1. Michael Francis Middleton was born on 23 June 1949 and is a British businessman.
21 Facts About Michael Middleton
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Michael Middleton is the father of Catherine, Princess of Wales, Philippa Matthews and James Middleton.
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Michael Middleton joined British Airways and worked as a flight dispatcher.
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Michael Francis Middleton was born in Leeds on 23 June 1949 into a wealthy family with connections to the landed gentry.
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Royal historian Robert Lacey describes Michael Middleton as having aristocratic kinship; his grandmother, Olive Christiana Michael Middleton, was close to her second cousin Baroness Airedale.
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The Middleton family, including Michael's grandfather Richard Noel Middleton and his wife Olive, had played host to members of the British royal family in Leeds from the 1920s.
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Michael Middleton's mother was Valerie Michael Middleton, who served as a VAD nurse and code-breaker during the Second World War.
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Michael Middleton's father, Captain Peter Middleton, was a pilot who served as an RAF fighter pilot during the Second World War.
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Michael Middleton flew alongside Prince Philip as co-pilot on a two-month flying tour of South America in 1962.
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At Clifton, all three generations of Michael Middleton men boarded at Brown's House.
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The archives at Clifton record that Michael Middleton was a praepostor, the title for a college prefect.
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Michael Middleton represented Clifton at rugby in the 1st XV and gained his tennis colours.
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Michael Middleton then commenced studies for six months at British European Airways' flight school to become a pilot before switching to ground crew where he graduated from the company's internal course.
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Michael Middleton then worked for British Airways as a flight dispatcher.
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Michael Middleton met his future wife Carole while they were working for British Airways as ground crew.
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Carole Michael Middleton established Party Pieces, a company making party bags in 1987.
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Carole and Michael Middleton are the owners of a racehorse.
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Michael Middleton's grandmother, Olive Middleton was photographed at Headingley, in 1927, in the procession of dignitaries following Princess Mary who was patron of the Leeds Infirmary fundraising committee of which Olive was a member.
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Olive's husband, Richard Noel Michael Middleton co-founded the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra of which the Princess and her son George were patrons.
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Michael Middleton's father was surgeon Thomas Michael Greenhow whose wife, Elizabeth, was a member of the Martineau family.
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Michael Middleton's family is linked, via his Leeds-born cousin, Lady Bullock, to William Petty-FitzMaurice,1st Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister of Great Britain between 1782 and 1783.