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Company director Sally Newlove gave birth to twin daughters Gemma and Claire on her 28th birthday at Lincolnshire 郡 Hospital. On the same day, 170 miles away in the 王室の Berkshire Hospital, Reading, former 空気／公表する stewardess Carole Middleton 配達するd her own first child, Catherine.

It wasn't until 2007, when photos of Prince William's girlfriend on her 25th birthday appeared in the newspapers that Gemma and Claire clocked the 関係.

'That day had always been crazy,' laughed Gemma. 'It's Mum's birthday 同様に as our own. It was Mum who spotted the link with Kate Middleton first ? 説 to us, "You could have been Prince William's girlfriend!" It became a running joke.'

Superficially, Gemma, a 製品 designer, and Claire, who does voluntary work, have little in ありふれた with the 未来 Queen. However, Gemma's career trajectory has been 類似の to Kate's: both were educated at 私的な schools and both followed their parents into the family 商売／仕事.

After leaving the 独立した・無所属 Stonefield House School (now York Minster School), Gemma got a degree at Bradford University before training as a paramedic and working for the South Yorkshire 救急車 Service.

Claudia Joseph spoke to four women who were born on January, 9, 1982, the same day as the Princess of むちの跡s (pictured), to see how their lives compare

Like the Middleton children, who helped at their parents' party- planning 会社／堅い, Gemma joined her parents Jeremy and Sally at their company Medicircle, which organises 商業の first-援助（する） boxes. She then 始める，決める up Firstaid4Sport, an (v)提携させる(n)支部，加入者d company, which she sold 18 months ago.

She and her husband Michael now work as 顧問s and run two companies, Hobbledehoo, 製造業の children's safety harnesses, and The Spanish Boot Company, selling leather riding boots. By coincidence, Kate owns a pair.

Gemma and Michael married at St Andrew's Church in Boothby Graffoe in 2009. They have two children: Megan, 11, and Maxwell, ten. Gemma vividly remembers the 王室の Wedding because she was in hospital with her daughter, who had an 感染.

So, does Gemma 株 any 特徴 with her fellow Capricorn? 'I'm very sporty,' she 収容する／認めるs. 'I played ホッケー too, and I ski. We're very 田舎の and we live in the countryside with our three dogs.

'I've never really looked into astrology enough to 令状 a belief in it ? but I do feel that 確かな people have 類似の traits.'

Family 事件／事情／状勢:?Gemma and Claire 株 their birthday with their mum

Like the Middleton children, who helped at their parents' party- planning 会社／堅い, Gemma joined her parents Jeremy and Sally at their company Medicircle, which organises 商業の first-援助（する） boxes. She then 始める，決める up Firstaid4Sport, an (v)提携させる(n)支部，加入者d company, which she sold 18 months ago.

She and her husband Michael now work as 顧問s and run two companies, Hobbledehoo, 製造業の children's safety harnesses, and The Spanish Boot Company, selling leather riding boots. By coincidence, Kate owns a pair.

Gemma and Michael married at St Andrew's Church in Boothby Graffoe in 2009. They have two children: Megan, 11, and Maxwell, ten. Gemma vividly remembers the 王室の Wedding because she was in hospital with her daughter, who had an 感染.

So, does Gemma 株 any 特徴 with her fellow Capricorn? 'I'm very sporty,' she 収容する／認めるs. 'I played ホッケー too, and I ski. We're very 田舎の and we live in the countryside with our three dogs.

'I've never really looked into astrology enough to 令状 a belief in it ? but I do feel that 確かな people have 類似の traits.'

The solicitor with the same 指名する, too

Kate Haigh,?41, not only 株 the Princess of むちの跡s's birthday but also her 指名する.

She discovered the link when her grandmother spotted she was an astrotwin to Prince William's then girlfriend.

But even though Kate admires the Princess, she says she wishes she had been born the day before.

'Both Elvis Presley and David Bowie were born on January 8,' she says. 'And I'm a 大規模な Elvis fan.'

A typical Capricorn, she 株 the Princess of むちの跡s's love of motherhood.

She and her construction 経営者／支配人 husband 物陰／風下 were married at St Augustine's Church 近づく Beverley, East Yorkshire, in 2017 and have two daughters, Elizabeth, six, and Isabella, who was born last month.

'The only similarities between me and the Princess are that we are happily married,' she tells me.

'Though we both seem to enjoy charity work. 地雷 is not on her 規模 ? but I've fundraised for many years for さまざまな charities.Unlike Kate, I went to a 包括的な school and have never been any good at ホッケー.'

Kate grew up with her parents, （頭が）ひょいと動く and Caroline, in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. She has a younger sister, 37-year-old Sally.

After 熟考する／考慮するing history at 船体 University, Kate did a 地位，任命する-卒業生（する） diploma in 合法的な practice before training for her 'dream 職業' as a solicitor.

