Pippa Middleton On Wooing Her Fiance

Pippa Middleton's engagement ring is impossible to ignore. It's enormous - a sumptuous three-carat diamond surrounded by 12 smaller stones. Every time she moves her hand and it catches the light, the effect is dazzling.

We meet in a suite of a discreet hotel in the shadow of Kensington Palace where she has agreed to give her first major newspaper interview to talk about her new charity cookery book, Heartfelt, produced to raise money for the British Heart Foundation.