Pippa Middleton grew up in rural Berkshire, England, about an hour away from the hustle and bustle of Kensington Palace. She, her sister, and her younger brother James spent most of their childhood in a cottage called West View. “[We] grew up in the countryside so being outdoors and involved in sport has been a passion and in my blood,” she told Hoka.
Pippa’s childhood was quite different from her peers, however, in that she got a first-hand look at living in another country when she was just a toddler. Pippa and her sister left England and spent two years in Amman, Jordan, beginning in 1984, after their father Michael relocated for his British Airways job.
While nowhere close to royalty, Pippa’s lineage provided her with a privileged life. Her great-grandmother was a member of a famous political dynasty, and her father, Michael, came from an aristocratic and wealthy Yorkshire family. Pippa’s mother Carole also had money of her own, as her former company Party Pieces, which sold event decorations, took off in the late ’80s. Despite growing up wealthy, Pippa admitted certain rules still applied during her childhood. “We had to eat everything on our plate and not be fussy about food,” she told the Daily Mail. “There were times when I would be sitting at the table after lunch or dinner, having not eaten something because I decided I didn’t like it and actually remaining there until I had eaten it.”
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