Pippa's in laws are told they can't stay at the Middletons Pippa Middleton's new in-laws have been told they cannot stay at her parents house as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will be staying at the manor with their children. Jane and David Matthews have had to book into a cottage for Pippa's wedding to hedge fund millionaire James on May 20. Space at Carole and Michael Middleton's £5 million Grade II-listed home Bucklebury Manor, in Berkshire, is set to be taken up by the Cambridges, Prince George and Princess Charlotte. A source told the Express: 'James's parents are hoteliers themselves so they are more than happy to be put up elsewhere. 'They also understand the need for privacy.' It is believed that Prince Harry will also be staying at Bucklebury Manor and the Middletons will also be hosting the wedding reception at the family pile. Pippa will wed James Matthews at St Mark's Church, Englefield. Niece and nephew Charlotte and George will be a bridesmaid and page boy at the ceremony. Yesterday, it was revealed James Matthews has been forced to slash his own earnings by a wince-making sum of almost £370,000 after profits fell at his hedge fund firm. It left him with just under £200,000 in his annual pay packet. Now that might be a lot to most of us, but to the billionaire financiers who infest London’s Mayfair, where his office is situated, it’s just lunch money. And for poor old James, it’s unlikely to have been enough even to pay for the astounding Art Deco style engagement ring he presented to Pippa, 33, last year. The multi-faceted diamond knuckle-duster is reputed to have cost around a quarter of a million, which would have left him about fifty grand short. But perhaps a pay cut was inevitable sooner or later, given that the hedge fund he launched in 2001 lost £80,000 in 2015 when a Cayman Islands bank where it had deposited money went into liquidation after being accused by the U.S. authorities of being involved in a share scam. Then there’s the £20 million it lost on a Hollywood film fund that went under in 2014. So perhaps it’s not so surprising that the firm’s profits fell in 2015, the most recent year for which figures are available, and James’s annual share of profits from the partnership plunged to just over £190,500 from just under £560,000 the previous year. And apart from the woes at his hedge fund firm, James has also been running up multi-million-pound losses on lodgings at his family’s grand Scottish estate. . How fortunate for James and his bride-to-be that he still has plenty of family money to fall back on. As, indeed, does she. James hails from entrepreneurial parentage. His 72-year-old dad David is a huge money-maker. Mr Matthews Senior began as a car mechanic in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, and made a fortune in the motor trade. He owns the exclusive Eden Rock hotel on the Caribbean island of St Barts with his second wife Jane. But has James really inherited dad’s Midas gene? Or does his public profile mean he is considered more successful than he really is? On that, the jury must remain out. Pippa’s beau is often portrayed as being an enormously successful financier at the relatively young age of 41. In truth, though, he is nowhere near the City big league. Observers say that he’s unlikely to trouble the pages of the Financial Times or the Wall Street Journal with his business coups, however often he might grace the gossip columns. To his credit, though, James has not opted for a life of idle lounge lizardry. He has certainly pursued a more industrious route than his rascally younger brother Spencer, one of the stars of reality TV show Made In Chelsea. Spencer is a self-proclaimed Casanova who admits to a trail of drug-fuelled debauchery and says that he has bedded more than 1,000 women. James wants to be a serious businessman. He skipped university after leaving £34,000-a-year Uppingham public school and rejected

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