Pippa Middleton and Princess Kate once had sweet nicknames (Image: UK Press Pool/UK Press via Getty Images)
and Pippa Middleton are two of the most famous sisters in the world. However, they had a fairly standard upbringing.
Despite the fact Kate is now the future Queen of the UK, her relationship with her sister Pippa, 41, is as close as it ever was.
As well as living together in the family home and attending Marlborough College together, the sisters also before Kate, 43, married , 42.
The sisters reportedly still see each other often, along with their brother James, with family meet-ups taking place at their parents Michael and Carole Middleton’s Berkshire home.
While Kate and Pippa are now very much both in the public spotlight, this was not the case when they were children.
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Instead, the siblings had a very ordinary childhood, with both of them attending St Andrew’s School in Pangbourne, Berkshire.
The sisters reportedly had sweet nicknames during this time in their life, which they also used for their own gunia pigs.
During a visit to her old school in 2012, Kate asked students if they kept pets at school. She also revealed she used to have two guinea pigs with the same names.
she said: “There was one called Pip and one called Squeak, because my sister was called Pippa and I was Squeak.”
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The sisters share a close bond (Image: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
It is not known whether the sisters still use the nicknames to each other behind closed doors.
Pippa and the rest of Kate’s family were service last month.
It is likely the family would or for
It is believed Kate spent her special day at which she shares with and their three children Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, nine and Prince Louis, six.