She 始める，決める up her own company, Stewart & Co Solicitors in 2010, and specialises in 雇用 法律 and litigation.

She's also a 知事 at her 地元の 最初の／主要な school.

'I'm a mother, a wife, a 商売／仕事 owner and a solicitor all in one,' she said. 'I loved Queen Elizabeth and the 王室の Family.

'I was fascinated to watch William and Kate's romance develop and see how they're growing old together.

'I remember vividly their wedding as I took the day off to watch it on TV… and have some new garden furniture built ? multi-仕事ing at its best!

Kate Haigh (pictured), 41, not only 株 the Princess of むちの跡s's birthday but also her 指名する?

The sporty surveyor with Kate's 親切?

Victoria Groves did not realise that she 株d a birthday with the Princess until they both turned 40 last year.

She said: 'I read some 言及／関連 to Kate turning 40 and I thought it was amusing because we couldn't have led more different lives. We've got the same-coloured hair, but that's about it.'

However, Victoria, who doesn't believe in astrology, does have some 利益／興味s in ありふれた with Kate. 'I had tennis lessons growing up, played ホッケー at school and lacrosse at university,' she said. She also 収容する／認めるs to having watched Kate and William's wedding. 'Though I'm not really a Royalist, I think the 君主国 is part of our culture and history. Their wedding was a happy occasion,' she says.

Victoria grew up with her parents, Stuart and Patricia, and her two siblings. She 熟考する／考慮するd history at the University of East Anglia, got a postgraduate diploma in 調査するing and now 作品 as a 借り切る／憲章d surveyor, specialising in planning and 開発.

Unmarried, she moved 支援する to live with her mother after her father's death in 2018 and is 現在／一般に house-追跡（する）ing nearby.

Talking of her astrotwin, Victoria said: 'Kate comes across as an empathetic person who takes an 利益／興味 in people from all different backgrounds. I hope I'm like that.

'But, to be 残酷に honest, I don't think I would like her 職業.

Some people aspire to be princesses but I don't think I'd 高く評価する／（相場などが）上がる or be able to 対処する with the 批評.'

Victoria Groves (pictured) did not realise that she 株d a birthday with the Princess until they both turned 40 last year?

The mother who would have gone for Harry?

Alex Bollard only recently learnt she 株d a birthday with Kate when her mother Joy, now 80, visited her in New Zealand.

She emigrated five years ago with her husband, Simon, and their three daughters: Phoebe, 12, and twins Jessica and Grace, ten.

'My mum is more of a Royalist than I am,' she laughs. 'But I'm very proud of the 君主国, too.'

Alex said she recently joked with a friend about how she 株 a birthday with the 未来 Queen.

'They told me that they could tell! I thought the comment was やめる rude, because 明白に I look nothing like her,' she said.

Born in Farnborough Maternity Hospital in Kent, Alex travelled the world with her father, a New Zealander and oil-装備する engineer, and mother ? living in Abu Dhabi, Norway and Cyprus. When she was five, her parents 分裂（する） up and her father moved 支援する to New Zealand. He died in 2000.

When Alex was 12, she and her mother settled in Blandford 会議 in Dorset, where she went to school and then 熟考する／考慮するd photography ? an 利益／興味 she 株 with Kate ? and did a course in childcare. This too is a 支配する, of course, which the Princess is 熱烈な about.

She and her husband married in 2009 and Alex was given away by her uncle, a sound recordist for Sir David Attenborough.

The couple now live in Paraparaumu, on New Zealand's North Island, with their three children and cat.

Asked if she might have liked to marry Prince William, she jokes: 'Harry was my favourite all along. Sorry William.'

She says William and Kate are her 'hope' that the 君主国 will keep modernising, 'making it more relatable to all of us'.

Alex Bollard (pictured) only recently learnt she 株d a birthday with Kate when her mother Joy, now 80, visited her in New Zealand

?...And the member of another famous family

Julia Gray, the daughter of the former PM's father Stanley Johnson, was also born on the same day as the Princess of むちの跡s ? in the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, where Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis were all born.

Julia is one of the 82-year-old former MEP's six children. There is also Boris, 新聞記者／雑誌記者 Rachel, 管理／経営 guru Leo and 政治家，政治屋 Jo ? from his marriage to Charlotte Wahl ? and her younger brother, Max. Julia and Max are both from Stanley's second marriage to Jennifer Kidd.

The singer-songwriter 熟考する／考慮するd classics at University College London, before doing an MA in Creative 令状ing.

She is married to film financier Calum Gray, also 41, and has 解放（する）d two 単独の albums, I Am Not The Night in 2011 and Robber Bride in 2014.

She has also written novels and a 調書をとる／予約する about Lord Byron's daughter.

Julia Gray (権利), the daughter of the former PM's father Stanley Johnson, was also born on the same day as the Princess of むちの跡s?