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People and lifestyle

Diamond Marshall, 6, wished she could meet a princess, so Children’s Wish Foundation arranged for her to present flowers to Catherine Middleton

Early Years

In the circle of her friends from St. Andrews she is seen as, first of all, a normal middle-class girl and one of their contemporaries. She is indeed a good example of a girl with a middle-class background who has madę a huge social leap and entered the royal pałace. Kate was born January 9, 1982, in Reading, England, to a pilot, Michael, and a flight attendant, Carole Middleton. When Kate was two, her family moved to Amman in Jordan, where her father worked for two and a half years. Catherine attended nursery schooł there. Carole aimed high for her children, and she had ambitions to send them to boarding schools. She founded a mail-order party goods company, Party Pieces in 1987, which turned out to be a huge success and madę the Mid-dletons multi-millionaires. When Kate

1 first of all | przede wszystkim middle-class | należący do klasy średniej contemporary | tu: rówieśnik indeed i w rzeczy samej background | środowisko leap i skok

flight attendant I stewardesa nursery school | przedszkole to aim high | mierzyć wysoko

turned 12, they moved to a stately five-bedroom detached house in the smali yillage of Bucklebury, Berkshire, England. Their property is reached by a mile-long private road and is known in Bucklebury as a stately home called

2    boarding school | internat tofound | zakładać

mail-order | zamawiany drogą pocztową goods | towary to tum out | okazać się

3    stately | okazały detached | wolnostojący property | tu: posiadłość mile-long | długości jednej mili

English Matters 36 [2012