Pippa Middleton and her husband James Matthews held a christening for their daughter, seven-month-old Rose, this week with the Prince and Princess of Wales among the guests.
Little Rose is Pippa and James’s third child together. The couple, who were married in May 2017, are also proud parents to son Arthur, four, and Grace, who will be two this month. Rose joined the family in June 2022.
Pippa is a very private person, and because she has no royal or celebrity roles, she’s able to keep her family life largely under wraps.
She even kept her third pregnancy quiet, with fans only realizing that she was expecting when she debuted her small bump at the late Queen’s Platinum Party at the Palace celebrations in June.
It’s known that she chose to welcome her son and first daughter at London’s St Mary’s Hospital – the same place that her royal sister Kate gave birth – and the assumption is that baby Rose was welcomed there too.
Kate has an incredibly close relationship with her family – but she has an especially tight bond with Pippa, who was born just 21 months after her.
In an interview with NBC in 2014, Pippa said of her relationship with her big sister: “I mean, obviously she has pressures that she’s taken on and things. But we spend a lot of time together. We still do a lot together as a family.
“We have a very normal, sisterly relationship. We’re very close. And, you know, we support each other and get each other’s opinions and things.”
