HONEYMOON HIDEAWAY Pippa Middleton and James Matthews bring their love Down Under.
The newlyweds bring their love Down Under
Seemingly immune to the onset of a southern winter, glowing newlywed Pippa Middleton, 33, showed no signs of feeling the cold when she stepped out in an $800 Kate Spade summer frock for a day in Sydney with her new husband, James Matthews, 41, on their whirlwind honeymoon stopover in Australia. Less than a fortnight after their wedding and lavish reception at her parents’ property in Berkshire, England, and following a relaxed few days in French Polynesia and New Zealand, the couple checked in to an $18,000-a-night penthouse suite in the Harbour city’s five-star luxury hotel the Park Hyatt.
While their arrival in Sydney on the evening of May 30 was a low-key event, the couple made the most of their time, going for a 5km prebreakfast run along the harbour the next morning before joining friends aboard a seaplane for
a 20-minute flight for lunch at the Cottage Point Inn on Cowan Creek in NSW’S Kuring-gai Chase National Park. “We were surprised to see them turn up; they were very quiet and low-key,” restaurant owner Ally Olesen told Sydney’s Daily Telegraph. “They were mesmerised by the kookaburras and fed them from the table.” Rounding out their day atop the Harbour Bridge, the couple made a sunset climb before retreating to a city restaurant for a romantic dinner.
The next day, Middleton—sister of Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge—and her financier husband headed to the Northern Territory and reportedly took in a crocodilespotting boat cruise in Kakadu before jetting to Perth on June 4, where they were driven to Como the Treasury hotel.