Pippa’s Big Day Ding Dongs

In the bride’s corner, Carole Middleton (who’s rather upset her relatives). In the groom’s corner, Jane ‘Carnival Queen’ Matthews (who’s delighted hers). Take a ringside seat as we square up the two social heavyweights vying to win...

It WILL be the mother of this year’s weddings when Pippa Middleton and hedge fund manager James Matthews marry next Saturday – in the presence of two magnificent matriarchs behind the uniting dynasties. On one side is Carole Middleton, daughter of a decorator who grew up in a council house but who is now a royal granny. On the other is glamorous Jane Matthews, once voted her university carnival queen and paraded through the streets on a gold throne. But which of them really punches above their weight in the high society ring?