About a month ago, Pippa Middleton and Terribly Moderately Wealthy James Matthews attended a friend’s wedding in Sweden. These are some photos from that event. Pippa and TMW James went to another wedding this weekend, this time in Cork, Ireland. You can see some photos here of Pippa wandering around Cork, pre-wedding, with James. This is what she wore to the actual wedding:
Newlywed #PippaMiddleton radiates in green as she attends wedding in Cork with husband James Matthews yesterday! Green really suits her! pic.twitter.com/MzfXbTWWdn
— Fashion.ie (@fashion_ie) July 2, 2017
She doesn’t have the face to pull off that hat. And I will never understand her affection for cheap-looking satin and sateen. Anyway, Pippa is still Pippa and she’s still Pippaing. Pippa is a STAR. She’s a princess (in her own mind). She’s terribly moderately wealthy now! Which is why she’s apparently employing two of her friends as assistants/minders/ladies in waiting. Queen Pippa is so benevolent! She is truly the Queen of Orange Hearts.
She’s not a Royal – and isn’t gainfully employed – so I was astonished to learn that Pippa Matthews has acquired not one but two ‘Girl Fridays’ – with one acting as her minder. Pippa, 33, has had a mystery brunette to carry her laundry and walk her beloved dogs for some time, but now I can reveal she has also welcomed old friend Camilla Holland to her team.
Camilla acts for Pippa at public events, saving her from bores and even guarding the cubicle if Pippa’s in the lavatory. She is married to the late Richard Attenborough’s grandson Sam Holland and she and Pippa met in 2002 on a £3,600-a-month cookery course. Last week Camilla was clearly acting as Pippa’s assistant at a charity dinner party held at Covent Garden’s Bunga Bunga restaurant for the Miles Frost Fund in memory of David Frost’s son, who died aged 31 of the rare heart condition hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
It was newlywed Pippa’s first public appearance with financier husband James and, understandably, she seemed nervous – but Camilla was on-hand to intercept unfamiliar well-wishers who approached Pippa and asked about her £1 million wedding. Camilla skilfully interrupted them or changed the subject. Camilla, 33, also opened doors for Pippa and made sure no one entered the ladies’ at the same time. A source said she even waited outside her cubicle door.
One guest said: ‘It was like she was a superstar with a minder. Camilla and Pippa had certainly agreed prior to the event that Pippa needed to be protected from anyone outside her immediate circle of two or three friends and James.’
During the event a magician approached Pippa and asked her to sign a playing card for a trick. The magician told me afterwards that he had no idea who Pippa was until she refused to sign the card and loyal Camilla reached out to sign it instead. The card then popped up in a different part of the restaurant. Camilla is said to have promised to be on hand for Pippa as often as possible, but it is unclear whether she is paid for her services like Pippa’s other Girl Friday, who walks her cocker spaniel Rafa.
[From The Daily Mail’s Girl About Town]
This is… not great. I can understand it if your friend has fallen on hard times and you’re like, “Oh, I’ll hire you to be my assistant, that will be fun!” But it sounds more like Pippa has “hired” some of her middle-class friends to take care of her and pamper her like she’s a spoiled princess now because she’s married to someone terribly moderately wealthy. Also, it seems like Pippa thinks she’s facing a constant barrage of press and paparazzi, an onslaught of interest. Like, Pippa thinks we don’t know that she hired a publicist to hype the sh-t out of her wedding and honeymoon, complete with daily photo editorials and fashion IDs. What’s the best way to get attention? Go to a public event and scream “NO PHOTOS, NO AUTOGRAPHS, PLEASE DON’T PAY ATTENTION TO ME.”
Here are some photos of Pips and James at that charity event last week:
Photos courtesy of Getty, Backgrid.
Lmao.
I agree this is crazy but I love her outfit in the last set of photos…Kate should try something like that but she doesn’t do “fun” lol
Laughter is the only response. It’s their money to waste however they want, but do they seriously not get how absurd this seems to everyone?
She has to be the worst-dressed woman of alleged means in all of England. My god, that hat with that lank hair is bad enough, but it doesn’t even coordinate with (much less match) the dress! And where does she come up with all those longsleeved, high-necked, ruffle-bedecked sister-wives frocks?!
And what about that cheapie faux suede jacket thing where the sleeves were too long. Lolz daily mail described her as glowing in that photo. James looks such a village idiot.
