Kate Middleton’s brother, James Middleton, wed his French partner Alizee in an intimate ceremony in the picturesque Côte d’Azur village of Bormes-les-Mimosas in September 2021. The couple love adventuring with their toddler
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Little Inigo is not just a keen skier, but a budding tennis player, too: last year, in an appearance on TV show Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh, James disclosed that his son had developed an early interest in the sport, following in the footsteps of the rest of the Middleton family. ‘He loves tennis balls, because there are always tennis balls around,’ James told Titchmarsh during the programme. ‘He likes to throw the balls for the dogs now, so he sits there and chucks the balls in fits of giggles.’
It would seem that Inigo is starting to take after the rest of the Middleton clan: his aunt, Kate Middleton, is an accomplished tennis player and patron of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club and once, while attending Wimbledon with Pippa Middleton and Princess Charlotte in tow, told players that her family enjoys playing the sport as much as watching it. Kate revealed that she’d been ‘filling in the leaderboard’ with Charlotte throughout the tournament, and added that ‘as a family, we play a lot’.
With their adorable plus one following behind, James and Alizée are thinking about further expanding their family. In an interview with HELLO! magazine, he hinted that they would love to add to their brood if they were ‘fortunate enough to be able to.’ He went on to explain just how much having a child has changed his life, saying: ‘No matter how much people say to you about how wonderful [parenthood] is, or how it will change your life, nothing can ever prepare you for that experience of seeing a little baby that’s yours arrive… It unlocks something in your heart that you didn’t know was there.’