Pippa Middleton's new book Celebrate, as unveiled at the 2012 NYC Book Expo (CozyCot.com)

If your sister were the Future Queen of England (okay, okay, the Future Queen Consort of the United Kingdom), paparazzi followed your every move, and a normal life was pretty much impossible, what would you do?

Pippa Middleton has the answer: release a party-planning book.

The cover of her new book Celebrate: A Year of Festivities for Family and Friends was released this week at the 2012 NYC Book Expo, and I’m torn.

On the one hand, I feel for Pippa. I think she’s in a very strange position: she’s not royalty, but her proximity to and association with the royal family means she’s held to a higher standard, whether she likes it or not–and whether it’s fair or not. However, she has many of the benefits of royalty (Boxing Day with the Queen at Sandringham, a primo seat during the Diamond Jubilee Flotilla, prestige, and access to anything and everybody) without most of the burdens (she can set her own schedule, swanning off on a vacation to Paris last-minute if she feels like it; she ultimately has a freedom Kate will never know again).

So, that’s why I feel that it’s icky she’s trading in on her royal connections with Celebrate. Pippa grew up in a party-planning family, to be fair…but if Kate hadn’t married Prince William, nobody but nobody would care about this book, you know?

But, here we are, and I do care about this book. Honestly, if the cover were prettier, I’d probably be more excited! (If you’re going to do it, do it all the way! I want to see a big, gorgeous, sumptuous, saturated-color photo of the Pips.) I guess we’ll just have to wait until the book is released in October by Penguin to see more and give it a proper verdict…what say you?