Kate Middleton’s brother James, wife Alizee expecting first baby

Princess Katehis younger brother, James Middletonand his wife, Alice Thevenetare expecting their first child.

“We couldn’t be more excited…well Mabel could be ❤️,” Middleton, 36, wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, July 5, alongside two photos of Thevenet showing off her baby bump while posing with one of the couple’s dogs.

The father-to-be continued, “It’s been a very rough start to the year after losing my beloved Ella, but we will end the year with the most precious little addition to our growing family ❤️.”

Middleton – who married Thevenet in 2021 – announced the death of his therapy dog ​​Ella via Instagram in January.

“It is with great sadness that I announce that my dear Ella has passed away. For 15 years Ella has been by my side, from my darkest days to my happiest. I’m going to miss her terribly,” he wrote at the time, noting that his canine companion “slipped home into my arms” after battling “a very short illness.”

Middleton has spoken candidly in the past about how Ella helped him cope with his diagnosis of major depressive disorder.

“I got this diagnosis and Ella came to all my therapy sessions, which I hated going to [to] from the beginning,” he said during an August 2020 appearance on BBCs Sunday morning live. “But having her by my side gave me real confidence in understanding that I had a mental illness. … I would go so far as to say I owe Ella my life, and she doesn’t know that.

The emotional support animal is also an integral part of Middleton and his wife’s love story. In 2018, Ella walked straight to then-stranger Thevenet while visiting the South Kensington Club in Chelsea, London, with Middleton.

“I was quite embarrassed and went over to apologize and get Ella back,” the businessman said. The Telegraph in March 2021. “I didn’t know, but I had just met my future wife, all thanks to Ella. If I hadn’t trusted Ella, I wouldn’t have taken her to the South Kensington Club and she wouldn’t have been able to say goodbye to the woman who became my fiancée.”

The founder of Ella & Co became the last of his siblings to get married in 2021. Kate wed prince william in 2011 while her sister, Pippa Middletonvows exchanged with James Matthews in 2017. James is an uncle to Kate and William’s three children – Prince George, 9, Princess Charlotte, 8, and Prince Louis, 5 – and Pippa, 39, and James’ three children – Arthur, 4, Grace, 2 and Roos, 12 months.

“I just want to be the best uncle possible,” the businessman said during a 2014 appearance Good morning America when the Duchess of Cambridge was pregnant with Charlotte. “Like every uncle wants to be, I want to be the cool uncle. The nice uncle… That’s what I’ll always try to be.’