Michael Middleton

Michael Francis Middleton was born in Leeds on 23 June 1949 into a wealthy family with connections to the landed gentry.

He flew alongside Prince Philip as co-pilot on a two-month flying tour of South America in 1962.

Adam's sister Lucy Middleton – a lawyer who, like her brother attended Bedales School – is godmother to Michael's grandson, Prince Louis.

[25] Middleton then commenced studies for six months at British European Airways' flight school to become a pilot[26] before switching to ground crew where he graduated from the company's internal course.

[29] By 1979, he was promoted to aircraft dispatcher, one of British Airways' Red Caps,[30] at London Heathrow Airport.

They married on 21 June 1980 at St James's Parish Church in Dorney, Buckinghamshire, and later bought a Victorian house in Bradfield Southend near Reading, Berkshire.

It branched into party supplies and decorations by mail order and by 1995 was managed by both Michael and Carole Middleton and had moved into farm buildings at Ashampstead Common.

By 2012, the Middletons had moved to Bucklebury Manor, a Georgian mansion with an 18-acre estate where their grandson Prince George spent his first few weeks.

Olive's husband, Richard Noel Middleton co-founded the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra of which the Princess and her son George were patrons.

[64] Her father was surgeon Thomas Michael Greenhow whose wife, Elizabeth, was a member of the Martineau family.

[65][66] Michael Middleton's family is linked, via his Leeds-born cousin, Lady Bullock (née Barbara Lupton),[67] to William Petty-FitzMaurice,1st Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister of Great Britain between 1782 and 1783.

Through his direct ancestor, Dame Anne Fairfax (née Gascoigne), Michael Middleton has several descents from King Edward III.