Who is Kate Middleton?

Kate Middlleton the girl from the county of Berkshire who is now Prince William's wife. Her Royal title is the new Duchess of Cambridge. She was called "Waity Katie" for her patience during her long courtship, but will now one day become Queen.

Kate's wealthy middle-class background differed greatly from the elite aristocratic circle of European princesses often earmarked as potential brides for royal princes.

What about her early life? 

Born on January 9 1982, Catherine Elizabeth Middleton is the eldest child of businessman Michael and former air hostess Carole Middleton. The self-made millionaires live in a modern five-bedroom detached house in the hamlet of Chapel Row in Bucklebury parish near Newbury, Berkshire, and run a mail-order business called Party Pieces which sells toys and party products.

She has two younger siblings, sister Pippa (who stole the eye at the Royal Wedding) and brother James, was christened at the parish church of St Andrew's Bradfield in Berkshire, on June 20, 1982.

In May 1984, when Miss Middleton was two, the family moved to Amman in Jordan, where her father worked for two-and-a-half years. She attended a nursery school in Amman from the age of three. In September 1986 the Middletons returned to West Berkshire, and Miss Middleton started at St Andrew's - a private school in Pangbourne.