The Surprising (and Totally Casual) Way Kate Middleton Met Brother James’s Wife for the First Time

"We let ourselves in and tiptoed around in the dark, not wanting to wake anyone, then caught a few hours’ sleep before I’m woken at 7:30 a.m. by giggling at the bedroom door,” James wrote, according to an excerpt published by Daily Mail. “It’s George and Charlotte, my nephew and niece.”

He went on, “Alizée is still sound asleep, so I gently shush the children and we go downstairs where Catherine and William are drinking their early morning tea in the kitchen. I’m about to take a cup up to Alizée when she appears at the kitchen door. She has just got out of bed, her hair still tousled, and she’s wearing one of my shirts.”

Yup, Alizée’s first meeting with the Prince and Princess of Wales was while she was rocking one of James’s oversized shirts. But she handled it like a pro, totally unfazed by the situation.

“She just greets everyone warmly, as if it’s not remotely unusual to be meeting her boyfriend’s sister and brother-in-law for the first time wearing only an oversized man’s shirt. ‘Hello,’ she says, offering her hand, and with no awkwardness at all, we’re soon all chatting, and the children are asking all kinds of cheeky questions at 100 miles per hour," he remembered.