It’s amusing to me to see all of the interest in Pippa Middleton’s wedding to Terribly Rich James Matthews. Most of the interest is on the periphery characters of this little wedding scene, like Pippa’s sister, the Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. So I thought we would focus on the bride for a moment. Let’s do this with Pippa Tips!
Pippa Tip #1: Many people enjoy a post-wedding holiday called a “honeymoon.” Sex is usually had on one’s honeymoon.
I forgot to even wonder about where Pippa and Terribly Rich James would even go for their honeymoon, but it seems they probably won’t go far. Reportedly, Pippa and James will probably go his family’s 10,000-acre estate in Scotland. The Glen Affric estate has apparently already been “booked” for a week before and after the wedding, and a friend said: “Pippa has been on lots of visits to Scotland – it is like a second home to her. She loves the outdoors and sense of freedom. She also has lots of friends in the Highlands. She is quite a country girl and loves the Scottish countryside. It will be part of their honeymoon; it gives them peace, space, privacy and some of the best scenery in the world. What more could you want?” If you thought that read like a Middleton-approved advertisement for Glen Affric – which is available for bookings! – then you are probably correct. Plus, the Middletons love to bill Kate and Pippa as “just country girls,” like they just stepped out of a Jane Austen novel. They are Bucklebury’s “local beauties” in need of men of means.
Pippa Tip #2: Don’t worry about alienating your groom’s family, it’s not like that could come back to haunt you. If they don’t have a royal title, they don’t matter!
Apparently, Terrible Rich James’ family is not allowed to stay with the Middleton clan for the wedding festivities. The Middletons insisted on hosting the wedding reception at their sprawling manor in Bucklebury, but the Matthews family has to stay at a hotel miles away. The excuse being given is that William, Kate, their kids and possibly Harry and Meghan are all staying with the Middletons. So… no room for James’ family. A source told the Daily Express: “As well as hosting the reception at Bucklebury Manor, the Middletons have got Pippa staying there the night before the wedding along with William, Kate and the children so it’s going to be pretty chaotic. James’s parents are hoteliers themselves so they are more than happy being put up elsewhere. They also understand the need for privacy with two future kings and Prince Harry staying with the Middletons. Everyone will be able to make it to the church on time because Land Rover are apparently providing all the transport.” Um, is Pippa’s wedding sponsored by Land Rover???
Pippa Tip #3: Make sure your Terribly Rich Fiancé is actually terribly rich.
According to the Daily Mail, Terribly Rich James Matthews has had to give himself a pay cut at the hedge fund he started and operates: “He has been forced to slash his own earnings by a wince-making sum of almost £370,000 after profits fell at his hedge fund firm. It left him with just under £200,000 in his annual pay packet.” Poor Pippa – the Middletons always made it clear that she was “settling” for someone who was merely rich (as opposed to rich and titled) and now it’s looking like Terribly Rich James is merely Moderately Wealthy James.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
Those women have such odd torsos. They take “long waisted” to a new level.
So is he a trust fund baby or does he actually have to W-O-R-K?
I have one too coupled with short arms and legs. It’s annoying 😣
Me too, Lex. It sucks. Although my midwife said a long waist means delivering babies is easier. And I did have an easy time. So at least there’s that.
Same here, with a pot-belly. Your midwife might be on to something, Jess, I had two very swift deliveries (the second time twins). I’ll try and remember that in yoga class when I watch everybody wrap their arm around their legs effortlessly.
Abit of column A and abit of column B.
His parents made enough money that he didn’t need to work, and his brother Spencer does not unless you count the benefits of appearing on numerous reality shows.
Unlike Spencer, James works. And has been successful at it enough to afford a £17M home in Chelsea even if there is a mortgage on it. Ditto other toys like private plane etc.
The parents live elsewhere.
I would like to add that many “hedge funds” don’t actually do anything productive but merely sell off the family silver of the company they currently deal with (e.g. have bought with a cheap credit). Sad but true. It is called “trimming” and “toning” and “cutting the fat” and such crap. It usually means that they slash the wages of those who do the actual work and burden the company with the credit they used to buy the company. If the company goes bust they act like vultures and feast on the pieces. And that is usually what hedge funds are: vultures who at best clean the market and who at worst act like predators and kill healthy companies for profit.
