As we learned last week, Pippa Middleton has a new boyfriend. She’s has been dating James Matthews for two months now, and he’s described as “terribly rich” and “really into Pippa.” He’s the CEO of Eden Rock Capital Management, which is the family business, I guess. His parents own the luxury Eden Rock Hotel on St. Bart’s, which is where Pippa and James’ love flourished over the holidays. You might also remember James Matthews because Pippa dated him for a few months several years ago, and because (I suspect) James Matthews was one of the big reasons why Pippa and Nico Jackson split up. Nico and Pippa had problems, but their relationship was over just as soon as she spent the night at James’ place last year. Well, funny story. Even though Pippa and James Matthews have only technically been dating for two months, they’re already moving in together. Hm…
The Duchess of Cambridge’s sister Pippa Middleton has moved in with the handsome – and terribly rich – brother of a reality television star after just two months of dating. Miss Middleton, 32, ended her three-year relationship with hedge fund manager Nico Jackson in October and has been dating former flame James Matthews, whose younger brother, Spencer, is the star of Made In Chelsea.
And in yet another sign the relationship is moving quickly the couple were spotted taking Miss Middleton’s mother, Carole, for a curry at high-end Indian restaurant Rasoi in Chelsea on Thursday – indicating the relationship has her seal of approval. Mr Matthews was spotted leaving the establishment seconds before Miss Middleton, who waited in the doorway with her mother before following him to their car. Despite the apparent attempt at subterfuge Miss Middleton could not hide her happiness and was spotted beaming as she caught up with her man.
Last week a well-placed source told MailOnline the relationship was tentative at first on Miss Middleton’s part but has quicky become serious, and the pair – who briefly dated in 2012 – have now been seeing each other for two months.
Today the Sun on Sunday reported Miss Middleton has enjoyed a ‘trial run’ of living in the financier’s £17million townhouse in Chelsea, and enjoyed the experience so much she now keeps her car, clothes and toothbrush there. A friend close to the couple said: ‘It’s all moved very quickly. They’ve been friends for a long time, but James has always been keen. They’ve tested living there and all seems to have gone well. As she was spending so much time at James’s it made sense to keep stuff there.’
Part of me is happy for Pippa because it seems like she’s finally hooked a live one, someone who “gets” her and is fine being her official boyfriend. It might help that James Matthews is a bit older than Pippa’s usual boyfriends, most of whom tend to be her age. James is 40 to her 32 – my guess is that he’s probably ready to settle down and start making some long-term plans. Which is what Pippa wants, at least that’s what I’ve always assumed. Is James Matthews the one? Is he the terribly-rich, terribly-into-Pippa “prince” that we’ve been waiting for?
Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News, Fame/Flynet.
On the one hand, I wish my mother was like Carole Middleton and on the other hand, I imagine it’s a level of mothering that I wouldn’t wish on anyone. Pippa is in the awkward place of being in your early 30’s and unattached, so I just assume at this point she, like a lot of people, are just settling out of a desire to have what everyone else has, to fill a void and beat the biological clock. I wish her the best, but I’m not holding my breath.
What? More and more people are marrying later. You don’t have to settle when you are in your 30’s. That is the worst thing you can do.
It’s definitely not the WORST thing you could do. Some of us drifted along like Auntie Mame until we met our Lindsay Woolsey. Others settled for the best they were going to get.
Sure is. I would hate to feel like my spouse settled for me or vice versa. Besides being single is not a crime not is being married a glorified status. I would much rather be single than feel trapped in a terrible marriage.
I am a happy woman regardless of my marital status.
Everything about your comment is a cry for help. Godspeed Edie.
If that’s awkward, I guess I’m at that awkward age of being in my mid-fifties & a widow of ten years. 😁
Edie, I get what you mean about being in your early 30s etc. I know so many women who felt and do feel some sort of internal & societal pressure from their friends & families to settle down by 30, etc. Some of my friends are religious. A number of them have told me that they started praying for husbands as early as 12! Quite of few, from both groups, are also uncomfortable with the notion of a single woman or of a woman not in a relationship.
ha! A friend of mine called women from 28-35 the “danger zone.” Would only date older than 35.
If your only goal is to have kids and be tied down, miss out on your career and loads of fun, then yeah watch out for that “biological clock” to hit you over the head while you’re scramming to “fill the void” left by your only hope for happiness: a man.
I’d love to settle for a billionaire. Where do I sign up?
Also, I was thinking, “Damn, he looks just like her brother, EW.” Then I realized those ARE photos of her brother, not her boyfriend.
