Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (born Catherine Elizabeth Middleton, January 9, 1982) is a member of the British royal family. Her husband, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, is expected to be the king of England and 15 other Commonwealth kingdoms, making Catherine the future future princess.
Catherine grew up in Chapel Row, a village near Newbury, Berkshire, England. He studied art history in Scotland at St Andrews University, where he met William in 2001. Their engagement was announced in November 2010 before they were married on April 29, 2011 at Westminster Abbey. The sons of Duke and Duchess, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis of Cambridge, third, fourth, and fifth respectively, respectively.
Catherine's influence on British and American modes has been called "Kate Middleton effect" in the media, and in 2012 and 2013, she was voted one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" by Time magazine.
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Catherine Elizabeth Middleton was born at Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading on January 9, 1982 for a middle-class family. He was baptized at St Andrew's Bradfield, Berkshire, on June 20, 1982. He was the eldest of three children born to Michael Middleton (born 1949), and his wife Carole (nÃÆ' Â © e Goldsmith, b.1955), former flight officer and flight attendants, respectively, who in 1987 founded Party Pieces, a postal private company that sells party and decoration equipment with an estimated value of Ã, Â £ 30 million. His father's family, Michael, has links with the English nobles and benefited financially from the trust funds they had built more than 100 years ago. His Middleton relatives are reported to have hosted the British nobility "as long ago as 1926". He has a younger sister, Pippa, and a younger brother, James.
The family lived in Amman, Jordan, from May 1984 to September 1986; his father worked for British Airways (BA), and Middleton went to an English nursery school. After returning to Berkshire in 1986, he enrolled four years old at St. Andrew's School, a private school near the village of Pangbourne in Berkshire. He rode the weekly section at St. Andrew's in his final years. He then studied for a while at Downe House. She is a boarder at Marlborough College, an independent boarding school in Wiltshire, and graduated in 2005 from St Andrews University in Fife, Scotland, with undergraduate MA (2: 1 Hons) in art history. Before going to university, he had a break, where he traveled to Chile to participate in the Raleigh International program, and then studied at the British Institute of Florence in Italy. In November 2006, Middleton accepted a position as an accessory buyer with Jigsaw clothing chain, where he worked part-time until November 2007. He also worked until January 2011 at the Fruit Parties; his role in the family business including the design and production of catalogs, marketing and photography.
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Relationship with Prince William
Initial relationship
In 2001, Middleton met Prince William when they were both students who lived in St. Salvator's Hall at St Andrews University. He reportedly caught William's eye at a charity fashion show at the university in 2002 when he appeared on stage with a translucent lace gown. The couple began dating in 2003, although their relationship remains unconfirmed. During their second year, Middleton shared an apartment with William and two other friends. On October 17, 2005, Middleton complained through his lawyer about abuse from the media, stating that he had not done anything significant to warrant publicity.
Middleton attended the Prince William march at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst on December 15, 2006. Media attention increased around his 25th birthday in January 2007, prompting warnings from both Prince Wales and Prince William and of threatening Middleton lawyers. legal action. Two groups of newspapers, News International, which publishes The Times and The Sun ; and Guardian Media Group, the publisher of The Guardian, decided not to publish his paparazzi photographs.
In April 2007, Prince William and Middleton split up. The couple decided to break up during the holidays at the Swiss resort of Zermatt. Newspapers speculate on the reasons for the split, although this report relies on anonymous sources. Middleton and his family attended the Concert for Diana in July 2007 at Wembley Stadium, where she and Prince William sat two separate lines. The couple were then seen together in public on a number of occasions and news sources claimed that they had "rekindled their relationship". His long-term relationship with William before marriage earned him the nickname "Waity Katie" in the press tabloid.
On May 17, 2008, Middleton attended Prince William Peter Phillips's cousin's wedding to Autumn Kelly, who was not attended by the prince. On July 19, 2008, she was a guest at the wedding of Lady Rose Windsor and George Gilman. Prince William is conducting a military operation in the Caribbean, serving the ship HMS Iron Duke . In 2010, Middleton pursued an invasion of privacy claims against two institutions and photographer Niraj Tanna, who took photographs of herself during Christmas 2009. She obtained a public apology, Ã, Â £ 5,000 in damages, and legal fees.
