1. Pippa Middleton is the younger sister of Catherine, Princess of Wales.
27 Facts About Pippa Middleton
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Pippa Middleton subsequently worked in public relations and event management firms, later joining the party supply company owned by her parents, Michael and Carole Middleton.
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Pippa Middleton garnered media attention during her sister's relationship with Prince William, particularly for her appearance at their wedding in 2011.
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Pippa Middleton has written two books, Celebrate: A Year of Festivities for Families and Friends and Heartfelt: Over 100 Quick and Easy Recipes for a Healthy Heart, and contributed columns to both Vanity Fair and The Sunday Telegraph.
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In 2017 Pippa Middleton married James Matthews, a hedge fund manager, former racing driver, and heir apparent to the lairdship of Glen Affric.
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Philippa Charlotte Pippa Middleton was born on 6 September 1983 at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Berkshire, England.
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Pippa Middleton's father is a member of a wealthy family from Yorkshire linked to the British aristocracy.
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Pippa Middleton's mother descends from labourers and coal miners from County Durham.
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In 1987, Pippa Middleton's mother founded Party Pieces, a mail-order party supply company.
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Pippa Middleton was first educated at St Andrew's School, a private boarding school in Pangbourne and then Downe House School, a girls' day and boarding school in Cold Ash.
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Pippa Middleton then graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an undergraduate MA in English literature.
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Pippa Middleton shared a house with Lord Edward Innes-Ker, a son of the Duke of Roxburghe, and with Earl Percy, heir apparent of the Duke of Northumberland.
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In 2022, Pippa Middleton earned her postgraduate master's degree in Physical Education, Sport and Physical Literacy from University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
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Pippa Middleton then had an events management job with Table Talk, a company based in London that organises corporate events and parties.
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Pippa Middleton worked part-time for her parents' company Party Pieces, editing the web magazine Party Times.
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Pippa Middleton has contributed articles to The Spectator magazine since December 2012 and began having a food column in the supermarket magazine Waitrose Kitchen beginning in spring 2013.
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Pippa Middleton went on to write a series of columns for the magazine.
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Pippa Middleton was headquartered at 19 Portland Place in London.
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In June 2014, Pippa Middleton became an ambassador to the British Heart Foundation.
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Pippa Middleton's bicycle was auctioned on eBay for the BHF.
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Pippa Middleton then attended the BHF's Roll out the Red Ball at the Park Lane Hotel on 10 February 2015.
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Pippa Middleton took part in the London to Brighton Bike Ride for the BHF on 21 June 2015.
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In September 2015, Pippa Middleton participated in a 47-mile swim-run competition in Sweden alongside her brother and her future husband, James Matthews, to raise money for the Michael Matthews Foundation, a charity founded in honour of Matthews' brother who died descending from the peak of Everest.
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In September 2016, Pippa Middleton released her second book, Heartfelt, whose proceeds go to the British Heart Foundation.
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Pippa Middleton served as the maid of honour at her sister Catherine's wedding in 2011 to Prince William.
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In July 2016, in the Lake District, Pippa Middleton became engaged to James Matthews, a hedge fund manager who is a former professional racing driver.
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Pippa Middleton will acquire the title Lady Glen Affric upon her husband's inheritance of the lairdship.