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<\/p>\nPrincess Charlotte is said to be facing a disappointing summer after her favourite tennis player, Carlos Alcaraz, announced he would be withdrawing from both Queen’s and Wimbledon due to injury.<\/p>\n
The 11-year-old royal has become a familiar face at Wimbledon in recent years, regularly attending the prestigious tournament alongside the Prince and Princess of Wales and her brothers, Prince George, 12, and Prince Louis, eight.<\/p>\n
Charlotte is also known to be a huge fan of Spanish tennis superstar Alcaraz, often enthusiastically cheering him on from the Royal Box during his matches.<\/p>\n
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However, the young princess will not get the chance to watch the two-time Wimbledon champion compete this year after the 23-year-old confirmed he was pulling out of the grass-court season while recovering from a wrist injury.<\/p>\n
Taking to X on Tuesday, Alcaraz shared the disappointing update with fans.<\/p>\n
“My recovery is going well and I feel much better, but unfortunately I’m still not ready to be able to play, and that’s why I have to withdraw from the grass-court swing at Queen’s and Wimbledon.<\/p>\n
“They are two really special tournaments for me and I’ll miss them a lot. We keep working to return as soon as possible!”<\/p>\n
The injury setback comes after Alcaraz was also forced to withdraw from the French Open earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Widely regarded as one of the biggest stars in world tennis, the Spaniard claimed back-to-back Wimbledon titles in 2023 and 2024 before falling to Jannik Sinner in last year’s final.<\/p>\n
Following his 2024 victory, Charlotte shared a sweet moment with the tennis champion while meeting him alongside her mother, Princess Catherine.<\/p>\n
“This is Charlotte, [she was] cheering you on. You had everything crossed,” Catherine was filmed telling the tennis star.<\/p>\n
“We’ve watched a lot on telly, so it’s great to finally get to meet you.”<\/p>\n
Wimbledon later shared a photograph of the exchange online, writing: “A handshake for the champion from HRH Princess Charlotte.”<\/p>\n
While Charlotte may be disappointed about missing out on seeing her sporting hero in action this year, the young royal is set to receive a thoughtful gift from her grandfather, King Charles III.<\/p>\n
The King and Queen Camilla began an unannounced three-day visit to Northern Ireland on Tuesday, where Charles met several young entrepreneurs supported by The King’s Trust.<\/p>\n
During the visit, jewellery business owner Rachel Rose presented the monarch with a special charm intended for Charlotte.<\/p>\n
“Thank you, she will love that,” Charles replied.<\/p>\n
Charlotte is believed to share a particularly close relationship with her grandfather, despite the monarch missing her 11th birthday celebrations earlier this month while travelling in Bermuda.<\/p>\n
To mark the occasion on May 2, the Prince and Princess of Wales shared a new photograph of their daughter enjoying the Easter school holidays in Cornwall.<\/p>\n
“Wishing Charlotte a very happy 11th birthday!” Kensington Palace captioned the image, which showed the princess smiling in a field of daisies wearing jeans and a striped knit jumper.<\/p>\n
A second video from the family getaway was later posted online, showing Charlotte bowling a cricket ball, patting the family’s dogs Orla and Otto and writing messages in the sand using shells.<\/p>\n
“Thank you for the lovely birthday messages for Princess Charlotte, 11 today!” the caption read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princess Charlotte is said to be facing a disappointing summer after her favourite tennis player, Carlos Alcaraz, announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,13204,15753,7551,63584,15754,85,747],"class_list":["post-686503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-prince-george","tag-prince-louis","tag-prince-william","tag-princess-catherine","tag-princess-charlotte","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}