Posts tagged ‘George Percy’

April 3, 2012

Photos: A royal holiday in the French Alps

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge enjoy some time in the French Alps. Photo via XCLUSIVEPIX.COM

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge continue to enjoy the French Alps in Meribel with the Middleton Family and George Percy (friend of Pippa Middleton and heir to the Duke of Northumberland). Below, some photographs of the group having fun on the slopes.

Photo Credit: Hello Online

Photo Credit: Hello

Will there be another Middleton Duchess? Pippa and her friend George Percy hit the slopes with Will and Kate. Photo Credit: XCLUSIVEPIX.COM

Photo Credit: Hello

Photo via Hello

Photo Credit: XCLUSIVEPIX.COM

The Duke of Cambridge.Photo Credit: XCLUSIVEPIX.COM

The Duchess of Cambridge.Photo via Hello Online

March 4, 2012

Is Nicky Philipps to paint portrait of the Duchess?

Photo of the Duchess of Cambridge via wtop.com

It’s a well known fact that the Duchess of Cambridge will pose for a painting for the National Portrait Gallery; it is tradition and Kate is also a royal patron there. The question is, has someone else beaten the Gallery to the canvas? Will the Gallery portrait be the first of the Duchess or has the royal family already commissioned someone else to paint her first portrait? Recent news suggests the latter might be the case.

“Swanks at the National Portrait Gallery are putting it about that their outfit will soon be first to commission a portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge,” reports the Daily Mail’s Quentin Letts. However, he suggests this might not be the case; that one of his operatives in London recently spotted the Duchess of Cambridge leaving the London studio of portrait painter Nicky Philipps. As is expected, the studio will not confirm this to the media or that she is working on the portrait.

This would not be shocking or an outlandish accusation though, as Philipps has painted both Prince William and Prince Harry, as well as the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland (Good friends of Prince Charles and parents of Pippa Middleton’s close friend George Percy): “She may not be groovy — not edgy enough for bien pensant metropolitans—“ says Letts in his piece, “but in the more discreetly upmarket houses of our kingdom she is regarded as the bumble-bee’s knees.”

November 21, 2011

‘Pippa’ publishes 10 tips for a perfect family christmas

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Pippa Middleton may have just split with boyfriend Alex Loudon, but she’s keeping herself well occupied; she was spotted out-and-about last weekend with old friend and former flame George Percy, and, now, the Mail and the Telegraph claim she’s published 10 tips for a ‘perfect family Christmas’ in the Party Times.

I say “claims” because the party pieces website says the piece was written by: Therefore, the legitimacy of the reports stands in question.

It is always possible for an author to use a pseudonym or that Pippa published under another’s name, but how the Mail and the Telegraph would have come across her real identity one can only surmise.

In the online magazine for her family’s firm Party Pieces “Pippa” gives advice like: decorating popcorn with edible glitter, turning cookies into tree ornaments, and lighting pathways with tealight garden lanterns.

All of the recommendations are meant to foster an enjoyable, fun, festive and stress-free holiday for the whole family, says the Party Pieces website.

Whether Pippa did write the recommendations or not, they’re fun ideas anyway! So, I suggest hopping on over to the party pieces website and checking them out at the online Party Times. The holidays are fast approaching, so make them festive!

The Telegraph suggests that Pippa will spend her first Christmas at Sandringham with the Royal family this year.

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