LOOOL so pretentious
She should hire someone to help scrub off that orange coating she insists on
+1
Did Mr Pippa had work done on his face -he looked different for bridezilla PR mess- then the exhaustive travel the cheeks look as if they were heading south – only to perk up around Sweden /Norway ‘ Tour’…
He’s hadwork done but still looks like he’s on th tail end of 50
He def had his teeth straightened and whitened. But I can’t see work other than that so someone please describe telltale signs please.
I think it’s juvenile acne combined with sun damage. That’s what was “done” to his face. Now his English teeth-definitely whitened and I assume also straightened.
Just in general not an attractive guy, I’m sorry to say. Perhaps he has a sweet nature and a generous heart, and, most importantly, treats the Pipster like she’s a queen.
I think he looks ill. I do not mean that as an insult, but I’ve thought for ages that he looks like he’s going through the early stages of chemo. As a cancer survivor, that’s what it looks like to me.
I hope that’s not so, Lady A. I know we make fun of him here but he strikes me as pretty reasonable. Pippa is lucky to have someone who loves her like that.
@bluhare oh gosh I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. He just looks so gaunt in his face and his coloring seems so off to me. Happy healthy thoughts for everyone
Boy has James bitten off more than he can chew.
I think he can handle it, he must be used to it from his brother who was on some reality shows and whose friends love headlines in gossip mags and instagram followers.
This is beyond ridiculous. So funny to read! So she has a minder to accompany her to the plethora of events she’s invited to all because of her links to the RF. The Middletons have really stepped up their game since Kannot’s marriage. They show up everywhere! The girls particularly are beyond narcissistic.
On a different note, does anyone know how Pippa calls herself? Scanned through the Daily Fail online yesterday and saw two articles on: P. Middleton and P. Matthews. Same person, from the pictures.
I think Kate has similar ladies-in-waiting around her, so Pippa thinks she must have them too. I remember Pippa attending Camilla Holland’s wedding, she has been a friend for a while. James is odd, I cannot put my finger on it, but something about him seems a little strange. In the DM photos, he looks around age 50. Pippa is sort of obnoxious about her happiness, don’t you think?
Kate is an actual HRH. Pippa is unemployed. Both of them are pretentious but at least Kate’s help comes with her marriage and position.
Kate’s position might come with actual ladies-in-waiting, but Pippa has always been in competition with Kate. Wanting to marry a titled guy or close to it, was always about being in competition with Kate. She is probably very sincere about what she does for charity, but she loves the press that comes with it. It’s all part of competing with Kate.
Kate’s help comes courtesy of the taxpayer, though she does nothing to need or deserve them. Both Middleton sisters are fit for nothing except to be mocked. Absolutely no self-awareness. Must be due to having hides like leather.
I just can’t. She is such a big nothing and somehow she’s a big Something, only no one can even define the Something. Ugh.
I know she is harmless, but boy, does she set my teeth on edge.
She wants to be famous for doing nothing. And preferably earn for that.
Whereas us regular folks are constantly told that we had to sell out talents and compete for every pound and penny.
Pippa and her family and the Royal Family undermine meritocracy. and yes, that is bad and that should rub everybody the wrong way.
+1000000!!!!
Aaand you have the perfect nickname for that comment, so you get COMBO! points! 😉
Makes perfect sense.
Who wouldn’t want lady minders to protect us from unwanted magicians?!
You guys are just mean 😉
HAHAHAHA! Exactly. Why just the other day my boyfriend had to defend my honor against a random street mime!
Gah! Street mimes *shudder* I hope you’re able to put that trauma behind you.
This cracked me up.
I need a lady in waiting to protect me from clowns-Clowns give me the creeps 😊
LOL, and thanks! I needed to laugh this off. I was so “WTF” when I saw the headline, that I’m still unable to articulate how absurd it is that Pips has assistants.
Oh dear! I have been prepared to give her a fair go until now, but this is too much. She’s a nobody. A ridiculous nobody with no claim to fame other than that her sister managed to snag Prince William, and she’s carrying on as though she’s important. She is providing us with good entertainment though.
Yup, keep up going. Love love love the entertainment. Just think about when the Middleton – Matthew offsprings will arrive. Oh gawdie.
Well, yikes.