Ha! Same here.
I think she broke up with Nico months before she was papped with James in August. It simply wasn’t announced. However, when the paps caught her doing the walk of shame from James’s house in october, with a change of clothes and no overnight bag from the previous night, she was forced to announce the Nico break up.
Also, keeping clothes at James’s house trial run had to be mentioned in this confirmation because it was such a significant detail in those October pap pics.
And Carole has been papped so many times with Pippa and James Mathews that it is bordering on creepy. I guess she’s following through for Pippa as she did/does for Kate.
LAK
Agree that Nico and Pippa were done a while ago.
and Carole reminds me of the “You date me, you date my mother” types.
Not in the gross way though.
Those October photos proved that they’ve been together a lot longer than they want us to think. Carole is involved to make sure pips get the ring plus am sure they r all already planing all the fully comped vacations to his parents resort in st barts.
Plus this is the Mid women modus operandi. Kate did the same thing with Willy at St Andrews. She met him early in their first year, was living with him in their 2nd yr. hook em in and lock them down with the limpet behaviour.
Right, because the guy/man has no choice in the matter.
SMH
@ wow
Only if the man is smart and strong enough to run away… and quick too.
I agree, LAK. I think they were done quite a bit before that actually.
And agree about Carole. Something has seemed off there to me lately.
I think that Carole has been worried about Pippa and wants to see her settled. I feel bad for the Pips. Especially since she went on National TV and declared that the Middletons thought that Kate’s wedding was going to be .. ahem.. a “family affair”. That bulb doesn’t burn very bright does it. So she’s going to need all the help she can get.
She better marry this one. And preferably when Kate is NOT pregnant. I don’t want to see a whole bunch of maternity outfits. Which btw I am betting on will appear by the end of the year. Who’s with me ? I am thinking an HG announcement in July.
BTW, no need to worry about Carole and Mike. Mike was in St Barts with the rest of them. Strong as ever.
Oh, I’m not worried. Just observing. To be honest I don’t care who or if Pippa marries.
Girl needs to stay out of the sun and I wouldn’t want her mother for nothing
+1000 For his sake I hope this guy realizes that Pippa and her mother are a package deal and she’ll always interfere in their lives, manipulate him and have the paps on speed-dial.
Run, James, Run!! It’s not worth it!
She needs to lock someone down quickly, particularly someone who can keep her living fabulously.
Poor Pippa.
If she doesn’t land this guy who else could she date?
But I do wonder what her end game is.
Does she want to just party and date? (Which is great)
Or does she want to get married and pop out kids? (Which is great)
Maybe she doesn’t know.
At least Kate (Carole) always had a clear plan. Catch the Prince.
Poor Pippa just is the spare.
Kitten? Not sure with the gravitar missing.
Of course she’s already moves in. She has to lock it down.
I think this is stretching. Why would she need James to break up the relationship? Nico obviously didn’t want to marry her otherwise he would have. Good on her for getting out.
Exactly!
Or they both grew apart somehow and waited a very long time until being forced to say the relationship was over.
What appears imo to make the most sense. Nico moved away for work. They grew apart and maybe he really didn’t care for the camera lifestyle. They didn’t comment until Pippa was caught having spent the night at another man’s apartment.
That seems likely.
That he didn’t want to marry her so she did good for getting gone attitude is very oldfashioned imo.
Then I’m a stretcher, because I thought Pips and Nico were done months before they announced. They hadn’t been photographed together very much, and if they were really into each other there’s no reason she couldn’t have moved to Switzerland to be with him. It’s not like she has a job with an office. Articles can be uploaded or emailed. Yet she didn’t. And he didn’t appear to be in London often. I think there was talk that he might have used her for some connections too.
Well Pippa and Nico were photographed together in August in front of some London restaurant. Nico was kissing her but she seemed uncomfortable. I think that they drifted apart. Maybe Pippa more than Nico. And she decided to break it off when she realized that James was still interested in her and it could become a thing. Which would be maybe in August right after or during Nico’s trip. The walk of shame thing happened in October, so that would fit in timeframe-wise.
For some reason Pippa strikes me as the type who can’t make long distance relationships work. No judgement here. Just an observation. Some women seem perfectly fine with them and some aren’t. She strikes me as the type who would not be.
I can see Pippa loving a guest role on a reality show.
Am surprised she hasn’t appeared in Made in Chelsea already.
Marry this one, Pippa. Don’t be an idiot.