Engagement and marriage
Prince William and Catherine Middleton became engaged in October 2010, in Kenya, for a 10-day trip to the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy to celebrate Prince William through a search helicopter and rescue his RAF helicopter. Clarence House announced the engagement on November 16, 2010. Prince William gave Middleton the engagement ring that belonged to his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales. The couple married in Westminster Abbey on April 29, 2011 (St. Catherine's Day), with a day expressed as a bank holiday in England. Estimates of global audiences for marriage range around 300 million or more, while 26 million watching the show live in the UK alone. At the wedding, Catherine assumed the style of "The Venerable Yang Duchess of Cambridge".
In October, a few months after the marriage, the Commonwealth leaders promised that they would apply a change in the law of the succession of the British empire to adopt an absolute ancestor, meaning that the first child of the Duke and Duchess, whether a boy or a girl, would be the one next according to the throne after their father.
Role as mother and children
On December 3, 2012, St James's Palace announced that the Duchess was pregnant with her first child. The announcement was made earlier in pregnancy than usual because she was admitted to King Edward VII Hospital suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum, a severe form of morning sickness. She stayed at the hospital for three days. On January 14, 2013, St James's Palace announces that the boy will be born in July 2013, and that the Duchess condition is improving. The Duchess was admitted to St. Mary's Hospital in London in the early stages of labor on the morning of July 22, 2013 and gave birth to Prince George later on.
The second pregnancy Duchess was announced on September 8, 2014. Like her first pregnancy, the Duchess suffered from hyperemesis gravidarum and was asked to cancel an official engagement. On May 2, 2015, the Duchess gave birth to Princess Charlotte.
The third pregnancy of the Duchess was announced on September 4, 2017. She was again forced to cancel the engagement due to hyperemesis gravidarum. Prince Louis was born on April 23, 2018.
Public life
Middleton's first public appearance with Prince William after the announcement of their engagement was at a fundraising event organized by the Teenage Cancer Trust in December 2010. He was officially introduced to public life on February 24, 2011, two months before the wedding, when he and Prince William attended the ceremony lifting the lifeboat at Trearddur, Anglesey, in North Wales. A day later they appeared in St Andrews to launch the university's 600th anniversary celebration. In March 2011, the couple toured Belfast. Their last public engagement before the wedding was a visit to the Darwen Aldridge Community Academy. On February 16, 2011, Clarence House announced that the Canadian couple's first royal tour will take place in July 2011. In May 2011, shortly after the wedding, Clarence House announced that Duke and Duchess would extend their tour to visit California. This is the first Duchess visit to the United States.
The first official engagement of the Duchess after the wedding took place in May, when she and her husband met Barack Obama, President of the United States, and First Lady Michelle Obama. On October 26, 2011, he performed his first solo event for In Kind Direct, stepping for Prince Wales, who is in Saudi Arabia. On November 2nd, the Duke and Duchess visited the UNICEF Supply Center Supply Center to supply food to malnourished African children in Copenhagen, Denmark. On St. Patrick, March 17, 2012, the Duchess performs traditional shamrocks to the Irish Guards at their base at Aldershot; this was his first solo military engagement. On March 19, he gave his first address for the opening of the Treehouse, a new nursing home opened by the East Anglia Children's Hospital (EVERY), a charity he is a patron.
In June 2012, the Prince William and Prince Harry Foundation was renamed The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry, to reflect Catherine's contribution to charity. Duke and Duchess were announced as ambassadors for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, alongside Prince Harry. As part of his role, the Duchess attended various sporting events throughout the game. In September 2012, Duke and Duchess embarked on tours in Singapore, Malaysia, Tuvalu, and the Solomon Islands as part of the Jubilee Diamond Queen celebration. During this overseas visit, he made his first official overseas speech, visiting a nursing home in Malaysia, utilizing his experience as a protector of the East Anglia Children's Hospital.
