EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: James Middleton's fresh fight over 'alien' house plan

James Middleton’s neighbour has previously been accused of stapling malicious posters about the family to trees in their Berkshire village. And now, David Alderton is causing fresh consternation for the Princess of Wales’s brother over his plans for a controversial ‘cubist’-style home in the heart of the Berkshire countryside.‘Many of us in the village think it’s simply the wrong building for the site,’ James tells me, as the long-running row faces a new appeal. ‘It’s been refused multiple times, and we hope the Planning Inspectorate takes the same consistent view as last time.’The parish council has also objected five times, calling the proposal a ‘super-modern, cubist design house’ at odds with the village’s tone. James, who lives opposite the planned building, has enlisted planning consultant Lisa Jackson to challenge Mr Alderton’s latest appeal over a design that she argues resembles a row of shops and is ‘alien in this landscape’.She also says it would significantly affect the Grade II-listed farmhouse where James, 39, lives with his wife, Alizee, 36, and their three-year-old son, Inigo.Mr Alderton has hit back in lengthy submissions, accusing James’s representative of presenting a ‘mendacious narrative’ and making ‘false and disingenuous’ claims about flooding.This is the latest chapter in a venomous dispute that has shattered the peace of the Berkshire beauty spot, just a few miles from where James and his sisters, Kate and Pippa, grew up. James Middleton, 39, lives in a Grade II-listed farmhouse in the Berkshire countryside with his wife, Alizee, 36, and their three-year-old son, InigoIn 2024, James accused Mr Alderton of repeatedly trespassing on his land, prompting him to contact Thames Valley Police. He also complained that dozens of laminated posters attacking his mother Carole’s collapsed Party Pieces business had been stapled to trees in the village.In one email responding to James’s objection to his plans, Mr Alderton reportedly warned: ‘I’m up for the fight chap, hope you are, it’s gonna get brutal.’Mr Alderton did not respond to a request for comment.Jerry Hall takes her daughter out on the pull! Sir Mick Jagger’s model daughter Georgia May, 34, and his ex Jerry Hall, 70, hit the town together last week with a visit to The Audley Public House in Mayfair. Mother and daughter were attending a Net-a-Porter fashion party, where they put their pint pulling skills to the test. Georgia and Jerry, who has just starred in the latest series of The Celebrity Traitors, were also joined by Dominic Cooper’s girlfriend, Gemma Chan. The boozer, run by the group behind art gallery empire Hauser & Wirth, is no stranger to distinguished guests: the King and Queen caused quite the stir when they visited the Mount St. Restaurant upstairs in 2022. Georgia May Jagger, 34, with her mother Jerry Hall, 70, at The Audley Public House in Mayfair The mother-daughter duo put their pint pulling skills to the test at the Net-a-Porter fashion partyCould Ed Sheeran become a wedding singer? I ask as celebrity wedding planner Sarah Haywood – who organised the Italian nuptials of Lady Kitty Spencer and billionaire Michael Lewis – has taken up a tenancy in the pop star’s £8million Soho office block. Haywood has secured the likes of Chris Martin and John Legend for her clients’ big days. Will Sheeran be tempted next?Edgar finds Mrs WrightHe's used to putting on spectacular productions, but Shaun Of The Dead director Edgar Wright now has a more romantic occasion to organise: his wedding. I can reveal the filmmaker, 52, is engaged to Julia Cumming, 30 – a model and frontwoman of Brooklyn rock band Sunflower Bean. Edgar, who previously dated actress Anna Kendrick, let the news slip when he called Julia ‘my fiancee’ in an interview about music. Director Edgar Wright, 52, with his fiancee Julia Cumming, 30. She is a model and the frontwoman of Brooklyn rock band Sunflower BeanThere's been a new turn in the battle over Dame Vivienne Westwood’s legacy being fought between the charitable foundation run by her family and the fashion house bearing her name. In a pointed statement to supporters, the Vivienne Foundation said: ‘Despite our efforts to protect Vivienne’s rights and avoid trial, our attempts to reach a settlement have been ignored.’ Vivienne Westwood Ltd brought High Court action over intellectual property rights, while the charity says it has spent much of the past year defending her wishes rather than pursuing good causes.Lovelorn Eliza flees to MexicoHer elder sisters have found their happy romantic endings, but Lady Eliza Manners admits she’s less fortunate in love.While the Duke of Rutland’s eldest daughter Lady Violet, 33, got married last year and Lady Alice, 31, is now engaged, Eliza, 29, reveals her last two romances ended so badly that she fled to Mexico.The move meant Eliza, who grew up at her family’s Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire, had to give up her budding career in interior design.‘There was nothing particularly wrong with my life. In fact, I was very lucky,’ Eliza says. ‘But I had this nagging feeling that I wasn’t particularly excited by any of it.‘I also had two failed relationships under my belt, both of which, in different ways, had left me feeling rather stuck.‘I think I’d spent quite a lot of my early 20s allowing relationships to influence how I saw myself.’ Lady Eliza Manners, 29, reveals her last two romances ended so badly that she fled to MexicoAfter No10 invited Jamie Laing’s baby to a ‘content creator’ reception last week, MP Rosie Duffield seems fed up with Westminster’s obsession with reality TV stars. Spotting Jamie’s fellow Made In Chelsea star Louise Thompson meeting MP and government adviser Michelle Welsh to discuss maternity care, Duffield sniffed on X: ‘Great, yet more meetings with influencers...’ Louise hit back: ‘I’m an affected parent who nearly died multiple times due to failures in my care. Like you, I’m passionate about improving maternity care.’ Edited by HARRIET KEAN