Yeah he seems ok. But the hold up may be caused by Carole. Honestly, does Carole organize dates for them all the time as well as choosing their decor? That would really be off putting for most single men.
I think one gutter press said Carole was happy with this one but had reservations about Nico, I do fear things are going to end in tears, is life really that simple and organised.
I am so sick of this one and her family.
People always criticizing them and their mother i wish my mom did the same for me And my sister lol
I don’t like her or hate her either but keeping a toothbrush at his place is not moving in… And how does this jibe with the other reports about her trying to get Harry by wearing “a short skirt”? Harry who is now reportedly dating the other princess? Oh the complicated lives of the rich…😜
Harry is unlikely to be dating either Pippa OR the princess. The press is bored and making things up. (How surprising! : )
I saw the DM photos of them coming out of the Indian restaurant. Carole was in a skirt as short as her daughter’s, mid-thigh-high. Carole is way too involved in trying to be part of her daughters’ and their S.O.’s in-crowd.
There’s also a Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, France. Is this part of the Matthews portfolio or does it just happen to have a similar name as their St. Barths resort and James’ investment firm?
I hope Matthews’ parents are OK with this. If I were them, I’d be wary of the Middleton’s tacky image staining the reputation of my resort. Does this have anything to do with them not staying at the resort last time they were in St. Barths. And if Matthews marry the Middletons (because if you marry one, you marry the family), you know they’re going to think they own and run that resort like their own little fiefdom.
Well if the rumours are true that Carole and Mike are over, she’ll on the hunt for a wealthy man as well. LOL
One thing is for sure, Carole is living voraciously through her children.
Vicariously, AND voraciously! 🙂
hahaha – auto correct 🙁
@ Betti
I agree. She’ll hang around Eden Roc looking for a rich man to marry, better if he’s titled. #FreeMichael
Anne_000: Hotel du Cap Eden Roc in France is part of the Oetker Collection of hotels, as is Eden Roc st Barts as well as several ultra exclusive hotels world wide.
It’s unclear whether Eden Roc St Barts is only part owned by the Mathews or they manage it on behalf of the Oetker group.
That said, CEO of Oetker group and indeed head office is in Germany.
@ LAKS
Thanks for the information 🙂
The photos are of her and her brother James Middleton, just FYI.
I DEF think Pipps is settling with this one. Yeah, he’s rich to be sure. But look at her other dudes. They were HOT. Like Model /Adonis /Hunky slice o’ british cheez hot. Alex looked like a frickin’ J Crew model. Nico was always ready for his starring role on Dynasty and JJ was a blue eyed, cute as a button toff. James Matthews…well…There is a lot more to life than hotness. (Like free resort vacations. Or 17 million pound chelsea townhouses)
Like LOVE, of course. looove 😉
I wish she had stayed with Alex Loudon just so I could see pictures of him on the regular. He was so gorgeous…..
James Matthews is not gorgeous, but I am sure the entire Middleton fam, Kate and William included, are absolutely drooling over the prospect of a lifetime of comped vacations in St Barths.
So true. They sure like to live the good life on someone else’s dime, don’t they?
Maybe Michael Middleton bailed because he was finally embarrassed enough of them all looking like such fake leeches?
I agree Janis. When Carole, Pippa, and the Jameses (Matthews & Middleton) were in St Barths this August there was no evidence of Michael being there.
It seems Carole would rather be hanging out in Chelsea with Pippa and her beau than spending time with her hubby.
I agree – she had a bunch of real hunks and lookers. JJ is my favorite. I’m sure he is delighted that the whole PIPPA! thing began AFTER he was dating her.
The press keeps calling James Matthews handsome – well no. But looks are not everything, and Pippa is not a raving beauty either. He may just be the right one.
The Eden Rock Hotel is perfect for Carole, it lies at the foot of the airport.
Burn!
I’m happy for her in a weird, not knowing her way. Nico was soooooo sketchy. This guy looks more together.
Ohhh Ahhh what if she did???!!!! She is entitle to do whatever she wanted in her life ..Just because who her sister is doesn’t mean she is bond to what society thinks her life shroud be focused on!!! Let the girl live her life the WAY she Fing wants to…
Two months ain’t long enough before you move in together. I mean, that’s only 2 menstrual cycles . . . Definitely not long enough.
All of this aside, I’m pretty sure I found James’s polka-dotted jeans at target in the women’s section last summer
The daily mail today said they had a lot in common both have parents from working class roots (on one side) both have a bad apple relative although I thought that was a bit unnecessary to say, both like running, the Caribbean and a few other little life things which I can’t recall. So looks like ding dong