James Middleton details childhood family vacations with sisters Kate and Pippa: ‘Distinct memories’

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The Sunday Times. “My parents, sisters and I would visit different places in the Swiss Alps each summer, such as Les Masses, or we’d go to Avoriaz in France.”“Dad would find a mountain refuge where we’d have a rather sloppy soup-like meal for tea, but we were so hungry from a day of hiking that it tasted amazing.”“Then we would fall fast asleep in our bunk — we’d sleep on one long bunk, all five of us — surrounded by other walkers,” he went on. “The next day we’d wake up early, put our walking boots back on and continue our trek, ending up in another village.”Middleton, who shares one-year-old son Inigo with wife Alizée Thevenet, then detailed the “distinct memories of the beautiful butterflies, wildflower meadows and the sounds of cowbells.”Middleton, tied the knot with Thevenet in 2021, said the duo experienced a similar vacation in the summer of 2024 “when we took Inigo to Valmoral in the French Alps to visit Alizée’s family.”“There were the same smells, the same marmot calls; it was a pinch-me moment that brought me back to childhood summers when I’d hike up mountains with a rucksack that was bigger than me,” he said. “I can’t wait for Inigo to form those sorts of memories.”While the entrepreneur rarely shares details about his famous sister, he did post a heartfelt message on social media after Princess Catherine publicly revealed her cancer diagnosis to the world last March.“Over the years, we have climbed many mountains together,” he wrote along with a picture of the pair as children and a heart emoji.