The ’s great-great aunt died in a mental hospital, in an uncanny echo of ’s great-grandmother’s fate. The similarities between the two ancestors have not been recognised until now – with the discovery by an Australian historian that the two women led ‘parallel lives’. Kate’s ancestor, Gertrude Middleton, and William’s great-grandmother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, both became nuns who were volunteer nurses in the First World War.
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