“My biggest fear [as her offspring grew up] was that I\u2019d lose my family, but we\u2019ve stayed close,” she shared. “There are times when they say, “Can you do this, or that?” and I can\u2019t quite. But they like the fact that I work.”<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n Juggling her responsibilities at her former business, Party Pieces, with parenting Kate, Pippa and James can\u2019t have been easy, but throughout it all – as Carole said – they\u2019ve “stayed close”. If anyone ever doubted whether this would remain the case when the Princess of Wales joined the Royal Family, they\u2019ve been proved wrong.<\/p>\n As her children have grown up and had their own kids, Carole has maintained a brilliant bond with all of them. Carole and Michael Middleton have consistently been included in royal occasions too, and were invited to both Queen Elizabeth\u2019s funeral and King Charles\u2019s coronation.<\/p>\n When the Princess of Wales revealed that she completed her cancer treatment last year in a video filmed by Will Warr, her parents were once again featured. In an adorable clip, fans saw the Waleses playing cards with Carole and Michael.<\/p>\n Since 2022 ,when the Prince and Princess of Wales moved to Adelaide Cottage<\/a>, they\u2019ve also been geographically closer to the Middletons than ever. It\u2019s recently been confirmed that they\u2019ll be moving again before the year is out and their rumoured “forever home” Forest Lodge is equally convenient for trips to Bucklebury.<\/p>\n Carole and Michael\u2019s younger children, Pippa and James, and their families also live in Berkshire. Although their lives have all changed substantially, her family have remained as tight-knit as ever, dispelling her once-held “fear”.<\/p>\n Her upbringing also seems to have heavily influenced the future Queen\u2019s parenting style too, as she has also been described as “hands-on”. Prince George, Charlotte and Louis have inherited Kate and her family\u2019s love of sports and she and William are giving them as down-to-earth an upbringing as possible with plenty of privacy like she enjoyed.<\/p>\n (Image credit: Photo by Mark Cuthbert\/UK Press via Getty Images)<\/p>\n According to the BBC<\/a>, it\u2019s understood that when they move house the Waleses won\u2019t have any live-in staff. This is already the case at Adelaide Cottage and it might surprise some fans given that Prince William is first in the royal line of succession<\/a>.<\/p>\n However, it could be seen as another indication of Prince William and Kate wanting to give their children a more “ordinary” upbringing. In their engagement interview in 2010, the Princess revealed she was hoping to have a family like hers.<\/p>\n “I hope we will be able to have a happy family ourselves. Because they’ve been great over the years – helping me with difficult times. We see a lot of each other and they are very, very dear to me,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been quite some time since Carole Middleton last gave an interview and that\u2019s hardly surprising given how…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-365059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-royal","9":"tag-royal-families","10":"tag-royal-family","11":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115073373043735814","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Prince](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/YQP6VLTTbF7Lp9ehXPEsai.jpg\")
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