James Middleton, Kate Middleton’s younger brother, is living a nightmare with his next-door neighbor. The brother-in-law of the Prince of Wales lives with his wife and his son on a farm in the small town of Stanford Dingley, Berkshire, in the English countryside. Middleron is dedicated to growing vegetables and raising livestock on a small scale, but it seems that this would not please his next-door neighbor, who accuses him of generating too much pollution at all levels.
According to the British newspaper The Independent, the brother of the Princess of Wales has been at odds with his neighbor, David Algerton, for years, who would have gone so far as to put up posters around the town to attack Middleton’s family and even, according to Middleton’s brother the daughter-in-law of King Charles III, uttering threats assuring: “I am willing to fight, I hope you are too, it is going to get brutal.”
The dispute, which began in 2017, is allegedly centered on the noise and pollution that Middleton’s farm would be generating, greatly bothering Alderton, who lives on the adjacent property and from where he runs a motorcycle dealership. The standoff became more hostile, furthermore, after Middleton joined a group opposing a housing planning application that was branded “monstrous”, with which Alderton disagreed.
Their relationship did not stop there, as it worsened, starting, according to Kate Middleton’s brother, a “campaign of harassment” against himself and his family by his neighbor; They even contacted the police after the birth of his son in 2022, as they were concerned about his behavior. Middleton’s wife, Alizee Thevenet, decided to ask the local council for help after giving birth to her son, Iñigo, because she caught her neighbor filming them with a drone.
“West Berkshire Council became involved when our neighbor complained about noise from tractors and animals on the farm, along with a number of other complaints,” Middleton told the newspaper, explaining that these were “false complaints” that “obviously they were rejected.”
“It’s sad that someone who chooses to live in the countryside in a farming community can’t accept the occasional noise and smell of tractors and animals, especially if they live next to a farm,” Middleton laments. “We would be neglecting our duty of responsibility towards the animals and the countryside if we did what he asked us to do with our livestock.”
Kate Middleton’s brother also claims that Alderton has trespassed on his property several times illegally and insulted them to such an extent that he had to contact the police, who asked him to keep a record for future legal action. .
