James Middleton.
Jeff Spicer/Getty ImagesJames Middleton It may be related to a member royal familyBut that's not why people stop him on the streets.
“I don't know if I get recognized a lot around the holidays. I don't put myself in the celebrity category, I'm basically recognized by default.” Sunday Times Published on Sunday, December 29. “But people sometimes reach out to me on social media to say they saw me with dogs.”
Middleton and his wife Alizee Thevenet have a 15-month-old son, Inigo, but they also… Parents of six dogs: Maple, Nala, Zulu, Inka, Isla and Luna.
“I think they get to know the dogs first, to be honest,” Middleton said of being out in public with his kids. “They are more recognized than I am.”
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Middleton spoke openly about his relationship with animals in his memoirs, Meet Ella: The Dog Who Saved My Lifewhich was released last September. Middleton revealed in the book that his late dog, Ella (who died in January 2023), played an instrumental role in saving his life. During a particularly dark period In 2017.
“Life is no longer worth living,” Middleton wrote in his book. “I feel suicidal. I think of ways to die so I can get off the roller coaster that is driving me to the brink of insanity.
The author recalls that Ella felt his “strange and disturbed state of mind” during one night in particular when he climbed onto the roof of his house.
“Dark thoughts are piling up on me. What can I do to make them stop? I'm thinking of jumping off the roof,” he wrote. “As I walk quickly, I look down through the skylight and see the sweet eyes of my spaniel Ella looking back at me. Like me, she was up all night.”
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Throughout the book, Middleton recalls how Ella specifically has helped him over the years.
“I have loved her with every fiber of my being since she was a tiny, sightless, newborn,” he wrote. “She was my companion, my hope, and my support during my darkest days.”
Their close-knit bond has allowed Middleton to open his heart to many dogs — which he currently ends up with six dogs.
“Dogs love going on car trips – and there are increasingly more great dog-friendly hotels in the UK, where you feel like the dogs are being looked after better than you are,” Middleton said in an interview on Sunday. “Dogs get their own menus and beds and everything. It's great to see hotels opening their doors to cater to the whole family; four-legged friends as well as two-legged friends.”
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