@TheNavigator
I think Pippa's access to a man with that level of wealth may have been facilitated by her sister's fortuitous marriage.
How wealthy is James Matthews?
His house cost £17 million
He gave James Middleton £100k to help out with his Boomf business
Pippa's ring is estimated to have cost £250k
His parents own estates in Lincolnshire and Scotland, the St Barths Eden Rock hotel and a '£3 million private jet' (so a large inheritance seems likely).
From Financial News London
Mayfair-based Eden Rock Management (his company that he founded with two other) reported a pre-tax profit of £1.2m for 2018, a fall of around 23% year on year
Mayfair-based Eden Rock reported pre-tax profits of £1.6m in 2017, dropping 46%
From the DM
In 2014, Eden Rock Management LLP – which remains its largest British company – made a profit of £1,581,257 but paid just £3,143 in tax at a rate of 0.2 per cent. The previous year it paid £11,684 tax on £1,539,259 of profit, or 0.75 per cent.Such clever accounting is not illegal.
Accounts show the highest earning member of the Eden Rock partnership – likely to be Mr Matthews – took home a £559,310 slice of the profits last year.
Also from the DM www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4415532/Pippa-s-laws-told-t-stay-Middletons.html
He has been forced to slash his own earnings by a wince-making sum of almost £370,000 after profits fell at his hedge fund firm. It left him with just under £200,000 in his annual pay packet.
the hedge fund he launched in 2001 lost £80,000 in 2015 when a Cayman Islands bank where it had deposited money went into liquidation after being accused by the U.S. authorities of being involved in a share scam.