The Duchess of Cambridge’s little sister, Pippa Middleton has used a recent interview to declare that there’s a lot more to her than the UK tabloids might lead people to believe.
Newly engaged Pippa – who is due to marry her multi-millionaire fiancé, James Matthews sometime next year – says, like most people, her day-to-day life revolves around going to work at her little office space in South Kensington.
“People see me as someone privileged who has used my position to advantage,” Pippa told the Mail Online. “That I don’t really work, that I am a socialite – that word really irritates me – and that I’m a party girl without any substance.”
Kate’s little sister was thrust into the limelight at the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s royal wedding in 2011 and, unlike her sister, 33-year-old Pippa doesn’t have teams of people to manage her PR.
“I have had a few years of being in the public eye and I have developed something of a thick skin,” she says. “But managing it all on my own has been quite hard. I have quite a lot thrown at me, such as being followed by people hiding behind cars and jumping out with cameras. It can be unnerving.”
But since her profile has risen Pippa has tried to make use of her position for various charitable causes she’s involved with.
Most recently the author and party planner has penned a cookbook, titled Heartfelt, the proceeds of which will go to the British Heart Foundation.
For a good cause: Pippa Middleton making a trade at BGC Annual Global Charity Day at Canary Wharf on September 12.
Pippa explains that she strangely had already begun writing the book prior to the death of her close friend Miles Frost, who was the son of legendary broadcaster David Frost, who died of a heart attack last year at the age of 31.
“The death of Miles was a shock,” she says. “I always thought a heart condition was something which happens later in life, but Miles was very healthy, very active … So it can happen to those in prime condition as well.”
HEARTFELT by Pippa Middleton is published by British Heart Foundation on September 29.
While Pippa is passionate about the cause she does admit to not making every recipe in the book – but says she’d had a crack at “a good 80 per cent of them” for herself and her family.
Pippa says her parents, Kate and James were all willing taste testers and they were all very honest, “so some of the recipes have been culled”.
Pippa Middleton with sister Kate.
Of how her childhood eating habits impacted her own cooking and tastes Pippa says that the Middleton household was strict when it came to meal time.
“We had to stay at the table until we had eaten everything,” recalls Pippa. “There were no exceptions. And in the end I liked everything because I had to.”
The book will be Pippa’s second foray into publishing. Her first book, Celebrate, was a book about party planning tips and was widely panned by critics for having excruciatingly obvious tips.
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