An OnlyFans model says she organized a vicious poster campaign against the parents of the Princess of Wales after claiming she was let go by an out-of-pocket company when their family business went bust.
The scandalous signs have been put up around Carole and Michael Middleton’s home village of Bucklebury in Berkshire, following a nightly poster campaign against the couple two weeks ago.
Their company, Party Pieces, went bankrupt in the summer owing £2.6m in debt, leaving creditors and suppliers incurring losses.
The model in the latest posters, Molly, 23, claims she lost her job at her company as a result – although she declined to be named. She bizarrely claimed the Middletons were responsible for sharing nude photos on OnlyFans and denied the poster campaign was a publicity stunt.
Molly told me The sun: ‘It should be pointed out that failure to pay your creditors does not affect just one person, but all employees of the company. That’s why I say I got fired because of this.
The posters showed Molly in a pink bra with a note that read ‘This is where I went! The company I worked for has now let me go’
The Princess of Wales with her mother, Carole Middleton
‘It’s not part of a promo, but as you can see from the photo, it would be a nice publicity stunt for me. Don’t you think I deserve something back after I’m fired? I think I will.’
Asked whether the Middletons had been unfairly targeted, she said: ‘Do you think being treated unfairly doesn’t mean paying millions owed or getting fired? I think I was the one who was wronged, and others.”
The posters showed it Molly in a pink bra with a note that reads ‘This is where I went! The company I worked for has now let me go. This is because Party Pieces Holdings has not paid their creditors!’
The posters were hung around a local farm owned by the Middletons and on surrounding trees. Most were quickly removed by villagers supporting the family, but at least one was still visible yesterday afternoon.
Villagers said the new banners were intended to stir up local hatred of the Middletons but had only found 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.”
Michael and Carole Middleton have lived in the Berkshire village of Bucklebury for decades
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 their 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.
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 whoever sees them takes them down.”
Another resident who had torn up posters himself also struck.
He said: ‘I am extremely 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.
‘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.’
Resident Sue Rixon, who lived with her family at Middleton’s Bucklebury Farm, was among those who criticized the posters
Carole Middleton in a 1989 publicity photo for Party Pieces, along with her children Kate, Pippa and James
Party Pieces was sold by Kate’s mother Carole, 68, and father Michael, 74, shortly before it went bankrupt in June.
Creditors have called on the couple to pay the outstanding amounts from their own pockets.
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.
The previous poster campaign: Tens of days ago, dozens of laminated A4 posters were stapled to trees, church noticeboards and lampposts
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 neighbors – did not see the person responsible and certainly did their best to remove the offending posters as quickly as they appeared.
They have been joined by none other than the furious James Middleton himself, who, MailOnline 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.
MailOnline has contacted Party Pieces for comment.