Mysterious poison poster stalking the Middletons’ village strikes AGAIN as images of scantily clad models are stapled to trees with a message attacking the family over the failure of their party business
A mysterious hobo who put up filthy posters condemning Kate Middleton’s family in the village where they live has struck again, MailOnline has learned.
The latest overnight action comes just a fortnight after the twisted hate campaign posters were first put up around the Berkshire village of Bucklebury, where The Princess of Wales’ parents have lived for decades.
Kate’s brother, James, 36, who lives nearby with his pregnant French wife Alizee, 33, was said to have been furious at the posters and was reportedly seen taking them down.
Now MailOnline has learned that a series of offensive posters targeting the Middleton family, citing their failing business, were put up overnight last night.
New posters criticizing her family and featuring a scantily clad model appeared overnight outside a farm belonging to the Middletons – and on nearby trees.
A mysterious hobo who put up vile posters condemning Kate Middleton’s family in the village where they live has struck again, MailOnline has learned
The latest overnight action comes just a fortnight after the twisted hate campaign posters were first put up around the Berkshire village of Bucklebury, where the Princess of Wales’s parents, Michael and Carole Middleton, have lived for decades.
The new scandalous posters refer to Middleton’s Party Pieces Holdings Ltd
Most were quickly removed by villagers supporting their local famous family, but at least one was still visible this afternoon.
Villagers said the new posters were intended to stir up local hatred of the family, but they had found nothing but support.
Sharon, Fry, 49, mother of four, who lives in the village, said: ‘The Middletons are a very decent family.
‘This is their home. And they shouldn’t tolerate this kind of nonsense.
“My daughter works on the farm and I know the staff took them away when they saw them.
‘I saw William and Kate here.
‘I’ve even seen William and Kate here. I almost hit William once when he was cycling here. He just smiled at me. His safety was paramount
‘The Middletons are very nice people and they run the farm very well. There’s a place for kids to play and it looks really good this Halloween.”
The Princess of Wales’s parents, Carol and Michael, still live in the village. Her younger sister, Pippa, has also made her home there with her hedge fund magnate husband and theoretically three children.
Kate’s brother James and his French wife have moved to a £1.45 million 17th century farmhouse in neighboring Stanford Dingley, where they are expecting their first child.
The new scandalous posters refer to Middleton’s Party Pieces Holdings Ltd.
They show a model with a pink bodice, taken from the seedy Only Fans site.
Another resident Sue Rixon, who was at Middleton’s Bucklebury Farm with her family, said: ‘We shouldn’t be seeing these posters.
‘They are very rude and completely out of character for this area. This is a peaceful, idyllic spot
‘Whoever did this put them just outside the farm gate where children can see them.
Because it is half-yearly, there are a lot of children around. This is not very good. I hope someone sees them and takes them down.”
Another resident who had torn up posters himself also struck.
He said: I am very concerned. I was just doing my morning walk around the village with my dog and once again we have been targeted, with some form of campaign against the Middleton family.
Resident Sue Rixon, who was at Middleton’s Bucklebury Farm with her family, said: ‘We shouldn’t be seeing these posters’
The posters refer to the collapse earlier this year of the Middletons’ company, Party Pieces, and demand that the couple repay debts. Pictured: Carole Middleton with her three children promoting Party Pieces in 1989
Dozens of laminated A4 posters stapled to trees, church noticeboards and lampposts by someone sneaking around in the dead of night
‘This is now the second time in two weeks that we have been brought to our attention. We are a sleepy village – this really disrupts village life and I (for one and other residents) get frustrated.
‘I’ve removed over ten posters and I’m sure there are more!
‘I am also very upset about the promotion of this website.’
The posters started after suppliers ran out of money due to the closure of Party Pieces, which was sold by Kate’s mother Carole, 68, and father Michael, 74, shortly before it went into administration earlier this year.
The creditors have called on the couple to pay the outstanding amounts from their own pockets.
Party Pieces went bankrupt in the summer with £2.6 million in debts.
The company was founded in 1987 by the Middletons and sold decorations and party supplies for children’s events from catalogues.
The business model was transformed by the Internet revolution of the 1990s, allowing the Party Pieces website to sell products to customers at home and abroad.
The company’s rising profits are said to have helped the couple send their three children to the prestigious Marlborough College, where fees are £42,000 a year, and pay for their £5million seven-bedroom Georgian mansion in Bucklebury.
But the company was hit hard by the pandemic, when children’s parties had to be canceled, and the cost of living crisis caused the company to collapse further.
In June, after 36 years in business, Party Pieces collapsed, just a fortnight after it was revealed that the company had been sold to a Scottish businessman called James Sinclair after falling into administration.
Former British Airways flight attendant Carole was said by a friend at the time to be ‘desperately sad’ about the fate of the company.
Other friends said she was trying to make sure creditors were paid.
However, suppliers have since criticized the couple, claiming invoices had gone unpaid before the company went bust.
An administrator’s report found that creditors were unlikely to be repaid the money they were owed.
Positioned to attract maximum attention, posters have appeared close to shops, churches, the entrance to a village cricket ground and just outside Yattendon village hall, where locals queue every Wednesday evening for freshly prepared fish and chips from the visiting Go Fish mobile van.
Outraged residents – who for the most part protect their royal neighbors – have not spotted the person responsible and have certainly done their best to remove the offending posters as quickly as they appear.
They have been joined by none other than the irate James Middleton himself, who, the Mail has learned, stormed into the Yattendon Village Stores and Post Office earlier this month after someone got stuck on the plane tree outside.
‘He wasn’t happy and wanted to know if we had seen anything else. He wanted them removed,” said 57-year-old Teri Muggeridge, assistant manager of the store, which is six miles from Bucklebury and three miles from James’ home in Stanford Dingley.