I’m embarrassed for the Middletons, with the way they carry on. Just because Kate is a royal consort doesn’t mean they’re all royals by proxy. Royalty itself is on thin ice, so it’s not like there is a lot of royal fairy dust to go around. That is why they are concentrating the working royal family. It’s 2017 for crying out loud.
The Towers come to mind…
Her continued attempts to out royal Kate make me laugh. Pippa WILL NOT BE IGNORED DAMMIT!!!
This is why William should have married her rather than Kate. It wouldn’t be a question of how many engagements did she do, but how many did she turn down because she would be out and abput lording it over the public with or without William in tow!!
I never thought of that! It’s true that she’d probably have thrived on the constant public attention. Whereas Katie is much better suited to be a rich man’s kept wife with just enough energy for a pedicure before lunch with the ladies at the Club. Sliding doors.
Did up Kate give V-card to William? Seriously I am curious, anybody know?
Yeah but that’s it isn’t it Kate enables William whereas Pippa wouldn’t.
Very true.
….but for the public role of royaling, she would outdo our expectations because she would be out and about whether we wanted her or not, and she would enjoy the attention. I don’t necessarily think she would be particularly empathetic or sympathetic, but my god she’d match Anne or Charles for number of engagements and more just for the sheer glory of seeing her name in the papers every day.
And she would want the full apparatus of royalty. In as showy a manner as possible.
To be honest, I’ve wondered why she hasn’t had TMW James buy Glen Affric from his dad so she can be Lady Glen Affric already.
She would have eclipsed William, and he wouldn’t have had it. Some of the Henry VIII genes still thrive in him.
AlsoI think carol invested money and time for Kate to snag the Prince, and pippa does hold a grudge and hence the show
no tudor genes for wills, the british royalty have been german to the core for 300 years. their sole tudor connection goes through some in-laws of the late queen mother’s distant family (scots at that). very, very funny though well hidden fact 😉
Spacelab: The Windsors are descended from James 6&1 of England via his daughter Elizabeth who was married off to Frederick 5, Elector of Palantine. To be clear, she was Charles 1’s sister.
From Elizabeth and the Elector come the Hanoverians. George 1 is Elizabeth’s grandson. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Stuart,_Queen_of_Bohemia
James 6 & 1 of England was doubly connected to the Tudors via both his parents Mary, Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley. His parents were the grand-children of Margaret Tudor, sister of Henry 8.
Mary, Queen of Scots was Margaret Tudor’s grand-daughter via her first marriage to James 4 of Scotland.
Lord Darnley was Margaret Tudor’s grand-son via her second marriage to Archie Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Tudor
That said, the main Stuart line is alive and well in William, Harry, George, Charlotte, Beatrice and Eugenie because Diana and Fergie are descended from Charles 2 via 3 of his illegitimate sons.
When, and if, any one of the above 6 people get to the throne, it will be the first time since the glorious revolution that a descendant of the main Stuart line will sit on the throne.
And like James 6&1 of England, the same 6 people have a double dose of the Tudors via both parents.
LAK, you are a treasure 🙂
Bingo. Thanks for the concise comment.
Thank you, LAK! I love English history!
Forget Henry VIII, he’s his father’s son! Chuck was famously miffed by all the attention Diana got. He was upstaged from the moment of their engagement.
Kourtney Kardashian of the U.K. need to go somewhere with this mess.
Agh Kenamre Cork. That area famous for the paps waiting round to capture the many famous faces that visit.
‘needed to be protected from anyone outside her immediate circle of two or three friends and James.’
‘understandably, she seemed nervous’- UM why? She’s attended hundreds of these events. What about this one made her so nervous.
The first pictures dress is a big no.
I think the boho chic look doesn’t work for her.
It seems like a rip off of marchioness of cholmondeley style (the elder of the hanbury sisters who have both succeeded in marrying rich British hereditary peers contrary to the wisteria ones)
It’s a shame with her sporty body she can’t embrace well fitted clothes.
Only two ladies in waiting? She wants to live her vision of the lady of the manor ‘s living style so bad, it’ s pitiful.
Pipp with money is going to be tacky fun. She’ll get attention, just not for the reasons she wanted.
For sure. If all the stories about her are as ridiculously funny as this one, she has my full attention. Her sister is incredibly boring.
Yep. It’s going to be very entertaining.
I expect to see her on every “Worst Dressed” list. She has terrible fashion sense.
Oh my god, yes. She’s terrible.
