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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Anger as Middletons' friend and former Reading FC chairman Sir John Madejski's name is stripped from school he gave £3million to


His life and career have followed an epic trajectory, from a grim start to a knighthood, immense riches and an invitation to a royal wedding in 2011.

His life and career have followed an epic trajectory, from a grim start – illegitimate and taken into foster care – to a knighthood, immense riches and an invitation to a royal wedding in 2011, when Prince William married Kate Middleton, whose parents were by then among his closest friends. The decision – taken after a ‘consultation’ by the Greenshaw Learning Trust which assumed control of the Academy earlier this year– has caused dismay and disgust among Sir John’s friends, including Judy, Lady McAlpine, who tells me that she’s ‘not upset but livid’. His life and career have followed an epic trajectory, from a grim start – illegitimate and taken into foster care – to a knighthood, immense riches and an invitation to a royal wedding in 2011, when Prince William married Kate Middleton , whose parents were by then among his closest friends.

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