“Hedge fund owner” – I am not impressed. But at least Terribly Rich James doesn’t go bancrupt again and again as brother Middleton.
The annoying part is they actually have great figures for clothes, but they don’t understand their shapes at all so they always bring out the worst in their unusual proportions.
Yep.
If they dressed to their figures, we wouldn’t notice the proportions.
There is a reality star, Myleene Klass, with similar proportions who dresses so well for her figure that i am always surprised when she’s pictured in a bikini on her paid/free advert holidays.
Rania has the long-torso/short legs build and manages to dress stylishly most of the time. Ditto Claire Danes. Halle Berry does too, but she’s curvier than the others.
That’s what I was thinking. They’re so slender and toned but just don’t look as good as one would expect.
I’ll swap you if you like!
My torso is quite a stubby, boxy shaped thing and I can never wear a drop waist without looking utterly ridiculous, especially since I’m top-heavy.
I suppose the grass is always greener…
They really believe that they are “Jane Austen country girls”. And girls like the Bennett girls were essentially rather poor which is why Austen described their dresses as “simple” and “white” because they were home made for lack of funds.
The Middletons are similar: simple boring dresses one would expect upper (middle) class country girls would wear.
Well, they try to “pull up their waistline” by wearing high-waisted stuff. But they wear such tight snug fits that it doesn’t work because you can see their long torsos because of their clothes’ tight fit.
It is hilarious.
@Amelia Giiiiiiirl I hear you! I’m 5’1″ and top heavy with a big ribcage and a short waist. The only thing worse than a drop waist on me is a bias cut *shudder shudder*!
The have the inverted triangle body shape (most models have this) and there are a few basic ‘rules’ they should follow.
Disclaimer: I’m not a stylist but I worked in fashion in a past career and one stylist remarked on the following tips Waity needs to stick to, to create the illusion of balance. I has always stuck with me.
– Separates are her best friend. Light colour on top and dark colour on bottom with a bold shoe.
– Skirts should be knee length A line or pencil
– Trousers should be relaxed skinny, straight cut or cigarette style
– A V neckline is her friend, hides the wide shoulders
– Mix and match colours. Colour blocking can draw attention to what you are trying to hide
– Dresses should be loose fitting from the bust line down and any features, such as lace, around the shoulder/breast area is a no no as it draws attention to the shoulders. Loose fitting from bust down hides the tiny waist
– Jackets should be waist length and tailored to fit torso. Same goes for shirts
– Skinny’s should be avoided as they draw attention to the small waist, same goes for those form fitting dresses and dress coats she loves. Both accentuate the body shape
– Belts are her friend. She wears belts but sometimes she wears them when she doesn’t need to
– 3 quarter length sleeves are good
The closet she has recently come to dressing for her body shape is that Chanel outfit she wore in Paris. She could have gotten away with not wearing the belt and she def didn’t need the bag.
@Digital Unicorn (aka Betti): any tips for tall, hourglass figures (that’s a nice way of saying I have a fat a– and big boobs)?
@HappyMom – that’s my body type too. I tend to wear fitted/tailored clothes, loosing fitting tops/skirts tend to make me look pregnant (i have a little belly). Wrap tops and dresses are great, esp when teamed with a belt. V necklines are our friend as it draws attention to the waist. Tops that are below the waistline hide a multitude of sins. Fitted skirts and trousers are good (not skinny jeans) as they flatter my JLo ass.
Also with material, the stretchy stuff is great as it hugs the curves (i always have a slip on underneath to hide the dreaded VPL). Soft materials (like silk blends) are good as they drape over the curves. Stiff materials just highlight the wrong things.
Hope this helps, am not a stylist just someone who picked up things from someone who was.
I should stay off these boards tonight. Have a presentation to finish for a job interview tomorrow. 🙂
HappyMom, try looking at Queen Mathilde’s fashion. She is tall, short-waisted/long-legged, and has curvy hips. Eugenie too. When they get it wrong, it can be very bad. But when they get it right, they get it really right.
DIGITAL UNICORN: (aka. Betty): Good luck on your job interview!!!! Let us know how it goes! 😃
Thanks, notsugarhere and Digital Unicorn (aka Betty). And good luck on the presentation!
I am short and plump to be honest. But that admitted too, they are long torso’d and Pippa is amazingly musculature on the bottom half especially. So little body fat regardless of figure is what I should aspire too good for Pippa and her fitness she 👀 much more healthy than Waity
JB-ITA!! Say what you will about Pippa, she has a fantastic figure and looks much healthier than Kate.
