Kate middleton who is she

When the couple married in April , the world was introduced to the woman we now know as the duchess of Cambridge, a wife, humanitarian, mother of three , and of course, future queen. With all the information we've gotten about Kate's duties as duchess, we started thinking about what her life was like before she was thrust into the spotlight as a global icon.

Sure, in a lot of ways she's changed since getting married who hasn't? Here's what her royal highness was up to before she became a member of Britain's most famous family. After graduating from the University of St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland , Kate accepted a position as an accessory buyer with British retailer Jigsaw. The chain's founder, Belle Robinson, has since revealed details about what Kate was like as an employee : "I was so impressed by her," she told The Standard in She wasn't precious.

However, the worm soon turned. Snobbery like that was either disbelieved or sharply criticised. Catherine could carry the torch of long-term dignity and spousal support that the country associated with the Queen Mother but also the unstuffy charisma and charitable good-deeds of the tragic Diana. That perhaps is what the idea of Catherine Middleton as middle class shows us most clearly.

That is a great American phrase to describe what I think will prove to be a long and successful royal career for the Duchess of Cambridge. Related: Kate Middleton.

Toggle navigation. Subscribe here to receive British Heritage Travel's print magazine! Sign up to British Heritage Travel's daily newsletter here! The Duchess lead an equally interesting life before tying the knot with William, from spending a couple early years living in Jordan to studying Art History at St. Here, relive Kate's most iconic moments in photos. The Middleton family moved to a different region in Jordan for two years in , when Kate was two years old and her sister was almost one.

A three-year-old Kate climbed around on rocks during a family holiday to the Lake District in northwest England. Kate Middleton grinned for the camera at age five. The future Duchess grew up in a well-to-do family. She lived adjacent to the British aristocracy because of her father's ties, and her parents started Party Pieces, a business selling mail order party goods. Middleton front row, center played field hockey for years growing up.

This team photo from her days at St. Andrew's Prep School was taken on St. Andrew's Day, where the school observed a day of activities and sports. Kate, 19, modeling a skin-baring dress at St. Andrew's "Don't Walk" fashion show fundraiser. This night reportedly spurred his interest in the future Duchess. Middleton posed on the lawn of Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire during the Game Fair, a countryside festival that celebrates rural England. Middleton and Prince William began dating in , and by she was a tabloid favorite.

Here she arrived to a society friends' wedding in Burford. Kate, who was known as a tomboy growing up, is photographed with her father prior to her graduation from St.

After living together throughout university, Kate graduated from St. Andrew's with a degree in art history and William with a Masters degree in geography.

The pair were photographed beaming on their graduation day, wearing crisp whites in the gardens of St. We like to think this is where Middleton's hat moments began. Although Charles was not there at the time, he generously arranged for his gillie hunt attendant to act as guide for the Middletons when they went shooting and for his personal chauffeur, Tim Williams, to be on call.

Kate is exceptionally close to her parents, Carole and Michael, and her siblings, Pippa and James, as is William. The Middletons were invited to ride alongside the royal barge at the Diamond Jubilee Pageant, and for the second year running they were also guests of the Queen at Royal Ascot. Carole was photographed roaring with laughter as she chatted with the recently recovered Prince Philip he had suffered a bladder infection following the jubilee in the Royal Box, and once again the Middletons joined the royal carriage procession at the world-famous racecourse.

It was quite unprecedented. On Finals Day he generously handed his ticket to his tennis-mad sister-in-law, Pippa, so that she could watch the center-court action with her sister.

It was just one of the perks Pippa has gotten used to as the sister of the future Queen. This October she will publish her debut book, Celebrate, a party-planning bible which she has written herself and for which she reportedly received a six-figure advance from Penguin Books.

After quitting her part-time job at Table Talk, a London catering company, where she worked for the past few years, to focus on the book, she has now set her sights on starting a party-planning business of her own. Just weeks before the jubilee celebrations, Pippa found herself at the center of a media storm after she was photographed being driven around Paris in a convertible Audi by Romain Rabillard, a year-old lawyer who pointed a fake gun at a photographer following them.

The episode provoked a frenzy in the British tabloids, but Kate stood loyally by her sister. Carole, always a calm head in heated situations, advised her younger daughter to keep a low profile, and when she did re-emerge at the Diamond Jubilee Pageant she was smiling, impeccably groomed in a conservative nautical-themed navy-and-white Orla Kiely suit.

It seemed all had been forgiven. When she split from Alex Loudon, her long-term boyfriend, last year, Pippa complained that she felt hunted by the paparazzi. When George joined the Middletons on their skiing trip in April, it appeared they were together, although Pippa has insisted that they are just friends.

Those close to her say she still holds a torch for Alex, and in late June she was photographed leaving his West London home at seven a. Meanwhile, William and Kate also have a new home they will be moving into next year.

With the declining health of the Duke of Edinburgh, William is fully aware that he will be expected to take on more duties alongside Charles in the near future. Aides point out that, due to her position, she cannot accept freebies, even though bags of designer clothes and handbags are sent to the palace daily.

Kate continues to decline the services of a royal dresser, preferring instead to shop for herself. Her mother, Carole, also regularly buys frocks and accessories for Kate out of her own pocket and can often be seen snapping up designer items from Moda Rosa, a small boutique in Arlesford. But the duchess is not a designer snob.