The Princess of Wales stepped back in time this afternoon as she visited a Leeds textile mill that was once owned by her ancestors.
Rolling back the centuries on her lineage, the royal learned more about how she’s a direct descendant – on her father Michael Middleton’s side – of one of the great dynasties of the Yorkshire textile industry.
In 1773, Arthur Lupton set up a small textile firm that would transform the later Middleton family’s fortunes. The Luptons