{"id":673969,"date":"2026-07-04T20:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673969\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T20:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:27:11","slug":"bury-illustrators-artwork-signed-by-prince-william","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673969\/","title":{"rendered":"Bury illustrator&#8217;s artwork signed by Prince William"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coates added: &#8220;It felt like meeting a friend. I wasn&#8217;t expecting to have a chat with him and then when they asked if I was comfortable, I was like, &#8216;Oh my gosh, yeah&#8217;.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The artist told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/live\/bbc_radio_manchester\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio Manchester<\/a> her timeline illustration started in 1993, when Princess Dianna took William to The Passage homelessness charity in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;In 2025, Prince William actually took Prince George with him. A bit of history repeating itself. That&#8217;s what he signed when he was with me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coates said The Prince of Wales praised her work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He couldn&#8217;t believe I&#8217;d done everything in the time I&#8217;d done it, which I took as the biggest compliment,&#8221; she added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coates added: &#8220;It felt like meeting a friend. I wasn&#8217;t expecting to have a chat with him and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-673969","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\/673969","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=673969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}