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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Kristin Contino

James Middleton Shares Why He Was "Breathless and Flustered" During Meeting With Queen Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth II in a blue dress smiling.

Casually heading to a party hosted by Queen Elizabeth—or even getting the chance to meet her in person—wasn't something most people got to experience. But as the sister of the future queen, Princess Kate, James Middleton has been in the privileged position of being able to hobnob with the monarch on numerous occasions. Although he had met Queen Elizabeth before, the youngest Middleton sibling shared a hilarious encounter that left him "flustered" in his recent memoir, Meet Ella: The Dog Who Saved My Life.

In the book, Middleton details his struggle with depression and how his late dog Ella, and his other animals, helped him through, but he also shares some royal stories in the memoir. One such incident happened on Princess Kate's birthday, when James and sister Pippa Middleton were running home from a trip to France to make the party on time.

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