{"id":650639,"date":"2026-06-21T13:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T13:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/650639\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T13:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T13:47:08","slug":"william-marks-44th-birthday-as-royals-celebrate-fathers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/650639\/","title":{"rendered":"William marks 44th birthday as royals celebrate Father&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Prince of Wales&#8217; family has shared a photo of the heir to the throne with his daughter Princess Charlotte to mark both his 44th birthday and Father&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prince William appears in his Welsh Guards dress uniform alongside his daughter, 11. The picture was taken in the garden of Kensington Palace following the Trooping the Colour last weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Happy birthday and Father&#8217;s Day to the best Papa in the World! We love you very much,&#8221; the image was captioned with, signed by the Princess of Wales and their three children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The King also joined the birthday wishes through the official Royal Family Instagram account, with a picture of the two smiling together at last year&#8217;s Earthshot Prize in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Buckingham Palace also shared an image of a young Charles standing alongside his father, the late Prince Philip, in his RAF dress uniform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Celebrating all Fathers, and thinking of those who wish they could be with their Dads, today,&#8221; the post read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For his birthday week, Prince William was joined by his wife at Royal Ascot for the first time since 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Catherine had been absent from the annual horse racing event since being diagnosed with cancer in early 2024 and subsequently undergoing successful chemotherapy treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The warm family messages come ahead of a visit to the UK by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who are expected to bring their two children with them, Archie, seven, and Lilibet, five.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC News understands Harry and Meghan have been offered a royal residence as accommodation for the duration of their stay, in a further sign of thawing relations between the couple &#8211; who now live in the US &#8211; and the monarchy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The King last saw his grandchildren during the late Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022, so the trip could offer the chance for a face-to-face meeting &#8211; though whether one will take place remains unclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Prince of Wales&#8217; family has shared a photo of the heir to the throne with his daughter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-650639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650639","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=650639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}