Pippa middleton — Wikipedia

Philippa Middleton , said Pippa Middleton or Pippa matthews by her marriage, born on September 6, 1983 , is the only sister of Catherine Middleton, princess of Wales.

She is very present in social life, by her profession first of all, but also by her personality and the echo she meets in the British media.

During the marriage of Catherine Middleton and Prince William the April 29, 2011 , she is bridesmaid of her sister, alongside Prince Harry, himself a boy of honor of her brother ^{[ first ]} .

First years [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Pippa Middleton was born in 1983 in the Royal Berkshire Hospital, and was the second of the three children of Michael Middleton (who is then an air operations agent at British Airways ) and Carole Goldsmith (herself a former hostess of the air) ^{[ 2 ] , [ 3 ] , [ 4 ]} .

His father’s family is from Leeds, in Yorkshire, and one of his great-grandmothers, named Olivia Lupton, belonged to a family of wool merchants and then industrialists operating in Leeds, and involved politically in this city, for generations ^{[ 5 ] , [ 6 ]} . For her part, the family of Carole Middleton’s mother included workers and minors from Durham ^{[ 7 ]} .

The third child in the family is James Middleton (born on April 15, 1987 ), today a businessman ^{[ 5 ] , [ 8 ]} .

In the mid -1980s, when her two elders were still in nursery school and the family lived in Bradfield Southend, Pippa Middleton’s mother launches Party Pieces , a company which begins by composing bags of festival accessories for children and which markets today by correspondence all kinds of supplies for festive and commemorative events, as well as decorations.

In 1995, the Middleton family moved to Bucklebury, Berkshire ^{[ 9 ] , [ ten ]} .

Like her sister Catherine, Pippa Middleton is a pupil of St Andrews school, in Pangbourne, then the school of Downe House , a boarding school for young girls in Cold Ash, and finally, at Marlborough College, in Wiltshire. She then joined her elder in Scotland for the rest of her studies, where she follows the courses of the University of Edinburgh in order to study English literature ^{[ 11 ]} . She shares a house there with Lord Edward Innes-Ker, one of the sons of the tenth Duke of Roxburghe, and with George Percy, Comte Percy, the heir to the twelfth Duke of Northumberland ^{[ 11 ]} .

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After graduating, Pippa Middleton finds a job at Table Talk , company located in London and specializing in event communication ^{[ twelfth ]} . Still this same year 2008, the magazine Flavors The consecrates “most attractive single”, in front of other worldly or celebrity figures such as singer and musician James Blunt or Princess Eugenie ^{[ 13 ]} . From then on, Pippa Middleton is frequently described as a personality people frequenting worldly events ( socialite ) ^{[ 14 ]} . Due to the duo she forms with her older sister, she receives wide media coverage, which focuses on her lifestyle and her social relations ^{[ 15 ] , [ 16 ]} .

In 2009, Pippa Middleton was introduced to the practice of sports tobogices on the RUN Crest from Saint-Moritz, with the Multi-Millionaire Trevor Baines as a teacher ^{[ 17 ]} .
She also practices hunting with a certain brilliance, since she killed twenty-three birds in 2008 during a day of hunting in Scotland ^{[ 18 ]} .
For several years, during evenings in honor of the great Scottish poet Robert Burns (evenings called ” Burns supper ), She brings Haggis to the sound of bagpipe in a pub called The Old Boot Inn , in Stanford Dingley in Berkshire ^{[ 19 ]} .

The Daily Telegraph Indicates in 2010 that Pippa Middleton’s parents have ambitious plans to develop their company, Party Pieces , and want her to play an increasingly important role ^{[ 20 ]} .

The 5 mars 2012 , Pippa Middleton participates in the Vasaloppet, a popular cross -country ski race which takes place in Sweden over a distance of 90 km . She achieves a time of 7 hours, 13 minutes and 36 seconds, which positions her 412 ^{It is} Out of 1734 classified women ^{[ 21 ]} . The confessed goal of this participation is to collect funds for a work of charity dedicated to children ^{[ 22 ]} .

