{"id":497346,"date":"2026-06-26T23:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T23:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/497346\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T23:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T23:22:20","slug":"princess-kate-holds-private-talks-with-billionaires-ex-wife-in-windsor-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/497346\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Kate holds private talks with billionaire’s ex-wife in Windsor | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Princess of Wales<\/a> had a private meeting with Bill Gates\u2019s former wife, it has been claimed. The tech giant has always been close with the Royal Family and attended various royal engagements in the past; however, his links to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein resulted in the relationship getting strained.<\/p>\n

His ex-wife<\/a>, Melinda French Gates, however, who divorced him due to the \u201clack of honesty\u201d among other reasons, has kept a close bond with the Firm. On Tuesday, she was reportedly invited to Windsor Castle for private talks with Princess Catherine. According to the Daily Mail<\/a>, it is not known what the two women discussed during their meeting; however, it is thought their charity endeavours may have played a part.<\/p>\n

Catherine is patron of the Royal Foundation, and Melinda is the founder of Pivotal, a philanthropic organisation promoting women’s empowerment.<\/p>\n

Last year, during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Melinda spoke about her divorce from the co-founder of Microsoft.<\/p>\n

She claimed that, in order to have a \u201ctrusted relationship, which is what I wanted in marriage,” that means that “both partners have to be honest with one another.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if you can’t, you can’t have intimacy, and you can’t have trust.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo in the end, I had to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

It comes after a busy week for the Princess of Wales, who last week attended the Garter Day Service in Windsor, as well as Royal Ascot.<\/p>\n

The Princess\u2019s return to the annual racing event took place after two years of absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Princess of Wales had a private meeting with Bill Gates\u2019s former wife, it has been claimed. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,8346,31419,111,139,69,4290,11612,22461,22460,17823,3164,29288],"class_list":["post-497346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-kate-middleton","tag-kate-middleton-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-princess-catherine","tag-princess-kate","tag-princess-kate-latest","tag-princess-kate-news","tag-princess-of-wales","tag-royal-family","tag-windsor-castle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497346","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=497346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}