Catherine,Duchess of Cambridge

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (born Catherine Elizabeth Middleton; 9 January 1982), is a member of the British royal family. Her husband, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, is second in the line of succession to the British throne, making Catherine a likely future queen consort.

They married on 29 April 2011 at Westminster Abbey. The couple's children— Prince George of Cambridge, Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, and Prince Louis of Cambridge are third, fourth, and fifth in the line of succession to the British throne, respectively.

Birth and Baptism
Catherine Elizabeth Middleton was born at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading on 9 January 1982 into an upper-middle-class family.

She was baptised at St Andrew's Bradfield, a local parish church, on 20 June 1982. She is the eldest of three children born to Michael Middleton (b. 1949) and his wife, Carole (née Goldsmith; b. 1955), a former flight dispatcher and flight attendant, respectively, who in 1987 founded Party Pieces, a privately held mail order company that sells party supplies and decorations with an estimated worth of £30 million. Her father's family has ties to British aristocracy and benefited financially from trust funds which they established over 100 years ago. Her Middleton relatives were reported as having played host to British royalty "as long ago as 1926".

She has a younger sister, Pippa, and a younger brother, James.

Education
He attended St. Andrew's School in Pangbourne, Berkshire, [5] until he was thirteen years old. Upon reaching high school, she was enrolled at Marlborough College a private school. There, Catarina became a popular and sporting girl, acting as captain of the field hockey team [5] and organizer of the school's tennis games. It passed eleven exams of the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSEs) and three exams of Advanced Level (A-level).

After finishing her studies at Marlborough in July 2000, Catarina opted for a gap year before university. She was studying at the British Institute in Florence, participating in a volunteer program in Chile, and in a program for the Round the World Challenge, in the Solent Strait. Some sources claim that Catherine enrolled at the University of St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland, because she was the same one that Prince William had chosen and that she was persuaded by her mother to abandon her first choice of university.

However, this story is considered pure fiction by those who know the Middleton family, especially because, at the beginning of the University, Catarina was dating Rupert Finch, at the time, a senior law student and William had an affair with Carly Massy-Birch, also a student. At this university, she graduated in Art History.

Official appearances
On March 31, 2004, the lovers were finally caught kissing in the Klosters Mountains, when the prince confirmed their courtship. The relationship would have blossomed between weekends at Queen Elizabeth II's property, Balmoral Castle, in country houses and in Catherine's apartment in London's Chelsea neighborhood. The two would also travel to Kenya together in the summer of 2005.

On June 23, 2005, Kate and Guilherme graduated from St. Andrews, respectively, in Art History and Geography, in a ceremony attended by Queen Isabel II, Prince Charles and his wife Camila, Duchess of Cornwall. From then on, Catarina would live in London.

Titles

 * January 9, 1982 - April 29, 2011: Mrs. Catherine Elizabeth Middleton
 * April 29, 2011 - present: Her Royal Highness, Duchess of Cambridge