Betraying no sign of the feud that has dogged her family for more than 30 years, Kate Middleton was pictured leaving her parents' home in Bucklebury this morning
An ongoing family feud means that several of Kate Middleton’s relatives will not be invited to the Royal wedding.
News of the bitter rift came as Kate was pictured leaving her parents’ home in Bucklebury, Berkshire today.
Smiling behind the wheel of her Audi, she gave no hint of the turmoil that has surrounded the family since 1978.
The row is said to have erupted after Kate maternal grandfather, builder Ron Goldsmith, fell out with his oldest sister Alice Tomlinson.
Mrs Tomlinson’s husband, Bill, tried to visit Mr Goldsmith but was barred from the house by wife Dorothy, who claimed they were ‘too busy’, the Telegraph reported.
Mr Tomlinson died two weeks later and the Goldsmiths were banned from the funeral after the perceived snub.
A relative, who asked not to be named, said there was ‘no chance’ of several of Carole Middleton’s family members being invited.
‘We’re the rough and tumble side, we’re the workers, the working class. None of us are ashamed of our background, it’s just the way things are.’
The source added: ‘We know we won’t be invited to the wedding, but it’s not Carole’s fault. Her parents fell out with the rest of the family when she was young.’
The feud erupted when Carole Middleton's father Ron Goldsmith fell out with his oldest sister Alice Tomlinson
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Mrs Middleton, a builder’s daughter descended from a family of Durham coal miners, has had little contact with her father’s family since marrying her husband Michael in 1980.
Meanwhile Alice Tomlinson, who is Kate’s oldest surviving relative and will turn 100 in May, is expected to watch her great-niece’s nuptials on TV.
The pair have never met.
Another relative who is perhaps unlikely to receive an invitation to the wedding is Carole’s brother Gary Goldsmith.
The property developer lives on the Spanish party island of Ibiza with a former lap-dancer.
Mr Goldsmith is the proud owner of a £5million villa is called Maison de Bang Bang (which translates as House of Sex).
Last year he fell victim to a Sunday newspaper expose in which he supplied undercover journalists with Class A drugs and introduced them to a pimp.
His first words to Prince William when he visited his villa in 2006 were ‘Oi, you f***er,’ he revealed.
Source;Dailymail