My body type. Nothing you can do about the proportions of your torso. Kinda born that way. Shrug.
Gasp! Not 200,000 pounds a year! There are doctors and lawyers who make that! Yuck! Surely, a beautiful young cheeto like Pippa deserves more than that!
Does Pippa have money of her own? She basically works for a living right?
Does she?
The advance (less agent fees + taxes) that she received for her book. If i recall, it was as large as £250K.
Plus whatever fees she received for columns in various magazines. She appears to have been dropped by all of them, or benched until her contracts ran out.
I don’t think doctors or lawyers would want a wife like Pippa.
What is a “wife like Pippa” though? I don’t have a good sense of her. I figure she’s fun loving and good-natured. Vapid, sure, but plenty of high earning professionals are happy to come home to a vapid spouse who doesn’t challenge them. She has a great figure and will probably be a good mom. I totally get why aristos didn’t want any part of her gold-digging family, but she seems perfect for a finance-bro.
Professionals prefer a not-too-vapid spouse who has interests and education and who won’t sit at home and go on holidays only because that is the way they live their lives and like and like are attracted to each other.
Fun Loving gets boring when it lacks substance. It is not about challenging them but it is about having something interesting to tell. It is about being able to claim that your spouse isn’t a vacant bimbo which is embarassing for many professionals as they are the opposite of that.
Those who marry vapid spoused do usually get divorced. Look out for them.
And nope, she is no trophy wife either. She doesn’t have the face for that nor the body.
And I doubt she will be a good mum. She isn’t interested in her own talents or interests nor into turning her talents or interests into something serious like a career or at least a hobby. I doubt she is able to nurture her children’s interests and talents beyond High School level. None of the Middleton children got that, btw. None of them used their interests / talents. None of them used their ridiculously expensive education. James doesn’t count as he relies on family money to bail out his failing businesses. None of them tries to give their life some direction and autonomy. I dare say they didn’t even try.
Loving the snark!
Me, too! In the DM article, I found the part about the loan from TR James to Marshmallow James quite interesting. They already had Uncle Gary’s ATM card, now TRJ’s? When it comes to money, that family seems to operate in concert, like one gigantic leech.
I am not sure about Britain but sometimes you can get tax deductions if you give somebody a loan. For real.
Why would Meghan stay with the Middletons? I thought she was not invited to the wedding, but only the reception afterwards. Also I would tend to think Harry and Meghan would prefer the privacy and no chaos of a hotel.
Staying at a hotel requires all kids of security sweeps and procedures. With Kate Middleton living with her mother off-and-on for the last six years, there is already 1 million in taxpayer-funded security upgrades at Middleton Manor.
I am guessing they are all staying with the Midds because security is already in place and it is easier.
As for James’ parents staying at a hotel, I have never heard of the in laws and groom staying with the bride and her parents the night before the wedding. The Daily Fail is working extra hard to drum up drama for this wedding. Either they have no info so they can’t scream about its lavishness, or this is going to be on dull affair.
I agree, Megan. It would be strange for everyone to be staying under one (residential, non-palatial) roof before the wedding. The future in-laws are probably in a beautiful hotel with luxurious accommodations, with no complaints. The only surprise is that it wasn’t named–no freebies there?
Right? What a bizarre assumption. Of course the groom’s family would be staying someplace else!
Does he have family money? Is he getting any of it?
He appears to have done very well for himself that he doesn’t need any family money even though his parents are spectacularly self-made.
That said, the resort in St Barts and the estate in Scotland seem to be family concerns rather than just parental ownership, so perhaps he has already received his inheritance from his parents with family ownership of those and other investments.
His family is way wealthier than hers, from what I understand. Do you know LAK?Poor guy having to take such a large pay cut right after he bought that expensive ring. Ouch!
Maria: Definitely.
The article says nothing about bonuses. His salary pay cut doesn’t mean he didn’t receive bonuses. For any decent Hedge fund, those ran in the millions despite the relatively low salaries. So that DM article is basing it’s comments on a known, inconsequential thing when they should be looking at the bonuses.
