Biographer traces Kate Middleton”s ancestry to Holloway Prison

A new biography of the woman who might one day be Queen discloses that her great-great-great grandfather was a prisoner. An entry in the 1881 census shows that Edward Thomas Glassborow, an ancestor of Miss Middleton’s father, Michael, was listed as an inmate at Holloway Prison in London.
Sarah Palin has Norfolk ancestryHe is one of 436 occupants listed at the institution, which is now a women’s prison.
There are no known records to explain what crime Glassborow had committed but it is clear from later papers that he went on to turn his life around. Birth records for his son Frederick, Miss Middleton’s great-great grandfather, a few years later show that he was then listing himself as a “gentleman of independent means”.
The book, “Kate Middleton: Princess in Waiting”, by Claudia Joseph, traces the family from working class origins to its current position.
On her father’s side it charts how Frederick Glassborow’s son, also called Frederick, served in the first world war before going on to work as a bank manager. His daughter Valerie went on to marry Miss Middleton’s paternal grandfather, Peter Middleton, she says.
The couple’s son, Michael Middleton, was born in 1949 and went on to become a pilot, meeting and marrying Kate’s mother Carole Goldsmith, an air hostess. Miss Middleton met Prince William while both were studying at St Andrew’s University.