Pippa Middleton has left her job at the family party planning business, giving her more time for luxury vacations and socializing, Heat Street can reveal.
The writer – who has also worked for Vanity Fair and the UK’s Daily Telegraph – has quit her blog editor role at Carole Middleton’s party supply firm, Party Pieces.
Pippa, 32, used to be in charge of uploading daily posts to the site, which in recent days has covered the topics of glassware, cake decoration and picnics.
Heat Street understands she quietly moved on from her job, handing responsibility to another staffer who previously wrote for Party Pieces.
When the new writer took over, Pippa’s name and photographs of her were scrubbed from the company’s site.
Archived webpages show Pippa featured prominently as recently as late 2015, but are now nowhere to be found.
Highlights of her Party Pieces career include interviewing her own mother, Carole Middleton, about founding the company and dispensing (presumably very well-informed) tips on how to throw a princess party.
The apparent career change will afford Pippa more scope for her busy social life.
Over the weekend she was photographed taking a break on the Mediterranean island of Corsica.
Pippa Middleton charters a private jet for romantic jaunt https://t.co/1cK5x1ygeu pic.twitter.com/16A1516JhX
— Middleton Maven (@MiddletonMaven) May 4, 2016
She was snapped boarding a private plane alongside her hedge fund manager boyfriend James Matthews.
Last month she took time out to complete a skiing race in Verbier, Switzerland.
Pippa has taken writing jobs before, but with limited success. A “Sport and Social” column with the Daily Telegraph was axed after six months.
A 2012 party-planning book, Celebrate, bagged her a $500,000 advance, but was widely ridiculed for its ludicrously patronizing tips. It is now on sale for around 15% of the cover price.
#PippaTip: form friendships by being nice to people you like
— Not Pippa Middleton (@Pippatips) June 11, 2013
A tie-up with an supermarket has proved more enduring, and Pippa continues to contribute to Waitrose Food more than three years after signing up.
Financial filings from early 2015 stated that, regardless of her work’s reception, she managed to make in excess of $360,000 from writing in a single year.
Repeated requests to Party Pieces for comment on the move were rebuffed.
A stern-sounding staffer told Heat Street: “We don’t comment on anything to do with Pippa.”
