KATE Middleton’s brother James has opened up about their sweet relationship on Good Morning Britain today.
James, 36, also praised the Prince and Princess of Wales for how they have helped with his mental health struggles after going through depression.
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TV host Kate Garraway said to James: “You must be very proud of them actually, or very proud of her she is doing a storming job after an extraordinary year or two, but you must be very proud.”
Entrepreneur James shared: “She is my sister and I see her… I am extremely proud and I am very, I am always taken back by how much she does and that does continue to sit in the forefront of my mind.
“But actually to be honest she is my sister so I know all of her quirks and everything and actually to see her blossoming in that role I think is really… I am very proud of her.”
James is the youngest of the three siblings, after his eldest sister, Kate, 41, and Pippa, 39, and the family grew up in Berkshire with parents Carole and Michael Middleton.
Kate also brought up the work the royals have down on the topic of mental health.
She said to James: “Your sister, future Queen, and William as well, Prince of Wales, have all campaigned a lot on mental health issues.
“So you think in a way that is partly because they have seen what you have been through and your passion for it too?”
James answered: “I think what is fantastic is that they’re in a position where they are talking about their own mental health and I think it is something that is broad.
“It is a challenge and I remember early on in my sort of… to say the words out loud that I was feeling depressed or I thought I had depression was impossible.
“But actually through some of the work they have been doing over time, it gave me the confidence and the help to speak out and actually… so I have more to thank for them and the focus they put towards it.
“As I said earlier we all suffer from mental health and I think to be able to speak out about it in that way, I felt I had a responsibility to speak out.
“It was part of my journey to get to where I am now where I am in control of it, it hasn’t gone, I don’t expect it to but I am now in control of it.”
In 2021, James tied the knot to French financial analyst Alizée Thevenet and they recently announced they are expecting their first baby.
The happy couple wedded in a secret ceremony in the French village of Bormes-les-Mimosas on the famous Côte d’Azur.
James attended the private boarding school St Andrew’s School, in Pangbourne, Berkshire, as did his two sisters, before moving to Marlborough College in Wiltshire.
After launching Boomf, his former greeting card firm, James now runs Ella & Co, a mail-order dog food company that offers freeze-dried, raw, organic dog food.
James and Alizee have numerous adorable dogs, and the self-confessed dog-mad businessman recently made a TV documentary discussing how his dogs have helped cure his depression.
It was previously revealed that James and Alizée had bought up the Middleton’s fourth property in the village of Bucklebury, Berkshire, for £1.45 million.
The property is a stunning four-bedroom Grade II listed period farmhouse with beams and leaded windows on the Bucklebury fringes.
Parents Carole and Michael live in a £4.7million manor house in the same village, and sister Pippa recently bought Bucklebury Farm Park, a petting zoo which is a favourite of Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
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