Kate, aged seven, poses with her class in the year she first set eyes on her future husband when William – a pupil at Ludgrove prep school near Wokingham – came to St Andrew’s for a hockey match.Īt the age of eight, Kate enrols in the 1st St Andrew’s Brownies pack, which held its meetings in the local church hall.

Kate’s first school photo, aged six, at St Andrew’s prep school in Pangbourne, Berkshire, where she excelled at sport, breaking the school record in her age group for high jump. Both Kate, aged five, and Pippa modelled for the catalogue. Wrapped in a stripy jumper, her hair in bunches, Kate, aged three and a half, tries a spot of fell climbing during a family holiday in the Lake DistrictĪfter returning to Britain and giving birth to son James, Carole Middleton set up Party Pieces, which made goody bags for children’s parties. Kate (aged, four, left, with younger sister Pippa) spent two years at the Assahera nursery school in Amman. When flight dispatcher Michael Middleton was posted to Jordan, he took his family with him. Carole and Nicola’s mum George became friends after they gave birth within four days of each other. Kate (in green stripes) attends the first birthday party of family friend Nicola Brown on 13 January. By Claudia Josephįifteen days after giving birth at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Carole Middleton cradles her firstborn in the bedroom of the family home in Bradfield Southend on 24 January From her baby Polaroids to snaps of family and friends, they give an intimate portrait of our future Queen. To mark the Duchess of Cambridge’s landmark birthday today, we’ve gathered a history of her life in photographs.

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