{"id":663845,"date":"2026-10-24T07:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T07:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663845\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T07:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T07:38:10","slug":"prince-william-used-dj-xara-as-music-career-stage-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663845\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William Used DJ Xara as Music Career Stage Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Prince William Reveals Royally Surprising TV Show Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis Love<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/prince_william\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prince William<\/a> once spun himself a new identity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Prince of Wales revealed that he tried his hand at being a DJ in his younger years, even bestowing himself with a different title amid his efforts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went through a phase where I wanted to be a DJ, which didn&#8217;t go very well,\u201d William admitted on the Oct. 23 episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/T9j41hjfjaI?si=xVzUYMt8IFoBnukZ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Graham Norton Show<\/a>. \u201cAnd I came up with a name. I was called \u2018DJ Xara\u2019 with an X.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old admitted \u201cit wasn&#8217;t good,\u201d much to the delight of his fellow red coach companions Cate Blanchett, Robert Irwin and Hannah Waddingham.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDJ Zara?\u201d Hannah asked. \u201cThat\u2019s rubbish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cate, meanwhile, was curious about the spelling, with William noting he put the \u201cX\u201d at the front of \u201cXara,\u201d while making a crossing motion with his hands.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd was that one of your moves?\u201d Cate asked of the gesture, to which William quipped, \u201cNo, I didn&#8217;t do the move.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He laughed, \u201cIt rapidly became very uncool.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William Reveals Royally Surprising TV Show Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis Love Prince William once spun himself a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-663845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}