Pippa Middleton has made headlines ever since her sister Kate married into the Royal family in 2011 and she was a bridesmaid at the nuptials. The younger sister of the Duchess of Cambridge quickly won over fans of the Royal family, and she has been scrutinised ever since.
The sisters were close growing up and went through many of life's milestones together. Although now both married, they still make time for each other when they can.
Pippa married James Matthews, a race car driver and hedge-fund manager, back in 2017. The couple now have two children, Arthur and Grace. According to CelebrityNetWorth, the pair have an eye-watering estimated net worth of £36million. They reportedly live in a £17m mansion in an exclusive neighbourhood in Chelsea.
While the pair are set to celebrate their fifth anniversary in May, one of her exes has married into the Royal family.
In 2011, it was reported that Pippa was dating Thomas Kingston. They kept tight-lipped about their personal lives, and although their romance didn't last, they have remained close over the years.
They were pictured together at the Cheltenham races in March 2013 and during low-key outings in central London. Now, he is married to the Queen's cousin (once removed), Lady Gabriella Windsor.
Although it is not known exactly how the pair's love affair started, the financier is no stranger to Royal circles.
They first started dating in 2015, with Lady Gabriella telling Hello! magazine: "I'm very happy to be with someone very special. I'm very lucky."
According to The Telegraph, Thomas has worked in the UK Foreign Office, before spending three years as a project officer for the Iraqi Institute of Peace. There, he helped negotiate the release of hostages and solve conflicts. He then worked his way up in the finance industry.
Thomas is now a director of Devonport Capital, which specialises in providing finance for companies. Lady Gabriella Windsor is not a "working Royal" so is forced to make her money elsewhere. She manages a Knightsbridge-based PR company and also does a bit of writing on the side.
For three years in the early 2000s, Lady Gabriella dated journalist Aatish Taseer. The met when she was a student at Brown University while he was working for Time magazine.
Nearly 20 years later, he wrote a controversial article about his relationship with Lady Gabriella and the rest of the Royals for Vanity Fair - in which he spoke about how "everyone over a certain age in the UK is at least a little bit racist".
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Recalling their first few months together, he penned: "We spent a few blissful months in New York before Time sent me to its London bureau. It was then that I found myself in the orbit of the Windsors for the first time."
"Ella’s parents lived in a five-bedroom royal apartment in Kensington Palace, where Ella had grown up. A long, discreet drive marked 'private road', a lion and unicorn standing sentinel, led from Kensington High Street to the palace: “KP,” as it was known in the family.
"A couple of policemen with walkie-talkies would wave me in with what sounded like the first line of a limerick, “Ah, you’re the Indian fella who’s going with Gabriella."
He also made some damning accusations against her parents, Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, including that Lady Windsor's mum was "of the firm belief that it was a bad idea for royalty to marry commoners".
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