Of course she’ll get attention: she’s literally paying for it! Lol. After all, “No one puts Baby in the corner” 😂
I’m in! It’s wonderfully entertaining, and invites belly laughs.
I live in NYC lots of rich lazy women have personal assistants so they can go to Yoga, Pilates,Barre, and Spin in peace and quiet .
But it’s like pippa already is the lee radziwill to her sister Jackie o, or her princess Margaret to queen Elizabeth.
Neither had a good life.
Unable to appreciate her own life s gonna be hard, and her sister is out of reach.
NYC USA is totally different from a proper British way about …so to speak .
In every country the rich have staff who wait on them.
In every country the useless unemployed rich who lack direction have more staff than they need. In that way comparisons between the USA and the UK do apply.
What does Pippa need staff for? I would understand a housekeeper/maid but a personal assistant or a pr person?
But I would love to hear more about the DIFFERENCES between the US Rich and the UK Rich!!!!!
She needs PR or an executive assistant to chase PR opportunities, relevant events, comb through the invitations she receives. Now with her new husband, double the opportunities to show off. Of course she needs someone to help her with all that. She’s married up. Her husband pays for their staff. It seems that he enjoys the attention too.
@Luca76 I would love to be rich enough to afford a personal assistant so I had more time to work out.
Right-assistants to do the mundane stuff: grocery shop, make appointments, go through the mail. They don’t have them running interference at events like they’re actual royalty.
Exactly. Pipps hasn’t really settled in with the Rich Set yet. And like every Nouveau Rich she makes hilariously ridiculous mistakes. Like hiring a PR person who helps her socialite-ing.
And here’s me thinking she was the better of the Middleton women. Wrong again!
That’s, like, all rich people, including most of our favorite actors and singers. Pippa sucks, but come on now.
Both Actors and Musicians have legitimate jobs with actual fans.
Pippa…has a publicist with a rolodex.
#OneOfTheseThingsIsNotLikeTheOther
#StillNotRoyal
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For my friends, I’d pretend to be whatever, if it helps them…free of charge. The fact that there’s money involved here,the “friendship” is very questionable… hehehe
yes, spunk, YES!
LOLZZZZ…ahhh…sorry, i had to laugh at this comment…for totally perverted reasons….(uhhh, it’s hot today, but really i have no excuse for myself)
Kaiko, come sit next to me…..we can be toilet brains together. 🙂
The photo at the top of the article is Pippa’s laughing all the way to the bank look.
I think after all those years of sitting on the sidelines during the waity period with the rest of the family making sure kate got the ring probably made Pippa a little jealous. Carole seemed to focus more on kate and helping her keep William.
As soon as the wedding was over the whole family stepped out with pippa in the lead into the spotlight and now she feels she is entitled to have everything Kate has.
Erica, I totally agree. I love the insight.
She would have never taken a second look at that sting bean if it wasn’t for his money…my word is it so obvious.
Yep. I repeat my prediction. This is a starter marriage. When titled aristos in her age range start round 1 of their divorces, that is when Pips will dump James and replace him with a just-divorced proper aristo.
Not that she is stunning or pretty or whatever. Her royal connections were her allure to her husband.
She’ll likely get a hefty settlement if she divorces James, especially if there are children. That will endear her to a financially strapped aristo.
They are going to have some long necked babies
Daily Mail’s style-grammar guide is about 40 years out of date. This is at least the 2nd time they used the sexist term ‘Girl Friday’. That is such an offensive term!
Is it? I’m not offended
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I don’t find the term Girl Friday offensive. Have you ever seen the movie His Girl Friday, Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant? I love that movie, and the Girl Friday in that is a total badass–a smart, ambitious, go-getter. She’s the smartest person in the movie.
I love that movie but yeah it’s a pretty insulting sexist term to use 80 years later obviously
As an American, I found the term “Girl Friday” very out of date too. Having worked in LA in entertainment, people hire personal assistants, and its pretty equal male or female.
She needs to hire someone to knock some sense into her head. She’s not a star! She’s not a princess! She’s not a socialite! She’s not talented! She’s no beauty! She’s merely the sister of a royal courtesan, now wife.
Your first sentence…dead! LOL!
Maybe she’s working her way to being one of those socialites who do a lot of fundraising. That at least is something worthwhile if you’re going to go to parties.
