away from the village of bucklebury however William was planning the introduction of Kate to his family and importantly his father when Catherine was taken to high grve she would have been prepped by William Charles and Catherine went for a walk in the garden on their own for a chat they got on well but Charles is someone slightly unkindly put it is a dry old stick I think William would have said look he's he's a lovely man but you know he's not the life and soul I think that he would have admired the fact that Katherine was quite a mature well-spoken and quite a confident girl actually Charles really made a point of welcoming Kate in to the family from quite an early stage she was often invited for shooting weekends up at Burk Hall it's Charles who largely taught Kate to stalk most of the royal family have quite like playing games they play quite silly games sometimes after dinner I think she would have found plenty to enjoy with them she was taken to high grve to sandram she was taken into these scenario iio to judge whether or not she was suited to it whether she could handle it whether she hated it there were so many lessons of Princess Diana because no one wanted another bride who was miserable I'd heard that Camila wasn't very keen on Catherine she didn't shoot she's not interested in horses particularly there was too much of a gap and that William would feel it but I think it's true to say Camila later warmed to Catherine and recog ized her solid virtues Harry took some winning over I think sometimes he felt that Kate was a bit straight and kept his brother a bit too much on the straight and narrow and I do remember Harry telling one of their friends oh he's become so boring but actually he grew to love Kate and to see her as the sister really that he's never had Catherine [Music] Middleton after graduating from St Andrew's University with a 2-1 Kate moved into her parents flat in [Music] London but she was soon hit with the harsh reality of being the girlfriend of the future Monarch catapulted into the center of a media frenzy suddenly overnight everybody wants a piece of you now psychologically that can have a hugely stressful impact in fact some people who've become famous overnight describe it as being very traumatizing she'd be surrounded by news crews 20 cameramen it's pretty tough but she didn't complain about it publicly Kate was advised to watch film of how Diana dealt with the press that might have been a salutary lesson for Katherine you've got to accept that early on you're not going to like it the middletons are now thrown firmly into the spotlight if you come from a very tight close family unit suddenly exposing all the rest of the members to becoming you know public fodder can be immensely painful some of the tabloids had come in and said Is it true Carol drives through the village at 50 mph well you know it's totally untrue Mike and Cowell got strong personalities so they was able to deal with this I noticed the odd time they bumped into um a reporter in the pub that they would just say I'm sorry we don't talk to the Press Carol and Michael were invited to Williams passing out ceremony at Sandhurst Carol got some very unfair criticism for chewing gar in public in fact it was Nicorette because she'd given up smoking I'm sure Carol must have been mortified by the headlines she got a lot of black for it it's got to be quite humiliating she bore it with good grace she didn't say anything about it when William and Kate split for a period in 2007 the Middleton family were faced with negative headlines William made the call and said that I think it's the right person at the wrong time type of call what was quite difficult was that he was not only splitting from Catherine he was splitting from her family and he'd become very close to them Carol Middleton in particular was a target of the Tabloid press snide remarks she was too pushy rumors that Carol and Katherine had a plan to almost Ambush William at said Andrews none of these have been proved to be true she had to take some stick over her mom being an air sh this you know cross deck doors to Manuel was said a few times I think this is a woman that built a very very successful business business so I don't think she really gave two Hoops about it from what I understand William was very upset and he telephoned the middletons very quickly to say that the criticisms had not come from him or any of the Royals you could say they were almost Royal in the way they dealt with all the Press attention actually they're quite Savvy the middletons they just put up and shut up and that was a very sound strategy on nights out in London newly single Kate was seen to be sporting an adventurous style it was Carol who said to Kate you go and show him what he's missing Carol knew that her daughter was perfect future Queen material if this was indeed a plan cooked up by Carol Middleton it certainly worked around 10 weeks later the relationship was back on Al so excited that they were actually back together one of my favorite memories was Prince char Ro's birthday there was a girl standing on her own but nobody was speaking to her this lady was Kate Middleton I felt sorry so I walked over to her and started chatting to her the fact they just got back together and the matter being that that thing where people didn't really know what what they going to say despite the Press intrusion William and Kate's relationship was seemingly