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Royal wedding: rift leaves 'rough' side of Kate's family out in the cold
The "rough and tumble" side of Kate Middleton's family will almost certainly be absent from her wedding
Carole and Kate Middleton
Carole and Kate Middleton Photo: CAMERA PRESS
Victoria Ward
11:55PM GMT 18 Nov 2010
She famously hails from working-class stock, with builders and Durham miners among her ancestors.
But the "rough and tumble" side of Kate Middleton's family will almost certainly be absent from her wedding to Prince William next year.
A long-standing family feud means several relatives of Miss Middleton's mother, Carole, are unlikely to receive invitations. One relative, who asked not to be named, said there was "no chance" of several of Mrs Middleton's side of the family being invited.
"We're the rough and tumble side," the relative said. "We're the workers, the working class. None of us are ashamed of our background, it's just the way things are.
"We know we won't be invited to the wedding, but it's not Carole's fault. Her parents fell out with the rest of the family when she was young."
Mrs Middleton has had little contact with her father's family since she married her husband, Michael, in 1980.
The rift dates back to 1978, when Mrs Middleton's father, Ron Goldsmith, a builder, fell out with his oldest sister, Alice Tomlinson.
Mrs Tomlinson's husband, Bill, tried to visit the builder but Mr Goldsmith's wife, Dorothy, would not let him into their home in Norwood Green, west London, saying they were too busy. Mr Tomlinson died two weeks later, and his widow banned the Goldsmiths from his funeral because she felt they had snubbed him.
Mrs Tomlinson, who is Kate Middleton's oldest surviving relative, is the only one of Mr Goldsmith's five siblings who is still alive. She will be 100 in May and will receive a telegram from the Queen within weeks of the likely date of the wedding. Ironically, she does not expect to hear from her great-niece, the future queen, whom she has not met.
"Alice will watch the wedding on television, I am sure," said one relative. "She thinks of how humble Ron was and is thrilled to think that someone who had absolutely nothing has a granddaughter who will be queen one day."
Ron Goldsmith drove lorries before becoming a builder and had, by his own family's admission, a "terrible life".
The youngest of six children, he was brought up in a run-down terrace house in Southall, west London. His widowed mother, Edith, worked at a jam factory while the young children were cared for by their older siblings.
When Mr Goldsmith married Dorothy Harrison, a shop assistant whose ancestors were miners in the North East, the couple lived with his mother in a council flat into which she had moved and where Kate Middleton's mother was born in 1955.
• Kate Middleton may have let slip her preferred wedding venue after making a private visit to Westminster Abbey, but the question of who will conduct the ceremony is still undecided. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is the most likely person, but Miss Middleton and Prince William could choose the Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Richard Chartres, who is a close friend of the Prince of Wales.
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The "rough and tumble" side of Kate Middleton's family will almost certainly be absent from her wedding
Carole and Kate Middleton
Carole and Kate Middleton Photo: CAMERA PRESS
Victoria Ward
11:55PM GMT 18 Nov 2010
She famously hails from working-class stock, with builders and Durham miners among her ancestors.
But the "rough and tumble" side of Kate Middleton's family will almost certainly be absent from her wedding to Prince William next year.
A long-standing family feud means several relatives of Miss Middleton's mother, Carole, are unlikely to receive invitations. One relative, who asked not to be named, said there was "no chance" of several of Mrs Middleton's side of the family being invited.
"We're the rough and tumble side," the relative said. "We're the workers, the working class. None of us are ashamed of our background, it's just the way things are.
"We know we won't be invited to the wedding, but it's not Carole's fault. Her parents fell out with the rest of the family when she was young."
Mrs Middleton has had little contact with her father's family since she married her husband, Michael, in 1980.
The rift dates back to 1978, when Mrs Middleton's father, Ron Goldsmith, a builder, fell out with his oldest sister, Alice Tomlinson.
Mrs Tomlinson's husband, Bill, tried to visit the builder but Mr Goldsmith's wife, Dorothy, would not let him into their home in Norwood Green, west London, saying they were too busy. Mr Tomlinson died two weeks later, and his widow banned the Goldsmiths from his funeral because she felt they had snubbed him.
Mrs Tomlinson, who is Kate Middleton's oldest surviving relative, is the only one of Mr Goldsmith's five siblings who is still alive. She will be 100 in May and will receive a telegram from the Queen within weeks of the likely date of the wedding. Ironically, she does not expect to hear from her great-niece, the future queen, whom she has not met.
"Alice will watch the wedding on television, I am sure," said one relative. "She thinks of how humble Ron was and is thrilled to think that someone who had absolutely nothing has a granddaughter who will be queen one day."
Ron Goldsmith drove lorries before becoming a builder and had, by his own family's admission, a "terrible life".
The youngest of six children, he was brought up in a run-down terrace house in Southall, west London. His widowed mother, Edith, worked at a jam factory while the young children were cared for by their older siblings.
When Mr Goldsmith married Dorothy Harrison, a shop assistant whose ancestors were miners in the North East, the couple lived with his mother in a council flat into which she had moved and where Kate Middleton's mother was born in 1955.
