Kate the socialite4/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Penguin Books paid Middleton a £400,000 advance for a book on party planning. Middleton has worked part-time for her parents' company Party Pieces, editing the web magazine Party Times. In April 2012, Time magazine listed Middleton as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. ![]() ![]() As part of a duo with her elder sister, Middleton has received wide press coverage, focusing on her social life and her lifestyle. In 2008, Tatler magazine named Middleton "the Number 1 Society Singleton", ahead of singer-songwriter James Blunt and Princess Eugenie of York, although in the same Tatler article she was described as someone who "goes to a lot of parties, but mainly as the caterer." Since then, she has often been described as a socialite. She then had an events management job with Table Talk, a company based in London that organises corporate events and parties. Career įollowing her graduation, Middleton briefly worked in 2008 at a public relations firm promoting luxury products. In 2022, Middleton earned her postgraduate master's degree in Physical Education, Sport and Physical Literacy from University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She 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. Middleton then graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an undergraduate MA in English literature. She was a boarder at Marlborough College, where she held a sports/all-rounder scholarship. 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. In 1995, her family moved to the village of Bucklebury. In 1987, Middleton's mother founded Party Pieces, a mail-order party supply company, estimated to be worth £30 million, though accounts show that the company has lost £1.068 million during the COVID-19 pandemic. ![]() The Middletons moved to Amman, Jordan in May 1984, where her father worked for British Airways, before returning to Berkshire in September 1986. Middleton has an older sister, Catherine, Princess of Wales, and a younger brother, James. The family resided in Bradfield Southend. She was christened at St Andrew's Bradfield, Berkshire. Her mother descends from labourers and coal miners from County Durham. Her father is a member of a wealthy family from Yorkshire linked to the British aristocracy. She is the second of three children born to Michael Middleton (born 1949), a former British Airways flight dispatcher, and Carole Middleton (née Goldsmith born 1955), a former flight attendant. Philippa Charlotte Middleton was born on 6 September 1983 at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Berkshire, England. Middleton married James Matthews, a hedge fund manager and the heir apparent to the lairdship of Glen Affric, in 2017. She has also penned two books and previously contributed to Vanity Fair and The Sunday Telegraph columns. Middleton began receiving media attention during her sister's relationship with Prince William, and her appearance at their wedding was subject to widespread coverage. She worked at firms for public relations and event management before joining her parents' party supply company. She is the younger sister of Catherine, Princess of Wales.īorn in Reading and raised in Bucklebury, Berkshire, Middleton attended Marlborough College before graduating with a degree in English literature from the University of Edinburgh. Philippa Charlotte Matthews (née Middleton born 6 September 1983) is an English socialite, author and columnist. ![]()
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