stronger than ever Kate was finally introduced to the most revered Royal relative of them all the queen [Music] in 2008 Kate attended the wedding of Peter Phillips and Autumn Kelly at St George's Chapel in Windsor William wasn't able to go to that wedding for Catherine to attend on her own was really quite significant I can only imagine it would have been a roller coaster of emotions and a desperate need to want to get it right and also to impress the Queen the Monarch but also this is her boyfriend's grandma but it was a private moment when Kate finally met the head of the House of Windsor it would have been carefully choreographed by uh Royal advisors she would have been told you know just to wait for the queen and the queen would have had someone there to point out Catherine at the reception the queen came over and spoke to Catherine and reportedly you know they had a little chat it was very pleasant um and the queen let it be known that she'd been wanting to meet Katherine for a long time I'm sure that the queen and Kate found loads to talk about Kate studied history of art at University and the queen obviously has an extensive collection of of fine paintings and and they both adore the countryside you see the thing about casate she just has this ability I think it's partly being confident being very Smiley but crucially not being embarrassed about who she is the queen would have warmed to that despite establishing her place within the Windsor inner circles 2 years later there was still no sign of an engagement ring it's rumored Carol Middleton took the delicate matter of her daughter's future into her own [Music] hands she sat down with William and just said to him is this going to end in a marriage she was close enough to be able to do that William gave his assurance that you know he was going to make an honest woman of Kate he wasn't going to leave her on the Shelf true to his word in October 2010 William finally asked Kate to marry him they met at University they will one day be king and queen and when the newly engaged couple appeared in their first joint TV interview Kate's family were at the Forefront of Williams mind Mike and Carol have have only been you know really sort of loving and caring and really fun um and have been really welcoming towards me so I felt really part of the family for William what I notice when he talks about the Middleton family he goes from clasped hands to open palms and gets very animated he's telling you I feel very positively about these people I really didn't expect it at all I thought he might have sort of maybe thought about it but no it was a total shock when I came and very excited the excitement about the Royal Engagement swept the world and nowhere more so than the Middleton's home Village of bucklebury the evening after there was a massive party they will come in the Pu I remember Mike got up and gave a speech and thanked everyone and all his friends and you know being good with the family and we all you know really celebrated the news in a move breaking with royal president the middletons held a press conference outside inside the family home it doesn't look too cheesy does it no no you sure you're not filming this are you Michael and Carol came out looking um to their credit I think not dressed up to the nines looking very relaxed quite informal and I think everyone took to them then and thought oh they're quite ordinary folk good for them they were Naturals actually in front of the camera they make a lovely couple they're great fun to be with and we've had a lot of laughs together it was so natural for Mike to be able to give this speech and speak to the Press from all over the world I remember congratulating Mike when I saw him next a few days later was it AR didn't need to retake the middletons are actually the ultimate professionals when it comes to being public figures handling it with confidence and with poise and just getting that note right a sweet interview Carol as she disappeared into into the distance she flicked her hair back and went crumbs goodness you know as if how extraordinary to be in such a an amazing position okay just a month after getting engaged William and Kate announced the date of their wedding as the 29th of April 2011 we saw William and Kate um after the announcement of the engagement I say congratulations it's great news and and I'm sure you'll have a fabulous life together I think what people might be surprised to learn is that actually until that engagement was official Kate really had no training whatsoever William had his private office William had the palace machine behind him clearly everything changed once uh they became engaged because everything is sort of uh scaled up to another level from then on she had a full-time police protection which made a huge difference in terms of keeping uh the paparazzi at Bay and of course she had to start beginning to plan on on on what life within the royal family was going to be like the queen certainly played a role in preparing Catherine to marry William but not in any sort of formal sense she would have just just given her odd bits of advice just to encourage her the reality is the queen lets members of the royal family find their own way and that's the way she did it there wouldn't be some sort of you know Blackboard up this is how you become a royal wife Catherine will have been given advice and some gentle tutoring by cours within the the Royal