The Duchess of Cambridge has been researching her own family tree to learn more about how her ancestors’ home lives affected the adults they became.
Kate, 39, let slip that she has been looking back at four generations of the Middleton and Goldsmith families as part of her work into early childhood development as she met academics from the Children of the 2020s project at the University College London’s Centre for Longitudinal Studies on Tuesday morning.
Her mother’s side of the family – the Goldsmiths – came from significant poverty, with three generations of coal miners, a carpenter, a general labourer and a shop assistant among her ancestors.
But her father Michael’s ancestors generally enjoyed a far more
comfortable upbringing. He descends from a family of wealthy wool
merchants and boasts a pilot, a bank manager and a solicitor among his
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