{"id":263778,"date":"2026-02-02T11:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/263778\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:01:08","slug":"prince-harry-rides-waves-alongside-a-professional-surfer-in-california-and-it-comes-at-a-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/263778\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry rides waves alongside a professional surfer in California- and it comes at a cost"},"content":{"rendered":"

NZ Herald<\/p>\n

2 Feb, 2026 06:00 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n

Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n

\u200c<\/p>\n

Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n

Prince Harry surfs alongside pro surfer Raimana Van Bastolaer. Photo \/ Daily Mail<\/p>\n

Prince Harry has shown the public there\u2019s another side to royalty – one that includes catching waves in sunny California.<\/p>\n

A clip posted to Instagram shows Harry, 41, and Tahitian surfer Raimana Van Bastolaer catching a six-foot wave together in Leemore, central California. <\/p>\n

\n The manmade wave pool, nicknamed the
\n \u201cSurf Ranch\u201d, belongs to world champion surfer Kelly Slater, who has owned the mammoth wave since 2015. Prince Harry is said to be a repeat visitor, with other celebrities such as Matthew McConaughey and Lewis Hamilton making an appearance over the years.\n <\/p>\n

Harry appears to have taken the wave fairly easily, with Van Bastolaer having navigated him through previous surfing lessons. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 2 Feb, 2026 06:00 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[28358,95,9526,1975,179,13633,430,8608,4187,156,9859,78,51030,702,111,139,69,4940,12886,3109,21528,6747,15041,6102,166,10137,1361,4504,13745],"class_list":["post-263778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-alongside","tag-and","tag-another","tag-at","tag-california","tag-catching","tag-celebrities","tag-comes","tag-cost","tag-entertainment","tag-harry","tag-in","tag-includes","tag-it","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prince","tag-professional","tag-public","tag-rides","tag-royalty","tag-shown","tag-side","tag-sunny","tag-surfer","tag-that","tag-theres","tag-waves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263778","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=263778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}