Tuesday, May 10, 2011
While her sister is trying to settle in to a quiet life as a royal housewife, Pippa Middleton is being inundated with money-making offers.
The Duchess of Cambridge's younger sister has been offered a variety of endorsement deals for fashion and tourism, as well as paid public speaking gigs, The Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Kate Reardon, the editor of society magazine Tatler, said Pippa is likely to be fielding offers for some time.
“Every magazine in the Western world now wants her on the cover,” Ms Reardon told The New York Times.
“She will be having job offers hurled at her.
"How she exploits these opportunities is going to be very much up to her. There are many people in her situation who, within weeks, would be falling out of nightclubs and hanging out with celebrities, and getting a huge head about all this.”
Friends of Pippa have told the Daily Mail she is "buoyed by her success" and is planning to launch her own party planning business.
"Her aim is to branch out into organising events. I am sure she'll be able to use new-found royal contacts to drum up business," one friend said.
According to a profile in the Telegraph, Middleton studied English Literature at Edinburgh University, before working in PR at London events company Table Talk and its sister company Blue Strawberry, a wedding caterer.
Some of her clients include Tiffany & Co, the National Portrait Museum and Somerset House.
She is also behind the online magazine The Party Times, linked to her parents' party supplies company Party Pieces.
The magazine was last updated with tips on how to host an eco-friendly party on April 15, two weeks before the royal wedding.
Carole Middleton, a former air hostess, established the lucrative Party Pieces business in 1987 and the Middletons are now reportedly worth as much as $45 million.
Clarence House confirmed that Pippa could also become her sister's lady-in-waiting if she wanted to, giving her an official royal role.
"If you look at the Queen's ladies-in-waiting, they tend to be taken from close friends and family," a spokesperson said.
"It is possible. It is, at the moment, hypothetical – whether or not she will have ladies-in-waiting in the future, who knows? The Duchess of Cornwall, for instance, does not."
While Kate dated Prince William, she briefly worked for fashion brand Jigsaw as an accessories buyer.
The duchess is now based in Anglesey, Wales, while her new husband works as a RAF rescue helicopter pilot and was recently photographed doing the groceries at her local Waitrose supermarket.
The pair will make their first official tour as a married couple to Canada, and then California, in July.
But, the socialite and chick-lit author Plum Sykes said Pippa gets the best of both worlds.
"Pippa is the luckiest one of all," she told the Telegraph.
"She gets the right sort of attention from men, fashion designers and hostesses, and doesn't have any of the duties. She has become a princess without the bad bits.”
smh.com.au
Source: brimbankweekly.com