According to PEOPLE Magazine, Pippa isn’t the only one who may receive an impressive honor in the coming years; their mother, Carol, is also rumored to be in the running to become one of Kate’s official ‘companions’, a redesigned version of Camilla’s ladies in waiting.
She cast six women for the role: Sarah Troughton, Fiona, the Marchioness of Lansdowne, Lady Katharine Brooke, Baroness Carlyn Chisholm, Lady Sarah Kewick, and Jane von Westenholz.
According to Today, the responsibilities of this role include’supporting the Queen at formal engagements’ and assisting her ‘together with her private secretary and deputy private secretary’.
Camilla reportedly has two unofficial ‘Ladies in Waiting’ who operate mostly behind the scenes rather than attending royal engagements.
An insider told The Mail of this matter: “When she got married and set up her own office for the first time, she got two brilliant private secretaries, Amanda Macmanus and Joy Camm.
“But they were very much ‘two for the price of one.’ Not only did they arrange all her engagements and projects, but they also acted as ladies-in-waiting if needed, accompanying her on official duties, collecting bouquets of flowers and the like.
“No one stands on ceremony in her office, everyone mucks in.”
