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KATE'S SISTER HUNTS FOR A HUBBY

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Pippa and Kate Middleton

Sunday October 12,2008

By Adam Helliker

AS Kate Middleton keeps her nails manicured waiting for Prince William to put a ring on her finger, her younger sister Pippa, 23, who split from banking scion JJ Patterson last year, is working terribly hard to find a blue-blooded hubby of her own (who MUST, she has told friends, have a title, a house in Chelsea and an estate in the country).

Such is the inexorable rise of the Middletons that some of Prince William’s snootier acquaintances refer to the girls as the “wisteria sisters” because they’re “decorative, terribly fragrant and have a ferocious ability to climb”.

Was it always thus? It would appear so.

Word reaches me that even as a teenager at Marlborough College, Pippa made no secret of her desire for, as one chum put it, “power and money”.

A glance through the Sporting Life section of the school magazine finds an interview with the petite brunette in which the English graduate, who shared a flat with the sons of the Dukes of Roxburghe and Northumberland at Edinburgh University and now works as a PR for a luxury goods firm, admits her life philosophy: “It’s ‘altior pettimo’ – Latin for ‘I aim for the highest’.

"This motto will be the key to my success!”


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