The novelist Plum Sykes, who knows the world of fashion and worldly events well, wrote of her:

“Pippa is the one that is most lucky. It receives all the attention to men, stylists, those who organize receptions and many others, and has none of the obligations that go with it. She became a princess without the unpleasant sides. ( Pippa is the luckiest one of all. She gets all the right sort of attention from men, fashion designers, hostesses and things, and doesn’t have any of the duties. She’s become a Princess without the bad bits ^{[ 19 ]} .) »

In may 2013 , she became the shareholder and the sole administrator of PXM Enterprises Limited ^{[ 23 ] , [ 24 ]} . The company is based at 19 Portland places in London ^{[ 24 ] , [ 23 ]} , and raised assets worth £ 211,521 in 2014, at the end of his first exercise ^{[ 25 ]} .

In April 2016 Pippa participated in the Glaciers patrol where she completed the Grande Patrol in a time of 2:54 p.m. with her two teammates ^{[ 26 ]} .

Time classified it as one of the 100 most influential personalities in the world after the marriage of his sister. Against half a million euros, she signs a book dealing with the art of receiving, which was mocked for the platitudes developed there. She then published a second, on dietary cooking recipes ^{[ 27 ]} .

Since 2021, she has devoted herself entirely to the world of well-being as well as to the education of her three children.

Her sister’s wedding [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

As soon as the wedding is announced, we immediately speak of Pippa Middleton as a main bridesmaid for the princely marriage that promises to be ^{[ 28 ]} . The information is then widely confirmed, specifying that the official title for its function during the marriage is maid of honour , and no chief bridesmaid ^{[ 29 ]} .

On this occasion, the long slender silhouette of Philippa Middleton caused a sensation both in the media and on the Internet ^{[ 30 ]} , dressed in a dress of ivory pancake closed in the back by buttons covered with organza ^{[ thirty first ] , [ 32 ] , [ 33 ]} Signed Sarah Burton (at Alexander McQueen) ^{[ 34 ]} .

Private life [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

During her studies, she attended children of the aristocracy; She has an affair with the son of a duke. She then continues several boyfriends ^{[ 27 ]} .

In July 2016 , Pippa Middleton gets engaged with James Matthews (with whom she had already had an adventure in 2012 ^{[ 27 ]} ), former Formula 3 race pilot, manager of cover funds ( hedge funds ) and eldest son of David Matthews, Laird de Glen Affric, who has a historic castle 15 miles from Loch Ness in the Highlands ^{[ 35 ]} . Marriage takes place the May 20, 2017 ^{[ 36 ]} .

The couple has three children:

• Arthur Michael William Matthews, né le October 15, 2018 in London ^{[ 37 ] , [ 38 ]} ;
• Grace Elizabeth Jane Matthews, born on 15 mars 2021 in London ^{[ 39 ]} ;
• Rose Matthews, born in June 2022 in London ^{[ 40 ]} .

Pippa Middleton is one of his ancestors Sir Thomas Leighton (around 1530-1610), Governor of Guernsey from 1570 to 1609, and his wife Elizabeth Knollys (1549–1605), small cousin of Queen Élisabeth I ^re from England. It was said of Sir Thomas Leighton that he was a “tyrant thirsty for blood”, because of his particularly brutal and disrespectful behavior of his Curnesian citizens, to whom he reproached for having “a Little too much sympathy for the French ” ^{[ 41 ]} .

In the TV movie entitled Kate and William: When it all started … broadcast it April 18, 2011 , the role of Pippa Middleton is held by Mary Elise Hayden. The other actors are Camilla Luddington, who plays the role of her sister Catherine Middleton, Serena Scott Thomas performs their mother, Carole Middleton, and Ben Cross plays the role of Prince Charles ^{[ 42 ]} .

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