household it was all done internally sort of clothes to wear for For What occasion and how to interact with with the public it wasn't only Kate that was prepared for life in the royal family the middletons themselves were also now to be at the heart of the monarchy for the royal family they've been born and raised into it they know the rules of engagement at big events like a royal wedding for the Middleton family I think it would only be fair to offer them uh guidance support and help about protocol otherwise the likelihood for making a mistake is pretty high the word middle family would have been given some support particularly mom and dad so there'll be Security checks and making sure they've got all the correct procedures in place for that be so proud now to know that he's in that position William sat down with them he explained to them how things would change he made sure that he was there for them Carol had Williams number in her phone as did Michael so that they could call him if they needed him I remember from a Butler's point of VI when I joined you know you made aware from that day forward your your life is never going to be quite the same so can you imagine when we're talking about uh Kate Middleton and her family Maring into the royal family of course it is going to change their lives as Kate and her family adjusted to life in the Royal firmament plans for the wedding took shape I mean this was not going to be just some ordinary um family wedding uh because it involved the air in line to the throne it was going to be uh at one of the grandest churches in the land at Westminster Abbey and inevitably it meant that many of the um preparations had to be taken out of the Middleton's hands and put in the hands of the royal household weddings caus fights and riffs in the best of families and so I'm sure there were some very fra moments in the planning of William and Kate's wedding as well the Middleton did spend a lot of money themselves and with that money came control she was able to express personal t taste and judgment the thing about Catherine that works so well is that she does have her own mind um and she does like to make decisions about what she does and how she appears but she does it within a framework that's acceptable to the royal family for a few of the Middleton family friends and bucklebury it meant an unexpected invite she said oh hi John this is pipper I said oh what can I do for you um she said um Kate's asked me to phone you and um would like to know if you'd like to come to the wedding it was just great of Kate to invite a couple of dozen friends from the area it says something special about Kate because you know she didn't want it just to be a royal wedding she wanted her family there her friends there and there was one member of the Middleton family in particular who had captured the press and Public's imagin ination no one really knew who Pippa Middleton was but my goodness if you didn't know who she was before The Royal Wedding you certainly knew who she was afterwards I think that that dress certainly propelled her into the public domain with many people discussing her look and her shape and so on it had a series of beautiful little satin buttons down the back all the way down the back and really rather a demure but um undeniably sexy way um and it was pippa's rear which caught the uh the attention of the media almost more than the Royal bride these two families from very different worlds came together publicly for the first time as they stepped onto the balcony of Buckingham Palace well for William I would have thought it was probably something that he was fine with because he's been doing it since he was a little kid but I can imagine for Kate wandering out on the balcony and then you see this huge saave of people it must have looked [Applause] magnificent for now all eyes may have been on Kate and William but after the wedding attention quickly turned to Pippa once again she had become her royal hotness and there was a brief spell when everything Pippa did almost eclipsed what her sister was doing um I think Peppa found that quite hard I I I've met her once or twice and um you know she didn't seek this publicity and she had no idea uh quite what it was going to do to her Pippa wasn't alone for the entire Middleton family their sudden elevation into the aristocracy brought with it a unique set of problems not least that they still had to earn a living the middletons didn't seek the spotlight but by their circumstance and of course who they were and who their daughter had married into they were the subject of intense scrutiny and unsurprisingly you know their business was something that the Press really poured over Carol set up the family business a mail order Party Supplies company called party pieces in 1987 whenever a new line came on the party pieces website um people would be looking to see if that was slightly going to infringe um uh Royal protocol uh are they exploiting the Royal connections by choosing things uh to sell it wasn't bad publicity for their company but that's not their fault they didn't choose their daughter's uh husband they're hardworking family they built up a very very good business and the Press were being very unfair to them after her starring role in The Wedding Pippa Middleton was a particular source of fascin ation to the press and public and potentially a flush point with the Royals she like Diana's brother El Spencer