{"id":688348,"date":"2026-07-12T23:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/688348\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T23:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:09:07","slug":"royal-family-live-kate-middleton-hands-wimbledon-trophy-to-sinner-with-william-george-and-charlotte-in-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/688348\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family live: Kate Middleton hands Wimbledon trophy to Sinner with William, George and Charlotte in crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The Queen\u2019s former chef says one of the reasons behind Prince Harry and his family not staying at Buckingham Palace could be down to catering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The Duke was forced to hastily look for a place to sleep after being told he could not stay at the royal residence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It came after his spokesman announced on Monday morning that he had finally accepted an offer to stay for his visit last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Darren McGrady, who has cooked for all the family, said food may be behind the decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cBuckingham Palace is going through its major restoration &#8211; no one is there, and all the chefs, for the most part, have gone,\u201d he told royal website CheatSheet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cIt would be a major operation to suddenly, at the very last minute, bring in a team of chefs and prepare the food. It wouldn\u2019t just be chefs, but also bringing in the maids, security, and footmen. I do see the point in what they\u2019re saying with regards to Harry coming and staying at the Palace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0_Heatwave-continues-in-London-UK-9-Jul-2026.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Harry had hoped to be stopping at Buckingham Palace\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Harry had hoped to be stopping at Buckingham Palace(Image: Vuk Valcic\/SOPA Images\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Queen\u2019s former chef says one of the reasons behind Prince Harry and his family not staying at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11859,49,55521,984,100,50,983,120,223,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-688348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alison-hammond","tag-headlines","tag-invictus-games","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-meghan-markle","tag-news","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-william","tag-royal-family","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688348","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=688348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}