{"id":599487,"date":"2026-05-23T08:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599487\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T08:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:28:10","slug":"king-appears-as-surprise-guest-at-sold-out-shakespeare-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599487\/","title":{"rendered":"King appears as surprise guest at sold-out Shakespeare play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">King Charles III has appeared as a surprise guest at a sold-out performance of the Royal Shakespeare Company&#8217;s (RSC) production of The Tempest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The monarch was met with cheers from the crowd as he arrived at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire and took his seat in the packed auditorium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Backstage, the King toured the company&#8217;s costume department, describing the pieces as &#8220;brilliant&#8221; and was seen sharing a laugh while appreciating a replica crown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The RSC&#8217;s co-artistic directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey called the visit from the King &#8220;a tremendous honour&#8221;. The production is directed by Sir Richard Eyre and stars Sir Kenneth Branagh as Prospero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles III has appeared as a surprise guest at a sold-out performance of the Royal Shakespeare Company&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-599487","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\/599487","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=599487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}