Pricences Kate Middleton's Sister Pippa Middleton

Pippa Middleton is the younger sister of Kate Middleton, the finace of Prince William. Her real name is Philippa but people gave her the nickname "Pippa" for short and it stuck. Pippa is a a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, and has always been into fashion and women's lifestyle interests. Pippa is very much a socialite in the modern sense but the young lady seems to have avoided most of the less than fortunate trappings of the title. The family business was started in 1987. It's called Party Pieces, a mail order firm that sells party supplies, decorations and other party essentials. And it's quite successful. 

The Marraige of William and Kate has now thrust Kate's younger sister into the limelight. Pip, whose full name is Philippa Charlotte Middleton, was born in 1983 was also educated at St Andrew's School, Pangbourne, and then Marlborough College, a co-educational independent school in Wiltshire.After that she also went north, but not to the University of St Andrews but to Edinburgh University, where she shared a house with Lord Edward Innes-Ker, a son of the Duke of Roxburghe, and with George, Earl Percy, son and heir of the Duke of Northumberland. 

In 2007 she ended a three-year relationship with Jonathan Jardine Paterson, of the Hong Kong banking family, whom she had first dated at Edinburgh, and after that her name was linked with the man about town Billy More Nisbett. She also enjoyed a close friendship with Lord Percy.

In 2008, Middleton took a job with Table Talk, a company based in London which organizes events and parties. In September 2009, it was reported that she had been 'snapped up' by Alexander Spencer Churchill, of the investment managers Spencer-Churchill Miller, after he ended a relationship with Lady Louisa Compton, the youngest child of the Marquess of Northampton.Following the official announcement of her sister's engagement to Prince William on 23 November 2010, the Daily Mail commented 'Ironically, family friends of the Middletons say that everyone always thought that the sparkly Pippa rather than the quieter and less glossy Kate would be the one most likely to make a spectacular marriage'.

She is an established figure on the social circuit, one of the so ­called 'turbo toffs' - expensively ­educated, impeccably groomed, well­ connected types who are seen quaffing champagne cocktails in the coolest clubs from Kensington to Cannes.
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Royal Wedding in 60 Seconds - and the Balcony Kiss

From ABC News in America is this video - Royal Wedding in 60 Seconds -

I wonder what King George III (last King of America!) would have made of it all. A man of great passion, who was persuaded not to marry his great love Lady Sarah Lennox ("I am born for the happiness or misery of a great nation," he wrote, "and consequently must often act contrary to my passions."). Also a man of great virility it seems. He fathered nine sons and six daughters with Queen Charlotte, to whom he became happily married. If he'd come up with a show like that of yesterday and one for each of the 15 children, General Washington might have stayed put in Mount Vernon!

Cartwheeling verger, Uncle Gary, Boris, Becks and Pippa too!

Uncle Gary in the posh clobber

There are certain events where it pays to have a second look. The Royal Wedding all looked so fantastic on the "live" event. But for the "extras" you had to wait for the recorded bits. That's when the digitally-enhanced computer geeks of the media give their presenters something juicy to talk about.

Jon Snow was quite taken with the cartwheeling verger. And who can blame the guy for a bit of exuberance. The Abbey must have been under all sorts of pressure to get it right on the day. They got it right and it must have felt great. If you are a verger and you can do cartwheels, Westminster Abbey is a very good place to thank God for your talent!

Talking of talents there are plenty in the Middleton/Goldsmith clan. I see James Middleton is into cakes. His mother is a party favours supplier. Pippa Middleton is a 57 a second Tweet gatherer. Michael Middleton is top of every father's list for his talented bride-giving-away technique. I thought he was great!

But what of Uncle Gary Goldsmith. Carole must have had double-minded thoughts on that one. What to do with brother Gary? The Daily Mail describes him as a black sheep of the family. Well, haven't we all had one in a generation or two. I certainly have. Not like Gary, though. He's got tattoos that look like a stamp collection. And he lives in a house in Spain called 'La Maison de Bang Bang'. Very tasteful. He seems to have a talent for creating wealth in a way that the press find curiously interesting. Oh, and he rather crudely called William a f****r on first meeting him.

Boris Johnson is taking the cuts seriously. He hired his morning suit apparently. You can't win in the sartorial game. If he'd owned a suit that fitted he'd be got at for being a toff. Samantha Cameron is twitted for not wearing a hat. I didn't know hat wearing was compulsory for women at weddings. By the way, I thought Ed Miliband and Justine looked very good. Why spoil it all by listening to those dears on the front bench and turning up in your day clothes.

Gorgeous! Simply gorgeous!

David Beckham spruces up well. He needs advice, though, on medal wearing. And I couldn't help but smile at how pleased Elton John looked with just being there. Three times at least he was shown by the BBC and each time he looked like a cat admiring a bowl of cream.

A great day all round. The German newspaper Bild was bemoaning the fact that Germany doesn't have a royal family. Well, they could have but they locked their royals up in their castles and were nasty to them. And I don't include the Kaiser in that. King Simeon of Bulgaria and King Michael of Romania were there, as was King Constantine. Maybe the European Commission could have a Be Nice To Kings Day?

It was right to have the day off. A public holiday for people to mix, match and make merry. If Nick Clegg had any worries about social mobility then he can forget them. Yesterday we got social mobility in all directions!


