Kate Middleton’s brother James gives a look behind the scenes, or palace what the princess is really like.
Despite her world fame and impending role as the Queen of England, The Princess of Wales42, is “still the same person I grew up with,” the 37-year-old entrepreneur told Us Weekly.
James also weighed in on his older sister’s marriage to Prince William, noted the couple is “obviously a good fit, just right for each other.”
“I wanted to one day experience what they experienced as a couple,” James said, adding that he regards the Duke of Cambridge, 42, as an “older brother figure”.
The comments come as James promotes his memoir, Meet Ella: The Dog Who Saved My Life, about how his cocker spaniel, who died last year, helped him through a period of severe depression and suicidal thoughts in 2017.
“Catherine had done a lot of work with Heads Together, so there was actually more awareness of how to communicate,” recalls James, who said she and their sister, Pippa Middleton, 41, “were fantastic in supporting my parents through that too.”
Kate revealed in late March that she had been diagnosed with cancer and was undergoing preventative chemotherapy after a “successful” abdominal surgery she underwent in January. Father-in-law King Charles had been hospitalized at the same time and revealed his own cancer diagnosis in February.
Just last month, Kate revealed that she had finished chemotherapy and although “the road to healing and full recovery is long,” she would “take each day as it comes.”
At the end of last month, Kate, William and their family attended church in her first public appearance since her recovery.