{"id":795262,"date":"2026-07-12T09:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T09:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/795262\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T09:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T09:55:16","slug":"kate-middleton-given-standing-ovation-by-celebrity-wife-of-williams-eton-friend-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/795262\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Middleton given standing ovation by celebrity wife of William&#8217;s Eton friend at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1408819_1485172_ova_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Kate Middleton given standing ovation by celebrity wife of Williams Eton friend at Wimbledon\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kate Middleton on Saturday attended the Women\u2019s Singles Finals at Wimbledon at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London, England.<\/p>\n<p>The Princess of Wales, who wore a striking red dress, was seated next to tennis legend Martina Navratilova and her wife, Real Housewives of Miami star Julia Lemigova.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Behind the royal was fellow tennis star Maria Sharapova, and they were seen chatting during the match.<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1408819_6579659_mari3_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Kate Middleton given standing ovation by celebrity wife of Williams Eton friend at Wimbledon\" width=\"541\" height=\"582\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Maria Sharapova is engaged to Alexander Gilkes, a friend of Prince William. The couple got engaged in 2020 and share a son, Theodore.<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1408819_384260_mar33_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Kate Middleton given standing ovation by celebrity wife of Williams Eton friend at Wimbledon\" width=\"543\" height=\"789\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Alexander Gilkes is known as New York\u2019s best-connected Briton whose ex-wife, Misha Nonoo, is a friend of Meghan Markle.<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1408819_203821_mar6_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Maria Sharapova with her partner Alexander Gilkes\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Maria Sharapova with her partner Alexander Gilkes\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gilkes was also a guest at Prince William and Kate Middleton&#8217;s wedding.<\/p>\n<p>He is understood to have become friends with Prince William when they were both at Eton and is also said to be close to Prince Harry, who also went to the same school.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Prince George, Prince William and Kate Middleton\u2019s 12-year old son, will follow in the footsteps of his father and attend the prestigious Eton College later this \u200cyear.<\/p>\n<p>Eton, one of Britain&#8217;s most elite schools, is located close to King Charles&#8217;s Windsor Castle, west of London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kate Middleton on Saturday attended the Women\u2019s Singles Finals at Wimbledon at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-795262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795262","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=795262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}