Pip, pip, hooray. Pippa Middleton, a guest at last night’s Spectator party at the magazine’s Old Queen Street offices along with the PM David Cameron, is taking up Rachel Johnson’s tennis challenge to play in the “Sisters Of” Ladies’ Singles.
“Your club or mine?” asked the former editor of The Lady. The Duchess of Cambridge’s sister replied that it was hard to get a court at Queen’s Club so they agreed to play at Johnson’s club in Campden Hill Square. “At some point,” said Pippa.
The Londoner has offered to be ball boy when the fixture goes ahead — Johnson was overheard enthusing that Pippa was even lovelier in the flesh than her photographs suggested. Meanwhile, I understand that Pippa’s whiff-whaff challenge with another Johnson, Mayor Boris, is back on even though he had another engagement.
Pippa said how happy she was that Andy Murray had won his quarter final, which led some guests to wonder if the Curse of Cameron and the Curse of Pippa had cancelled each other out. Pippa tipped Roger Federer and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to win Wimbledon in her Spectator diary last week — Federer was knocked out and Tsonga withdrew with an injury. Cameron tweeted good luck to Laura Robson and the same day she lost. Yesterday he was at it again — at least Murray got through, by the skin of his teeth.
