{"id":510433,"date":"2026-07-05T04:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T04:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/510433\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T04:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T04:48:10","slug":"taylor-swift-met-with-kate-middleton-before-marrying-travis-kelce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/510433\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift met with Kate Middleton before marrying Travis Kelce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prince William and Kate Middleton were a no-show at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce\u2019s wedding \u2014 but met up with the bride and groom ahead of the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The royals secretly linked up with the couple, likely when the Grammy winner and NFL player, both 36, were in London in May, <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a> reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Kelce hinted at the meetup in Friday\u2019s surprise New Heights podcast episode with the Prince of Wales, reports <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/07\/04\/entertainment\/kate-middleton-prince-william-secretly-met-with-taylor-swift-travis-kelce-before-wedding\/https:\/pagesix.com\/2026\/07\/04\/entertainment\/kate-middleton-prince-william-secretly-met-with-taylor-swift-travis-kelce-before-wedding\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Page Six<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got the chance to see you not too long ago,\u201d he said. \u201c[I] invited you on the show because we were talking a little Aston Villa soccer, some excitement about the World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelce did not provide further details on the interaction.<\/p>\n<p>Reps for William and Middleton did not immediately respond to Page Six\u2019s request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"U101314910148WkH\">MORE: <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/entertainment\/celebrity-life\/follow-live-as-taylor-swift-and-travis-kelces-nyc-wedding-weekend-gets-underway\/live-coverage\/17aea920ca6fd642ee562174f64825ec\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"17aea920ca6fd642ee562174f64825ec\" data-tgev-label=\"entertainment\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celeb speech has guests gasping<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The foursome\u2019s May get together, notably, is believed to have been Middleton\u2019s first time meeting Kelce and Swift.<\/p>\n<p>William, for his part, met the Grammy winner at a 2013 charity gala where they made headlines for taking the stage with Jon Bon Jovi.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a decade later, the pop star posed for backstage Eras Tour photos with William, as well as his son Prince George, 12, and daughter, Princess Charlotte, 11.<\/p>\n<p>Kelce also met the Prince of Wales at the June 2024 show in London, describing the children as a \u201cdelight\u201d on a subsequent New Heights episode.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t sure if I was supposed to bow to them, curtsy, just be an American idiot and shake their hands, like, \u2018Sup, dude,\u2019\u201d he recalled. \u201cI wanted to be polite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was honestly one of the coolest moments ever, was meeting you and the little ones that day,\u201d the tight end recalled. \u201cMe and Jason [Kelce] joke about it all the time. We were so nervous to meet you guys and the royal family. And Jason has this running joke where he didn\u2019t know what to do with his beer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He and William discussed the throwback moment during the latest instalment of the podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Kelce and William, 44, reportedly discussed the latter being on the athlete and brother Jason Kelce\u2019s show during their get together in May.<\/p>\n<p>The interview dropped hours ahead of Travis and Swift\u2019s star-studded wedding.<\/p>\n<p>William and Middleton, 44, did not attend the Madison Square Garden nuptials \u2014 but the future king had hinted they might make an appearance.<\/p>\n<p>In a May Heart Breakfast radio interview, William teased that he had \u201cno comment\u201d when asked about the event.<\/p>\n<p>However, he added, \u201cI\u2019m hoping, and I\u2019m sure there might be an invitation around, but we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"U1013149101482vC\">This article originally appeared on <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1C6a1Zc9HlrJ4Esbqz1RNOYb5YQYwj1jxpwj3s5_i5HM\/edit?pli=1&amp;gid=1078983665#gid=1078983665\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Page Six<\/a> and was reproduced with permission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William and Kate Middleton were a no-show at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce\u2019s wedding \u2014 but met&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-510433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510433","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=510433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}