Kate & Pippa's childhood sounded idyllic. Did their parents shape their lives?

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I was reading about them this morning. The 80s were a tough time economically but the Middleton children's childhood sounded idyllic with very present, motivated parents. The three children are all now very wealthy with their own families. The middletons invested in education & it has paid off.
Carole & Michael both appear warm, friendly & very confident so it's no wonder their children are the same.

nor she him!

They have huge self-confidence and self-esteem. Both nature and nurture. I went to posh boarding school. Some of us have 'married well' like Kate and Pippa, but a few of us had parents who were actively quite unkind and only sent us to boarding school because they didn't want us at home. We don't have any confidence or any self-esteem, and the outcomes are completely different. None of us less confident lot would have had the confidence or self-esteem to go anywhere near Prince William at uni, if our parents had even supported us to go there in the first place. We just would have assumed he would not be interested. The fact that Kate set her cap at him at all displays massive self-esteem.

Well in that case maybe the question should be "how did Carole manage to marry into & fit in with Michael's family with such ease"?

I wouldn't call being sent to boarding school 'idyllic'. Kate's life now also seems awful in many ways.

As the future King of England, how Wills looked would not have mattered a jot.

What exactly was idyllic about their childhood? Also James has had quite a few f businesses that have flumped <I'll let myself out>

Don't believe that?

Its King of Great Britain.

Or rather King of the United Kingdom

Although watching them at an England game i can see your point

They had the trifecta of looks, mild wealth, and ambition.

What a sycophantic post. I wouldn't swap places with Kate. I don't look up to Middletons because they are good looking and had a posh education. I don't look up to the royals either. Their blood is not blue, and it's utterly preposterous to think they are special based on what vagina they came out of.

I really like James Middleton. Anyone with that amount of cocker spaniels can't be a wrong 'un. And he's been very open about his mental health.

Not sure about Kate living the dream, I wouldn't want her life for anything and it's obviously affected her health greatly. Pippa seems to have got the better deal - huge wealth without the goldfish bowl lifestyle.

@lizziebennett73 I have James book on order. I also would love to know how Carole slotted into the Middleton family so effortlessly as she was from a very working class background. How middle class were Michael's family?

@Winterjoy Same here. My siblings seem very intimidated by people with what a Victorian novel would call people of good standing. Their lives compared to mine couldn’t be more different.

We have one big difference and this is much raises the question of nature versus nurture. I am one of 6 children but I have a different Dad to the rest.

King of England ? These little things are the giveaways.

It's interesting isn't it. It must be nurture vs nature with the Middletons.