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Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is a member of the Middleton family, the daughter of Michael and Carole Middleton and sister of Pippa and James. Shortly before her royal wedding to Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, in April 2011, a coat of arms was granted to her father, Michael Francis Middleton, the armigerous head of the family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. ==Parents== Michael Francis Middleton was born in 1949 in Leeds where he spent his early years in Moortown. His father, Peter Francis Middleton (1920–2010), was a pilot who flew alongside Prince Philip as the Duke's co-pilot on a two-month flying tour of South America in 1962. ''British Pathe'' newsreel film shows Middleton alongside the Prince during the tour.〔 Michael Middleton's grandfather, (Richard) Noel Middleton (1878–1951), was, according to a BBC documentary, a solicitor who met and married aristocrat Olive Lupton in 1914. In 1921, Noel became the director of the firm his wife Olive Middleton née Lupton (1881-1936) had inherited upon her father's death. Olive was a member of the Lupton family of Beechwood Estate who are described in the City of Leeds archives, as "woollen manufacturers and landed gentry; a political and business dynasty".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=9113&DISPLAY=FULL )〕 Like his father, Peter, and grandfather Noel, Michael Middleton was educated at Clifton College, the public school in Bristol. At Clifton, all three generations of Middleton men boarded at Brown House. The archives at Clifton record that Michael Middleton was a college prefect, had represented the school at rugby in the 1st XV and had also gained his tennis colours. Middleton declined to follow in his father Peter's footsteps of studying at New College, Oxford University. Following Clifton, Michael Middleton worked briefly as a British Airways (BA) flight attendant. Having graduated from the company's own internal course, he then worked for BA as a flight dispatcher. Michael has a brother Richard, whose son Adam is godfather to Catherine's daughter Princess Charlotte.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33399642 )〕 It was reported in June 2014, that Michael's great grandfather, politician Francis Martineau Lupton, was the first cousin of Sir Thomas Martineau, whose nephew was World War II Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Royal biographer ''Katie Nicholl'' revealed in 2013 that Michael Middleton's family tree is linked, via his cousin, Lady Bullock (nėe Barbara Lupton) (d. 1974), to William Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1782-83. Research also revealed that Middleton is a direct descendant of King Edward III. Carole Elizabeth Middleton (née Goldsmith) was born on 31 January 1955 at Perivale Maternity Hospital in Ealing.〔〕 The daughter of a builder, Ronald Goldsmith (1931–2003), and Dorothy Harrison (1935–2006), she was raised in a small house in Southall, and attended the local state schools. The couple met when they both worked for British Airways (BA) as flight attendants.〔 By 1979, Michael had been promoted within BA, becoming an Aircraft Dispatcher, one of British Airways' elite ''Red Caps'', at London Heathrow Airport, where he kept track of the airline's fleet on the ground. The couple was married on 21 June 1980, at the parish church of St James in Dorney, Buckinghamshire. They bought a semi-detached Victorian house in Bradfield Southend near Reading, Berkshire.〔 The couple has three children (two daughters and one son). Following the birth of their daughters 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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