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Royal Wedding Day

Royal Wedding Watcher

Two billion people will be watching the Royal Wedding on television. Staggering thought. I've also thought of those hardy souls in California and the West Coast. Have they stayed up late or got up early? I see Tara Palmer-Tomkinson has been invited and her hat as well. The weather looks like it may just about hold out. Any foreigner who is watching and is thinking of England and April showers can be assured that this April has been spectacularly sunny and warm. Maybe global warming has some benefits. John Redwood said he hoped this was a plus side of it and he seems to have had his wish fulfilled this month. The weather forecasters change their predictions on a daily basis now. Yesterday Solihull was being prescribed "white cloud" for today, yet now it is supposed to be "sunny intervals". London will get similar sunny spells. This has been the pattern throughout April. I get the impression we are being given gloomy weather predictions by the forecasters and God is shining on their parade.

Anyway, come rain or shine, the crowds out in the streets won't be bothered. It's a great day to day. I liked the bubbly comments a young woman from Kentucky, camped out on a vantage point. She gave the lowdown on the day to a BBC reporter. He then passed the microphone to a lugubrious Englishman who commented "she knows more about it than I do!". "She's American", was the BBC man's retort.

Great interest around the world. Wow!

Royal Wedding - obeying commands

The Royal Wedding is only a day away now. It's the best show in town and has put paid to the alternative show next week! Even if some may not be bothered, there's always something for everyone in a royal event like a marriage. This time it includes the guest list, the ancestors (not on the guest list!) and the campers-out.  Oh, and that little word "obey".

As Syria is exploding in bloodshed and acrimony, it was a bit much for the royal couple to have to smile sweetly at the Syrian Ambassador as they leave the Abbey. The Buckingham Palace courtiers say they were obeying protocol by inviting him. Others thought differently and politics trumped protocol. The courtiers obeyed and the ambassador had his invitation withdrawn. No withdrawal of invitations to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. They were not invited in the first place. Can't think why anyone would imagine they should have been. Jack Straw puffed himself up with indignation. The protocol here was that they weren't Knights of the Garter so that was the rule being obeyed.

The Royal Wedding has its very own website, under the domain name of Official Royal Wedding 2011. Interesting FAQs. The tabloid press should read up on them. Already they are suggesting Princess Catherine but she does not become a princess purely by marriage. This title is in the gift of the Queen. Officially she will be Princess William of Wales, but that won't wear well on the front page of The Sun. Probably a royal dukedom will be dusted off for immediate use. Then she will be a Duchess commonly known as Princess Kate.

A genealogist has unearthed a link between Prince William and the Middletons. But William's Middletons are not apparently Kate's Middletons. The Middleton in question was John Middleton, who, one night in 1674, "befuddled with drink", fell downstairs and he died from his injuries. Middleton is described as a "hard-drinking ruffian" and "notorious". Catherine Middleton has a few choice ancestors too, including Edward Thomas Glassborow, an ancestor of Miss Middleton's father, Michael, who was listed as an inmate at Holloway Prison in London in the 1881 census.

In every marriage of significant public interest that is officiated within the Church of England much is said of the word obey. This wedding is no exception. In modern parlance the word is taken to mean complying with instructions of a person in authority, such as an army officer or policeman. So it is little wonder that Miss Middleton has declined to "obey" her husband. Yet that was never the intention in the first place. In a religious context it simply means to listen because the Latin is oboedire. It could hardly be a Christian marriage based on mutual understandings if "Wilt thou obey him" gave carte blanche to the husband to insist on twenty things being done before breakfast!

Anyway, she won't be obeying him, but she looks every inch the listener so all's well in that department I suggest. And tomorrow will be here very soon.

Kate Middleton confirmed in Church of England

It's confirmed! She's confirmed

Just a few days before the Royal Wedding takes place it has been announced that Kate Middleton has been confirmed in the Church of England at a private ceremony carried out by the Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Richard Chartres. Miss Middleton, 29, was baptised when she was five months old. The ceremony, which marks the point where baptised Christians make a firm commitment to their faith, was held on 10 March.

As Prince William, when he becomes king, will be the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, it is fitting that his wife as queen consort is also committed, so to speak. Apparently she decided to be confirmed as part of her marriage preparations. This is good news. I do not know whether she comes from a family with any previous church involvement or whether it has been of the hatching, matching and despatching variety. But from now on, church matters will matter to her and her husband.

In his lifetime he may see the collapse of the C of E, he may see it rise to new heights. Whatever happens, the Church isn't going to be as remote as it was in William IV's reign. William V will have quite a time with it all, one aspect being to get his head around what Faith he will actually be defending!

Prince William to marry next year

There's some good news suddenly. Lot's of it, in fact. We need a bit considering all the gloom financially. Prince William has decided to make an honest woman of Kate Middleton. Or is it the other way round? From what the BBC is saying, it was Miss Middleton who had her eyes on Prince William at least as far back as 10 years and steadily pursued her prince. Now it is all official and everyone seems pleased. Prince Charles is pleased. "Well, he's been practising long enough" was the merry quip. Assuming all goes to plan, Kate with become Queen Catherine.

The last queen consort of that name was Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II. That merry monarch practised quite a bit producing many offspring of an illegitimate kind. Despite the sprogs and the spaniels, Catherine was a loyal queen but was regarded with suspicion by many because she only spoke Portuguese and was a Roman Catholic. No such problems with Kate. She appears to be just what the public would want in a queen. As one subject delicately put it, "she's not some stuffy royal, she's from coalmining stock!". One might think a touch of the Arthur Scargills was about to descend over Buckingham Palace.

Coalmining stock is actually quite good. It did OK in Chile. And when she gets to be a royal princess (of the unstuffy variety) she can invite Sir Jimmy Savile to her court. Two for the price of one there. Court jester and former coalminer. How's about that, then?