Pippa Middleton’s new Carole-inspired business venture at 72-acre home – & it’s set to boost her £43million fortune
SHE may be sisters with the future Queen of England, but Pippa Middleton has a swanky life of her own.
As well as living in a £15million Berkshire house, she also co-owns Bucklebury Farm which could soon have a new business venture opening.
A message posted on the official Bucklebury Farm Instagram account earlier this month read: “Bucklebury Farm is considering opening a nursery for children aged 9 months to 5 years.
“If you’re interested, please feel free to DM us or email nursery@buckleburyfarm.co.uk to stay updated.
“We’d also love to hear your thoughts and suggestions – let us know what you think.”
The couple bought the 72-acre Bucklebury Farm in Berkshire back in October 2020 for £1.5million, and they now run it with business partner James Murray.
The location was previously a deer safari park, but they have since transformed it to have glamping pods and to be a kid’s attraction with ziplines, a petting zoo and a play area
There are more than 160 animals, including rabbits, goats, donkeys, pigs and chickens.
Last year, Richard Eden wrote in the Mail that they had plans to expand it further.
He shared: “Carole’s son-in-law, James Matthews, bought Bucklebury Farm in Berkshire for £1.5million in 2020.
“Now, I hear, he’s opening its lodge for parties, as well as events and even Pilates.”
Pippa and her husband have previously been spotted at the farm, along with Kate Middleton and her kids.
The farm is just minutes from their £5m family home in Berkshire.
Kate and William are still regular visitors to the Middleton family home and are known to take trips to the local boozer the Boot Inn.
In fact Prince George spent his first few weeks in Bucklebury rather than Kensington Palace.
If Pippa – who is estimated to be worth £43million – does open a nursery at the farm, her two youngest children could attend, Grace, three, and Rose, one.
They also have son Arthur, five, who has started school.
This follows Pippa and Kate’s mum Carole Middleton running her Party Pieces business, after she realised she could make some money from creating party bags.
She grew the firm into a multi-million-pound business, which helped fund her kids attending the elite boarding school Marlborough College.
Special role Pippa Middleton could get when Kate is Queen
KATE Middleton is extremely close to her family, including mum Carole and sister Pippa.
And when Prince William’s wife becomes Queen one day, her beloved family members could be in line for some special honours.
Royal author Phil Dampier told Fabulous that Pippa Middleton could be given a similar role to Queen Camilla’s younger sister, Annabel Elliott, who is one of her six “companions”.
He said: “I certainly think there could be a role for Pippa as a lady-in-waiting or companion type role.
“This needs to be someone the then Queen can trust and rely on, and who better than her sister?
“Pippa has some commercial interests but I’m sure by the time Kate becomes Queen she would be happy to fulfil that role if required.
“It’s not necessarily a full time job so she would be available.
“We all know what a sensation she was at their wedding in 2011 and since then she has kept a relatively low profile and of course is happily married.”
Another person he thought could be in line for a “companion” position is Kate’s stylist and close friend Natasha Archer, as she is “someone else she trusts and would be ideal for a supportive post.”
It wasn’t such a fairytale ending for Party Pieces, however, which was badly hit by Covid restrictions.
In April 2023, the company called in advisers at restructuring firm Interpath to try to raise fresh funds for the business.
However, the family decided to move on from the company and in May 2023 the business sold in a pre-package deal to the Essex-based entrepreneur James Sinclair.
Philippa Middleton, known to most as Pippa, is the middle child of the three Middleton children – Catherine, Princess of Wales, and James William Middleton, an entrepreneur whose company sells cake-making kits for birthdays.
Pippa tied the knot with hedge fund manager James Spencer Matthews in 2017, who was born in August 1975 to parents David, who owns the luxury Eden Rock resort in St Barts in the Caribbean, and artist mother Jane.
Pippa and James met in 2006 on the Caribbean island of St Barts and had an on-off relationship before they became a steady couple in 2014.
James is the heir to the Scottish title of Laird of Glen Affric and his childhood was split between St Barts and Caunton Manor in Lincolnshire.
His younger brother is reality TV star Spencer Matthews, who made his name on the E4 show Made in Chelsea.
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