{"id":318511,"date":"2026-03-08T02:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T02:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/318511\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T02:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T02:04:07","slug":"princess-kate-likes-a-bit-of-spice-as-she-reveals-williams-soft-spot-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/318511\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Kate likes a bit of \u2018spice\u2019 as she reveals William\u2019s soft spot | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2178914\/princess-kate-leicester-outfit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dressed in cream<\/a>, the future Queen visited the Shreeji Dham Haveli Hindu Temple and the award-winning choreographer Aakash Odedra&#8217;s dance company in the city. Earlier, she had walked part of Leicester&#8217;s Golden Mile, a road famous for having one of the highest concentrations of Indian jewellery, sarees, and fashion boutiques in the UK &#8211; and revealed her tolerance for hot spices.<\/p>\n<p>Married couple Dharmesh and Enna Lakhani, who have run Indian restaurant Bobby&#8217;s &#8211; a staple on the well-known thoroughfare for 50 years &#8211; said Catherine had enjoyed the sweet and savoury snacks she tried.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lakhani said: \u201cWe didn&#8217;t want to let her go, we wanted to kind of hold on to her &#8211; we even told her that, we said &#8216;we would keep you here all day but we can&#8217;t&#8217;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Lakhani said: \u201cShe was so warm, so kind, so approachable as soon as she came in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When trying a chutney made with green chillies, the princess told the couple: \u201cI&#8217;m OK with spice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ensure our latest royal headlines always appear at the top of your Google Search by making us a Preferred Source. <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=express.co.uk&amp;hl=en_GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Click here to activate<\/a> or just add us as Preferred Source in your Google search settings.<\/p>\n<p>She also revealed that her husband, the Prince of Wales, loves chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>The princess told the restaurant owners, while sipping tea and trying savoury snacks and sweets: \u201cCongratulations, it&#8217;s amazing your business is still thriving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She remarked that in a \u201cfast-paced\u201d world, \u201csitting down and eating as a family together becomes harder and harder\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Catherine revealed how she likes to drink her tea, with milk and no sugar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dressed in cream, the future Queen visited the Shreeji Dham Haveli Hindu Temple and the award-winning choreographer Aakash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,8346,31419,111,139,69,4289,4290,11612,22461,22462,172400,22460,17823,172401,15853,24870],"class_list":["post-318511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-kate-middleton","tag-kate-middleton-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prince-william","tag-princess-catherine","tag-princess-kate","tag-princess-kate-latest","tag-princess-kate-latest-news","tag-princess-kate-leicester","tag-princess-kate-news","tag-princess-of-wales","tag-princess-of-wales-spice","tag-royal-news","tag-spice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318511","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=318511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}