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Kate Middleton and family: how did they make their fortune?

After her marriage to Prince William, Kate Middleton she became a royal by acquisition with the title of Duchess of Cambridge. She too, like Meghan Markle, was born as “commoners”, without noble titles and blue blood in her veins, although she comes from a bourgeois and wealthy family that allowed him to attend the best schools and the right circles to meet her prince. The Middleton family has never hidden the origins of their wealth as entrepreneurs, namely the company Party Pieces, that Kate Middleton’s parents Carole and Michael launched in 1987.

It is from this intuition that the fortune of the Middleton family was born.

For over twenty years Party Pieces has dominated the thriving British gadget market. Yes, because the British love to party and wave paper flags with the Union Jack on every occasion. Glasses, plates, cake stands, pins, flags of all shapes, classic English symbols such as the royal guards stuck on cups, teacups in the shape of a royal carriage, red and blue cupcake molds and the inevitable stamps, the celebratory stamps. With 43 pounds on the site you can grab the whole kit.

Of course, part of the British press did not wait a second longer to point the finger at the perfect Middleton, calling them interested in money and in full conflict of interest. But the facts are on their side. On Instagram Carole Middleton, who is the real girl boss of the family, often shows the offices of the company, which still operates today and actively works employing more than 30 employees. In those same offices Kate and her sister Pippa Middleton spent a lot of time studying helping the family business. Kate also acted as a model to launch new pieces from the collections sold on e-commerce.

A FAMILY BUSINESS
Carole Middleton
she was a hostess and with her family she also lived in Jordan. In an interview with GoodHouseKeeping she said she invented the company after a period abroad with Kate and Pippa little, while pregnant with James Middleton. Thus was born the company in Hungerford in England, which then became an e-shop as well. «Catherine helped me launch the brand First Birthday, choosing the products and checking the catalog. Pippa managed the online part and created the blog, while James created a lot of personalized cakes ». His brother also took part in the «family affaire» James Middleton after leaving college. Meanwhile, in 2o13, he launches Boomf, a company specializing in creating personalized marshmallows by printing photos from Instagram, but the business is not going. In 2016 it reported losses of over 2 million pounds, but over time it managed to recover. In 2018, after diversifying into personalized gifts, comes the first profit – £ 175,000 – and an increase in sales, up to £ 4.4 million from the previous year’s £ 2.8 million. One of his passions are dogs and for them he launches his new business, la She co, freeze-dried raw dog food developed with nutritionists and industry experts. On the site just enter the data of the dog, with size and weight, in order to understand the size of the portions and the new freeze-dried raw dog food will arrive directly at home.

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