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Pippa’s fiancés tragic family secret

They’ve been living with heartache for years.
Pippa's fiancés tragic family secret

The family of Pippa Middleton’s new fiancé James Matthews has been living with tragedy for years.

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James’s younger brother Michael sadly disappeared on Mt Everest in 1999 after becoming the youngest Brit ever to conquer the world’s highest mountain at the age of 22.

Tragically, he was the 162nd person to die on the mountain and his body was never found.

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“His loss was devastating for the family and over time, this became worse because the circumstances surrounding Michael’s death have never been fully explained,” the family’s youngest member Spencer Matthews wrote in his 2014 autobiography, Confessions of a Chelsea Boy.

Made in Chelsea star and younger brother, Spencer Matthews

It’s believed Michael’s death was caused by the negligence of his mountain guides, Mirror reports.

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