Pippa Middleton Is “Very LowKey” and “Does Her Own Thing”—But Could Potentially Take on This Royal Role Someday Rachel BurchfieldSun, September 6, 2026 at 4:49 PM UTC 0 Pippa Middleton at King Charles’s coronation on May 6, 2023.Credit: GettyThe younger sister of the Princess of Wales turns 43 years old on September 6.The Gist Pippa Middleton, the younger sister of the Princess of Wales, turns 43 years old on September 6.
Pippa Middleton Is “Very Low-Key” and “Does Her Own Thing”—But Could Potentially Take on This Royal Role Someday
Rachel BurchfieldSun, September 6, 2026 at 4:49 PM UTC
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Pippa Middleton at King Charles’s coronation on May 6, 2023.Credit: GettyThe younger sister of the Princess of Wales turns 43 years old on September 6.The Gist -
Pippa Middleton, the younger sister of the Princess of Wales, turns 43 years old on September 6.
The mother of three—who has been married to James Matthews since 2017—is “very low-key” and “does her own thing,” but a former royal butler said he “wouldn’t rule out” Pippa taking on this royal role someday.
Like Queen Camilla’s sister, Pippa could one day become one of Kate’s “companions” when she becomes queen.
Pippa Middleton, the younger sister of Kate Middleton, turned 43 years old on September 6. And, while a former royal butler said that Pippa is someone who “does her own thing,” when her sister the Princess of Wales becomes queen someday, could some type of royal role be in the cards for Pippa?
Pippa Middleton at Wimbledon on July 6, 2026.Credit: Getty
“In the future, I wouldn’t rule out Pippa becoming one of Kate’s companions,” said Grant Harrold, who previously served King Charles as a butler. A “companion” is a more modern term for “ladies-in-waiting” that Queen Elizabeth once had; Queen Camilla has a group of close friends—including her sister, Annabel Elliot—who support her in her royal duties.
Harrold said, per Marie Claire, that if Kate chooses to have companions herself, Pippa would make an ideal choice. Pippa—who served as her older sister’s maid of honor at Kate’s 2011 royal wedding to Prince William—is someone who “keeps herself very low key,” Harrold said, “and I think she does a really good job of it.”
Pippa Middleton at Wimbledon on July 14, 2024.Credit: Getty
The Middleton family—which also includes Kate and Pippa’s younger brother James Middleton and their parents Michael Middleton and Carole Middleton—typically “manage to stay out of the limelight,” Harrold said. He noted that the Middleton family provides “strong support from the background, but they respect the family and traditions enough to be strictly private.”
“Pippa and the wider Middleton family are really good for William, as they’ve offered this whole other side of family life,” Harrold added. “We know he is the future monarch, but he gets a wonderful, normal lifestyle when he’s with Kate’s family.”
Pippa Middleton serving as Kate Middleton’s maid of honor at Kate’s April 29, 2011 wedding to Prince William.Credit: Getty
The Daily Mail noted that many “royal insiders also speculate over whether Pippa will receive an honorary title when Prince William succeeds King Charles to the throne and Kate becomes queen.” At present, Pippa, her husband James Matthews, and their three children Arthur, Grace, and Rose live a quiet life at Barton Court, a 32-room Georgian mansion set on a large estate in Berkshire, close to Michael and Carole’s home in Bucklebury. Pippa is set to celebrate her 43rd birthday privately on Sunday, likely with her family.
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Pippa Middleton and James Matthews on December 8, 2023.Credit: Getty
Though Kate is one of the most famous women in the world, she and Pippa have a “normal sisterly relationship,” Pippa previously shared, adding that she and Kate are “very close.”
“Obviously, she has pressures that she’s taken on and things,” Pippa told NBC in 2014. “But we spend a lot of time together. We still do a lot together as a family, and I think that’s sort of the heart for all of us is having a really close family that we can be normal with each other, treat each other normally—and that kept us all fixed to the ground.”
Kate Middleton and Pippa Middleton at Wimbledon on July 13, 2019.Credit: Getty
Looking ahead to the future, royal historian Kate Williams previously said on True Royalty TV’s The Royal Beat: Back in Time, “I think traditionally, we might expect Catherine to appoint her sister Pippa [as a companion] because Catherine is so famously close to her family.” The “job of a monarch and a consort isn’t getting any smaller,” Williams continued. “The letters, the correspondence, the emails are growing every day.”
“When Catherine becomes queen, the levels of tours, the levels of letters, the level of receptions will still require this assistance,” she added. “So I think she will have to appoint some ladies-in-waiting.”
Pippa Middleton and Kate Middleton at Pippa’s May 20, 2017 wedding.Credit: Getty
Ailsa Anderson, Queen Elizabeth’s former press secretary, added (per People), “It’s actually quite nice to have somebody who you’ve known and trusted to be by your side in those big events, because when you’ve always got to be on show.”
That said, even if Pippa was offered the role of one of Kate’s companions, it’s unsure if she’d even accept it. “Pippa has her own life—three children and a busy life of her own,” Williams said. “It’s a fascinating question.”
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