Wedding Bells for Pippa Middleton?
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Chris Jackson/Getty Images(LONDON) — With the Duchess of Cambridge due to give birth any day now and rumors that Pippa Middleton is madly in love, could there be two major milestones for the Middleton family this year?
Royal watchers say yes, that wedding bells are likely for Pippa Middleton after the excitement of the birth of the royal baby — the first child for Kate Middleton and her husband, Prince William — dies down.
Pippa, 29, has told friends that her new beau, financier Nico Jackson, 35, is “the one,” according to a report in the U.K.’s Daily Mail.
They have been dating for eight months but after a canoodling session at the Wimbledon men’s singles semi-finals last week, their relationship is very public and both are telling friends that the relationship is serious, according to the Daily Mail.
“An engagement is definitely on the cards,” a person identified as a “close friend” of the couple told the paper.
“He has never been happier and this is really what he wants,” the source said of Jackson.
So who is Jackson, the man who has stolen Pippa’s heart?
He is a stockbrocker who, unlike Pippa’s brother-in-law, does not come from royal lineage. Jackson was raised in a middle-class household in Folkestone, Kent, 70 miles from London, where his parents run a sportswear firm, according to People magazine.
Jackson has met the Middleton family — the couple was spotted with the family on the Caribbean island of Mustique in February — and Pippa has apparently met Jackson’s parents, as well.
“Yes, we have met [Pippa] and I have to say she is absolutely charming, but I really cannot say any more,” Jackson’s mother, Ulrike Jackson, told the Daily Mail in February. “We’re all just very pleased.”
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