The model featured on posters targeting the parents of the Princess of Wales boasted she was ‘planning a stunt’ a month before the images began appearing around the Middleton family’s rural village.
The woman, who makes money out of posting explicit images on the internet, gave clues on her website that she was planning an outrageous publicity campaign which saw her scantily clad image posted around Bucklebury in West Berkshire.
Red-haired Molly, on September 23 asked her 26,000 Twitter (X) followers: ‘Who’s ready for my even bigger stunt’?
A fortnight before, she also posted a video at a London bus stop of her in front of a poster of her in underwear and with the same Only Fans identity used on the posters in the stunt against the Middletons which has offended villagers.
The video, shot near Chelsea Football club, was labelled ‘A little taste of my promo stunt’ and showed her saying: ‘Morning guys . . . do you like my new posters?’
The woman, who makes money out of posting explicit images on the internet, gave clues on her website that she was planning an outrageous publicity campaign which saw her scantily clad image posted around Bucklebury in West Berkshire
Residents of Bucklebury have slammed the use of the failure of the Princess’s parents’ business as ‘cruel’
Red-haired Molly, on September 23 asked her 26,000 Twitter (X) followers: ‘Who’s ready for my even bigger stunt’?
Party Pieces was sold by Kate’s mother Carole, 68, and father Michael, 74, (pictured together) shortly before it went bust in June.
Her image had been placed over a space designed for paid for advertising. On the internet she wrote under the poster ‘Cost of living made me do it.’
Molly, who says she is a former stripper, added: ‘If you like that wait in two weeks I’ve got something better planned.’
Residents of Bucklebury have slammed the use of the failure of the Princess’s parents’ business as ‘cruel.’
Molly told the Mail last night: ‘Yes, this is a publicity stunt, but not in the way you think.’ She said her posters were put up ‘to create awareness about companies that do go bust’, adding: ‘There are other companies and employees who lose out.’
Party Pieces was sold by Kate’s mother Carole, 68, and father Michael, 74, shortly before it went bust in June.
Creditors have been calling on the couple to pay the outstanding sums out of their own pockets.
The firm was started by the Middletons in 1987, selling decorations and party paraphernalia for children’s events from catalogues.
Its business model was transformed by the Internet revolution of the 1990s, which allowed the Party Pieces website to begin selling products to customers at home and abroad.
Carole Middleton in a 1989 publicity shot for Party Pieces, along with her children Kate, Pippa and James
A fortnight before, she also posted a video at a London bus stop of her in front of a poster of her in underwear and with the same Only Fans identity used on the posters in the stunt against the Middletons which has offended villagers
Her image had been placed over a space designed for paid for advertising. On the internet she wrote under the poster ‘Cost of living made me do it’
The company’s soaring profits are said to have helped the couple put their three children through the prestigious Marlborough College, where fees are £42,000 per year, as well as paying for their £5million seven-bedroom Georgian manor house in Bucklebury.
But the firm was badly hit by the pandemic, when children’s parties had to be cancelled, and then the cost of living crisis caused the business to slump further.
In June, after 36 years in business, Party Pieces went under, just a fortnight after it had emerged that the company had been sold to a Scottish businessman named James Sinclair, having gone into administration.
Former British Airways stewardess Carole was said by a friend at the time to be ‘desperately sad’ at the company’s fate.
One villager said today : ‘It can’t be a good time for Mr and Mrs Middleton if their business has gone. But to use their problems as a PR stunt is cruel and has offended people around here.
‘This model’s pictures are totally out of character with Bucklebury and not what we want around here. They do not deserve this.’
Molly’s pictures were removed by staff at the Middleton-owned Bucklebury Farm, although one was discovered by Mail Online a few miles away yesterday nailed to a tree in Upper Bucklebury. And it was still in place this morning.
Molly, 23, claims she lost her job at her company as a result of Party Pieces crashing,- although she refused to name the firm she worked for.
The firm was started by the Middletons in 1987, selling decorations and party paraphernalia for children’s events from catalogues. Pictured: The Princess of Wales with her mother, Carole Middleton
Molly, 23, claims she lost her job at her company as a result of Party Pieces crashing,- although she refused to name the firm she worked for
Villagers said the new banners were aimed at stirring up local hatred against the Middletons – but the family had received only support. Pictured: One poster pinned to a telegraph pole
She bizarrely claimed the Middletons were to blame for her ending up sharing naked photos on OnlyFans and denied the poster campaign was a publicity stunt.
Molly said: ‘The point needs to be made that if you don’t pay your creditors, it doesn’t just affect one person, it affects all employees of the company. Hence why I say I was made redundant because of this.
‘It’s not part of a promo, but as you can see by the photo, it would be a great publicity stunt for me. Don’t you think I deserve something back after being made redundant? I think I do.’
Asked whether the Middletons were being unfairly targeted, she said: ‘Do you think being unfairly treated is not paying millions owed or being made redundant? I think I was the one that was wronged, and others.’
The posters showed Molly in a pink bra with a note reading ‘This is what I’ve turned to! The company I used to work at has now let me go. This is because Party Pieces Holdings have not paid their creditors!’
The posters were put up around a local farm owned by the Middletons and on surrounding trees. Most were quickly removed by villagers who are supportive of the family, but at least one was still visible yesterday afternoon.
Villagers said the new banners were aimed at stirring up local hatred against the Middletons – but the family had received only support.
Sharon Fry, 49, a mother of four who lives in the village, said: ‘The Middletons are a very decent family. This is their home. And they shouldn’t have to put up with this kind of rubbish.
She bizarrely claimed the Middletons were to blame for her ending up sharing naked photos on OnlyFans and denied the poster campaign was a publicity stunt
‘My daughter works at the farm and I know that the staff have been taking them down when they have seen them. I have seen William and Kate here.
‘In fact… I nearly once ran William over when he was riding his bike along here! He just smiled at me.
‘The Middletons are very nice people and they run the farm really well. It has a place for kids to play and is looking really good this Halloween.’
As well as the Princess of Wales’s parents, her younger sister, Pippa, has also set up home in the village with her husband, hedge fund tycoon James Matthews, and their three children.
Kate’s brother, James, and his French wife Alizee Thevenet have moved into a £1.45million, 17th-century farmhouse in neighbouring Stanford Dingley.
Another resident, Sue Rixon, who was with her family at the Middleton’s Bucklebury Farm, said: ‘We shouldn’t be seeing these posters.
‘They are very rude and completely out of keeping with this area. This is a quiet, idyllic place.
‘Whoever did this has placed them right outside the farm gate where children can see them. As it’s half-term there are a lot of children about. This is not very good. I hope anybody who sees them takes them down.’
Another resident who had ripped down posters said: ‘I am extremely concerned. I was on my morning walk with my dog around the village, and yet again we have been targeted with some form of campaign against the Middleton family.
‘This is now the second time in two weeks we have had attention brought to our doorsteps. We are a sleepy village – this is really disrupting the village life and I for one, and other residents, are becoming frustrated.
‘I have torn down over ten posters and I am sure there are more. I am also very outraged at the promotion of this website.’
They have been joined by a furious James Middleton who, has learnt, dashed into Yattendon Village Stores and Post Office earlier this month after one was seen stuck to the sycamore tree outside.
‘He was not happy and wanted to know if we had seen any more. He wanted them taken down,’ said 57-year-old Teri Muggeridge, assistant manager at the store, six miles from Bucklebury and three miles from James’s Stanford Dingley home.
has contacted Party Pieces for comment.