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Who is Catherine, Princess of Wales?

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Catherine Elizabeth Middleton was born at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading  on 9 January 1982 into an upper-middle-class family. She was baptised at St Andrew's Bradfield, a local parish church, on 20 June 1982. Here you can see a part of the interior of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's home: Kensington Palace in London Family She is the eldest of three children born to Michael Middleton (b. 1949) and his wife, Carole (née Goldsmith; b. 1955),a former flight dispatcher and flight attendant, respectively, who in 1987 founded Party Pieces, a privately held mail order company that sells party supplies and decorations with an estimated worth of £30 million. By the early 20th century, the Middleton family had married into the British aristocracy and benefited financially from trust funds which they established over 100 years ago. Her Middleton relatives, including her great-grandmother Olive Middleton , played host to members of the British royal family in the 1920s and 19