She's got a big connection to Leeds
But Princess Catherine – still often referred to by her maiden name Middleton – has a Leeds ancestry going back generations. And you only need to go back one generation to see the future Queen Consort's connection to the city.
This mansion off Gledhow Lane has long since been demolished and is now a residential cul-de-sac although the gatehouse remains. Michael's late father was Captain Peter Middleton, a World War Two fighter pilot who flew co-pilot with Prince Philip on a flying tour of South America in 1962. Noel, originally of Otley Road, Far Headingley, was one of a five-generation line of Leeds solicitors. He chaired Leeds Musical Festival of which Princess Mary and her son George Lascelles, Lord of Harewood, were patrons. Noel and his wife Olive, Princess Kate's great-grandmother, would entertain royalty in Leeds in the 1920s.
The Leeds connection widens when we go back to 1914 when Noel married Olive Lupton, of the Potternewton Hall estate. The estate, which included Potternewton Hall and the older Newton Hall, was cleared in the 1920s and 1930s and the halls were demolished. Today the site is occupied by a residential cul-de-sac called Riviera Gardens.
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