Little boy gives rude hand gesture at Pippa Middleton's wedding, steals the show

Charming!
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Rachel Thompson
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Little boy gives rude hand gesture at Pippa Middleton's wedding, steals the show
This naughty little boy stole the show. Credit: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images

Move aside "frowning flower girl" Grace Van Cutsem who stole the show at the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's wedding. There's a new superhero in town and he's a bit more mischievous.

Pippa Middleton married James Matthews over the weekend and one little boy completely stole the show when he appeared to stick two fingers up.

Was it an accident? Or was this cheeky hand gesture an act of rebellion amidst the pomp and ceremony? We may never know.

The little boy -- whose name is as yet unknown -- found fame over the weekend after Twitter caught wind of his antics.

Some wondered if the child was actually directing his gesture at the vicar.

And others declared the child an out-and-out hero.

Charming!

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Rachel Thompson
Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.

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