Well, they have a 10,000 acre estate in Scotland, and her groom owns a house in London, so he is certainly not poor. Plus a private jet, I believe, which would be great for Will and kate to use to sneak away on vacations without the English peasants getting wind of it.
Win, win for the Middleton clan!!
In preparing for hosting this affair, I imagine Carole pulled out all the stops in regard to major renovations, high-end upgrades, 1000 count Egyptian cotton sheets, as well as perfect landscaping, garden lighting, and such.
I do enjoy reading Architectual Digest, so I would love a good look around the interior of Bucklebury. I wouldn’t think she would leave herself open to any possibility of people criticizing her taste.
Usually, the more humble the beginnings, the more obsessed one is with the ostentatious trappings of success and wealth.
You’re right. They required the buyer of their previous house to sign a confidentiality agreement banning photos of the interior. How that impacts any future resale of that property I don’t know.
I would have loved to see the home too, I admit I click on all the celebrity home articles on the DM or flip through Architectural Digest. But I can understand they wouldn’t want pictures for security reasons. Maybe they’ll allow some pictures of their gardens one day?
http://www.mylusciouslife.com/royalty-kate-middleton-family-home-in-bucklebury-berkshire/
Here are photos of the house including some interior shots. Scroll down to the middle of the page.
IIRC the photos are from the sale of the property several years before Carole Middleton bought it.
I really don’t like Middleton Manor. It looks like an oversized village house. Are country houses so expensive in the UK? For that price tag, they couldn’t afford an architectural gem? A Tudor manor or a Palladian house? And what’s the deal with the low ceilings? I’ve noticed that in pictures of other celebrities’ houses or flats, including Ivanka’s. Some rooms seem to be just little cubicles really, narrow and low-celeings. Or maybe it’s because of the way the pictures were taken.
It’s all about location. That part of Berkshire is very desirable as it’s close to Heathrow, and London. Lots of oligarchs, bankers, etc around there. You could get more architectural bang for your buck elsewhere, but I’m sure that wasn’t their primary consideration.
@MinnFinn,
Thank you!!
Those photos are gorgeous. I’d live there in a heartbeat. lol
MinnFinn, I think the interior shots are of the new house they bought in 2012. They were taken from the property listing. There are no pictures of the interior of their original house, which they sold when they moved into the new one. That is the house where the buyer had to sign a confidentiality agreement to never show the interior of KM’s childhood home.
Well, she is hosting two future kings and Prince Harry, you know. Two future kings! That’s a Middleton PR leak if I ever saw one.
Where is the dodgy uncle? I miss him
Did he ever sell La Maison de Bang Bang?
That family needs to stop.
Oh how will the poor things survive! 🙃🙃
So if Harry’s staying at the midds does that mean Meghan is too? So she’ll be there the when they’re getting ready, everybody will leave for the church she’ll be there on her own with whatever staff is taking care of food entertainment etc. by herself in a house she’s never been in before waiting for her everyone to get back. Doesn’t sound very fun to me.
So land rovers sponsoring pips wedding? Do you think their contract with them ensures they’ve pride of place at least once a year at a big event, where actual royals are present?
The BRF and Land Rover have had a relationship for decades. It involves free or heavily discounted leases. The Midds apparently got deals on their Rovers as well.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3709726/Is-seemly-Royals-crass-ad-Land-Rover-Car-maker-receives-favourable-publicity-special-relationship-Royals.html
“They are Bucklebury’s “local beauties” in need of men of means”
This has me in stitches, you’re awesome, Kaiser!
Yep! That was a very fun read!!
I loved that part too! ha
It’s time to revisit (and I may remember slightly wrong), “Happy for all her maternal instincts was the day Mrs. Bennett got rid of her two most deserving daughters.”
As a Janeite, I think the Wisteria sisters would be the villains in a Jane Austen novel. Their social-climbing ways and their overbearing mother would make a great target of Austen’s irony. I think they resemble most the Bingley sisters or the Steele sisters. Off topic, but my pet peeve is how Austen has been hijacked by the romance genre. She was a satirist and an ironic and lucid observer of society, but this has been forgotten in a sea of bonnets and wet shirts.
That sentence was a thing of beauty.
Thanks! I’ve always felt like Carole Middleton is a villain/mother out of a Jane Austen novel.
Signed “upper middle class.”
Why would the matthews family even stay at Middleton Manor? Don’t the groom’s side usually do their own thing and hang with their own friends/family? That just sounds so weird to me that anyone thinks they should ditch their guests to stay at Bucklebury.
