Happy Birthday, Kate Middleton

Party Pieces Opens
Michael and Carole Middleton pose by their home on Nov. 16, 2010. Carole founded Party Pieces, a mail-order party-products supplier, in 1987 after finding it difficult to find items for her kids' parties. Kate helped and worked for the family business in several roles over the years, from modeling for the catalogs to doing marketing.

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