article_snippet: How completely that joke has now been vaporised by Carole and Michael Middleton.
article_snippet: But Carole, a miner's granddaughter raised in a council house, and founder and driving force of the family online shop Party Pieces, is a formidable, self-made woman of independence.
article_snippet: One has to wonder, however, how different things would have been if Princess Diana were still alive to balance Carole's pull on Princess Diana daughter.
article_snippet: But is Carole Middleton really the only issue here?
article_snippet: It's very different when William has an argument with Kate,' reports a figure from their own circle. '
article_snippet: Kate's eloquent and stands Kate ground.