11-05-2025
James Middleton: I was terrified I'd be called a fraud
Being James Middleton, the entrepreneur, author and dog person, is a family affair. So is interviewing him — even when his wife is away working in London and their 20-month-old son, Inigo, is at nursery. Our rendezvous one recent sunny afternoon at Bucklebury Farm, an animal park in Berkshire that is part-owned by Middleton's sister Pippa. She is not around but James, whose own farm, like his parents' manor house, is nearby, is well known to the staff at the park café and there is no question of charging him for the coffees we take to a nearby log cabin.
There, we talk about his mental health struggles, his dogs and his family, whose best known member is, obviously, his other sister, the Princess of
