{"id":691562,"date":"2026-07-14T18:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/691562\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:12:21","slug":"why-wasnt-prince-louis-at-wimbledon-with-kate-middleton-prince-william","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/691562\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Why Wasn’t Prince Louis At Wimbledon With Kate Middleton & Prince William?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAnother Wimbledon has rolled by without Prince Louis<\/a> making his debut, despite reports about his aspirations to one day be at Centre Court.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Sunday, July 12, all but one member of the Wales family took their seats in the Royal Box<\/a> to watch Jannik Sinner defeat Alexander Zverev in the Men\u2019s Singles Final. Kate Middleton<\/a> continued her duties as the official patron of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, which hosts the Wimbledon Championships, and was joined by her husband, Prince William<\/a>, and their two oldest children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte. <\/p>\n

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\n\tIt has become a sort of tradition for 12-year-old George and 11-year-old Charlotte to accompany their parents to at least one Wimbledon final each year, but 8-year-old Louis hasn\u2019t been given the privilege despite being the same age his older siblings were when they made their debuts. <\/p>\n

\n\tSo, why doesn\u2019t Prince Louis go to Wimbledon? The answer is unclear, but given the youngest Prince\u2019s reputation for silly, playful behavior at Royal events and his documented struggles with sitting still, we\u2019re guessing hours of sitting in silence during a tennis match might be too much for Louis to handle.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2023, Middleton revealed that her youngest son wasn\u2019t happy about being left out of the family outing when Charlotte attended the tournament for the first time. \u201cLouis was very upset he wasn\u2019t coming today,\u201d she said per People<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s Charlotte\u2019s first time, George came last year. They\u2019ve been eagerly watching.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAhead of this year\u2019s Men\u2019s Final, The Telegraph<\/a> interviewed ball girl Jenna Fontanilla, 18, after she spoke with Middleton the day prior. Fontanilla said that the Princess of Wales spoke about Louis\u2019 love of tennis, despite him once again not attending Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe told me about how Louis was asking her about how to become a ball boy, and we were talking about how much hard work it is to be on court and how we work alongside the ball kids, and it\u2019s just so lovely,\u201d Fontanilla said.<\/p>\n

\n\tPerhaps next year will finally be Prince Louis\u2019 Wimbledon debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another Wimbledon has rolled by without Prince Louis making his debut, despite reports about his aspirations to one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[661,1181,120,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-691562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-kate-middleton","tag-prince-louis","tag-prince-william","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691562","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=691562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}