Kate Middleton has a business-orinted family, which her parents, Michael and Carole Middleton started when she was five years old. They had founded their companyi Party Piece, as her mother, Carole said, “Party Pieces was literally born at our kitchen table, so I suppose the ‘big break’ moment came when I realized there were lots of other parents looking for more affordable and imaginative partyware and that I had correctly identified a gap in the market for quality products that added something special,”
“It was so exciting knowing I had a business idea that could work.”
“Pippa wrote our ‘Party Times’ blog, James did the cakes when he first left school and Catherine developed our first birthday and baby category,”
“My husband and I were young and a little inexperienced, but very enthusiastic, so we didn’t worry too much.”
But currently, they had sold their companyi after being in debt of $3.3 million, to the entrepreneur, James Sinclair.
Princess Kate and her siblings had seen the success of the company of their parents, as they were only children. So they had received the best education. Her brother, James Middleton too attended Marlborough College.
Then he went to the University of Edinburgh, which left after a year. “I knew that that mouthful of academic prescription was not going to do it for me,” James said.
“My dream, which came to me when I was flying back up to Edinburgh after a weekend home, was to build a cake empire.”
He later created the Cake Kit Company. He was a protective brother over his sister, Kate, when the media attacked her, he always stood by her.
“I used to be first up in the morning to make sure I could get to the papers and rip out any stories about my sister so nobody would see them, and there would be no conversations about them,” James said.
“It’s always been, whether at school or now, that I am Pippa and Catherine’s little brother. It’s probably going to be the story of my life. [But] I am James Middleton. I am very proud to be ‘the little brother of…’ but, equally, they are proud that I am who I am,”
“There were other implications of having older sisters, too: constant mothering. ‘I have always joked that I have three mothers,’ he says of the closeness between them all. ‘I couldn’t get away with anything as a kid. Whether I got a bad mark at prep school or was told off by somebody, it would always end up getting back to my parents,’”
As her brother was dealing with his own stress, and depression, Kate always stood by him too, even she was dealing with her duties as a member of the royal family.
As James had stated to the Telegraph, he had a long struggle with depression. He didn’t mentioned it a lot, and kept it to himself.
“I remember thinking, ‘I might have to answer this one truthfully, because I want them to help me,’”
“So I said, ‘Well, actually, yes, but I don’t think I’ll ever action it.’ In my report it said I had suicidal thoughts but wasn’t a threat to myself.”
“Not necessarily [the entire family] at the same time, but either individually and [sometimes] together,”
“And that was so important because that helped them understand me and how my mind was working. And I think the way the therapy helped me was that I didn’t need my family to say, ‘What can we do?’ The only thing they could do was just come to some of the therapy sessions to start to understand.”
He had a relationship with Donna Air for a long time, but found the person that he would be married to in 2018.
James met with Alizee Thenevet in 2018. “The two of us were at the South Kensington Club in Chelsea,” James said. “Ella was lying at my feet under the table; realising she might want some water, I trusted her to take herself to the water bowl across the terrace. However, she made a beeline for Alizee. Rather embarrassed, I went over to apologize and bring Ella back.”
“Little did I know, I had just met my future wife, all thanks to Ella,”
“If I hadn’t trusted Ella, I wouldn’t have brought her to the South Kensington Club, and she wouldn’t have been able to say hi to the woman who became my fiancée.” James Middleton added.
In the fall of 2018, James had proposed to Alizee, and announced on his social media account that, “She said OUI,”
“Our secret is out, but we couldn’t be happier to share the news.”
They had married in 2021, as they were planning it earlier, but postponed due to COVID 19.
“While talking about dresses with Carole and sharing ideas during lockdown for inspiration, I tried on her wedding dress and fell in love with it,” Alizee said.
“It fitted me perfectly and was exactly what I wanted. It always troubled me that wedding dresses are only worn once so it was amazing to give such a beautiful dress a second lease of life,”
“I’m really pleased that they are able to enjoy and have the benefit of a dog in their lives. I see them being lucky that they have a dog in their life,” James Middleton said in an interview.
“Burying her; that was the worst. It took me four hours because I knew once I had finished digging, that would be the final farewell,” James said for his late pet.
“All the family came to say their goodbyes. I can’t speak for them, but I believe she influenced their lives too. Lupo, Catherine and William’s dog, was one of Ella’s puppies. My sister Pippa and her husband have a pup from Ella, as do other family members.”
James had welcomed his son recently into their family with his wife, Alizee. The name of the boy didn’t revealed yet.
“We couldn’t be more excited… Well, Mable might be,” James was announced the pregnancy of his wife.
“She has been in our lives for just a few weeks, but they have been the most special of my life getting to know our beautiful baby boy. No matter how prepared I thought I was…I was not prepared for the overwhelming emotion of meeting Inigo for the first time and the love for my darling Alizée as we became three,” James had announced the birth of his son.
“We have settled into our new life as parents, and I’ve told him all about Ella and that if it wasn’t for her he wouldn’t be here today and that we miss her greatly. The dogs have been fantastic at welcoming their little brother into the pack (although Inka needs to know the teddybears are not all for her…)”
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