Princess of むちの跡s' brother James 明らかにする／漏らすs the Middletons 'grew as a family' by helping him through his 不景気 - as he 支払う／賃金s 尊敬の印 to his beloved therapy dog Ella

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The Princess of むちの跡s' brother James Middleton has opened up about the grief he experienced に引き続いて the death of his therapy dog, Ella, and how she and his family helped him to 打ち勝つ 臨床の 不景気.

In an emotional 尊敬の印 to his beloved spaniel, who died at the start of this year 老年の 15, James said she had been with him through his lowest points as he experienced 'challenging thoughts'.?

James also explained how his sisters, Pippa and Kate, and their parents were there for him during some very difficult times, and had the patience to help him through even when they couldn't fully understand what he was going through.

'I was very lucky that they were willing to be 伴う／関わるd and understood that it’s a 過程, there's no quick 直す／買収する，八百長をする to it.

'And understanding the way that my mind 作品, which may 異なる from theirs or other people's is a really important part, because it was?was a 過程 for me as much as it was a 過程 for them, and I think as a family we grew from that.'??

James Middleton made an emotional 尊敬の印 to his beloved spaniel, who died at the start of this year 老年の 15 and 行為／法令／行動するd as his therapy dog

Ella was the entrepreneur's inspiration behind dog food brand Ella & Co and 動機づけるd him to 調印する up to volunteer with the charity Pets as Therapy - which he and Ella did for more than four years before her death in January.

He explained that throwing himself into its work and 存在 surrounded by 'many other dogs' has helped him to 対処する with losing his beloved pet.

'I was 20 when I first got her, so I was discovering myself as an adult, we grew up together we discovered things, she looked out for me and I looked out for her.

'Ella was there for every, over the last 15 years 抱擁する moments in my life and it was a really challenging time to prospect the next 段階 of my life without her.'

He explaine d that while he would 'never wish 不景気 on anybody', his experience meant he became 'the person I am now', 追加するing that it helped the Middletons to 'grow as a family'.?

Kate and Pippa Middleton's brother was on the This Morning sofa discussing the work that Pets As Therapy does with 攻撃を受けやすい people.?

He was joined on the show by a 代表者／国会議員 from the charity, along with two doggy 'volunteers', Mabel and her 6-month-old daughter Isla.

Pup Isla was up to mischief as she tried to get の上に the sofa throughout the show, with James joking 'she has got some training to do',?

James was joined on the This Morning sofa by a 代表者／国会議員 from the charity Pets as Therapy and two doggy 'volunteers', Mabel and her 6-month-old daughter Isla

に引き続いて her death, the entrepreneur 株d this photo of him cradling Ella, taken just hours before she died

The volunteer 追加するd that he gets 'so much reward' from working with the dogs and seeing how they help people.

James 以前 told his 信奉者s Ella helped him 打ち勝つ 臨床の 不景気 and 'saved his life', and Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield asked him about how she helped him through some 'dark thoughts'.

'Just [by] 存在 the 一貫した in my life at that time, when a lot of my friends and family and people around me were trying to help, 手配中の，お尋ね者 to help, but it was difficult for me to let them help.'

'There would just be this look that she would have and the tip of her tail would just wag a little bit, and she would just know that there was something [wrong].

Mr Middleton told his 信奉者s after Ella's death: 'For 15 years Ella has been at my 味方する, from my darkest days to my happiest'

Mr Middleton has 以前 述べるd how Ella was the 推論する／理由 that he met his wife,?Aliz?e

'And she would just come in, she might nestle into me or put her 長，率いる on my 膝, just distract me, which would 潜在的に help me stop a really challenging thought that I was having.

'Amongst many other things she was that one thing in me that was alw ays there and would look me in the 注目する，もくろむs and give me the 信用／信任 that everything was going to be okay.'

One of the other 'many things' Ella did for James was, incredibly, to introduce him to his 未来 wife,?Aliz?e Thevenet.

'Without me noticing, while I was at a restaurant [Ella] slipped away.

'She was with this very pretty girl, so I went over to say "I hope she’s not bothering you".

'[Aliz?e] ordered her drinks thinking I was the waiter - I was very taken aback so I went and ordered her drinks for her... And a few years later we’re married!'

Until Ella's death, James and Aliz?e had seven dogs, 含むing a puppy from a litter which one of their pooches gave birth to late last year.?