{"id":273544,"date":"2025-11-20T12:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273544\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T12:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:41:07","slug":"prince-and-princess-of-wales-meet-paddington-bear-at-royal-variety-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273544\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince and Princess of Wales meet Paddington Bear at Royal Variety Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Prince and Princess of Wales shook hands with Paddington Bear and discussed marmalade sandwiches backstage at this year&#8217;s Royal Variety Performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paddington, in the form of an actor in a costume from the beloved bear&#8217;s new West End musical, performed for the royal couple at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prince William said the performance was &#8220;fantastic&#8221;, before adding: &#8220;Your sandwich looks very nice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Catherine, Princess of Wales, said their children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis were &#8220;very sad&#8221; to miss the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Prince and Princess of Wales shook hands with Paddington Bear and discussed marmalade sandwiches backstage at this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-273544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}