{"id":632501,"date":"2026-10-16T14:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632501\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T14:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:50:17","slug":"prince-william-shocks-fan-as-he-tells-them-you-shouldnt-be-here-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632501\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William shocks fan as he tells them ‘you shouldn’t be here’ | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince William<\/a> met a fan and told him he \u201cshouldn\u2019t\u201d be spending time with him because of a huge plan the fan was scheduled to attend the next day. The prince was left shocked after speaking to 29-year-old investment<\/a> banker, Joseph Simeon. Joseph, a recipient of The Amos Bursary, met the future king at an official engagement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The event took place during the Black Enterprise Week at Urban MBA in East London. The co-working space supports marginalised young people through education and mentoring.<\/p>\n

Joseph agreed to attend the event to speak with William because he feels so passionately about the project. But he admitted to William that he would be getting married the next day, leaving the prince shocked. He said: \u201cTomorrow? You shouldn\u2019t be here! There are other conversations you should be having. Shouldn\u2019t you be preparing your speech?\u201d<\/p>\n

After the meeting, Joseph told reporters that the scheme changed his life. He said: \u201cWe are all very grateful for the support it has given us and for the prince being here today. The Amos Bursary has been transformative to my life,\u201d he said. \u201cI am now a mentor myself and will take any opportunity to spread the word.\u201d<\/p>\n

William also had the chance to speak to others, what he called \u201chigh achievers,\u201d such as an Oxford graduate and a trainee barrister, who have all used the bursary in the past. Another person who received the bursary also spoke about their experience, reports Hello! Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Xavier Hamilton, 34, was one of the first young people to be helped by The Amos Bursary in 2009. Talking about meeting William<\/a>, he said: “It\u2019s phenomenal he was here. It\u2019s a future king, and privately he said he wanted to continue to help and support us. It\u2019s amazing to hear.”<\/p>\n

Prince William<\/a> has been busy recently, carrying out a huge number of engagements. He was spotted playing cricket outside of Buckingham Palace on October 15.<\/p>\n

The future king\u2019s visit to the Mall was designed both to highlight the unifying power of sport and the prince’s forthcoming Earthshot Prize environmental awards in Mumbai next month. William<\/a> was joined by several England and Indian cricket legends, including captain Joe Root, India’s former national team captains Ajinkya Rahane and Sourav Ganguly, and West Indies champion Brian Lara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William met a fan and told him he \u201cshouldn\u2019t\u201d be spending time with him because of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,111,139,69,4289,48172,61442,3164,59961,15852],"class_list":["post-632501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prince-william","tag-prince-william-latest","tag-prince-william-news","tag-royal-family","tag-royal-family-latest","tag-royal-family-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632501","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=632501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}