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Jeff Spicer/Getty ImagesJames Middleton it could belong to a member of the royal familybut that’s not why people stop him on the streets.
“I don’t know if I get recognized a lot on holidays. I don’t put myself in the category of being famous, as I’m basically known by default,” Middleton, 37, shared during an interview with UK. Sunday times published on Sunday, December 29. “But sometimes people reach out to me on social media to say they’ve seen me with the dogs.”
Middleton and his wife, Alizée Thevenet, share 15-month-old son Inigo, but they also parents of six dogs: Mabel, Nala, Zulu, Inka, Isla and Luna.
“I think they know the dogs first, to be honest,” Middleton said of being out in public with her puppies. “They are recognized more than me.”
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Middleton spoke candidly about his relationship with animals in his memoir, Meet Ella: The Dog That Saved My Lifewhich was released last September. In the book, Middleton revealed that his late spaniel Ella (who died in January 2023) was instrumental in saving his life during one particularly dark period in 2017.
“Life is no longer worth living,” Middleton wrote in his book. “I feel suicidal. I’m thinking of ways to die so I can get off the wonderful roller coaster that’s sending me to the brink of madness.”
The writer remembered Ella sensing his “strange, agitated state of mind” during one night in particular when climbing to the roof of his house.
“Dark thoughts crowd me. What can I do to make them stop? I’m thinking about jumping off the roof,” he wrote. “As I speed up, I look down through the skylight and see the gentle eyes of my spaniel Ella looking back at me. Like me, she’s been up all night.”
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Throughout the book, Middleton recalled how Ella specifically helped her over the years.
“I have loved her with every ounce of my being since she was a tiny, sightless newborn puppy,” he wrote. “She has been my companion, my hope, my support through my darkest days.”
Their close bond allowed Middleton to open his heart to multiple dogs – which is how he ended up with six at the moment.
“The dogs love going on car trips – and there are more and more great dog-friendly hotels in the UK, where you feel the dogs are better looked after than you are, ” Middleton said in an interview on Sunday. “The dogs get their own menus and beds and everything. It’s great to see hotels opening that cater for the whole family; four-legged friends as well as two-legged ones.”
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