How Carole stays so svelte at 64

Her regime? No meat. Lots of tennis... and an iron will she’s passed on to Kate and Pippa who’ve inherited the ‘Middleton middle’

She will be 65 in four weeks’ time, but there is no doubt that Carole Middleton, grandmother of the future King George, is in majestically trim shape. spotted on the beach on the Caribbean island of st Barts, where she is holidaying with daughter Pippa and her husband, James Matthews — whose family own the eden Rock hotel there — she showed off her slender ‘Middy middle’.

Not to mention an enviably pert posterior, which rather indicates that Pippa has her mother’s genes to thank for the rear which made her a star at sister Kate’s wedding to Prince William in 2011.

As Carole’s brother, Gary Goldsmith, observed last year: ‘Carole has always looked after herself and eaten healthily — and she has a stunning figure.’

Indeed, before Pippa’s wedding in 2017 to James, she trimmed down from a size 12 to her current ten. she grumbles, though, that she has put weight on around her bust as she has aged, which can make clothes shopping tricky.

so how does she stay so formidably toned and slim? here, we reveal a few clues . . .