It’s not a secret that the Middleton family is supporting Catherine during her cancer diagnosis and her preventative chemotherapy. Apparently, the prince’s mother, Carol Middleton, has moved in with the family to support her poor daughter and their three grandchildren. Due to King Charles’s cancer diagnosis, the Royals have a lot going on right now, and Carol Middleton was thrilled to become more active in sick Katherine’s life and with her kids. But she is reportedly keeping a secret from her sick daughter that would devastate her.
Princess Catherine may not have been born to the royal family, but she doesn’t exactly hail from a family of working-class Average Joe’s. Her parents, Carol and Michael Middleton, have been the proud owners of a party supply business called “Party Pieces” long before their daughter married Prince William. But after years of financial woes, the party pieces have officially gone belly up. According to a report, Carol and her husband Michael Middleton are in more than $300,000 in debt, which they claim they have been unable to pay off after their business went into administration last year.
The financial hardship comes amid the Princess of Wales’ announcement that she is currently undergoing a round of preventative chemotherapy. It has been theorized for over a decade that the party pieces would never have had any success or lasted as long as it did as the Middleton family business if their daughter had not married Prince William. Debt is a drop in the bucket to the royal family, and William and Catherine could probably help the Middletons financially, but Carol can’t exactly ask her cancer-stricken daughter for a loan right now. In addition, Prince William is dealing with his father’s cancer diagnosis. The Middletons would look like monsters if they accepted help from the Wales right now.
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Meanwhile, Princess Katherine’s brother, James Middleton, is in a dispute with one of his neighbors who has reportedly made some noise complaints to the local council. Mr. Alerton, who lives directly opposite James and his wife Elise’s property in Berkshire, is also claimed to have put up posters around the local village of Stanford Dingley attacking the Middleton family. A seven-year-old also alleges that his neighbor put up posters around the village criticizing James’s parents’ former business, Party Pieces, and demanding that Carol and Michael Middleton pay back any former creditors.
For the first time, James talked about the disagreement. He said Mr. Alerton’s actions breed animosity in the community, rumor ill-feeling, and cause myself and my family anxiety and distress. Police were contacted shortly after our son was born as we became increasingly concerned by the activities surrounding a neighbor. West Berkshire Council became involved when our neighbor complained about noise from tractors and animals at the farm, along with a series of other complaints. The complaints are disingenuous, and West Berkshire Council found no reason to investigate them.
Mr. Alerton has a history of disputes with neighbors within the village. In 2017, he took legal action against the parish council and a parishioner and intimidated locals for objecting to a series of planning applications, all of which were refused. The report claims that James’s neighbor trespassed on his property, including allowing a journalist to film using a drone and verbally abusing a friend who was house-sitting for the family while they were on holiday.
In response, James said, “It is sad that someone who chooses to live in the countryside in a farming community cannot accept that from time to time there will be noise and smells from tractors and animals, especially if they live next to a farm. We would be neglecting our duty of responsibility for the animals and countryside if we did what he asked us to do to our livestock.” The disagreement reportedly began after James was one of the group of people who objected to a planning application for a new dwelling.