The Daily Mail keeps coming up with the weirdest stuff about this wedding.
Haha – I just said the same thing! I agree with you.
Yeah, I don’t get it either. Of course they would stay somewhere else.
I always thought he was well off but not capital m Money, you know? Much like the Middletons.
The in-law part doesn’t seem strange to me at all. It would seem odd if they WERE staying there.
I’d want to be as far away from Carole as possible. I’m sure the in-laws are perfectly happy to be staying at a hotel. I have a feeling that Jane Matthews is a match for Carole.
Let’s see – we can stay in a house with Carole running around, barking orders like a General, sulky Wills, anxious Kate, and possibly screaming children overwhelmed by the day? Or a 4 star hotel with privacy, great rooms, peace and quiet, massages, room service and all the luxuries they can want?
The Daily Mail thinks it’s weird they will be at a hotel?? HAHA! Nuts.
“They also understand the need for privacy with two future kings and Prince Harry staying with the Middletons.” YES! Lest we forget that this is royalty adjacent and NOT just reality show adjacent! I love/hate this entire thing.
That was my favorite. Lest we forget who she’s having stay.
I know some of you hate Middleton PR, but I love everything about it. It is a gift that never stops giving.
I wish Carole had ten daughters. I will so miss wedding absurdity when this is over.
I love the downgrade to rich enough James.
It’s not the PR I don’t like. I think that is a thing of beauty. It’s the utter pretentiousness of it. TWO FUTURE KINGS!!!!
Ah, bluhare — but WHICH two shall be king, of the four possibilities…..That is the question!! 🙂
Liberty – I vote for the least likely. Let’s say Charlotte and Mike!
So even before the pay cut, he was only making £570k per year? That really doesn’t make sense if he lives where they say he lives and in the kind of property. He’d need to be renting, and even then – a 2 bed maisonette in Chelsea goes for £5k per month and a (n admittedly stonking) townhouse is going for £65k per month. Something doesn’t add up.
Things rarely add up when you look at money connected to the Middletons, and possibly now by extension, James Matthews.
He manages a hedge fund. His salary is probably a pittance compared to the bonuses and commissions he earns. The DM is desperate to make this wedding a thing so they are looking for all the drama they can find.
Exactly.
It’s not the salary, but the commissions and bonuses they need to look at.
He would get a bonus even though his company lost money? I would think the shareholders wouldn’t be too pleased.
@Maria: welcome to hedge funds.
@Megan: the DM stories about this wedding have been so weird.
As a salary, 200k, or even 500k isn’t really that high by London standards. I mean, banker sin their 30’s are making that as their pre-bonus salary left and right. It’s a ridiculous amount of money, don’t get me wrong, but not for London and definitely not for the Sloan Sq set.
Having said that – I’m not convinced the parents are as wealthy as they have been made out to be. Spectacularly successful self made folks, yes, but wealth is relative, right?
The parents are definitely more wealthy than the Middletons based on a comparison of businesses, homes and toys.
Yet the Matthews seem as modest as if they only had a 2 up 2 down to their name whilst the Middletons go to great lengths to appear much wealtheir than they are.
People in the stock market make unreal bonuses every year. Sometime 10 or 20 times their salary. The salary is a joke.
This.
Uncle Dodgy is prob funding all of it. Maybe we’ll get to see him!
It’s just her starter marriage anyway. Husband #2 will be better off.
If it wasn’t for the crazy cult he is in, Tom Cruise would have been a good choice for a husband for Pippa. Imagine the bragging Carole could do?
” Yes Hyacinth, I am jetting off to California to see my darling Pippa and son in law. You know Tom Cruise, one of the most famous movie stars in the world? Going to see their Malibu oceanfront estate. I do hope I don’t burn while we are having lunch overlooking the Pacific. I will bring sunscreen. Then tomorrow back to London to see Kate and PRINCE William. I must also stop in an see the Queen she has not been returning my calls”
I think that will be Sussex / Florida rather than Malibu.
TC appears to have sold or selling his california properties for life in Florida or Sussex, England.
Close, RussianBlueCat. You just need to adjust your next to last sentence to say ” . . . to see Kate and the FUTURE KING.”
