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Britain’s Pippa Middleton engaged to hedge fund beau

By Reuters 1 min read
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Pippa Middleton on Centre Court at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London

LONDON (Reuters) – Pippa Middleton, sister of Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge and possibly the country’s most eligible single woman, is engaged to marry a hedge fund millionaire.

Boyfriend James Matthews went down on one knee to propose to Pippa, 32, on a walk last weekend in the picturesque Lake District in northwest England. Pippa said ‘Yes’, the Daily Mail reported on Tuesday citing sources close to the couple.

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Pippa turned heads when sister Kate married Prince William in 2011, wearing a figure-hugging Alexander McQueen dress that earned her the nickname ‘her royal hotness’ and launched her onto the society pages of Britain’s celebrity-obsessed tabloid press.

The royal couple “are absolutely delighted with the news”, a Kensington Palace spokesman said after Pippa stepped out in the morning wearing a diamond-studded engagement ring valued by jewelry experts at 200,000 pounds ($260,000).

Pippa began dating the 40-year-old Matthews nearly a year ago. The couple were recently spotted together at the Wimbledon tennis tournament.

No date has yet been set for a wedding that would expand Britain’s extended royal family to include a couple with humble origins – both are grandchildren of coal miners from the north of England, the Daily Mail reported.

(Reporting by Douglas Busvine; editing by Stephen Addison)

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