Kate Middleton is an English accessories buyer and fashion icon born on January 9, 1982 in Berkshire, England. Kate Middleton is the daughter of Michael Francis Middleton and Carole Elizabeth Goldsmith, an airline pilot and an air stewardess respectively. Her paternal family hails from Leeds, and was active in various commercial and municipal works in Leeds. Kate Middleton’s maternal family meanwhile hails from County Durham. In 1987, Kate Middleton’s family established Party Pieces, a mail order company that sells party needs.

Kate Middleton has two other siblings, Pippa Charlotte, born in 1983 and James William, born 1987. Kate Middleton grew up in Bucklebury, Berkshire, and was educated at St. Andrew’s School in Pangbourne. Kate Middleton later attended the Marlborough College in Wiltshire.

Kate Middleton became a celebrity after she entered a relationship with Prince Williams. Kate Middleton has since received media attention from 2001, and not long after she became a subject of various fashion magazines. Kate Middleton has been known for her keen sense of fashion and has been named “Most Promising Newcomer: in Telegraph’s 2006 style winners and losers. Kate Middleton later peaked #8 in Tatler’s top ten style icons of 2007, and as well as one of the ten Fabulous Fashion Independents of 2007 by Richard Blackwell. In 2008, Kate Middleton was hailed as a style icon by the Vanity Fair magazine.