“Every pristine item of clothing would have a beautifully sewn-in name tape, for instance.
It was unthinkable that they would end up resorting to marker pen on labels like the rest of us.
There were huge picnics at sports day, the smartest tennis rackets, that kind of thing.
It made the rest of us all feel rather hopeless.”
Carole Middleton came from a middle-class background, attending state schools while growing up in Southall.
Her mother worked part-time in retail while her father was a painter and decorator.
Meanwhile, Michael Middleton came from aristocratic roots and inherited wealth.
“She married up, and was a hard worker …
In this way, she was quite shy when she initially transferred schools.
“When she arrived, she was very quiet.
“No one would ever think of bullying her.”