A honeymoon without a yacht? Have they lost their minds??? Everybody knows Pippa loves the sun, which is evident by her sun damaged skin…
Well it’s free. Don’t know if TR James (sorry Kaiser, Moderately Wealthy James), owns a yacht.
I know he owns a private jet.
I bet they will spend one week in the Caribbean followed by a few weeks back in London so TR James can check on his hedge fund. Then it’s off to Glen Afric for another week for part deux of their honeymoon because it’s very British royal family to have part of one’s honeymoon at one of one’s country estates. (Chuck and Di had part of their honeymoon at Balmoral.) Pippa undoubtedly has already had the final fitting of the brown tweed part of her honeymoon trousseau for their week playing Lord and Lady Glen Afric. Plus surely she has already signed a deal with Country Life for pap photos of her plucking a thistle plant and strolling along a path of heather.
LOVIN’ your pippa tips concept !
1. I am sure she is DESPERATE to get married.
2. Honeymooning in a place where they will likely spend a significant amount of time? If resources allow, many choose an exotic/special location.
I love the Highlands. This would be my dream honeymoon.
I agree. I love it up there too.
When I need a little escapism, I look at real estate listing for Highland cottages. I would love a cozy little cottage with a few cats, dogs, and maybe a sheep or two.
And now I have the vapors thinking about Jamie Fraser (TV series “Outlander”).
You and me both, Megan! I looked for Highland cottage rentals not too long ago. Although I could live up there easily I think.
Have you looked into renting the Captain’s House at Castle Mey? That’s a place I’d love to stay for a week.
Yep, definitely desperate, and she is settling. James was the last one standing, so she had to pick him.
I also think she’ll try for a baby right away.
Yup. And Waity will try for a third, so they can be preggies together and work on that line of organic baby food they talked about a couple of years ago, and never got around to doing.
That whole food plan had to be a complete tabloid fabrication, no? They were saying she was going to grow all the food at Anmer, when it only has a couple acres that is mostly covered in buildings and the tennis court. They grabbed a strip of farm land from next door in order to move the tennis court, because Anmer doesn’t have land associated with it.
What was she going to do, a hostile takeover of farmland on the rest of HM’s private property (Sandringham Estate), and try to compete against Charles’s Duchy Originals? With the Middleton family all involved in the business and profiting off the use of HM’s private land?
It had to have been written by someone at a tabloid who didn’t understand 1) they don’t own Anmer outright and 2) it doesn’t have any acreage with it. Maybe the writer was a fan desperate to pretend KM was doing something with her loads of spare time.
She’s got a guy that she shares actual interests and hobbies with, and who seems to be really into her. Frankly, I think she got the best deal of them all, especially when you look at how many of that aristo set are already divorced.
Agree. She looks really happy since the engagement. Maybe it’s a good match.
I learned everything I needed to know about Not So Rich James’ business acumen when I read about him loaning 100,000 pounds to the personalized marshmallow company.
Only an idiot would do something so stupid. But perhaps he felt he needed to help out his future BIL, even if it meant losing a lot of money.
A dowry of sorts?
Pippa was always going to have to end up settling – the men she wanted didn’t want anything to do with her and her family, even with the royal connections.
I think her incessant famewhoring after the wedding is what turned off the aristo crowd she was so interested in.
It was apparently the reason MW (Moderately Wealthy) James ended it with her the first time they were together. He didn’t like the constant press attention – she toned it down when she started seeing him again.
Um, what was it Her Grace the Duchess of Northumberland said when Pippa was trying to snag George Percy? “Not quite wife material . . .” Ouch!!!!!!!!!!!
It was Northumberland, wasn’t it? Them’s the Percys?
Yes, the Northumberlands are the Percy family. The Grosvenors have the Duke of Westminster title. In Ye Olde Days, those two heirs might have been eyed as spouses for Beatrice and Eugenie. The ages are off a bit, but marrying royal princesses into the two wealthiest landed families would have been matchmaking heaven.
Yes, I’d still like to see Beatrice end up with the Percy heir. That or Albert TNT.
I’d be pretty surprised if James doesn’t have a side “job” for his parents business, even if it doesn’t involve much actual work. That said, 200,000 Euro is not THAT much when you live in London and are accustomed to the lifestyle he is. And trying to support an entire family in London on that lifestyle? Forget it.