After the birth of Prince George, the Duchess performed his first engagement in late August when he accompanied Duke to meet runners preparing ultra marathons on the island of Anglesey, where they have shelter. In early March 2014, details were announced about a half-month tour to New Zealand and Australia that their spouses and sons will take from April 16 to 25. This tour is Catherine's first visit to the area and the first major appearance of Prince George since her christening in October 2013. The tour begins in New Zealand where they visit Wellington, Blenheim, Auckland, Dunedin, Queenstown and Christchurch. It ends in Australia where they visit Sydney, Blue Mountains, Brisbane, Uluru, Adelaide, and Canberra. In June 2014, the couple visited France to attend the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings in Gold Beach.
On July 21, 2014, it was announced that the Duchess will be on its first solo trip, visiting the island of Malta on September 20-21, 2014, when the island celebrates the 50th anniversary of independence. His trip was canceled, with Duke taking his place, after the announcement of his second pregnancy in early September. In December 2014, the couple visit the United States and attend a charity dinner at the Metropolitan Art Museum. In April 2016, Duchess and her husband toured India and Bhutan. The Duke and Duchess toured Canada again in September 2016. Countries visited by couples in 2017 include France, Poland, Germany, and Belgium. The Duchess also visited Luxembourg City in May 2017 for the anniversary of the London Agreement. In January 2018, the couple visited Sweden and Norway.
Charity work
Protector
In March 2011, the Duke and Duchess set up a prize fund organized by the Prince William Foundation and Prince Harry to allow investigators who want to give them a wedding gift to donate money to a charity they care about. The prize fund supports 26 charities from spouse choice, combining armed forces, children, parents, art, sports and conservation. These causes are close to their hearts and reflect their experiences, passions, and values ​​so far.
The Duchess of Cambridge charity works primarily focusing on issues around young people, addictions, and the arts. He has a number of patronage: Art Space, National Portrait Gallery, East Anglia Children's Hospice, Addiction Action, Place2Be, Natural History Museum, Anna Freud Center, Sportsaid, and The 1851 Trust. The Duchess, who is an art student, is interested in the arts and chooses the National Portrait of Art and Gallery himself, the first to "help disadvantaged children express themselves" through art therapy. In his capacity as a protector of Action on Addiction, the Duchess occasionally makes visits to his center, spending time recovering addicts. The Duchess is a Patron with 100 Women in the Hedge Fund Philanthropic Initiative, along with Prince William and Prince Harry. He is also a local volunteer leader with the Scout Association in North Wales, where the Queen is the patron and the Duke of Kent is president. It aims to provide activities to more than 400,000 young people in the UK.
In October 2012, the Duchess provided royal protection for the M-PACT program, one of the only UK programs to focus specifically on the impact of drug addiction on the family as a whole. In December 2015, he assumed the patronage of the RAF Cadet for youth 12-19 years. The Duke of Edinburgh, who has been the patron of the RAF Cadet for 63 years, was officially handed over during an audience at Buckingham Palace. In 2017, he became patron of the Lawn Tennis Association, All England Lawn Tennis, and Croquet Club and Action for Children.
In January 2018, her hair key was reportedly donated to the Little Princess Trust, a charity that makes wigs for children diagnosed with cancer. In February 2018, the Duchess became patrons of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He also launched Nursing Now, a three-year worldwide campaign that is determined to raise awareness about the profile of nurses who claim that the campaign is personal to him because his grandmother and great-grandmother are voluntary nurses. In March 2018, it was announced that the Duchess of Cambridge would be the first royal patron of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Advocacy for mental health
Catherine, who has been trying to deal with mental health issues, visits regularly to charities and hospitals such as St. Thomas Hospital and Clinical Neuroscience Institute Maurice Wohl to spend time with mothers and children dealing with mental and disability issues. In order to encourage people to open up about their mental problems, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry started a heads Together mental health awareness campaign in April 2016, and the Duchess then volunteered to talk about his problems as a mother, that he suffered from "lack of self-confidence" and "feelings of ignorance" over a period of time.
