Ms. Middleton, 33, has been a subject of intense public fixation ever since her star turn as bridesmaid at the royal wedding in 2011, where she trod demurely up the steps of Westminster Abbey<br />and the eyes of the world fell approvingly upon her glossy chestnut curls and shapely posterior.<br />But the digital age — defined by a sense of presumed intimacy with famous faces, whose lives play out via smartphones in the palms of our hands —<br />has intensified the collective appetite to place ordinary women on pedestals in the public arena, only to relish the act of tearing them down.<br />This perennial question for the global press — and its readership — was raised once again this past weekend, when<br />Pippa Middleton, younger sister to Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, married James Matthews in Berkshire, England.
