Michael Francis Middleton

Middleton Family History-

Michael Francis Middleton (born 23 June 1949) is a British businessman.

He is the father of Catherine, Princess of Wales, Philippa Matthews and James Middleton.

Born in Leeds, Middleton was educated at the University of Surrey. He joined British Airways and worked as a flight dispatcher. In 1980, he married Carole Goldsmith,

Their eldest three grandchildren, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, are second, third and fourth in line to the British throne respectively.

Early life, education, and early career

Michael Francis Middleton was born in Leeds on 23 June 1949 into a wealthy family with connections to the landed gentry. He spent his early years in Moortown, Leeds.[1][2][3][4]

Royal historian Robert Lacey describes the Middleton family as having aristocratic kinship, with Florence Kitson, Baroness Airedale (1868–1942) being Middleton's distant relative.[5]

The Middleton family, including Michael's grandfather Richard Noël Middleton and his wife Olive, had played host to members of the British royal family in Leeds from the 1920s.[6][7][8][9]

Michael's father, Captain Peter Francis Middleton, was Prince Philip's co-pilot on a tour of South America

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Messrs, Middleton & Sons- Woollen Manufacturing

Messrs Middleton & Sons was founded in Leeds in 1834 by gentleman farmer and solicitor William Middleton, Esq. (1807–1884) of Gledhow Grange-Hawkhills Estate. One of his sons, solicitor Arthur Middleton (1846–1907), inherited Hawkhills from his father.[9][10][11][12][13]

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Early Family Business-

Many relatives of Michael Middleton (father of the Princess of Wales) were solicitors in the Leeds-based family firm, Messrs Middleton & Sons. His grandfather Noël Middleton, great-grandfather John William Middleton, Esq. (1839–1887),[62]and great-great-grandfather William Middleton, Esq., as well as many other Middleton relatives, were all solicitors at the law firm which William had established in 1834.[13][63]

William Middleton's great-grandson John Alfred Middleton (later Middleton-Joy, 1895–1975),[64] son of solicitor Gilbert Middleton (1865–1921),[65] studied at Winchester College where he was a substitute in the college's First XI in the 1914 Eton Match.[66] He studied at Christ Church, Oxford where he gained a legal qualification (Jurisprudence).[67][68] He married Dorothea, daughter of Judge Thomas D. Beighton.[69] Middleton and his wife were members of Ascot Heath.[70] Reportedly one of "the keenest women in Leeds on horse-racing matters", Mrs John Alfred Middleton-Joy and her husband dined alongside fellow racing enthusiasts Princess Mary and her husband, the Earl of Harewood, at a Tangiers hotel in February 1934.[71]

Early Middleton History-

By the late Georgian era, the Middleton family were established in the West Riding of Yorkshire as cultural and civic figures, particularly in the legal profession. The law firm Messrs Middleton & Sons was founded in Leeds in 1834 by gentleman farmer and solicitor William Middleton, Esq. (1807–1884) of Gledhow Grange-Hawkhills Estate. One of his sons, solicitor Arthur Middleton (1846–1907), inherited Hawkhills from his father.[9][10][11][12][13]

William Middleton's descendants include his grandson (Richard) Noël Middleton (1878–1951), a solicitor, director of the family woollen manufacturing firm and co-founder of the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra.[14][15][16]

Noël Middleton's youngest son was Captain Peter Francis Middleton, who was Prince Philip's co-pilot on a tour of South America.[17][18] Peter Middleton's second son is entrepreneur Michael Francis Middleton, who married Carole Goldsmith

The Middletons were "friends of British royalty" to whom, in their civic capacity, they "played host as long ago as 1926".[31][32][33][34]

The great-grandfather of Catherine, Princess of Wales, Noël Middleton, and his elder brother, photographer[35] and civil engineer[36]

Captain William Middleton (1874–1940)[37] reportedly wed their fiancées in Leeds at Mill Hill Chapel in the years before the First World War.

Mrs William Middleton (née Agnes Clara Talbot) was the niece of Sir James Kitson, 1st Baronet (later 1st Baron Airedale),[38][39] who led the chapel's congregation at this time,[40] while Mrs Noël Middleton (née Olive Christiana Lupton)[41] was the first cousin-once-removed of Baroness von Schunck (née Kate Lupton),[42] and the second cousin of Baroness Airedale (née Florence von Schunck) and of Lady Bullock (née Barbara Lupton).[43][44][45][46][29]

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Middleton, 1980-

in 1980 and subsequently relocated to Berkshire.[19] The couple founded a mail-order supply company, Party Pieces, in 1987, but sold it in May 2023 after it fell into administration.[20]

The company was at one point estimated to be worth £30 million,[21][22] but by the time it collapsed it owed £2.6 million to creditors, including £612,685 owed to HM Revenue and Customs, £218,749 owed to Royal Bank of Scotland for a Coronavirus Business Interruption loan, and £20,430 to an Afghan refugee whose small business was a supplier of helium gas.[23][24][25] The company's administrator's report stated that unsecured creditors were unlikely to be paid.[26]

The couple's children are: Catherine Elizabeth, Princess of Wales, socialite and columnist Philippa Charlotte Matthews and businessman James William Middleton.[27] The Middletons purchased Bucklebury Manor in 2012.[28]

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NOBLE ANCESTRY

The honorable Michael Middleton is of an extraordinarily high noble & royal ancestry.

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He is the 19th great grandson of King Edward I, II & III

King Henry I & II.

Queen Anna of Kiev, Russia

King Fulk V of Jerusalem

King Philip I, King of France

King Louis VI, King of France

4 generations Humphrey VI de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex-

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