The Duchess of Cambridge also launched the School of Mental Health, a project that helps students and staff with access "to a reliable and practical resource to raise awareness, knowledge and confidence in supporting students' mental health." Benita Refson, president of Place2Be, one of Catherine's patronage, praised Duchess's work that said he would help "illuminate the mental health of children." In February 2016, he traveled to Edinburgh to promote the work of Place2Be, launched the Children's Mental Health Week, and contributed to the British HuffPost as part of the Young Mind movement, an attempt to raise awareness for the problem mental health of children. "Duke and Duchess then meet with members and representatives of Young Minds and Youthscape to promote their mental health campaign. In recognition of their work with a charity concerned with children's mental health, the Duchess and her husband were awarded the Blue Peter Blue badge, an award previously given to the Queen. In a speech at the Royal Foundation forum in 2018, Duchess stated that he will continue his work to raise awareness of mental health and says that "The mental health of children and adults is an area where long-term views will make all the difference for future generations. "
Images and public style
Middleton became famous for its fashion style and has been placed on many of the "best suits" list. He was chosen by The Daily Telegraph as "The Most Promising Newcomer" in the 2006 list of style winners and losers. Tatler placed him at number 8 on the annual list of the top ten style icons in 2007. He is featured on the 2007 and 2010 magazine People's best magazine list. Middleton was named one of ten "Fabulous Fashion Independents" Richard Blackwell in 2007. In June 2008, Style.com chose Middleton as their monthly beauty icon. In July 2008, Middleton was included in the Vanity Fair ' international best dressed list. In February 2011, he was named the Top Mode Keyword in the 2011 season by Global Language Monitor. In January 2012, he was elected as 'Headwear Person of the Year.' Middleton is number one on Vanity Fair's best-dressed annual list in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013; he is also featured as a cover star in 2012. The Duchess is named to the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List in 2014. While Catherine wears a lot of new designers, she also wears a dress by Catherine Walker, who designed many of Diana's favorite evening dresses. and clothing a day. By 2014, he was already considered an icon of British culture, with young adults from abroad naming him among a group of people most closely related to British culture, which included William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth II, David Beckham, JK Rowling, The Beatles, Charlie Chaplin, Elton John, and Adele. In June 2016, she took part in the filming of her first magazine for the Vogue birthday edition that appeared on the cover of the magazine.
The Duchess who attended the 71st Academy Academy Awards did not participate in the Time's Up movement that had asked women to wear black on the red carpet. The decision was based on a royal protocol that prohibited a member of the royal family to take part in the political movement, but he wore a black sash and brought a black handbag to the event as a variation of the informal black dress code. In March 2018, along with the Countess of Wessex, the Duchess hosted the Commonwealth Fashion Exchange at Buckingham Palace in 2018 London Fashion Week.
Privacy and media
In 1997, William's mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, died in an accident on the road in Paris when pursued by paparazzi. This incident has influenced Duke's attitude to media attention. Both the Duchess and her husband have requested that, when not in charge, their privacy should be respected, but the media does not always match the wishes of the couple.
In 2009, before his engagement to William, Middleton was awarded £ 10,000 and apology from the photography press agent Rex Features Ltd after he was photographed playing tennis on Christmas Eve while on holiday in Cornwall.
On September 13, 2012, it was reported that the French edition of Closer and the Italian gossip magazine Chi , had both published Duchess which is bathed in sunshine while on holiday in ChÃÆ' Â ¢ teau d'Autet (a private chauvin on a 260 ha area 71 km north of Aix-en-Provence). Analysts from The Times believe the photo was taken from the D22 (Vaucluse) road half a kilometer from the pond - a distance that would require a 800 mm or 1,000 mm lens. On September 17, 2012, the Duke and the Duchess filed criminal charges with the French prosecutor's department and launched a claim for civil damages at the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Nanterre; the next day the court issued an order against the Closer that prohibits further publication of the image and also announces that a criminal investigation will commence. Under French law, indemnity can not be granted but such privacy intrusion is a criminal offense that carries a maximum of one year in prison and a fine of up to EUR45,000 for an individual and EUR225,000 for the company. In September 2017, Closer was fined EUR100,000 and his editor Laurence Pieau and owner Ernesto Mauri were each fined EUR45,000.
