{"id":318480,"date":"2025-08-05T00:39:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T00:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/318480\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T00:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T00:39:18","slug":"pippa-middleton-takes-on-a-surprising-new-job-and-it-follows-in-sister-princess-kates-footsteps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/318480\/","title":{"rendered":"Pippa Middleton Takes on a Surprising New Job\u2014And It Follows in Sister Princess Kate’s Footsteps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pippa Middleton might be quiet on the social scene these days, with Princess Kate’s sister making only one public appearance<\/a> in 2025 to date. But it turns out she’s been busy planning a new business, with the Daily Mail’s Richard Eden<\/a> revealing that Middleton has received permission to build a nursery school on their English estate<\/a>\u2014a move that ties into the Princess of Wales<\/a>‘s biggest passion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Eden writes that local council members gave “Pippa and her husband, hedge-fund manager James Matthews, the green light to establish a nursery at Bucklebury Farm.” Per the reporter’s Eden Confidential column, the couple’s 72-acre property will now include a school “for children aged between nine months and five years.”<\/p>\n

He noted that the local council claims the nursery “will deliver ‘strong social benefits'” and that the local area has a “shortage of ‘early years places.'”<\/p>\n

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It’s of note that Princess Kate’s biggest focus in the Royal Family has been on the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood<\/a>. She launched the centre in 2021 to help improve outcomes for children from birth up through the age of five\u2014a crucial time for development.<\/p>\n

Whether the Princess of Wales will be involved with the nursery in some way is uncertain, but Eden added, “The prospect of a smile from Pippa, 41, is likely to perk up fathers doing the school run, so it seems only fair to warn them that she and James, 49, live a few miles away at the Georgian manor house they bought for \u00a315million in 2022.”<\/p>\n

Along with her nursery plans, Middleton is busy with her own three children, Arthur, 6<\/a>, Grace, 4, and Rose, 3\u2014and perhaps her youngest will be able to take advantage of the new nursery once it’s built.<\/p>\n

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