James Middleton Celebrates Wife Alizée on Anniversary with Never-Before-Seen Wedding Photo

Mar. 15, 2025

Alizee Thevenet and James Middleton at a Bulgari event in London on Nov. 12, 2021.Photo:David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty

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James Middletonis looking back on three years of marriage withAlizée Thevenet— and sending a romantic message in French!

On Sept. 11,Kate Middleton’s younger brother penned a sweet tribute to his wife to celebrate their third wedding anniversary and shared a previously unseen image from their September 2021 wedding day. James, 37, and Alizéemarried in France, where she is from, and the new photo showed them kissing in a field with two of their beloved dogs at their feet.

“Je t’aime, mon cœur,” he wrote onInstagramwith white heart emojis. “Happy anniversary Alizée. Our third as husband & wife, our second without Ella but our first as parents.”

“Je t’aime, mon cœur” is French for “I love you, my heart,” and the couple had something extra special to celebrate last year. James and Alizée’s family expanded when they welcomed their first child, sonInigo, whose birth James announced in October 2023.

James' anniversary also post referenced to the death of his dogElla, who died in January 2023. The black cocker spaniel was the first dog he owned in adulthood, and Princess Kate’s brother previously credited the pup as his strength while struggling with depression.

When the entrepreneur launched his all-natural pet food company in 2020, he named it Ella & Co. in her honor. (He later pivoted to rebrand it asJames & Ellain August 2023.)

James Middleton with his dogs Inka, Luna, Ella and Mabel in Green Park, London in February 2020.Kirsty O’Connor/PA Images via Getty

James and Alizée, a financial analyst, met in 2018, got engaged the following year,bumped backtheir May 2020 wedding plans amid the pandemic and ultimately married in southeastern France in September 2021. In an essay forThe Telegraph, James said that Ella brought him and Alizée together when she “made a beeline” for his future wife at the South Kensington Club in Chelsea.

According to the story, Alizée thought James was a server and ordered a drink after Ella ran up to her.

Alizee Thevenet and James Middleton at a Bulgari gala dinner in London on July 1, 2022.David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty

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“Little did I know, I had just met my future wife, all thanks to Ella,” he wrote forThe Telegraph. “If I hadn’t trusted Ella, I wouldn’t have brought her to the South Kensington Club and she wouldn’t have been able to say hi to the woman who became my fiancée.”

In March, James announced that he was at work on a memoirMeet Ella: The Dog Who Saved My Life. It will be published in the U.S. on Sept. 24 and in the U.K. on Sept. 26.

He further mused on how Ella led him to where he is today in a reflective message in May, below a photo of Inigo with one of the family’s six other dogs.

“I wish moments like this could last forever,” James wrote onInstagramin the spring. “This special moment is all thanks to Ella. Let me explain; Alizée, Inigo and all the dogs came to hear me speak for the first time about my bookMeet Ella. Ella introduced me to Alizée, a few years later we got married, another year or so later Inigo arrived. Ella and Inigo never met but every moment Ella is with us.”

“So if it wasn’t for that moment…I would not have been able to capture this moment,” he said.

source: people.com