• Kate Middleton may have let slip her preferred wedding venue after making a private visit to Westminster Abbey, but the question of who will conduct the ceremony is still undecided. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is the most likely person, but Miss Middleton and Prince William could choose the Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Richard Chartres, who is a close friend of the Prince of Wales.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/8144609/Royal-wedding-rift-leaves-rough-side-of-Kates-family-out-in-the-cold.html
WEDDING INVITE FOR KATE'S NAUGHTY UNCLE
Sunday December 12,2010
By Adam Helliker
IT’S TAKEN a huge dollop of humble pie and a spell in an addiction rehabilitation clinic. But 18 months after he was caught in Ibiza offering to supply cocaine and bragging about his royal connections, Kate Middleton’s uncle has been forgiven by his family and told he will receive an invitation to Prince William’s wedding.
Gary Goldsmith, 45, the younger brother of Kate’s mother Carole, was mortified by the family fallout which followed his exposure by
undercover reporters who filmed him offering drugs and prostitutes at the £5million villa where Kate and William had holidayed.
Such was the embarrassment naughty Uncle Gary caused that Carole (who has always been highly sensitive about any adverse publicity which could have harmed Kate’s marriage prospects) told him the family would cut all contact with him unless he was treated for his cocaine habit.
“Gary is a changed man; he was full of remorse for what he’d done and he knew he had to pull himself together,” reports a family friend. “When he successfully finished his rehab he and Carole started speaking again and he was invited to stay at their house in Berkshire. He has been forgiven because even though Carole had described him as an accident waiting to happen, she loves him.
“He’s also spoken to Kate and things have been put right. If he keeps his nose clean, he can expect an invitation to the wedding, although because he feels very sensitive about any attention he might get, I wouldn’t be surprised if he is ‘diplomatically unwell’ on the day.”
After making £25million from selling a recruitment business Computer Futures, thrice-married Gary led a hedonistic life on Ibiza (where his villa is called La Maison de Bang Bang, French slang for house of sex). He now intends to spend more time in London, where he has a mews house in Marylebone, and is attempting to make amends with his last partner, Julia Leake, who left him because of his erratic behaviour.
“Ironically Kate and William both said one of the best holidays they’ve ever had was their week with Gary, although they could see he was a bit wild,” adds the friend.
“Eventually his life went out of control because of the drugs and hangers-on in Ibiza but he’s turned over a new leaf. He loves Kate and has said sorry a thousand times for what happened. The black sheep is back in the fold.”
Observes Claudia Joseph, author of the defi nitive book on Kate Middleton: “Inviting Gary to the wedding would be a signal that the Middleton family are ultimately a loyal and pragmatic family who look after their own.”
www.express.co.uk/ourcomments/view/217016/Adam-Helliker
Sunday December 12,2010
By Adam Helliker
IT’S TAKEN a huge dollop of humble pie and a spell in an addiction rehabilitation clinic. But 18 months after he was caught in Ibiza offering to supply cocaine and bragging about his royal connections, Kate Middleton’s uncle has been forgiven by his family and told he will receive an invitation to Prince William’s wedding.
Gary Goldsmith, 45, the younger brother of Kate’s mother Carole, was mortified by the family fallout which followed his exposure by
undercover reporters who filmed him offering drugs and prostitutes at the £5million villa where Kate and William had holidayed.
Such was the embarrassment naughty Uncle Gary caused that Carole (who has always been highly sensitive about any adverse publicity which could have harmed Kate’s marriage prospects) told him the family would cut all contact with him unless he was treated for his cocaine habit.
“Gary is a changed man; he was full of remorse for what he’d done and he knew he had to pull himself together,” reports a family friend. “When he successfully finished his rehab he and Carole started speaking again and he was invited to stay at their house in Berkshire. He has been forgiven because even though Carole had described him as an accident waiting to happen, she loves him.
“He’s also spoken to Kate and things have been put right. If he keeps his nose clean, he can expect an invitation to the wedding, although because he feels very sensitive about any attention he might get, I wouldn’t be surprised if he is ‘diplomatically unwell’ on the day.”
After making £25million from selling a recruitment business Computer Futures, thrice-married Gary led a hedonistic life on Ibiza (where his villa is called La Maison de Bang Bang, French slang for house of sex). He now intends to spend more time in London, where he has a mews house in Marylebone, and is attempting to make amends with his last partner, Julia Leake, who left him because of his erratic behaviour.
“Ironically Kate and William both said one of the best holidays they’ve ever had was their week with Gary, although they could see he was a bit wild,” adds the friend.
“Eventually his life went out of control because of the drugs and hangers-on in Ibiza but he’s turned over a new leaf. He loves Kate and has said sorry a thousand times for what happened. The black sheep is back in the fold.”
Observes Claudia Joseph, author of the defi nitive book on Kate Middleton: “Inviting Gary to the wedding would be a signal that the Middleton family are ultimately a loyal and pragmatic family who look after their own.”
www.express.co.uk/ourcomments/view/217016/Adam-Helliker
tale BS.
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