{"id":145290,"date":"2025-11-20T20:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/145290\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:37:07","slug":"paddington-bear-meets-prince-william-kate-middleton-variety-backstage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/145290\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddington Bear Meets Prince William, Kate Middleton Variety Backstage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paddington-bear\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paddington-bear\" data-tag=\"paddington-bear\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paddington Bear<\/a> was given a right royal welcome backstage at last night\u2019s Royal Variety performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe beloved bear, who is currently on the West End stage, was pictured with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/prince-william\/\" id=\"auto-tag_prince-william\" data-tag=\"prince-william\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prince William<\/a> and his wife the Princess of Wales after the show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cA rather wonderful encounter at the Royal Variety Performance,\u201d tweeted StudioCanal, which is behind the stage show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBBC News reported that Prince William said Paddington\u2019s performance was \u201cfantastic,\u201d before adding: \u201cYour sandwich looks very nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPaddington has a close connection with the Royal Family. He famously appeared in a sketch with the late Queen Elizabeth II for her Platinum Jubilee in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe marmalade-loving bear has been lighting up preview performances in London\u2019s West End in Paddigton: The Musical. The bear recently went viral after his encounter with a BBC News journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/paddington-bear-bbc-journalist-viral-west-end-musical-1236606344\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">caused the journalist <\/a>to \u201chave a little moment here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLast night\u2019s Royal Variety Performance in the UK was on ITV and featured performances from Jessie J and Stephen Fry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paddington Bear was given a right royal welcome backstage at last night\u2019s Royal Variety performance. The beloved bear,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,8346,111,139,69,97705,4289],"class_list":["post-145290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-kate-middleton","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-paddington-bear","tag-prince-william"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}