Middleton moves sweets firm back home to parents

THE Duchess of Cambridge’s younger brother, James Middleton, is moving back near his parents Michael and Carole Middleton at the grand old age of 29 — during working hours, at least.

The self- styled ‘Willy Wonka’ has relocated the offices of his personalised marshmallow business, Boomf, from Clerkenwell in East London to a converted barn in Berkshire.

It’s a home from home for Boomf, which has yet to report a profit. Its new rural premises in Ashampstead are next to the HQ of Party Pieces, the party planning firm run by Michael and Carole Middleton, and down the road from the family’s £4.5 million manor house outside Bucklebury.

But James tells me he commutes each day from London, where he lives in a £2 million Chelsea flat owned by his parents. ‘It’s only 38 minutes from Paddington,’ he says.

‘We’re surrounded by green fields and there is never a queue at the pub.’