Princess Kate’s brother James Middleton has revealed his wife Alizée Thevenet is pregnant with the couple’s first child.
The entrepreneur, 36, shared a sweet picture of Alizée’s growing bump to Instagram Wednesday.
The snap shows the French financier, 33, in a olive green dress with their dog Mable in a gorgeous countryside setting.
‘We couldn’t be more excited … well Mable might be,’ James wrote.
The baby will be a first cousin to Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis – and a niece or nephew of the Prince and Princess of Wales.
It’s likely that Kate will certainly welcome becoming an aunt again, as she has mentioned she is ‘feeling broody’ on many occasions.
James and Kate’s sister Pippa has also has three children with her husband James Matthews: – Arthur, Grace and Rose – meaning the new addition will be the seventh grandchild of Carole and Michael Middleton.
Alizee and James got engaged in September 2019 but had to delay the ceremony twice in the due to Covid, before finally announcing they had tied the knot in Bormes-les-Mimosas in Provencein 2021.
Alizée, who is trilingual has lived and worked in London for several years, is currently a director at TreasurySpring, a fin tech firm that uses digital pipelines to connect cash rich firms to institutional borrowers.
She’s the daughter of retired diplomat Jean-Gabriel Thevenet, who lives in Paris and is currently pursuing a career as a writer and poet.
Her father is very fond of his daughter’s husband, previously describing Alizée as ‘deliriously happy’ with James.
The finance guru is fluent in three languages having lived in six countries – Germany, Indonesia, Chile, France, Belgium and England.
But Alizée has been settled in the UK for several years, graduating with a masters degree in investment and finance from Queen Mary, University of London.
The couple live in a £1.45million home in Bucklebury, west Berkshire. The village Kate, Pippa and James grew up in.