HER ancestors came from right across the social spectrum. But Kate Middleton had one forebear whose spirit of adventure and tempestuous love life trumped the lot of them.
It has been revealed that the Princess of Wales is a relative of a scandal-hit high-society woman dubbed the 'Unhappy Countess' who had affairs, illegal abortions and was even kidnapped by her fraudster husband
HER ancestors mined coal for slave wages in the north east. Now we can reveal that the pits where Kate s forbears cut coal were owned by the Bowes-Lyonses, family of the late Queen Mother.
When Rachael Lennon was planning her wedding, she began to question the institution of marriage – was it really for her? Yet in researching it, she discovered wedlock is whatever you choose to make it