Hmm… Pips threw herself into charity work to rehabilitate her image in order to score a husband; it made her more socially acceptable. It did the trick and she landed TMW James. I come to that conclusion since the Middleton’s have no track record in charity work of any kind, and since the engagement Pip’s charity work has waned.
You’re right.
Pippa bothers me less than her sister because her lifestyle isn’t supported by the antiquated RF.
You mean the taxpayer.
Yes, exactly.
At some point her husband will get sick of her pretensions. I admit though that being a minder to a rich celeb would be a lot of fun and it would in fact be exciting. Travel, designer hand-me-downs, and being part of an inner circle. I would write a fun book about it, or start a blog and have zillions of readers and get a bit of fame for myself.
Well, Pippa is certainly all-consumed with Keeping Up Appearances. It’s like she’s modeled her life after the Bucket Woman.
This is a petty comment, but I’m putting it out there anyway. On her wedding day, Pippa’s face looked SO different to me than it normally does, to the point that I thought she’d gotten some permanent work done. But now, her face seems to have gone back to its previous “normal” so clearly whatever she did for the big day wasn’t permanent. Was it the makeup? If so, she needs to take lessons from her wedding makeup artist.
I don’t feel sorry for Pippa for allegedly being sidelined during the campaign, since she was just as much a part of it and did more than enough of her own hustle to get as much as she can out of all of it. Pippa also got way out of her league with the men she pursued and she made the choices that she did to end up where she is right now.
Pippa helped out since she KNEW that if Kate landed William, her life would be easy and it actually has for her materially and otherwise. Pippa wouldn’t be marrying a billionaire if in fact Kate hadn’t landed William. Kate and Pippa wouldn’t have set foot in Westminster Abbey for a wedding and Pippa played that game as much as she could.
Pippa should have learned a long time ago that you can’t market your way into that set and she should stop trying since each time she does, she gets into a mess. When she ran with those French aristocrats, she ended up in that gun scandal and each aristocrat hid out while leaving her to face the music on her own. No aristo spoke up on her behalf and none of them hung around her after that drama (during the Queen’s Jubilee year no less) and she should have likely realized that they will never view her as one of them.
Second, I remember reading somewhere that the Percy family got a lawyer to act against the nonstop rumors of Pippa marrying Percy (or being in some romance) and since then Percy hasn’t been snapped as being around her (except for going to her wedding) and since then there hasn’t been a single rumor about there being anything between them. Each time Pippa tries to become part of that set, she gets into a mess, gets burned.
As for her assistants, let her indulge in this idiocy. Once hosts understand that she’s just going to go and put on airs and isolate herself, the invites will stop and her social life will dry up as well.
Well she is rich now so of course she will have people working for her. Heck my sister isn’t rich by any means but she to has a house keeper twice a week who does the main cores for her.
Also, even if she isn’t some big important celebrity she had a social life before and now that she married rich there are lechers that would go after her for money or attention. (remember Paris Hilton and Kim K following her around and taking care of her closet). Plus, she has to establish a status now. She needs to upgrade herself to be ou pair with her sister. She had a glimpse of her sisters life and she wants some of that. The only downside is that her husband has to pay from his pockets but as far as I see he enjoys everything is happening so far so….. who cares. Let her enjoy her life. She hustled hard for that and finally got a rich one…. I have seen people with far less money and recognition that act as entitled as she does. I have a friend that refuses to wash most of her clothes, she dry cleans almost everything and she is not rich
Her husband is rich, not her; if he walks, she is not going to be rich. Just because you marry rich, does not make you rich in your own right.
I get that BUT she can spend some of that money while being at that no? Anyway, I think she is one of those people that lands on her feet. She will always have money one way or another. She had some before. Now she has more.
I live in the UK and this is the first I’ve seen or heard of Pippa’s new minders…sitting at home on my laptop. It hasn’t been in any of the more recent trashy papers that are lying about in the local hairdressers, grocery stores, or in the hospital where I work. If she HAS hired a publicist, she needs to fire him or her.
He looks like a douche , and she is a tool
I call bs on the magician not knowing who she was and just picking her at random for a signature.
They are both very keen into the self tanning beds, aren’t they?
James is not an attractive man. He kinda looks like a troll.
Honestly I don’t think she is happy. She doesn’t really sincerely smile.
I think she’s down about not getting an aristocrat with a title in his own right; she would have been over the moon as wife of Earl Percy and in the stratosphere with Harry.