{"id":288959,"date":"2025-07-24T21:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T21:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288959\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T21:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T21:55:11","slug":"james-middletons-family-vacation-photo-hints-at-childhood-with-kate-middleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288959\/","title":{"rendered":"James Middleton&#8217;s Family Vacation Photo Hints at Childhood with Kate Middleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>James Middleton shared a photo from his family&#8217;s trip to France, starring his dogs Mabel and Isla<\/li>\n<li>Kate Middleton&#8217;s younger brother tends to stay active on vacations, just as the siblings did on trips growing up<\/li>\n<li>The visit to France was a return for James&#8217; wife, Alizee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/james-middleton-says-he-pushed-family-away-during-dark-time-8712665\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Middleton<\/a> is on a family trip abroad, but relaxation doesn&#8217;t seem to be high on the agenda.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/kate-middleton\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kate Middleton<\/a>&#8216;s younger brother\u00a0shared a new photo on the Instagram page for his dog food brand, James &amp; Ella, on July 24. The snap showed two of his dogs, golden retrievers Mabel and Isla, sitting on a road that&#8217;s part of the Tour de France route.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> &#8220;Allez, allez!&#8221; he captioned the latest post. &#8220;Hiking stage 18 of the Tour de France on our family Tour of France \ud83d\udc3e We are about 1km from the summit of the Col de la Loze in Courchevel, where the riders are going through today. Mabel and Isla didn\u2019t even break a sweat.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_10-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> James, 38, seems to be keeping up the Middleton family&#8217;s passion for staying active during the trip. Princess Kate, 43, has previously shared tidbits about her childhood visits to the U.K.&#8217;s Lake District, recalling how they&#8217;d <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/royals\/kate-middleton-handwriting-meghan-markle\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">go &#8220;boulder hopping&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0in the streams.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_12-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> The Princess of Wales also has some ties to cycling, including riding bikes with <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/prince-william\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince William<\/a> during a 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/kate-middleton-prince-william-visit-scotland-best-photos-bike-riding-farm-8386151\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">royal outing in Scotland<\/a> and beating her husband in a <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/royals\/kate-middleton-won-spin-bike-contest-against-prince-william-wearing-skirt-heels-wales-visit\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spin bike contest<\/a>, despite wearing a skirt and heeled boots!\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_16-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> <strong>Can&#8217;t get enough of PEOPLE&#8217;s Royals coverage?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-royals-newsletter-sign-up-8692768\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up for our free Royals newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to get the latest updates on Kate Middleton, Meghan Markle and more!<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_18-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Adventure and dogs are a usual part of James&#8217; family vacations. In January, he shared photos of a winter getaway with his wife, Alizee, and their 1-year-old son, Inigo \u2014 as well as Mabel and Isla! Inigo was already standing on skis, and the couple were also pictured hiking in the snow with Inigo in tow.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_24-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> The trip to France is a return home for James&#8217; wife. Although Alizee grew up Given between six different countries \u2014 France, Germany, Indonesia, Chile, Belgium and England \u2014 James revealed in his book, Meet Ella, that she has a &#8220;wonderfully French&#8221; attitude.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_26-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Recalling when Alizee first met Princess Kate and Prince William, he wrote, &#8220;I\u2019m about to take a cup up to Alizee when she appears at the kitchen door. She has just got out of bed, her hair still tousled, and she is wearing one of my shirts. In situations like this, Alizee is wonderfully French. She does not panic or rush upstairs to get dressed. Instead, she just greets everyone warmly as if it\u2019s not remotely unusual to be meeting her boyfriend\u2019s sister and brother-in-law for the first time wearing only an oversized man\u2019s shirt.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW James Middleton shared a photo from his family&#8217;s trip to France, starring his dogs Mabel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,2832,532,2831,7710,519,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-288959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-prince-of-wales","13":"tag-prince-william","14":"tag-princess-of-wales","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-uk-royal-family","18":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114910443722591202","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}