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Pippa Middleton Profile

Philippa Charlotte “Pippa” Middleton (born 6 September 1983) is an English party planner, socialite and sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. On 29 April 2011, Pippa Middleton was the maid of honour at her sister’s wedding to Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, second in the line of succession to Queen Elizabeth II.

Early life of Pippa Middleton

Pippa Middleton was born in 1983, the second of the three children of Michael Middleton, who was then a British Airways flight dispatcher, and Carole Goldsmith, who was a former flight attendant. Her father’s family came from Leeds, West Yorkshire, and one of her great-grandmothers, called Olivia Lupton, belonged to a business family active in Leeds for generations. Carole Middleton’s mother’s family were labourers and miners from County Durham. The third child of the family is James Middleton (born 1987), who is now a businessman.

In the mid 1980s, when her two eldest children were at a pre-school and the family was living at Bradfield Southend, Middleton’s mother set up ‘Party Pieces’, a company which began by making party bags and which now sells party supplies and decorations by mail order. By 1995 the firm, run by both parents, was so successful that it moved into a range of farm buildings at Ashampstead Common, and since then the Middleton parents are reported to have become millionaires.

In 1995, the Middletons moved to Bucklebury, Berkshire. Like her sister, Pippa Middleton was initially educated at St Andrew’s School, Pangbourne, then at Downe House, a girls’ boarding school in Cold Ash, and finally at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, which Pippa Middleton attended on a sports/all-rounder scholarship. Pippa Middleton then followed her sister to higher education in Scotland, attending the University of Edinburgh to study English literature. There she shared a house with Lord Edward Innes-Ker, a son of the Duke of Roxburghe, and with Earl Percy, heir of the Duke of Northumberland.

Adult life of Pippa Middleton
Following graduation, in 2008 Pippa Middleton worked for a short time for a public relations firm promoting luxury products, then Pippa Middleton took a job with Table Talk, a company based in London which organises events and parties. Also in 2008, Tatler magazine named Middleton “the Number 1 Society Singleton”, beating singer-songwriter James Blunt and Princess Eugenie. Since then, Pippa Middleton has often been described as a socialite. As part of a duo with her older sister, Middleton has received wide press coverage, focussing on her social life and her lifestyle.

Pippa Middleton (far right) on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after her sister’s wedding.

The Daily Telegraph reported in 2010 that Middleton’s parents had ambitious plans to expand their company, Party Pieces, and wanted her to take an increasingly prominent role. Pippa Middleton now spends two days a week editing the web magazine Party Times, a spin-off from Party Pieces.

Royal wedding of Pippa Middleton

The official announcement of her sister’s engagement came on 23 November 2010. After being widely expected, Pippa’s appointment as maid of honour was confirmed on 14 February 2011. The New York Times later commented on her being highly organised and having taken charge of many details of the wedding, including the late-night reception which followed it. At the wedding, Middleton’s white figure-hugging dress, which like the bride’s was created by Sarah Burton, was highly praised in the media. Made of ivory crape fabric, it was styled with a cowl at the front and organza-covered buttons at the back. Some reports of the wedding suggested that Pippa Middleton had “stolen the show”.
After the wedding, Kate Reardon, editor of Tatler, commented in the New York Times “Every magazine in the Western world now wants her on the cover. Pippa Middleton will be having job offers hurled at her”.

Ancestry of Pippa Middleton
Pippa Middleton’s coat of arms, based on those of her father. This lozenge shaped version, supported by a blue ribbon, denotes a spinster and can be used by no one else.

Middleton’s ancestors include Sir Thomas Leighton (ca. 1530–1610), Governor of Guernsey from 1570 to 1609, and his wife Elizabeth Knollys (1549–1605), who was a cousin of Queen Elizabeth I. Her later ancestors include The Rev. Thomas Davis, a Church of England hymn-writer, whose grand-daughter Olive Christiana Lupton was one of the grandmothers of Michael Middleton.

Film

In William & Kate, a television movie released on 18 April 2011 about her sister’s romance, the part of Pippa Middleton was played by Mary Elise Hayden.[Pippa Middleton]