came under the spotlight quite a lot you know who she was dating uh how she was making her money U Etc yeah she became hot property away she really was one of the most sought after sociales on on the London party circuit I mean I remember being at events um and Pippa turned up the photographers would go crazy but with the eyes of the world and the Royals upon her she began to feel the pressure once she was famous one of the most famous people in the world there were bound to be accusations that she was using her position as the sister of you know the future Queen of England to further her commercial interests it was even alleged the pipper was using her position in the Royal orbit to her Advantage whether whether that was getting a deal with waitrose writing a party planning book being on the top of the guest list for some of the biggest parties in London Pippa Middleton has had an interesting Journey you know we had the book on entertain that was written although the advance was huge paid to to Pippa and contained such fascinating insights such as if you're going to host a stargazing party it's best to do it at night I think it did get to the point um particularly for um where she was she was advised just to keep a a lower profile I think it did get to the point certainly where at the palace there was a level of concern about just how much exposure pipper was getting and I think at that point a word was had um you know from Kate to her sister just to you know just to say look it's in it's in your best interest to just dial this down a little bit the youngest member of the Middleton family James wasn't immune to criticism either James was a very young man at the time his sister married and of course you know he had a lot of growing up to do there were some nude pictures that emerged of James Middleton taken years before but splashed across some of the papers it must be very hard when you're just a private person going about your own life to find your past dragged up and your bins gone through and cameras trained on you when you least expected it was around James's business dealings that the scrutiny became most intense and potentially damaging to the family's new Royal connection of course they're not Royal but they're still somehow connected so for Pippa and James every attempt they made to support themselves to start a business to write a book to uh whatever it was was going to be criticized heavily and scrutinized so there were privileges and perks of of being associated with the Royals but there was also a lot of pressure in and scrutiny and and negative [Music] headlines James is slightly younger a few years younger than his sisters and has has been somewhat overshadowed by them I think but he is very close to [Music] them very much a chip off the Middleton family block uh he went to the the same school as his sisters and um he went to Edinburgh University he did not however uh complete his degree course and he he dropped out from a very early age he wasn't particularly looking to go and make a career as a solicitor or something like that he was he was looking to set up and run something himself James is probably most like Carol he's very much an entrepreneur it seemed that he was quite determined to follow in his entrepreneurial parents footsteps and make something of his life he started up several businesses one went bust owing a great deal of money so he was he was criticized for that despite their rapid rise to Royal circles the middletons held firm to the monarchy Mantra never complain never explain I think the middletons have been exemplary actually in how they've conducted themselves um since becoming part of the extended royal family if you like um they have maintained absolutely the first rule almost the Only Rule which is to be discreet they've just just been in the background supporting William supporting Catherine I think they've fitted in quietly and calmly and handled it all with um immense appom upon her wedding to Prince William in April 2011 Kate was no longer a Middleton Catherine her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge was now a windsor married into one of the most famous institutions in the world the amount of scrutiny that she felt beforehand was nothing compared to the amount of scrutiny that she would face the rest of her life a true baptism of fire for any Royal is their first overseas engagement and for Kate just 2 months after her wedding to Prince William she faced a daunting n-day tour of Canada they don't get much sleep when they're doing those tours but at the same time they're they're really important that they do them Ione said to the Prince of Wales I hope you enjoy your vacation and he's like not a vacation it's a tour with over 1300 journalists following Kate's every move the eyes of the world were watching this new Royal there was an extraordinary amount of pressure and it was details like wearing something reflective of when Princess Diana was there or wearing a brooch that the queen herself War when she was in Canada please welcome the Duke and duess of grid despite wowing crowds overseas back on home soil Kate faced more pressure as she struggled to hone her royal skill set none of us really love public speaking and it is for for a member of the royal family a key part of the job [Music] description now Catherine first speech in public is slightly painful to watch because it's not terrible but it's not great first