In this file photo dated Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011 Britain’s Pippa Middleton, arrives at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland’s eldest daughter Lady Katie Percy to city financier Patrick Valentine at St Michael’s Church in Alnwick, England. Pippa Middleton went to Paris for a friend’s birthday party and the British media are agog over an alleged gun flashed at paparazzi by one of her companions. Paris police say they’ve received no complaint and are not investigating, Tuesday, 17 April, 2012. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell, File)SYLVIA HUI, Associated Press
LONDON (AP) – The Parisian costume party featured a man in a dog collar, a dwarf, a nearly naked nun – and a rather well known guest named Pippa Middleton, younger sister of the Duchess of Cambridge.
Middleton, 28, was in the headlines Tuesday, with photographs of her appearance at a friend’s decadent birthday party splashed across the Daily Mail tabloid.
The pictures are striking: women in revealing, low-cut period costumes from the 18th-century playacting with men in fancy clothes and spiky leather collars and bracelets.
Buckingham Palace declined to comment, but the racy coverage was likely not well received by Britain’s royal family, which has been enjoying a popularity boost since the former Kate Middleton’s fairytale wedding to Prince William last year.