Ammon News - LONDON - An official biography of Kate Middleton published Monday revealed that Britain's future royal bride attended nursery school in Amman where her father worked in the mid-1980s.

Middleton, the eldest of three children, moved with her family to Jordan in 1984, when she was two. From the age of three, she went to nursery school in Amman until the family returned to England in 1986.

Middleton's parents, Michael and Carole, were both in the airline business before setting up their own firm for party goods. Their stay in the Middle East in the 1980s had not previously been widely known.

Kate Middleton met her future husband, Prince William, at St Andrews University, in Scotland, from where she graduated with a degree in History of Art in 2005.

She later spent a gap year which included art studies in Florence and a youth expedition to Chile.

The 29-year-olds favourite hobbies include hill walking, tennis, swimming, sailing, photography and painting, according to the biography, which is accompanied by a number of childhood photographs. (DPA)

* Photo: Kate Middleton with sister Pippa and Father Michael in Jerash Jordan. The Middleton family moved to Amman, Jordan for two and a half years.