James Middleton snaps up a £1.45million pad in Bucklebury to share with his fiancee

They’ve put the pretty Berkshire village of Bucklebury on the map due to their Royal connections.

But are the Middleton family hoping to make the area a mini-fiefdom of their own?

I only ask because the Duchess of Cambridge’s brother James has just snapped up the family’s fourth property in the village – a £1.45 million pad to share with his fiancee, Alizee Thevenet.

It’s a four-bedroom Grade II listed period farmhouse with beams and leaded windows in a village on the Bucklebury fringes.

James Middleton has just snapped up the family’s fourth property in the village – a £1.45 million pad to share with his fiancee, Alizee Thevenet (both pictured above)

James’s move means the Middletons own three properties in the area, having sold one. It’s a four-bedroom Grade II listed period farmhouse with beams and leaded windows in a village on the Bucklebury fringes

It means Kate’s family are all now near-neighbours, with parents Carole and Michael living in a £4.7 million Georgian manor house in the village, while her sister Pippa recently bought Bucklebury Farm Park, a petting zoo which is a favourite of Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.

James’s move means the Middletons own three properties in the area, having sold one. The original family home, the £1.5 million Oak Acre, where Kate and William met in secret during breaks from St Andrews University, was sold a few years after they married.

Mind you, tongues may well be wagging in the village about how James has managed to afford his new home, as two-and-a-half years ago his novelty marshmallow company Boomf was posting losses of £3 million.

Happily, business is now boomfing and he seems to have found his feet after meeting Alizee, a wealthy French financier.

Bridgerton star Regé-Jean Page has gone from being TV’s sexiest Duke to a nerdy knight fighting dragons for cash!

Playing a Paladin – that’s a ‘holy knight’ to non-nerds – in an upcoming Dungeons and Dragons film, he says: ‘It’s a brilliant job. I’m paying off my mortgage by fighting imaginary dragons.’

Rege, who quit Bridgerton after one season, admits to missing his racy scenes. The 31-year-old adds: ‘I want everything I do to be as sexy as Bridgerton, just in different ways.’ 

Surely only the anoraks that Dungeons and Dragons was first designed for in 1974 would describe it as sexy!

Bridgerton star Regé-Jean Page (pictured above, in December 2018) is playing a Paladin in an upcoming Dungeons and Dragons film