Was Kate Middleton’s ’embarrassing’ uncle Gary Goldsmith the reason she grew up in a household of millionaires? He suggested that her mother take the family party business online – causing it to become a roaring success, book claims [Video]

05:17 EST 25 Jan 2025, updated 05:17 EST 25 Jan 2025

Every family, no matter how grand, has an odd member or two who can be an embarrassment from time to time. 

Kate Middleton‘s family is no exception. But due to her marrying into the Royal Family in 2011, their ‘black sheep’ has received far more attention than most.

The troublemaker in question is of course none other than Kate’s uncle – Gary Goldsmith.

He is ten years younger than his only sibling, the Princess of Wales’s mother, Carole.

Known as ‘Uncle G’ to the Middleton children, he became a millionaire before he was 30 but made the majority of his fortune when he sold his shares in his recruitment business for a reported £17 million in 2005.

But despite clearly having a knack for business, Gary spent his cash in embarrassing ways, perhaps most famously by buying an Ibiza party villa in 2006, which was dubbed ‘La Maison …