of all I'd like to say thank you thank you for not only accepting me as your Patron thank you also for inviting me here today you can see that she was incredibly nervous there's zero personality but to be perfectly honest for a royal speech are not massively meant to put personality in but you can put a little bit more than what Catherine gave it it is a shiny of example of the support and the care that is delivered not just here but in the children's hospice movement at large up and down the country the first chapter of Kate's Life as a windsor had started with a whirlwind and Kate was now faced with her first official Royal Christmas at Sandringham what to give someone for Christmas is always a nightmare isn't it and what do you give the queen Catherine absolutely hit the nail on the head when she decided to give the queen some homemade Chu meat and I think the queen would have absolutely loved that and then she showed her sense of humor and her great relationship with Harry by giving him a grow your own girlfriend kit and they would have loved that Kate had come a long way from her days as a student at St Andrew's University but had her meteoric rise affected the relationships within the [Music] monarchy you you can't please everybody when you enter a new family now if you think about Kate's position she has been elevated in the pecking order of royalty and she's now above beatric and [Music] Eugene less than a year after Kate married into the royal family rumors of tensions within the palace began to gather momentum as Prince Charles look to streamline the monarchy It's Tricky for beatric and euan both born true Royal princesses to be bumped down the pecking order Catherine was the scapegoat she was the person who came in because she takes a senior position has an effect on the rest of the family A striking image from the Queen's Diamond Jubilee showed a new look monarchy with a former Middleton just a year into her royal marriage at its front and center it looks more modern it looks more considered but of course it within the family it does cause these these problems from humble beginnings Kate was now at the Forefront of a modern monarchy but it would be another new addition to the firm that would set in motion one of the family's biggest Fallout do you ever have disagreements about things oh yes healthy healthy disagree okay the last thing you disagreed on how do you resolve it uh I can't remember they come so thick and when Megan joined the royal family everyone assumed that she and Kate would become best buddies because they were both Outsiders but of course they are naturally very different women Kate in many ways was sort of collateral damag in all this and she and Megan didn't particularly get along the relationship was not as straightforward as as The Wider World thought despite the simmering tensions the Middleton and Winds of Bloodlines became inextricably linked on the 22nd of July 2013 when Prince George was born at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington who does he look like does he look like you or Catherine he's got her looks thankfully [Music] no George was born and it was special and everyone's coming in saying wow we got the first bner boy and he's going to be a future King and Carol is his grandma and Mike of course his granddad he's absolutely beautiful they're both doing really well and we're so thrilled Kate and William came to visit the mid I was invited round for a glass of wine and we met and that was that was a special time I'm not good with babies really but it was good to be able to meet the Future King and within 5 years K and Williams brood had grown with the arrival of Princess Charlotte and Prince Louie one Future King and his two younger siblings but who will have the greatest say in their [Music] future oh how's that I suspect everyone thinks that in terms of the children the royal family will inevitably have the most influence but that's entirely wrong it will be the middletons who have the influence because the royal family is too formal it's too stuck in its ways I think there's going to be a modification of the royal upbringing which is in part just because we're living in different days but also because Kate had a very sensible upper middle class upbringing and she'll want her boys to experience some of [Music] that regardless of his upbringing Prince George along with siblings Charlotte and Louie will have an undeniable date with Destiny one day Prince George will be King George II and it's amazing to think that he is descended from a family of miners in County Durham since their introduction to the Royal firm almost 20 years ago the Middleton family have succeeded when many others have fallen short the village is very proud of Kate Mike and car have conducted ourselves so well considering the pressure they had on them not many people could have done that to integrate with a roal family the way they have I think they've done an absolutely great job I think one of the Middleton's great strengths is they're a very close family and they support one another and they can talk to one another they just quietly get on with their lives and that's exactly what you need to do when you're associated with royalty don't draw attention to yourselves you couldn't have picked a more perfect family to marry into the Royals than the [Music] Middleton

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Published: Fri Jan 19 2024