Margaret Middleton made national headlines in 1900 when she was tragically swept from the rocks off the coast of Filey, a seaside town in North Yorkshire.
Despite the efforts of her friends, unfortunately Margaret drowned in the sea, and her body was never found. However, her camera washed up on shore days later, as the keen photographer had been standing on the edge of a peninsula named Filey Brigg taking photos when she was swept away by a sudden influx of water.
Kate Middleton, like her late great-great aunt, is also a keen photographer, as were Margaret’s brothers and her great nephew, Kate’s dad Michael Middleton.
The link between Margaret and Kate has since been discovered by historian Michael Reed, a high school teacher in Melbourne, Australia, who began looking in to the Princess of Wales’ family tree ever since she tied the knot with Prince William in 2011. “It is extraordinary that so many generations of the Middleton family were keen photographers,” he told the Daily Mail. “It is obviously in their blood.
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