Kate and Pippa Middleton

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I'm reading about Pippa's new £15 million home and another pregnancy. I am sure both sisters are lovely people but looking at their lives, it seems like neither ever had any intention of working and used school and university to get themselves mixing in affluent circles to bag a wealthy man to fund their lifestyles.
Do people like this still really exist? I know we all have choices but at times in my life when I have mixed in more affluent circles in university and London, men would spot gold diggers and women who would need to be financially supported a mile off and would not contemplate taking them seriously. I dont know any women who havent have some kind of career or any men that want someone who hasnt worked.
is there anyone bringing up their daughters(or sons) like this in this day and age? would you bankroll them if it all went wrong? just curious.

Of their two lives, Pippa's is a hands down win, as are that of her children's.

Privacy being priceless IMO.

@ajandjjmum I don’t follow royal news closely but wasn’t Meghan engaged to Harry by then?

Pippa has just completed a masters in Physical Literacy. Don’t think think she’s resting on her laurels. https://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/news/press-releases/press-2022/research-into-benefits-of-parents-encouraging-physical-literacy-in-early-childhood-by-uwtsd-masters-student-to-be-presented-at-luxembourg-conference.html

That looks like an interesting study. I was brought up in a household that did not expercise at all and no sports. I have often thought how this has really affected my life- it would no more occur to me to go for a bike ride for example than fly to the moon. I have to actively think about being active if that makes sense.

Because I'm so sad, I just checked!

Pippa got married in May 2017 and Harry and Meghan got engaged in November 2017.

Meghan was at the evening "do".
Was Vogue also ?

I dont think so as she was in Dublin. She would never say if she went to evening do though. "Fame hungry" but flogging her and spencer's lives only.

Apparently not - they followed the 'no ring, no bring' rule, and Vogue and Spencer weren't engaged.

Most of my work is around the type of information in the study. It’s really interesting!

More importantly, is there a way to hop on this bandwagon at 39? Working I total BS.

Camilla was 58. She didn't take up the first opportunity.

I don’t think Camilla was working a 40 hour week when married to Andrew Parker Bowles…

Wikipedia suggests she did work before she was married though.

What's unusual about Kate and Pippa is less that they didn't work once married to very wealthy men but more that they didn't even work before that.

@Classicblunder I thought they both did? Admittedly I don’t follow their comings and goings, but I’m pretty sure they both worked before they got married?

@AnnandJane
Who are you talking of ?

Ah Vogue Williams 🙈
I thought the Vogue you wrote of was the magazine.

Money marries money.