So, The Daily Mail (one of my favorite internet reads – and yes, I’ll admit it, I read the UK version as well as the US version) is reporting that Prince Harry & Pippa Middleton are thisclose to becoming a couple. And to that I’d like to say – holy moly, I hope not.
Pippa’s best bet – I think – would be to keep hanging out with George Percy, the heir to the Duke of Northumberland, which is the highest rank within the peerage of Great Britain, and not to mention the Duke is one of the richest men in Great Britain. (Fun fact about me: while doing my family tree I found that my family is descendent of the Percys… obviously not from the same super important branch – but one of my great-great-great-etc grandfathers was once the Duke of Northumberland).
If Pippa were to marry George, she would eventually become a Duchess (which is most likely the same title she would acquire if she married Prince Harry). But the Percy’s have much more in liquid assets than the royal family, they have a castle of their own – Alnwick (which, due to my distant relationship with the Percy family, I like to think of is also my castle, haha.Alnwick – more importantly/impressively is the largest inhabited castle in England, with the exception of Windsor Castle, and is the setting for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter films) – and she wouldn’t necessarily be bound to the strict protocol of the royal family.
Sure, there would probably be a lot of scrutiny around her actions, and there already is, but it would allow her to form a life outside the shadow of her sister, whereas if she were to marry Prince Harry, she’d be not only in the “shadow” of Prince William – the heir to the throne – and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, but also of Prince Harry.
So what are your thoughts – should Prince Harry & Her Royal Hotness, Pippa Middleton, go for it – or keep the relationship platonic?