His salary got slashed but that doesn’t mean his returns as co-owner, his bonuses and comissions did…
i just came here to say the Scottish highlands is a great place for a honeymoon. it doesn’t seem like it but it is. the weather is moody, everything is cozy. it is remote, quiet and beautiful. it all makes for lots of sex. my husband and i were there last year and i got knocked up.
I bet it’s a fantastic vacay spot for wandering with pups. 🐕 But it doesn’t sound very jet-setter. Like, it’s a place two people actually in love would honeymoon. Maybe they are?
Sounds heavenly!
Scotland honeymoon reminds me of Kim and Kanye’s honeymoon. Lololol, the one she was miserable at because she had no cell reception and they ended early.
I think that was Ireland, wasn’t it?. Didn’t they spend their time cropping their wedding pictures and going to the movies as well? Ahhh, true love. Ugh.
Just how rich is this James guy actually? I feel as if the Middletons and William will use him cause of his wealth.
I would like to know his net worth. Assets minus liabilities. Even if he makes millions, it doesn’t mean much if he has a lot of debt. I’m sure he is not suffering, but it would be interesting to know.
Exactly so do I.
She looks exactly like If Wallis Simpson had a daughter, so weird to me. I also think Queen Ii looked like Claire Danes in her twenties.
The resemblance to young Wallis is esp strong when you look at photos of them when they aren’t smiling. In some photos, they look like the same person.
Just Googled that. #Kreepy. This isnt even a royal in-breeding scenario since neither is royal and Simpson was American. Just a seriously creepy coincidence.
A hedge fund manager/owner taking a 50+% salary cut after posting a loss in profits plays well to any anxious hedge fund clients.
But there was no mention of him foregoing or slashing any bonuses and commissions or any other profit percentage he gets if he owns a stake in the business. I’d imagine the majority of his wealth comes from those bonuses and commissions anyway. Those run into the multi-millions. If those weren’t cut, 370,000 pounds is likely an inconsequential loss in income for him.
The Middletons always remind me of a British version of the Kardashians. They should start a reality show.
Since she doesn’t appear to be intelligent, interesting or attractive, he seems like an adequate catch.
I think he might be quietly overextended and living on credit and other forms of lifestyle sustaining debt.
From previous endless holidays Pippa loves the beach and warm turquoise water. Period. I am not buying her sudden love for all things northern and rugged.
Hard to believe, but no one has brought this up, lol.
Are they actually in love?
I am loving this thread over here in the states! Great comments one and all.
@digital unicorn (aka Betti) thanks fir the GREAT style tips. I screen shot those for keeps. Any good tips to make a non- existent butt look best?
The guideline is that Pippa is Reliably in love – like a velvet glove, or the texture of a rose, that is Us.
Women everywhere bless love and stand up to hatefulness.
Dreams of war IS not our vision. Princes, and palaces and horses, perhaps are. I do not see the reason of dreams blinding us to our vision of loveliness on earth – might we perhaps make a heaven, before death?
I come at this very late – but I am so jovial, because my 38-year-old son told me, his mama, that I have developed a “pirate mouth”. This is my sweet boy, that I share with you, who promised not to swear until he was old enough – I told him that I would teach him how if he waited! My beautiful son… At 62, he is telling me that I have a potty mouth.
I come to you ladies, very late in the game. Tomorrow is a new day and news cycle.
It’s so confusing,….the royals;…hahahahahaha, and bullshit.
Well if ur not in the states ur used to all the royalty mumbo jumbo..we now have to cross are fingers and toes that our new president doesn’t cause world war 3..i like reading about the younger royalty.wish the little ones were around a bit more..thats what makes me read about your 2 FUTURE KINGS.Will katherine have another little boy i wonder.i would hope that they would have a house full.pippa mabe 1
If u remember in the early 1900’s the wealthy of the wealthy went over seas to find a royal hubby for there little girls and many found a duke or lord to marry but like in fairy tails they grew up reading there marriges made up of royal men but once married most found out the fairy tales were false.all the lords and such married them because they came from the rich of the new world and allthose castles and manors were falling apart.so the new money was used for yhe refurbushing of the estates.most women were left alone..only one woman married 4 love.she met a scottish lord who had need for her riches. And i think they lived a happy life..
I’m, salaries for hedge fund managers are just nominal amounts. They make all their money from co-investment percentages in all the funds themselves. It’s just optics.