{"id":2234874,"date":"2026-01-14T19:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2234874"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:25:12","slug":"inside-kate-middletons-intimate-44th-birthday-lunch-with-sister-pippa-and-mom-carole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/inside-kate-middletons-intimate-44th-birthday-lunch-with-sister-pippa-and-mom-carole\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Kate Middleton&#8217;s intimate 44th birthday lunch with sister Pippa and mom Carole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Kate Middleton celebrated her recent birthday with an intimate lunch with her sister, Pippa Matthews, and their mom, Carole Middleton.<\/p>\n<p>To ring in her 44th year, Kate enjoyed a meal with Matthews, 42, and Carole, 70, at a French bistro in England\u2019s Berkshire called the Funghi Club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery now and then something happens that sends a little fizz of excitement through the whole place and this week delivered a corker,\u201d the restaurant <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheFunghiClub\/?locale=en_GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gushed in a Facebook post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast Friday, in our teeny Hungerford Bistro, we had the enormous pleasure of welcoming a rather extraordinary guest. We can already hear the chorus from Newbury: \u2018Go on then\u2026 who was it?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Kate Middleton celebrated her 44th birthday with an intimate lunch with her sister, Pippa Matthews, and their mom, Carole Middleton. <span class=\"credit\">Isabel Infantes\/WPA Pool\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Last Friday, Kate enjoyed a meal with Matthews and Carole at a French bistro in England\u2019s Berkshire called the Funghi Club. <span class=\"credit\">ZUMAPRESS.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The post went on to reveal that their special patron was \u201cnone other than the Princess of Wales herself,\u201d who grew up in the county.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBerkshire\u2019s very own Kate Middleton, celebrating her 44th birthday, joined by her mother Carole and sister Pippa. Right here in Hungerford.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post noted that while the team had \u201cno photos to share\u201d of the private gathering, every employee who was working that day \u201creported the same thing: [Kate] was utterly charming, gracious and every bit as radiant in person as you\u2019d imagine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe jungle drums of Hungerford didn\u2019t stop beating until well into Saturday. A little moment of magic for our small bistro \u2014 and one we won\u2019t forget in a hurry.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>In a Facebook post, the restaurant gushed over having \u201cthe enormous pleasure of welcoming a rather extraordinary guest.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Geoff Pugh-The Telegraph\/POOL supplied by Splash News \/ SplashNews.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The post went on to reveal that their special patron was \u201cnone other than the Princess of Wales herself,\u201d who grew up in the county. <span class=\"credit\">SWNS \/ Splash News<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The post concluded with a \u201cHappy Birthday \ud83e\udd73\u201d message to Kate.<\/p>\n<p>The wife of Prince William \u2014 who <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/03\/22\/royal-family\/kate-middleton-reveals-she-has-cancer\/\">announced her cancer diagnosis<\/a> in March 2024 \u2014 began her birthday celebrations by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/01\/09\/royal-family\/kate-middleton-marks-44th-birthday-with-healing-message-after-darkest-season\/\">sharing a \u201cdeeply personal\u201d message about healing after her \u201ccoldest, darkest season.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Posting on Instagram a serene video of her walking through nature, Kate was heard saying, \u201cWinter has a way of bringing us stillness, patience and quiet consideration. Where the stream slows just enough for us to see our own reflection, to discover the deepest parts of ourselves alongside the whispers and the pulse of every living thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Every employee who was working that day \u201creported the same thing: [Kate] was utterly charming, gracious and every bit as radiant in person as you\u2019d imagine.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\/ SplashNews.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The wife of Prince William \u2014 who is in remission after battling cancer for nearly a year \u2014 began her birthday celebrations by sharing a \u201cdeeply personal\u201d message about healing after her \u201ccoldest, darkest season.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">ZUMAPRESS.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The mother of three \u2014 who\u00a0revealed in January 2025 that her cancer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/01\/14\/royal-family\/kate-middleton-reveals-she-is-in-remission-from-cancer-after-surprise-hospital-visit\/\">was in remission<\/a> \u2014 added that she\u2019s been \u201creflecting on how deeply grateful\u201d she is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rivers within us flow with ease, fears washed away [as they] cleanse and purify. [We] come to peace with our tears and discover what it means to be alive \u2014 to be at one with nature,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Kate \u2014 who shares Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, 10, and Prince Louis, 7, with William, 43 \u2014 concluded by branding nature \u201ca quiet teacher and a soft voice that guides in memory, helping us to heal.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Middleton celebrated her recent birthday with an intimate lunch with her sister, Pippa Matthews, and their mom, Carole Middleton. To ring in her 44th year, Kate enjoyed a meal with Matthews, 42, and Carole, 70, at a French bistro in England\u2019s Berkshire called the Funghi Club. \u201cEvery now and then something happens that sends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2234875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[304752,70626,344978,23651,378429,22769],"class_list":["post-2234874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-celebrity-birthdays","tag-celebrity-families","tag-celebrity-siblings","tag-kate-middleton","tag-pippa-middleton","tag-royal-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Inside-Kate-Middletons-intimate-44th-birthday-lunch-with-sister-Pippa.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234876,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234874\/revisions\/2234876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2234875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}