While Kate Middleton enjoyed a moment of happiness in Marseille this week, where she went to support the English rugby team at the World Cup being played in France, her parents are going through hell in the United Kingdom. . After the collapse of the family business, Party pieces, malicious messages were posted on lampposts and trees around the couple’s home village of Bucklebury.
A campaign that horrified the neighborhood
Some want Carole, 68, and Michael, 74 – also parents to Pippa and James – to pay their debts out of their own money. Around the Middleton home, residents were dismayed by the posters put up. Soon to be a father, James Middleton would even have removed some of them, reports the Sun. A source said: “Carole and Michael are incredibly popular. Everyone is horrified by these posters. It is unfair to do this in their native village, a few meters from their home. Their son James lives nearby, as does Pippa, who recently moved there with her family, so they must all be dealing with this situation. They are doing their best to make things right and don’t deserve this kind of abuse.”
Party Pieces closed this summer with £2.6 million in debt, as a result of the Covid crisis and lockdowns. A turnaround which aroused the indignation of suppliers, who criticized the way “infuriating” whose invoices had remained unpaid before the company’s bankruptcy.
Their goose that lays golden eggs
The Middletons started their business in 1987 around their kitchen table, selling treats and decorations for children’s parties from catalogs. The company boomed in the 1990s thanks to the Internet and began selling thousands of different products online. Profits from the business helped the couple enroll their three children at Marlborough College, then at Saint Andrews, for Kate Middleton, where she met Prince William who became her husband…
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