In December 2012, two Australian radio hosts, Michael Christian and Mel Greig, called King Edward VII Hospital, Sister Agnes, where the Duchess was an inpatient for hyperemesis gravidarum. Pretending to be Queen and Prince of Wales, Greig and Christian called the hospital and spoke to the nurse on the Duchess ward asking about her condition. After a hospital investigation and public reaction to the trick, the nurse who called the ward, Jacintha Saldanha, committed suicide. The radio host then apologized for their actions.
In February 2013, Chi published the first photo of the exposed baby bump Catherine, taken during her vacation on the Mustique private island. The British press refused to publish paparazzi photos. While the Duchess visited the Blue Mountains in Sydney, a photograph was taken from the bottom when his dress exploded. Many newspapers outside the UK published the picture.
On August 14, 2015, Kensington Palace published a letter detailing what they claimed to be a malicious and invasive media effort to obtain paparazzi images from Prince George and Princess Charlotte. The letter was written by Jason Knauf, communications secretary to Cambridges, and sent to media standard organizations in various countries.
Title, style, honor and arm
Title and style
Catherine, by marriage, a princess of the British Empire and entitled to the Kingdom style. He is usually styled as "The Venerable Yang Duchess of Cambridge". When in Scotland, he is referred to as the Countess of Strathearn. Northern Ireland is represented by the third title, Lady Carrickfergus.
Awards
- Medal
- February 6, 2012: Jubilee Diamond Queen Elizabeth II Medal
- Commonwealth honors
- October 1, 2016: Tuvalu Order of Merit
Promise military honor
- Canada
- July 5, 2011 - present: Canadian Ranger
- United Kingdom
- December 16, 2015 - present: Honorary Air Commander of Royal Air Cadet Air Force
Eponym of honor
- Awards Ontario: Royal Highnesses Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Award, Waterloo University, Waterloo
- Jobson, Robert (2010). William & amp; Kate: The Love Story . London: John Blake Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-84454-736-4.
- Nicholl, Katie (2015). Kate: Queen of the Future . Hachette Books. ISBN: 978-1602862609.
- Southerland, Benjamin (2017). Kate Middleton: A Biography of the Duchess of Cambridge . ISBNÃ, 978-1520927732
- The Duchess of Cambridge on the Royal Family website
- Catherine, duchess of Cambridge at EncyclopÃÆ'Â|dia Britannica
- Works by or about Kate Middleton in the library (WorldCat catalog)
- Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge at IMDb
Weapon
In September 2013, the Queen gave the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge a hand emblem, consisting of each arm displayed side by side, under a helmet and coronet showing the status of the duke as the grandson of the ruler. Below is shown the previous grant from the duchess's private arm, which is handed over by the hand of her husband.
Ancestor
Middleton's father, Michael, and his father's ancestors came from Leeds, Yorkshire. The paternal grandmother, Olive, is a member of the Lupton family, portrayed in the City of Leeds Archives as "landlord, political and business dynasty"; unpublished images were revealed in March 2015 that Olive Middleton grew up in his family Potternewton Hall Estate with his cousin, Baroness von Schunck (nÃÆ' Â © e Kate Lupton). Paternal paternal ancestors also included his great-grandfather, politician Francis Martineau Lupton (1848-1921), whose first cousin, Sir Thomas Martineau, was the uncle of World War II Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
Mother Middleton's mother, the Harris family, is a working-class worker and miners from Sunderland and County Durham. Ancestors through his maternal line include Sir Thomas Conyers, 9th Baronet (1731-1810), who was descended from King Edward IV through his illegitimate daughter Elizabeth Plantagenet. Other ancestors were Sir Thomas Fairfax (1475-1520) and his wife Anne Gascoigne, who was descended from King Edward III.
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