{"id":682893,"date":"2026-07-09T19:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682893\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T19:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:36:11","slug":"duchess-of-edinburgh-sophie-makes-the-archers-cameo-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682893\/","title":{"rendered":"Duchess of Edinburgh Sophie makes The Archers cameo appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was joined by actors Tim Bentnick, who plays David Archer, David Troughton, who stars as Tony Archer, and Susie Riddell, who appears as Tracy Horrobin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Nerves are frayed on the day of the Borchester Show, and a surprise guest makes their mark,&#8221; the programme&#8217;s website had hinted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The duchess was following in the footsteps of Queen Camilla, who appeared on the soap in 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Queen, also a self-confessed Archers addict, acted out her role as president of the National Osteoporosis Society, in a special episode to mark The Archers&#8217; 60th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s sister Princess Margaret also made a cameo in 1984, when she was a surprise guest at a fundraising fashion show for the NSPCC, in the ballroom of Ambridge&#8217;s local hotel Grey Gables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She was joined by actors Tim Bentnick, who plays David Archer, David Troughton, who stars as Tony Archer,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-682893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682893","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=682893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}