Philippa Charlotte "Pippa" Middleton (born 6 September 1983)[citation needed] is the only sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. A party organiser, she is well known because of her sister and through the reporting of society news. On 29 April 2011, she was the maid of honour at her sister's Royal wedding,[1][2] which she helped to organise. Her role in the televised wedding resulted in widespread media coverage and public admiration for her dress and appearance.[3][4][5][6] She was born in 1983, the second of the three children of Michael Middleton who was then a British Airways flight dispatcher, and Carole Goldsmith, who was a former flight attendant.[7][8][9] Her father's family came from Leeds, in Yorkshire, and one of her great-grandmothers, called Olivia Lupton, belonged to a business family active in Leeds for generations.[10][11] Carole Middleton's mother's family were labourers and miners from County Durham.[12] The third child of the family is James William Middleton (born 1987), now a businessman.[10][13] In the mid 1980s, when her two eldest children were at a pre-school and the family was living at Bradfield Southend, Middleton's mother set up 'Party Pieces', a company which began by making party bags and which now sells party supplies and decorations by mail order. By 1995 the firm, run by both parents, was so successful that it moved into a range of farm buildings at Ashampstead Common,[14][15] and since then the Middletons are reported to have become millionaires.[16] In 1995, the Middletons moved to Bucklebury, Berkshire.[14][17] Like her sister, Middleton was initially educated at St Andrew's School,Pangbourne, then at Downe House, a girls' boarding school in Cold Ash, and finally at Marlborough College, Wiltshire. She then followed her sister to higher education in Scotland, attending the University of Edinburgh to study English literature.[18] There she shared a house with Lord Edward Innes-Ker, a son of the Duke of Roxburghe, and with Earl Percy, heir of the Duke of Northumberland.[18] Following graduation, in 2008 Middleton took a job with Table Talk, a company based in London which organises events and parties.[19] Also in 2008, Tatler magazine named Middleton "the Number 1 Society Singleton", beating the singer-songwriter James Blunt and Princess Eugenie.[20] Since then, she has often been described as a socialite.[21] As part of a duo with her older sister, Middleton has received wide press coverage, focussing on her social life and her lifestyle.[22][23] In 2009, Middleton took up tobogganing on the Cresta Run at St Moritz, with the multi-millionaire Trevor Baines as her instructor.[24] She is also a good shot and in 2008 shot twenty-three game birds in a day in Scotland.[25] For several years on Burns Night, accompanied by bagpipes, Middleton has carried the haggis into a pub called the Old Boot Inn at Stanford Dingley in Berkshire.[26] The Daily Telegraphreported in 2010 that Middleton's parents had ambitious plans to expand their company, Party Pieces, and wanted their daughter Pippa to take an increasingly prominent role.[27] Author Plum Sykes has written of her 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."[28] Middleton was immediately tipped to be the chief bridesmaid at the planned Royal wedding.[2] This was confirmed and widely reported, although in the event the title used for the position was maid of honour.[1][29] It was also suggested that Middleton took on the role of the chief planner of the wedding itself.[30] She was reported in 2010 to be dating the City trader and former England cricketer Alex Loudon.[31][26] At the Royal wedding, Middleton's white figure-hugging dress was highly praised in the media. It was made of ivory crape fabric and was styled with a cowl style at the front and organza-covered buttons at the back.[32][3][33][34] After the wedding, a Facebook page and a website dedicated to her buttocks were created [4][5][6] and she was referred to as "Her Royal Hotness" in the media.[35][36] In William & Kate, a television movie released on 18 April 2011 about her sister's romance, the part of Pippa Middleton was played by Mary Elise Hayden.[37] Middleton's ancestors include Sir Thomas Leighton (ca. 1530–1610), Governor of Guernsey from 1570 to 1609, and his wife Elizabeth Knollys (1549–1605), who was a cousin of Queen Elizabeth I.[38] Through her great-grandmother Olivia Lupton, her later ancestors include The Rev. Thomas Davis, a 19th century Church of England hymn-writer.[39][40]Pippa Middleton
Pippa Middleton 
Born Philippa Charlotte Middleton
6 September 1983
Reading, Berkshire, EnglandEducation Marlborough College andUniversity of Edinburgh Parents Relatives 
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Pippa is the luckiest one of all. She gets all the right sort of attention from men, fashion designers, hostesses and things, and doesn't have any of the duties. She's become a Princess without the bad bits.[26]
Pippa Middleton's coat of arms is based on those of her father Michael Middleton. Thomas Woodcock, Garter King of Arms, the senior officer of the College of Arms, helped the family with the design. The shield of arms in her version is lozenge shaped and hangs from a blue ribbon, this symbolises her unmarried state. This version of the coat of arms can only be used by Pippa, as it denotes a Middleton spinster.[41][42]
The lozenge hangs from a blue ribbon, tied in a bow.
The dividing line (between two colours) down the centre is a canting of the name 'Middle-ton'. The acorns (from the oak tree) is a traditional symbol of England and a feature of west Berkshire, where the family have lived for 30 years. The three acorns also denote the family's three children. The gold chevron in the centre of the arms is an allusion to Carole Middleton's maiden name of Goldsmith. The two white chevronels (narrow chevrons above and below the gold chevron) symbolises peaks and mountains, and the family's love of the Lake District and skiing.[41][42]
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (husband) • Michael Middleton (father) • Carole Middleton (mother) • Pippa Middleton (sister) • James Middleton (brother) •Charles, Prince of Wales (father-in-law) • Diana, Princess of Wales (mother-in-law) • Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (stepmother-in-law) • Prince Harry of Wales (brother-in-law)
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