{"id":538357,"date":"2026-07-12T23:07:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/538357\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T23:07:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:07:05","slug":"prince-william-joins-wife-kate-in-star-studded-royal-box-for-wimbledon-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/538357\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William joins wife Kate in star-studded Royal Box for Wimbledon final"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AP) \u2014 Prince William joined his wife Kate and two of their children for the men\u2019s final at Wimbledon<\/a> on Sunday in a star-studded Royal Box that also included actors Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman and Ben Stiller. <\/p>\n

Kate is the patron of the All England Club and presented the trophy to winner Jannik Sinner after his match<\/a> against Alexander Zverev. She also handed out the trophy to women\u2019s winner Linda Noskova<\/a> on Saturday, but was not joined by any family members. <\/p>\n

The couple\u2019s two eldest children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, also attended Sunday\u2019s match. All four were on hand to watch Sinner beat Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> in last year\u2019s final as well. After the win over Zverev, the royals had an extended chat with Sinner in a room inside the tournament\u2019s main stadium as he clutched the golden trophy. <\/p>\n

\u201cFantastic achievement,\u201d Kate told Sinner. \u201cIt\u2019s really inspiring to the children to see tennis at that level.\u201d <\/p>\n

Sinner then asked the young royals how often they play tennis themselves. <\/p>\n

\u201cNot every day, but weekends,\u201d George said. <\/p>\n

Sinner had a similar conversation with the four royals after last year\u2019s final. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou can really see that they love the sport,\u201d Sinner said Sunday. \u201cThis is exactly how we feel as players on court when we see them watching tennis. Staying there for four hours under the sun with the heat, it\u2019s really nice. … Having the whole Royal Box there, as well, the whole people staying for a match like this for four-ish hours, it\u2019s amazing. That\u2019s also the reason why we love to play tennis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other dignitaries in the Royal Box included German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Italy\u2019s sports minister Andrea Abodi. <\/p>\n

Former Wimbledon champions Stefan Edberg, Lleyton Hewitt, Richard Krajicek, Jan Kodes and Stan Smith were also in attendance. <\/p>\n

Other Hollywood celebrities in the crowd for the match included Jennifer Lopez, Tom Hiddleston and Andrew Garfield. <\/p>\n

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AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Prince William joined his wife Kate and two of their children for the men\u2019s final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[18036,245248,33071,3991,3773,458,133663,146,4420,122,85,46,2971,245250,3774,8127,245243,245247,442,11087,245245,245244,105,245246,245249,1505,65063,118403,233847,126],"class_list":["post-538357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-alexander-zverev","tag-andrea-abodi","tag-andrew-garfield","tag-ben-stiller","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-celebrities","tag-dustin-hoffman","tag-entertainment","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-general-news","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-italy","tag-jan-kodes","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-jennifer-lopez","tag-linda-noskova","tag-lleyton-hewitt","tag-london","tag-nicole-kidman","tag-prince-george-of-wales","tag-richard-krajicek","tag-sports","tag-stan-smith","tag-stefan-edberg","tag-tennis","tag-tom-hiddleston","tag-wimbledon","tag-wimbledon-championships","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}