By Jan Moir for the Daily Mail. The sun shone, the caviar was on ice and the heavenly scent of a thousand pink roses filled the air. Pippa Middleton, background right, kisses James Matthews after their wedding at St Mark's Church in Englefield.

And lo, the church bells pealed out as a troupe of sulky knickerbockered page boys and tiny flower girls scattered petals at the feet of the newlyweds.

For at last Pippa has claimed her ultimate prize, and one that puts big sister Kate firmly in the shade.

On Saturday, the younger sister of the Duchess of Cambridge wed James Matthews, the man she and her family probably affectionately know as Wotsisname, Thingy and Give Him The Bill.

After she agreed to wed James in sickness and in health, for richer or richer, her prospects changed in a trice. And the photographs taken on the church steps confirmed it all; Kate looking mousy in badly seamed salmon pink, relegated to fixing hems and scolding children, while Pippa was radiant and dimpled, a Krakatoa of contentment. Look at who she has married! Royal wedding of Prince William of Wales to Catherine Middleton Kate Middleton on 29th April In addition, his family fortune is not predicated on boring coal mines, chicken sheds or a string of dreary factories in the grimy north; dull places full of worker bees that have to be visited once a year, oh God anything but that.

Pippa can now be guaranteed excellent service and a favourable rate every time she sets her perma-tanned tootsies on the white sands. And no doubt staff will be very grateful for her celebrated tips on posh catering as told in her party planning book Celebrate, such as making tea put the teabags in a teapot and having a picnic in the country walk or cycle to your favourite picnic spot.

By marrying Mr Matthews, Pippa has fired a starting gun on a life of luxury that will be the envy of many, especially her sis. For while Kate may have married into royalty — her husband is a future king of England, her son ditto — it is Pippa who stands to live the kind of unrestrained wealthy wife lifestyle that the Duchess can only dream of.

Beaming Pippa Middleton and James Berkshire drive an E type Jaguar away from the church after their wedding. Despite the prestige inherent in her married title, Kate will always be a bird chained inside a modestly gilded cage.

From now until forever more, protocol and societal demands mean that the Duchess must be prudent and thrifty: And she must never, ever boast about her new kitchen units at Kensington Palace, for fear it might lead to rioting in the streets. In contrast, Pippa can do as she pleases. She can take off on a whim whenever, opt for unashamed five-star luxury at every turn, do a desultory bit of charity work while relaxing on the teak deck of her favourite yacht. Meanwhile, husband James can be relied upon to supply hot-and-cold-running private jets and the kind of gilded high life to which she must now become even more accustomed.

I might even drop her a curtsey, too. What is the secret of her success?

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Well, she certainly has a type. At Edinburgh University, Pippa wasted no time in dating banking heir JJ Jardine Paterson. After this, it was dashing millionaire Alexander Spencer-Churchill, a wealthy quasi-aristo whom she met in Mustique. Inshe stepped out with Alex Loudon, a former England cricketer who had attended Eton with Prince William. It was Alex who escorted her to the royal wedding in — but by the end of the year, their romance was over.

The following year it was the turn of gorgeous stockbroker Nico Jackson. Their relationship ended in Octoberwhen he moved to Geneva without her. What next for a girl looking for love? The cavalry came a-galloping in with James Matthews — a man whom Pippa had known for ten years, had briefly dated but had always remained friends with. Yet I feel happy for Pippa, and believe that she has made a love match. In many ways, she and husband James are secondary siblings, for both of them live slightly in the shadow of a sibling who is much more popular and celebrated.

But, together, Pippa and James have now jet-streamed ahead in the race of life. In marrying fabulously wealthy James, Pippa has seen off this fate worse than Princess Margaret or tragic Tara Palmer-Tomkinson.

She had to kiss a lot of Mr Rights to find her Mr Very Very Right, but she got there in the end. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Yes, Kate bagged a Prince.

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