{"id":574004,"date":"2026-05-09T02:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574004\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T02:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:43:08","slug":"attenborough-at-100-prince-william-congratulates-sir-david-on-remarkable-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574004\/","title":{"rendered":"Attenborough at 100: Prince William congratulates Sir David on ‘remarkable milestone’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guests including wildlife presenters Liz Bonnin, Steve Backshall and Chris Packham also reflected on Sir David’s impact on public policy – particular the reduction in plastic straw and plastic bag use following the broadcast of Blue Planet II. <\/p>\n

Sir Michael recounted the story of how Sir David commissioned Monty Python when he was the controller of BBC Two.<\/p>\n

The pair became friends, and Sir Michael reflected that Sir David’s success is partly down to the fact that he always “just looks as though he’s happy to be there”.<\/p>\n

“He wants to meet these people and see these animals,” Sir Michael said. “It’s not something he’s been asked to do; it’s something that fulfils him.”<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Young invited the audience to sing Happy Birthday to Sir David, who appeared touched and grateful as he waved to the crowd.<\/p>\n

As the concert began to draw to a close, the BBC announced<\/a> that Sir David will soon narrate another new natural history series, Blue Planet III.<\/p>\n

The night at the Royal Albert Hall concluded with a highlight montage from Sir David’s career, soundtracked by his own delivery of the poignant lyrics to What A Wonderful World.<\/p>\n

Young told him: “Thank you David, not just for joining us here tonight, but for sharing your knowledge and love of the planet. You’ve given nature a voice, and what a voice it is.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guests including wildlife presenters Liz Bonnin, Steve Backshall and Chris Packham also reflected on Sir David’s impact on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-574004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574004","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=574004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}